Month: March 2013

  • Tourists Attend Funeral Procession Of Dolphins(video)

    Tourists Attend Funeral Procession Of Dolphins(video)

    The enthusiasm of the tourists who went to see the dolphins playing in their natural habitat quickly waned, as instead, they attended a real funeral procession. Some of the tourists who came to Dana point on the southern California cost were stupefied to see the funeral. This surreal event was captured on video camera, uploaded on YouTube and then…

  • Google Street View Offers Tour Of A Ghost Towns Near Fukushima

    Google Street View Offers Tour Of A Ghost Towns Near Fukushima

      Since Thursday, Google is offering a virtual tour of an abandoned town  “Namie”, near Fukushima, Japan. The town was abandoned after the nuclear disaster. The pictures were taken in March 2013. Abandoned houses, broken windows, empty streets, and fishing boats still standing in the dock, it is now possible to walk this ghost town in the vicinity…

  • A Robotic Hand Controlled By The Mind Of A Paralyzed

    A Robotic Hand Controlled By The Mind Of A Paralyzed

    A 52 years old paralyzed woman is now able to eat using a ground breaking new robotic arm. The arm is operated with the help of electrodes implanted in her brain to catch the brain signal. Named Jan Scheuerman has been suffering from a diseases of degenerative brain disorder for the last 13 years and…

  • Babyloid: A Baby Robot To Fight Against Depression In The Elderly

    Babyloid: A Baby Robot To Fight Against Depression In The Elderly

    Babyloid is a robot created in Japan by Masayoshi Kanoh, a professor at Chukyo University in Nagoya. This robot can help the elderly fight against their isolation. Japan is a country with one of the world’s lowest birth rates and the population growth is negative. However, most women in Japan live record long lives. Hence,…

  • Ekso exoskeleton: A Promising Hope For The Paralysed

    Ekso exoskeleton: A Promising Hope For The Paralysed

    Many times the road side accidents as well as accidents during skiing, or falling result in damage to the spinal cord. Sometimes, this damage can be permanent and lead to the life long lower back paralysis. This leads to a severely degraded  quality of life, dependence on others and psychological trauma. The medical scientists are increasingly looking…

  • A Man Making His Own Nuclear Reactor In The Kitchen

    A Man Making His Own Nuclear Reactor In The Kitchen

    The Swedish authorities have arrested a 31 years old man in July who was trying to build a nuclear reactor in his kitchen. This story of a local newspapers made its echo in the international media. “I was arrested and jailed when police along with Swedish Nuclear Security raided my apartment,” the man said in a…

  • An 8 Year Old Boy Marries A Woman Of 61 Years

    An 8 Year Old Boy Marries A Woman Of 61 Years

    Sanele Masilela (8 years) marries Helen Shabangum (61 years) at a ceremony in Tshwane, South Africa, attended by a hundred guests. A marriage ceremony was held with great pomp and show. The marriage was celebrated with dance, expensive wedding dresses, bouquets of flowers and even there was a French kiss between the “young” husband and wife that…

  • Holographic Keyboard for future smartphones? (Video)

    Holographic Keyboard for future smartphones? (Video)

    Aatma Studio has unveiled a new technology which will make the holographic keyboard interface to the  iPhone 5  possible. The smartphone projects a holographic image of the keyboard in the air with which user can interact and use it as a normal keyboard. The Keyboard image can not only be made in air but also…

  • The Tanks Will Become Invisible To Infra-red Sensors

    The Tanks Will Become Invisible To Infra-red Sensors

    British military scientists have succeeded in making tanks invisible in the eyes of infra-red and thermal sensors. It has always been a fantasy of  military commanders to advance against an enemy without being seen. However, this fantasy will soon be realized. The Telegraph has reported that British military scientist have succeeded in making the tank invisible, using…

  • The Invention of A Wire 1000 Times Thinner Than Hair

    The Invention of A Wire 1000 Times Thinner Than Hair

    A scientific study, detailed in the journal Science, has announced the creation of a wire 10-1000 times thinner than a human hair and with exceptional electrical conductivity. It is expected that this development will pave way for computers with connection between its components at atomic scale. ” The ability to make the connections at the microscopic…

  • Top 20 Bizarre Automobile And Domestic Do-It-Yourself Jobs (Gallery)

    Top 20 Bizarre Automobile And Domestic Do-It-Yourself Jobs (Gallery)

    Sunday is not only a day for going to a park or a church but it also provides an opportunity for doing Do-It-Yourself (DIY) jobs.  This article is a tribute to all those men and women who spend their Sunday devising schemes to fix their day to day problems or even inventing new devices. This article presents a gallery…

  • LG To Launch Its Own Next Generation Smart Phone Watch

    LG To Launch Its Own Next Generation Smart Phone Watch

    Apple, Google and Samsung are rumored to be in competition to make the next generation of smart watches. However, there is another company, South Koran giant LG electronics that also wants to grab this market. According to Korean press, in order to remain ahead of its competitors, LG is also building its own version of…

  • A Monkey That Smokes Two Cigarettes At A Time (Video)

    A Monkey That Smokes Two Cigarettes At A Time (Video)

    Check out the video of a chimpanzee who smokes two cigarettes one after the other in a zoo.  In a zoo in the largest city of western China, Urumqi, a chimpanzee smokes two cigarettes one after other as would an addictive smoker. The least we can say is that the monkey has developed a taste of tobacco. Although…

  • The Most Natural And Original Houses In The World

    The Most Natural And Original Houses In The World

    Houses are personal property and the owners tailor them according to their tastes and requirements.  However, some houses surprise the viewers due to their unique and original design. This article presents 20 such amazing houses. Some of these houses the take the form of an animal or an object. For example, we can see a…

  • IBM Predicts It Will Be Possible To Read Human Mind By 2017

    IBM Predicts It Will Be Possible To Read Human Mind By 2017

    IBM has announced that it is likely that new technological innovations will be able to read human minds within 4 years.  Reading the human mind has been one of the most oldest fantasies of mankind. It is possible that this dream may be realized in less than a decade from now.  The multinational firm has…