November 21, 2012

Awesome Pics of Steve Job’s Last Design Masterpiece

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These pictures are of the last project that the late, great Steve Jobs worked on before he passed away in 2011. They are from the futuristic new Apple headquarters that Jobs pitched to the city council of Cupertino California in one of the last public appearances he ever made.

Since Jobs pitched the project, some alterations have been made to the design of the huge headquarters which looks a little like a landed UFO! Apple has decided to move the 1,000 seat auditorium further from a road, introduce more parking spaces, remove a footbridge that was placed over a creek and added a new building to store utility equipment. The main building will remain largely unchanged from Jobs’ design, It is 2.8 million square feet and will host more than 14,000 employees!

Apple has submitted the amended designs and a construction timetable to the city of Cupertino, the place that will forever be known as Apple’s hometown. The tech giants await an environmental impact report from the city council which is likely to take approximately 7 months to compile. Continue Reading

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November 21, 2012

Kids Give Their Hilarious Views On What Thanksgiving Means To Them

This short clip was compiled by Parenting.com, who went around and interviewed a number of different kids in Brooklyn and asked them different questions about Thanksgiving and what means to them.

As is often the case when children are asked for spontaneous answers, the result is often brilliantly hilarious and the ones in this clip do not disappoint!

Check it to find out who these kids believed was actually at the first Thanksgiving and numerous other things about the celebration that I bet you didn’t know!

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November 21, 2012

Geoffrey McGann Tells His Side Of The Story After “Suspicious Watch” Arrest

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Geoffrey McGann, the man who was arrested at Oakland International Airport last week because of his “suspicious” watch has told the Palos Verdes publication Patch his side of the story.

McGann, who lives in Rancho Palos Verdes, was initially stopped by TSA officials who told him that his watch looked as though it could be used to detonate an explosive device. The bomb squad were summoned and quickly cleared the man as a threat but the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department arrested McGann and held him on suspicion of possession of materials to make an explosive device.

The teacher and commercial artist posted the $150,000 bail on Saturday and when he arrived at the court on Monday with his attorney, he was told by a clerk that prosecutors had decided to drop the charges. Continue Reading

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November 21, 2012

“Bandit Gun” Quadruples It’s Kickstarter Target With In Under 2 Weeks

“Bandit Gun” Quadruples It’s Kickstarter Target With In Under 2 Weeks

The “Bandit Gun” a rubber band shotgun designed by Bob Coulston has already quadrupled its Kickstarter target figure of $5,000 and the project still has 16 days to run!

The “Bandit Gun” is a self-assembled gun made from pieces of laser cut birch plywood. Its Kickstarter description states that it is durable, precise and the assembly instructions are easy, fun and fast. There are two different types of gun, “The Outlaw” and “The Sheriff”. “The Outlaw” has 2 different modes of firing, a ‘Single Shot’ action and a ‘Rapid Fire’ action.
“The Sheriff” has 3 different modes, as well as the two modes of “The Outlaw”, it also has the ‘Shotgun Blast’ which will launch all the bands off when the trigger is pulled.

Coulston was inspired to create the “Bandit Gun” when his 3 children came into his wood shop whilst he was working and asked for his assistance to make a rubber band gun. Coulston said he was instantly reminded of the all the fun he had with the rubber band gun that his father had made for him and set about creating one with his kids. Continue Reading

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November 21, 2012

EyeSee – The New Mannequin That Uses Hidden Camera To Collect Consumer Data

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Eyesee mannequins are displayed in the window of a Benetton Group SpA store at the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, California.

With the luxury goods markets suffering from a lethargic economy some retailers are trying out different means and methods to increase their sales. One such tactic is the deployment of the EyeSee Mannequin which is produced by the Italy-based firm Almax. Whilst the EyeSee looks like all the other mannequins you would come across in store displays, it is in fact very different. It is fitted with a hidden camera that captures images of consumers and uses facial recognition software that can identify a person’s age, race and gender. The product was launched in December of 2011 and retails for approximately €4,000 ($5,125).

Retailers can then take the demographic data collected by the EyeSee and use it to adapt their offers, products, promotions and displays to target the consumers most likely to make a purchase. Several retailers have already started using the EyeSee and have already made changes prompted by the information collected by the mannequin. One EyeSee user hired Chinese-speaking staff after the mannequin’s data helped it to gauge the size of its Asian customer base, whereas another launched a new line of children’s clothing after noting that kids made up the majority of the afternoon clientele. Continue Reading

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November 21, 2012

Amazing High-Speed, Robot Book Scanner That Can Capture 250 Pages In One Minute

robot scanner Amazing High Speed, Robot Book Scanner That Can Capture 250 Pages In One Minute

Researchers in Japan have created a commercial book scanner that is able to capture 250 pages per minute, which means that it can get through your average novel in just over 60 seconds. This short video shows the amazing machine in action, flipping through the pages at a lightning speed and producing some incredible results! This thing goes through books almost as fast as Johnny Five in Short Circuit!

The machine takes 2 high resolution shots of each page (400 ppi) during the procedure and then uses these to restore scans to a flat appearance without any signs of page deformation.

Human’s will be forgiven for feeling slightly unnecessary when the robot scanner is about, as all they need to do is switch it on and load the book into the scanner. After that, the process is fully automated. The machine has been dubbed the BFS-Auto and should be commercially available in 2013. Continue Reading

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November 21, 2012

Parrot Sings “Gangnam Style”

Once the parrots start making Gangnam Style videos, you know they’re getting old. Awesome singing though.

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November 21, 2012

Is That The Russian PR Firm Ketchum Hiding Behind The Op-Ed Curtain?

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ProPublica, the non-profit, independent organization has recently released an insightful article about the Russian PR film Ketchum and their involvement in the placement of op-eds on CNBC and the Huffington Post that praise the Russia, their government and their policies.

These op-ed’s appear to be written by independent professionals – a lawyer, businessmen and academics and were intended to promote the country.

ProPublica point out that it is not unusual for PR firms like Ketchum to carry out work like this on behalf of Russia, but it is rare for readers of op-eds to know how they were generated. Continue Reading

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November 21, 2012

Open Rights Group Launch Donation Appeal To Raise Funds For Golden Eye Appeal

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The Open Rights Group (ORG) has launched a donation campaign in order to help them raise the funds they need to intervene in the Golden Eye case. They want to get involved in the appeal that Golden Eye International is making against the court’s verdict from the original case between them and Telefonica UK (O2).

For those of you who don’t know about the case, Golden Eye International are acting on behalf of a number of pornographic movie producers who have enlisted them to get the IP and postal addresses of thousands of UK citizens who they believe have infringed the copyright of their films on file-sharing websites. They want to send invoices to these people seeking payments for the use of their copyright material. Continue Reading

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November 21, 2012

28 Women Squeeze Into A Mini Cooper & Break Guinness World Record

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Last week 28 very flexible ladies managed to squeeze into a 2012 Mini Cooper and break the Guinness World Record for how many people can fit into the tiny vehicle!

The women, from a gym in East Sussex broke their own record of 27 that they set the previous year. 28 people in a mini!!? I’ve been inside a Mini and it doesn’t even seem like you could fit 4 people in one! I think these ladies must have been drinking Alice In Wonderland’s shrink potion to pull off this feat!

The women successfully attempted the record in London on November 15th as part of the Guinness World Records Day – an annual event in its 8th year, which sees thousands of people from all over the world attempt to break as many world records as possible. It was started by the Guinness folks to celebrate the day in 2004 when the book became the world’s best-selling copyright book! Continue Reading

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