A Taiwanese man is about to embark on a six-month world tour during which he’ll repeatedly transform himself into a human flag, reports ITN.
He first began the stunt at train stations around Taiwan last year.
Known as the “Taiwan Floatman,” the 29-year-old balances on poles while sporting a t-shirt printed with the Taiwan flag and the word “Taiwan” shaved into his head.
Facebook is testing a “Want” button that would allow you to mark products you’re interested in much the way you can currently like posts. Oh crap, is Facebook about to turn into Pinterest? More »
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The marketing mastermind and infomercial pioneer best known for introducing American TV viewers to Ginsu knives, the miracle kitchen tool that sliced through tin cans and chopped wood, has died. Barry Becher was 71.
But as Becher’s commercials promised, “Wait, there’s more!”
Virgin Mobile USA, one of the smaller mobile carriers here in the USA, has just announced that they will finally roll out the HTC One V to the masses in this part of the world. Back in February at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, HTC announced a trio of smartphones from the HTC One Series, and they are the high end HTC One X, the HTC One S, and the HTC One V. The HTC One X is the flagship device, while the HTC One S delivers performance and style in a single device, with the HTC One V being a working man’s phone – without sacrificing on decent performance and looks, of course.
Available for $199.99 a pop with a 2-year contract, the HTC One V’s strong point would be its camera that boasts HTC ImageSense which is said to deliver improvements in all parts of the camera, including the lens, sensor and software. These enhancements will work together to deliver fast image capture, beautiful photos even under conditions that are deem to be photo unfriendly (low light, no light and bright backlight), alongside Video Pic which allows you to shoot still images while recording 720p HD video simultaneously.
Your ears will also benefot from authentic sound with Beats by Dr. Dre Audio. At least it comes with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich as the operating system of choice, accompanied by a 3.7″ display, a 1GHz processor, and a 5-megapixel camera. [Press Release]
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: HTC One V headed stateside for MetroPCS, US Cellular and Virgin Mobile, HTC One V ROM ported onto the Desire S and Desire HD,
WASHINGTON — Borrowers hoping to consolidate their student loans through a special program created by President Barack Obama last year have just until Saturday to apply.
To much fanfare, Obama used executive authority in October to launch a short-term initiative to allow borrowers to consolidate multiple loans into a direct government loan – and to knock off as much as a half percentage point from their interest rate in the process. The window to apply opened in early 2012 and ends Saturday.
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The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted well over 8 million patents, so it would stand to reason that at least of few of them were authored by people with a certain degree of fame. Like Lawrence Welk, for instance. Yes, the ’70s-era polka king was somewhat of a tinkerer. So was Kurt Vonnegut. And Harry Houdini.
But Gallagher the prop comedian? Or Paula Abdul? Where’s the barrier to entry, USPTO? Read further for an inside look at the inscrutable world of celebrity patents. If we knew it was this easy to win a patent, Gadget Lab would have thrown down too.
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Democracy without a legitimate constitution and a Bill of Rights, especially protecting the rights of minorities, can become a very scary thing. What you get is a tyranny of the majority. So the U.S. must insist that elected regimes be restrained by a constitution.
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PHILADELPHIA — A judge has approved the Philadelphia Orchestra’s bankruptcy reorganization plan, ending more than a year of uncertainty about the renowned symphony’s future.
U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Eric Frank says he hopes the plan approved Thursday allows the orchestra to “continue to perform for audiences for many years to come.”
In an alternate universe somewhere, the Father of Obamacare might have
actually had a shot at becoming the next president of the United States,
had he just stuck to his guns. Because on Planet Earth, the candidate
responsible for this
accomplishment is not Obama. Obama cannot take credit for inventing the
Affordable Care Act. It was ironically his opposition who laid the
groundwork in Massachusetts, and then decided to take the wrong fork
in the road to diminish its application for the nation.
A battery that can be spray painted? That certainly sounds like quite the novel idea, and it has been implemented by researchers over at Rice University, allowing virtually any object to be converted into an electricity storage device. This particular lithium ion battery can be applied in layers, where each of them is an aerosol paint, paving the way to possible solar-energy applications. The researchers in the team are Charudatta Galande, Pulickel Ajayan and Neelam Singh, where they have displayed a test device for their paintable batteries which in reality is a grid of nine ceramic tiles that has been merged with a solar cell and an LED array. (more…)
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: New memory might help smartphone batteries last the distance, Prieto Battery has a lithium ion battery that is 1,000 times more powerful in the works?,
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