Eliminate Sag with Breform, the Bra Worn Under the Skin Bras as we know them may soon become a thing of the past, as the same may happen to corrective surgery for sagging breasts. A new procedure which allows for the placement of a cone-shaped polyester mesh under the skin could be the solution to this problem most women have. The procedure is relatively new, in the sense that i...
Flylash: Eyelashes Made of Fly Legs One of the weirdest beauty inventions to make headlines in recent months (if not actually years) is the so-called “Flylash.” Created by a British artist, the Flylashes refer eyelashes made of fly legs.Sculptor Jessica Harrison somehow came to the conclusion that there was a clear advantage to be drawn from the similarity between fake la...
Confirmed: iOS 4.1 Resolves Slow iPhone 3G Performance, Out September 8 Tests carried out using a "final release" version of iOS 4.1 have revealed considerable improvement in the behavior of the software on iPhone 3G handsets, according to a technology web site. Known to slow down old-generation hardware, iOS 4.0 was released this summer packing over 100 new features, including multi...
Lady Gaga Starves Herself to Fit into Her Costumes Lady Gaga is undoubtedly one of the most paradoxical public figures showbiz has seen in many years, and it could very well be that happens because she invites controversy herself. If that is the case, the latest biography by Maureen Callahan should make Gaga happy for the assertions it makes.A simple search on Amazon reveals there a...
Joseph Gordon-Levitt Does Zombie Comedy with Scarlett Johansson While the “Batman” villain debate rages on online, actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt is looking to expand his work by doing a tongue-in-cheek zombie comedy called “Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament,” with Scarlett Johansson.Ever since he starred opposite Leonardo DiCaprio is Chris Nolan’s highly ...
Apple Ignorant to Discussions Post on Jailbreaking A post referencing iOS jailbreaking has remained intact two days into its existence on the Apple Discussions official forums, in what is a surprising non-move on behalf of the Cupertino-based electronics vendor.Historically, Apple has never tolerated forum topics on "jailbreaking", pulling such threads hours, or even minutes into th...
New MeeGo UI Screenshots Emerge MeeGo, the operating system that resulted from the union between Nokia's Maemo platform and Intel's Moblin operating system, is shaping up as a pretty nice solution, at least in the smartphone area. While MeeGo 1.1 for handsets is expected to be released sometime in October, a series of screenshots with the operating system's user interface have just...
iOS 4.1 IPSW Already Available for Download Apple has posted a public download link for the iOS 4.1 update / restore file targeting future owners of iPod touch fourth-generation who are yet have the device shipped to them.The fourth-generation iPod touch is currently available for pre-order, and is slated to become available next week, Apple said during its September 1 media event.
Weekend Reading: Split the Single Player from the Multiplayer I felt cheated by Modern Warfare 2, the biggest video game of 2009, because it failed to deliver a single player experience that was at least as polished as the multiplyer element.I really wanted an option to just pick up the single player element of that game, probably for about 20 or 30 dollars, and play it to its disapp...
One Million iTunes Users Join Ping Apple has announced that more than one million users have joined Ping, the new social network for music built inside iTunes 10. The milestone was achieved in less than 48 hours since its launch on Wednesday, Apple said.Apple announced the feat in one of its typical news releases through the PR section of its web site.Ping allows iTunes ...
Samsung Fascinate to Go BOGO at Verizon, Priced at $199.99 Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless is gearing up for the release of Samsung Fascinate, its own version of Galaxy S and some more details on the handset's price tag have just emerged into the wild. It seems that Big Red would plan on making the new handset available for purchase on its airwaves for $199.99 upon the signing ...
Another Great YouTube Ad: A Hunter Shoots a Bear Online video has so much more potential that the static content people are used to get from their TVs. Yet, five years after YouTube landed, most videos, and ads for that matter, are created in the very same way they always were. So it's great to see that once in a while, people realize the potential and realize that there's a lot mor...
Jason Statham Brings Out the Big Guns for Men’s Fitness British actor Jason Statham can now be seen in Sylvester Stallone’s “The Expendables,” a part for which he underwent a grueling workout regime meant to help him pack extra muscle. The results of that are now clearly visible in the latest issue of Men’s Fitness magazine, in a spread showing the actor work...
Advocacy Group Aims for Thought-Provoking, Ends Up with Ridiculous Google Privacy Video Consumer Watchdog, an advocacy group with a 'soft spot' for Google, has pulled off another stunt that clearly generated the amount of attention it wanted. But the attention was more on what the group was doing rather than the issue it's trying to highlight. The group has created a cartoon video de...
Xavier Samuel or How the Twilight Star-Making Machine Malfunctioned Only a few months ago, everybody was talking about Xavier Samuel, or Riley the vampire in “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.” Amidst reports that Twilight could make anyone a star, Xavier has slowly slipped off the radar.According to Ted Casablanca of E! Online’s The Awful Truth, this could be the f...
Wolves Make Little Difference in Yellowstone Experts say that plans of eliminating the negative effects that the elk population is having on aspen trees by reintroducing wolves are failing in the Yellowstone National Park. The gray wolves have again be allowed to repopulated the landscape, as experts expected this would ensure the elk population is kept under control. However, this ...
LG's IFA Exhibition Features a High-Quality 31-Inch OLED HDTV Though OLED is more expensive to make than regular LCDs, it is still a very good display technology because it needs no backlights and has a very high color quality and brightness, and LG definitely appears to have put it to good use when it developed its 31-inch HDTV with a supposedly infinite contrast ratio.The IFA 201...
Angry Birds Lite for Android Now Available A new mobile game has made its way into the Android Market, namely Angry Birds, now available for download only as a Lite Beta version. According to Rovio Mobile, the maker of the game, Angry Birds Lite for Android is now available for download from the Android Market for all those interested in giving the solution a try. Th...
Google Posts Simplified Privacy Policies Google has announced that it has updated its privacy policy and that the new version will come in effect starting October 3rd. The actual policies haven't changed, but the text has been simplified and some bits added to make the whole thing easier to read and understand by the regular user."Long, complicated and lawyerly—that's what mos...
Stealth Develops Rugged KYBX-400 Keyboard Though peripheral makers often put effort into ensuring that their keyboards have at least a mild level of spill resistance, few can claim to have implemented the same level of ruggedness as the one featured by the KYBX-400, one of Stealth's latest creations that has a rugged enclosure made of stainless steel.Ruggedness usually implies that...
Twitter's Usage Numbers Can be Misleading Twitter seemed to stall for a time, after some months of huge growth. But the site is now back in the game and is seeing some impressive growth, especially from mobile apps.Twitter CEO Evan Williams published a rather informative post on the Twitter blog, revealing some interesting numbers in terms of usage.First, the service kee...
First Canadian ISS Commander Astronaut Chris Hadfield will be the first Canadian to take command of the International Space Station, for the second half of a six-month mission that will begin in 2012, announced the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), on Thursday.Hadfield is only the second astronaut from another country than the United States or Russia to be selected to assume the command ...
Massive Iceberg Reaches Nares Strait The large iceberg that broke off the Petermann Glacier in Greenland about a month ago is now making its way into the Nares Strait, satellites observations reveal. The massive piece of ice broke away from the glacier in August 5, and has been slowly moving away ever since. It represents about one quarter of the former surface the glacier had.
Panasonic 31 and 19 Toughbook Rugged Tablets Bound for Japan Tablet PCs come in multiple shapes and sizes, but there is a certain type of such tablets, the rugged variety that is, which excels at protecting the hardware within, a useful feature for the industrial sector, and Panasonic has just revealed the existence of the Toughbook 31 and 19 series of such electronics.Though media...
A Blooming Barents Sea A new image acquired by NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite, shows phytoplankton blooming in the Barents Sea.The image was taken August 31 and it show the brightest shades of turquoise, navy, teal and green shrouding the sea waters, just like an ever changing abstract painting.The “painter”...
SCREAM 2010 Nominations: Inception, Avatar, Iron Man Fans have now the chance to start voting for their favorite sci-fi, fantasy, horror and comic book adaptation films of the year, as Spike TV has announced the nominations for the SCREAM Awards 2010, the 5th edition of the awards ceremony.It’s not for nothing that pre-release hype was saying “Inception” would turn ou...
Twitter's Mobile Usage on the Rise Accessing social networking sites from a mobile phone is something pretty common these days, and the impressive growth Twitter has seen lately in terms of mobile usage is meant to prove exactly that, it seems. According to a recent report from the social media destination, a number of around 46 percent of its users are enjoying Twitter on their mo...
Download Pre-SP1 Windows 7 Performance and Compatibility Boosts As was the case for its predecessor, Microsoft is not making Windows 7 customers wait for the first major upgrade in order to taste the evolution of the operating system. Instead, the Redmond company is serving bits and pieces of Windows 7 Service Pack (SP1) ahead of the actual upgrade through Windows Update.
Axl Rose Attacked with Bottles, Walks Off Stage In what the media sarcastically calls a victory of bottle-throwing fans (if that’s what they are), Axl Rose and Guns N’ Roses were bottled off stage 20 minutes into their set in Dublin. According to ongoing reports, Axl was unusually late, which made tension in the venue almost palpable – so much so that, when the band...
Purdue Students Fly Over Tropical Storm Gaston As part of a study aimed at understanding hurricanes, three students at the Purdue University are continuing to fly over the Atlantic Ocean, collecting data on tropical storm Gaston. The formation is now yet fully structured, and this is precisely what makes it such an important target for study. Researchers say that they want to learn ...
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