Capture Lightning
An Illinois’ sculptor using particle accelerator of 500 million volts created spectacles lightning alike in the glass. The patterns in the glass, as if suddenly lightning frozen. Each work can be sold online for $ 30 to $ 500.
World's Coolest Ambulance Vehicles
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| UK (Portsmouth) Using the Mini as an emergency vehicle is nothing new. In the 60s the Mini Cooper was used as a Police car with great effect. The Mini Cooper Police Car was light, nimble and faster than many other vehicles of the time. While we don't know of any local authorities using the MINI as a police car, there are six NHS authorities that have MINI Cooper S ambulances. This unit, seen at the National Mini Cooper Day at Beaulieu on 10 June is from Portsmouth. The vehicle itself and ongoing maintenance was provided by Snows Portsmouth MINI, while the modifications, equipment and ambulance staff are paid for by Portsmouth pubs and clubs. |
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| RUSSIA: This new ambulance cars are planned to be used for service on the hardest parts of the country. |
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| CANADA: Canadian paramedics can breathe a sigh of relief, unbuckle their corset belts and cancel their chiropractor's appointments - if they work in Calgary, that is. The city has taken delivery of an ambulance designed to get its obese citizens to hospital with as little stress and strain as possible - provided they don't tip the scales at more than 1000 lbs. The refit, which costs more than $30,000 per vehicle, includes a specially designed air mattress that inflates beneath the patient to transfer him to the stretcher (reinforced and widened, natch) and a remote lift system that raises the stretcher into the ambulance. |
Inspirational love stories - Love and Time
Love was the only one who stayed. Love wanted to hold out until the last possible moment.
When the island had almost sunk, Love decided to ask for help.
Richness was passing by Love in a grand boat. Love said,
"Richness, can you take me with you?"
Richness answered, "No, I can't. There is a lot of gold and silver in my boat. There is no place here for you."
Love decided to ask Vanity who was also passing by in a beautiful vessel. "Vanity, please help me!"
"I can't help you, Love. You are all wet and might damage my boat," Vanity answered.
Sadness was close by so Love asked, "Sadness, let me go with you."
"Oh . . . Love, I am so sad that I need to be by myself!"
Happiness passed by Love, too, but she was so happy that she did not even hear when Love called her.
Suddenly, there was a voice, "Come, Love, I will take you." It was an elder. So blessed and overjoyed, Love even forgot to ask the elder where they were going. When they arrived at dry land, the elder went her own way. Realizing how much was owed the elder,
Love asked Knowledge, another elder, "Who Helped me?"
"It was Time," Knowledge answered.
"Time?" asked Love. "But why did Time help me?"
Knowledge smiled with deep wisdom and answered, "Because only Time is capable of understanding how valuable Love is."
The Fence - It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses."
There once was a little boy who had a bad temper.
His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.
The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down.
He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.
Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper.
The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence.
He said, "You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound is still there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one."
"It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses."
Does Being In Love Make You Fat?
Why does this happen? The researchers questioned 1,293 couples for a separate part of the study. It appears that mealtime became a more important routine than it was when the people were living alone. Secondly, workouts don’t get done the way they did in the past prior to living with the significant other. Individuals begin to feel loved and accepted for who they are, and for some this may mean letting themselves go. They are no longer trying to find a perfect mate; they live with them.
Scientists have known for a long while that having a close relationship with an obese person, whether a friend or a spouse, makes you more likely to become obese. Amy Gorin Ph.D., an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Connecticut, published a study in 2009 showing that if one spouse participates in a weight-loss program, the unenrolled spouse tends to lose 5 lbs.
Marriage does have its benefits, including the tendency to live longer and to give up bad habits. You don’t have to gain weight just because you decide to marry or live with the love of your life. Perhaps focusing on working together for a healthy lifestyle is the key.
Ten ways to begin a healthy life style with the one you love:
1. Clean out your pantry, tossing anything you snack on that is in a bag or wrapper.
2. Stock up on fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean protein.
3. Make your home a “NO SODA ZONE.” Nothing will make an immediate change in your diet program as quickly as quitting soda.
4. Stock up on water, and whenever you are hungry drink a cup of water first.
5. Make a pact to try one new exercise a week. For example, Monday can be walking leisurely for 2 miles. Tuesday can be going up and down the stairs for 10 minutes. Wednesday can be walking as fast as you can for 1 mile. Thursday can be chair marching for every commercial in an hour program on television. Friday can be walking leisurely for 3 miles. Saturday can be gardening or sweeping your sidewalks for one 30 minutes. Sunday could be reserved for a day of rest.
6. Instead of going out to eat, go out for appetizers and limit yourself to one drink.
7. Make a pact as a team to not eat past 7 p.m.
8. Tell each other how great the other looks.
9. Tell each other how grateful you are to be on a “Healthy Lifestyle Team” with them.
10. Whenever you want to snack, write down: why do I want this, what is it going to do for me, and is there a better food for my body?
Being married or living with the one you love is like having a built in “fan club.” Motivating each other to live a healthy lifestyle is not only good for your waist, it is good for your intimacy and sex drive as well. We all can change; it just takes one person in the relationship to be a catalyst for the other.
–Mary Jo Rapini
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India's First Billion Dollar House
The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us
This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace. More rewards, more result. So you should show this video to your boss and ask for more incentive.
Mint Hard – The Ice-Cream Hard-Disk
Mint Pass, a Korean tech company, revealed one of the craziest hard-disk concepts I’ve ever seen.
Named Mint-Hard, their new gadget will be shaped like an ice-cream and will be used as an external hard-drive. Users will be able to stock data on the ice-cream part of the device, while the stick is actually a USB-stick that can be used to transfer data.
Mint Pass plans to release its ice-cream hard-disk in the following flavors/sizes:
Chocolate (120Gb HD/ 8Gb Flash)
Strawberry (80Gb HD/ 4Gb Flash)
Vanilla (60Gb HD/ 2Gb Flash)
Named Mint-Hard, their new gadget will be shaped like an ice-cream and will be used as an external hard-drive. Users will be able to stock data on the ice-cream part of the device, while the stick is actually a USB-stick that can be used to transfer data.
Mint Pass plans to release its ice-cream hard-disk in the following flavors/sizes:
Chocolate (120Gb HD/ 8Gb Flash)
Strawberry (80Gb HD/ 4Gb Flash)
Vanilla (60Gb HD/ 2Gb Flash)
LIKE & DISLIKE stamp
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| Facebook’s ‘Like’ stamp may be riddled with issues and controversies, but this real life one, made by design studio, Nation, is tres cool and relatively harmless. That is, unless you were to have one thrown at your head. |
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| Liking something is so yesterday, thanks to these rubber Unlike Stamps by UK-based design studio Nation. This evil twin to the ‘like stamp‘ (which pays homage to the infamous Facebook button) lets all you haters tell the world what you despise. Mark Zuckerberg’s PA has already shown interest in the trendy stationary piece, so I gather Nation are surely onto something. |
Are We Obsessed With Facebook?
Facebook profiles are like belly buttons: Everybody’s got one. 1 out of ever 13 humans and three out of four Americans is on Facebook, and one out of 26 signs into Facebook on a daily basis. We could rattle off stats like that until the cows come home, but instead, we’d like to show you this fascinating infographic from SocialHype and OnlineSchools.org. Plain and simple you are probably obsessed, as long as you don’t play farmville or poke people on the reg. then you are just like everyone else, but once you start doing shit like that then you need to reevaluate your life.
Creative Post-it Notes
Post-it notes are known all around the world and stuck on computer monitors, wall, fridges and everywhere else all over the world. Although they’re known for being yellow here are some creatively designed Post-it notes.
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Twitter Post-it Notes |
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Floppy Disk Post-it Notes |
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iPhone Post-it Notes |
The Cellphone Flask
Really? You know if you carry one of these around you may have a serious problem. This creation is a flask disguised as a cellphone. It’s too bad that it looks nothing like a real phone so you won’t be fooling anyone. This is a good idea gone horribly wrong!
Top 10 most stupid and idiotic
We know that there are many idiots in the world, ordinary, stupid, fools, and others,
then we have selected here some of the more curious or funny.
Amazing Optical Illusion Painting
In the first pic, you can see a painting. This was a gift to JRD Tata on his Birthday by a street artist. Nobody was able to understand his art. Unfortunately, only the painting was given to JRD and the artist had promised to reveal the secret shortly . However, JRD was no more when the secret was actually revealed.
See Down For Secret!!!!
Here's the secret revealed. When you place a steel rod at the circle in the first pic you saw, you will see the image of the JRD Tata as a reflection on the steel rod as seen in the second pic below. Isn't it incredible!!
Makes Me Wonder.
What was the artist doing on the streets of India ????
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Concrete Washbasin from HighTech - Ammonite washbasin shaped as a fossil
Introducing new concrete washbasin shaped as a fossil, the Ammonite washbasin from HighTech. Inspired by the archaic beauty of ammonites, this unique design showcases the organic qualities of concrete. The washbasin can be produced in widths between 90 cm and 330 cm with a standard depth of 56 cm, and is available in several colors. It can be installed either with a table-mounted or wall-mounted tap. "Ammonites are an extinct species of cephalopods which lived in the sea about 400 million years ago. Their shells are found all over the world and they are very much sought-after by fossil-hunters, their collector’s value depending on size and the state of preservation. The fascinating shape of ammonite fossils – which resembles a rolled up helix – is the basic design element in the new HighTech washbasin. The association of water and fossil design is a clear allusion to the prehistoric inspiration for the Ammonite washbasin." HighTech
