The Underwater Room is exactly what it sounds like. The tiny floating island features three levels for lucky vacationers. On the water level, there’s space for lounging and dining, while a sun deck above makes for great tanning and even better stargazing at night.

The room’s real allure is underwater, though, where the … Read More → "This floating hotel room comes with an underwater fish-peeping deck"

A four-wheeled device, known as Rover, has been tested by a team at Sydney University. It was used to move a herd of cows from a field to a dairy.

Researchers were amazed at how easily cows accepted the presence of the robot.

They were not fazed by it and the herding process was calm and effective, … Read More → "Robot used to round up cows is a hit with farmers"

The world’s largest Lego snow globe is now on display at Covent Garden in London. Lego master builder, Duncan Titmarsh used 120,000 bricks to showcase the London skyline. The build took about 75 days to complete and features 14 London landmarks, including Shakespeare’s Globe Theater, the London Eye and Big Ben.
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Epilepsy affects 3 million people in the US, making it the third most common neurological disorder in the country. In a move that may offer relief for some patients, the FDA has approved a skull implant that helps reduce the frequency of seizures in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy.

The device is known as an RNS … Read More → "FDA approves skull implant that helps treat epileptic seizures"

Wow! He not only create the new letter, but added it to unicode tables and to fonts in my computer!
Wow! And to many old books!!!

See “tshe” Wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?

“g+1” button present but where is “g-1” button?

You probably first heard of IBM’s cognitive supercomputer Watson when it bested human competitors on Jeopardy, but soon it may interact with you through the cloud. With the announcement today that Watson will be available to application developers, software can make use of Watson to add meaning to massive amounts of unstructured data, while interacting with humans in a way we understand.
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This connected device (shaped and sized like a credit card) lets you scan all the cards you typically carry in your wallet, and then leave them at home. It works just like a regular card, letting you swipe it the same way you normally would, and lets you easily swap which card you’re using at any given moment. 
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Yesterday Google announced that Google Street View is now available in the canals and walkways of Venice, Italy. Because of Venice’s watery layout, the Street View team had to document the city with the Trekker backpack, covering some 265 miles on foot and 114 miles by boat.
via Laughing Squid

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A kite with a three-meter wingspan has just started to produce electricity in a pilot project off the coast of Northern Ireland.

The technology, dubbed Deep Green, consists of a wing with a gearless turbine mounted underneath that is tethered to the ocean floor. As the tide flows over the wing, it glides through the water and the turbine rotates. The tether also contains the unit’s power and communication cables. For … Read More → "Underwater kite harvests energy from slow currents"

William Sedgwick, a prestigious circus operator, owned Lizzie. But due to wartime travel restrictions and a very strained national economy, his circus, like most in the UK, had to shut down. So he loaned Lizzie to Thomas William Ward, a scrap metal merchant in Sheffield.

Lizzie was one of many circus elephants in the UK who plowed fields and pulled wagons while the horses were away.  When properly harnessed, Lizzie could pull … Read More → "During World War I, circus animals joined the war effort"