US start up Ambient Corporation has a neckband able to pick up the nerve signals the brain sends to the muscles in the voicebox and have a computer decode them. They realised that those signals are sent even when a person thinks about speaking without actually making a sound. As a result, a person wearing [...]
More»Well, first you have to train them to crawl through a tube…
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More»Found in email:
“Dear Red States:
We’re ticked off at the way you’ve treated California, and we’ve decided we’re leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we’re taking the other Blue States with us. In case you aren’t aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and the entire Northeast. We believe this [...]
From Northern Canada, TruckerMcD writes:
This is a raven that lives near the Ekati mine at the end of the Ice Road. I swear he knows me by sight. If I’m in a group of trucks, he will single me out and fly beside me. This was one of the best experiences [...]
The year was 1912, Shizo Kanakuri was running for Japan’s very first Olympic team at the Stockholm games. During the race, Shizo dropped out from heat exhaustion and spent the next hour in a nearby garden enjoying refreshments and visiting wih the owners. Embarrassed, he never completed the race and disappeared back to Japan. [...]
More»If this is the kind of thing you need to keep up with, then knock yourself out.
Here’s the link.