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This eye catching 5-in-1 device combines a pen, stylus, laser pointer, flashlight, and goose-neck book light.

• Solid brass construction
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• Includes 3 lithium batteries

WORLDS FIRST NON - CONTACT THERMOMETER

A company called Kidz-Med, Inc. has launched a new thermometer called, "Thermofocus", claiming it as the first thermometer to take accurate body temperature readings without touching the body.

The product's website says it can read infrared heat eminating from a person's forehead, and give results as accurate as a rectal thermometer, and more accurate than an ear thermometer.

The reason why they recommend pointing the device to the forehead is because the head is supplied with blood from the temporal artery, which receives blood through the aorta and the carotid artery, guaranteeing a considerable flow of blood. Moreover, the forehead is the only part of the body close to the brain that is not covered in hair.

Kidz-Med says you can also use the Thermofocus to take the temperatures of baby formula, bath water, and food.

This might be the start of the first Medical Tricorder?

MOTOR CYCLE CANCER SEAT SHIELD

A man named Randall Dale Chipkar is selling an EMF shield designed to be fitted inside a motorcycle seat.

"EMF" stands for electromagnetic field. He claims that EMFs can cause cancer, and that motorcycles are emitting enough of these EMFs to put riders in danger. His EMF shield can be fitted inside a motorcycle seat to provide riders with "peace of mind".

In fact, Chipkar authored a book entitled, "MOTORCYCLE CANCER? Are motorcycles KILLING US with cancers of the prostate, colon, kidney, bone, etc?", where he documents cases of riders whom he met diagnosed with cancer, and which he claims were victims of their own motorcycles.

"All of these riders had extremely low frequency (ELF) electromagnetic field (EMF) radiation shooting up from their motorcycle seats into their lower torso", Chipkar says. "Some readings were 100 times higher than what can be considered as acceptable exposure."

Chipkar goes on to say that governments and industry leaders are in denial over motorcycle-based EMFs so as to not create panic.

To learn more about Chipkar's EMF motorcycle seat shield, visit his website...
http://www.motorcyclecancer.com/

SOON ROBOTS COULD HAVE MSCLES STRONGER THAN STEEL

Scientists have created a new material that is stronger than steel and stiffer than diamond, weighs little more than its volume in air, and could be the perfect artificial muscle for robots.

According to a report in New Scientist, scientists at the University of Texas, Dallas, US, developed the material.

“We’ve made a totally new type of artificial muscle that is able to provide performance characteristics that have not previously been obtained,” said Ray Baughman, a materials scientist at the University of Texas, and co-developer of the new muscle.

Baughman and colleagues have developed a technique to make ribbons of tangled nanotubes that expand in width by 220 percent when a voltage is applied and then return to their normal size once it is removed.

The process takes only milliseconds.

“Collections of those ribbons could act as artificial muscle fibres – for example, to move the limbs of a walking robot,” said Baughman.

The material has other impressive properties.

It is extremely stiff and strong in the “long” direction – that in which the nanotubes are aligned – but is as stretchy as rubber across its width.

It also maintains its properties over an extreme range of temperatures: from -196 degrees Celsius, at which temperature nitrogen is liquid, to 1538 degrees C, above the melting point of iron.

This means any robot equipped with the nanotube muscles could potentially keep working in some very extreme environments.

The new material has some advantages over previous artificial muscles.

Some of those work only when bathed in methanol fuel, others are capable of only very small changes in size and none of them work well at extreme temperatures.

The tangled nanotubes are constructed into a film that can be described as an aerogel, meaning it contains more air than anything else.

Ribbons of the aerogel are made by first growing “forests” of carbon nanotubes that resemble a dense thicket of bamboo stalks.

The researchers then stick a length of adhesive to the sides of those stalks and pull gently to draw out a long, thin film of the tubes, which tangle during the process.

So far, ribbons a 50th of a millimeter thick by 16 centimeters wide and several meters long have been made, but it should be possible to form larger sheets by starting with more nanotubes.

According to Electrical engineer John Madden at the University of British Columbia, resilience and low density could make it a good material for building structures in space, with its lightness keeping down the cost of sending a payload into orbit.

japanese super model - a robot

The new Japanese humanoid robot HRP-4C displays a range of emotions (good luck discerning what they are) during a press conference in suburban Tokyo this week. Naturally, plenty of paparazzi were on hand.

(Credit: AFP Photo/Yoshikazu Tsuno)

She doesn't have the grace of a Cindy Crawford or Elle MacPherson (yet), but a few struts on the catwalk may help HRP-4C loosen up and hit her stride. The walking, talking girlbot will be getting practice soon, as she's set to make her catwalk debut at a Tokyo fashion show next week.

Scientists from Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology reportedly designed the 5-foot (ish), dark-haired creation to look like an average Japanese woman between the ages of 19 and 29. Unlike the average Japanese woman, however, HRP-4C has 30 motors in her body that allow her to walk and move its arms (somewhat loudly and awkwardly, if the video below is any indication) and 8 facial motors for blinking, smiling, and expressing emotions akin to anger and surprise.

According to the Associated Press, the robotic framework for the HRP-4C, sans face and other coverings, will sell for about $200,000, and the technology behind it will eventually be made public so people can come up their own moves for the bot.

The government-backed AIST says she's mostly being developed for the entertainment industry--for use in amusement parks, for example, or as an exercise teacher--and is not yet ready to help with daily chores. So unfortunately for those eager to hire HRP-4C as a home or office assistant, for now at least, her main job is to look pretty--or odd, depending on your perspective.

WORLD'S FIRST FLYING CAR MAKES ITS DEBUT

The world’s first flying car took to the skies on March 18. Its name is the Transition, because it can switch between the road and the sky. The car that looks like a plane that looks like a car took off from a small airport in New York. The “roadable aircraft” is from a Boston based company called Terrafugia, which means “escape from land” in Latin. The designer and Terrafugia CEO Carl Dietrich has spent the past decade working on the project. In 2006 he won a $30,000 design award from the Massacheusettes Institute of Technology. He said his inspiration was to do something about America’s crowded highways and airports. Dietrich said: "This flight is a symbol of a new freedom in aviation. It's what enthusiasts have been striving for since 1918."
The two-seater Transition can take off and land at airports and drive on any road. The US government said it is officially a light sport aircraft and not a car. The flying car has wings that fold up for use on the road. It is around 5.8 metres long and 2 metres wide. Terrafugia hopes to start selling the Transition in 2011. The selling price will be between $150,000 and $200,000. There are already more than forty orders for it. Dietrich is excited about the Transition’s future. He told reporters: "This breakthrough changes the world of personal mobility. Travel now becomes a hassle-free integrated land-air experience.” It is not yet clear whether traffic police or air traffic control will handle the dozens, perhaps hundreds or thousands, of flying cars.

NASA telescope to look for other earths

NASA has successfully launched a rocket carrying a planet-hunting telescope. The powerful Kepler telescope will search for planets similar to the Earth. Scientists believe there are good chances of finding a planet like ours somewhere out there in the galaxy. There are billions and billions of stars in the heavens. If one planet is the right distance from one of these stars, then conditions might be right to support life. The planet’s atmosphere should neither be too hot nor too cold. The planet would also need water. The telescope is named after the German 17th-Century astronomer Johannes Kepler. It will spend more than three years looking for dark specks against the brightness of a hundred-thousand stars. These specks could be Earth-like planets.
The manager of the $600-million project Jim Fanson said: "We have a feeling like we're about to set sail across an ocean to discover a new world." NASA’s space science boss Ed Weiler agreed that the mission was a “historical” landmark in space exploration. However, he couldn’t say whether or not the telescope would find another Earth. “It very possibly could tell us that Earths are very, very common...or that Earths are really, really, really rare - perhaps we're the only Earth,” he said. He told reporters how important Kepler’s journey was, saying: "It really attacks some basic human questions that have been asked since that first man or woman looked up at the sky and asked, 'Are we alone?’”

warmer weather causes headache

Scientists in the USA have found a strong link between headaches and warmer weather. For many years people have believed that sudden increases in temperatures cause headaches. Doctors at a medical centre in Boston now say they know it’s true. Researchers did a study on 7,054 patients who went to hospital because of a headache. Their research showed that the main cause of the patients’ headaches was a change in the weather. A rise in temperature in the previous 24 hours was the biggest trigger. The research team said the chances of getting a bad headache increased by 7.5 percent with every five-degree Celsius rise in the temperature. The second biggest cause was a fall in air pressure, which happens especially after thunderstorms.
Lead researcher Dr. Kenneth J. Mukamal of Harvard Medical School gave a simple explanation of his research. He said: “In the summer, you may think that ice cream sets off your migraine. But it wasn’t the ice cream, it was the temperature increase on that very hot day that led you to eat the ice cream.” Dr. Mukamal added: “Our results are consistent with the idea that severe headaches can be triggered by external factors. These findings tell us that the environment around us does affect our health.” One doctor said to avoid headaches, we should stay away from things like coffee and wine when the weather suddenly gets hotter. Bad headaches and migraines affect millions. Around 18 percent of women and six percent of men suffer from them

What is a black hole?

Loosely speaking, a black hole is a region of space that has so much mass concentrated in it that there is no way for a nearby object to escape its gravitational pull. Since our best theory of gravity at the moment is Einstein's general theory of relativity, we have to delve into some results of this theory to understand black holes in detail, but let's start of slow, by thinking about gravity under fairly simple circumstances.

Suppose that you are standing on the surface of a planet. You throw a rock straight up into the air. Assuming you don't throw it too hard, it will rise for a while, but eventually the acceleration due to the planet's gravity will make it start to fall down again. If you threw the rock hard enough, though, you could make it escape the planet's gravity entirely. It would keep on rising forever. The speed with which you need to throw the rock in order that it just barely escapes the planet's gravity is called the "escape velocity." As you would expect, the escape velocity depends on the mass of the planet: if the planet is extremely massive, then its gravity is very strong, and the escape velocity is high. A lighter planet would have a smaller escape velocity. The escape velocity also depends on how far you are from the planet's center: the closer you are, the higher the escape velocity. The Earth's escape velocity is 11.2 kilometers per second (about 25,000 m.p.h.), while the Moon's is only 2.4 kilometers per second (about 5300 m.p.h.).

NASA - Chandra Xray Images

Chandra Images by Category

Black Holes

-Stellar black holes, mid-mass black holes, and supermassive black holes.

	GOODS Chandra Deep Field South (June 01, 2004)
	MGG 11 (April 10, 2004)
	RX J1242-11 (February 18, 2004)
	SS 433 (January 5, 2004)
	Cygnus X-1, XTE J1650-500 & GX 339-4 (September 17, 2003)
	Chandra Deep Fields (June 19, 2003)
	Sagittarius A* (January 6, 2003)
	SS 433 (December 11, 2002)
	NGC 6240 (November 19, 2002)
	XTE J1550-564 (October 3, 2002)
	Sagittarius A* (September 5, 2001)
	XTE J1118+480 (May 07, 2001)
	Black Hole Event Horizon (Illustration) (January 11, 2001)
	M82 Black Hole (September 12, 2000)
	Pictor A (June 6, 2000)
	NGC 4151 (June 5, 2000)
	NGC 3783 (May 25, 2000)
	CXO 0312 Fiore P3 (March 20, 2000)
	Type 2 Quasar (March 20, 2000)
	NGC 5548 (February 17, 2000)
	Galactic Center (January 14, 2000)

EFFECTS ON TEMPERATURE ON HUMAN MOTIONS

Introduction:
Climatic factors such as temperature, rainfall, snowfall, cloudiness and winds have a significant impact on many aspects of the nation's economy as well as human health and the quality of life. For farmers and many other businesses, weather conditions affects their production, sales and income. When it is too cold or too hot, many people prefer to stay at home and that affects many businesses.

While the effect of weather in businesses and economy is clear, we are wondering how does weather affect human emotions and feelings? This subject is important because our emotions affect our thinking and decision making.

IS THERE ANY RELATION BETWEEN SUNSPOTS AND EARTHQUAKES

Introduction:
Sun is the only viable source of energy in our solar system. All other types of energy such as wind and fossil based fuels are all resulted from solar energy. Sun is indeed the key, the main source and the ultimate cause of presence and survival of life in the earth. Many environmental phenomena such as rain, tornado and ocean waves are caused by solar energy.

Is it possible that earthquakes are also caused by the sun? Observations of the sun surface show a number of dark spots. The number of such spots and their position changes in different months and years.