Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Meal Snap Photographs Your Food and Automatically Estimates the Calories You Ate

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Meal Snap is a neat app that photographs your food, uploads the picture, and then replies with a calorie count in just a few seconds. And i...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Nanoparticle Rubber Stamps Could Help Heal Wounds

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You know the UV-ink rubber stamps that night clubs like to stick on your skin? Well, a novel silver nanotech variant of the idea could actua...
Monday, March 28, 2011

How Does the Mona Lisa Look Without Mona Lisa?

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Recognize this 77 x 54-centimeter oil on canvas painting? Believe it or not, it's perhaps the best-known Leonardo da Vinci painting this...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

Finally, Bacon Cologne!

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No longer do you have to dribble bacon down your chin to get a hint of pig on your throat—perfumers Fargginay have invented bacon cologne wh...
Saturday, March 26, 2011

In Tunisia, act of one fruit vendor unleashes wave of revolution through Arab world

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On the evening before Mohammed Bouazizi lit a fire that would burn across the Arab world, the young fruit vendor told his mother that the or...
Friday, March 25, 2011

Scientists Grow an Eye in a Petri Dish

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A Japanese research team has successfully grown a "rudimentary" mouse eye in a petri dish using stem cells. This has many implicat...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

Ghostly Lightpainting Uses a Cross-Sectioned Video of an Executed Convict’s Body as Light Source

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Lightpainting requires a certain sort of skill to get the sort of marvellous results we've seen previously, but Croix Gagnon and Frank ...