PETMAN, the anthropomorphic robot

“The robot will have the shape and size of a standard human, making it the first anthropomorphic robot that moves dynamically like a real person.”

Video: PETMAN, the anthropomorphic robot

| TG Daily

PETMAN – YouTube

Ultimate Battlefield 3 Simulator

The full story of The Gadget Show’s FPS gaming simulator build premiered on Channel 5 in the UK at 8pm on Monday 24th October 2011. This video contains the highlights.

Ultimate Battlefield 3 Simulator – Build & Test (Full Video) – The Gadget Show – YouTube

S-a inventat vaccinul împotriva… cariilor

Preparatul biologic nu a fost produs sub forma unei injecții, ci a unui spray care se pulverizează în nas. După ce este pulverizat, acesta omoară bacteria responsabilă de cauzarea cariilor dentare și previne formarea lor.

Din primele teste a rezultat că vaccinul are eficiență maximă la copii, iar la adulți reduce semnificativ numărul de carii dentare.

S-a inventat vaccinul împotriva… cariilor – Ştiri | Libertatea.ro

Python hearts may hold key to healthy heart growth in humans

The expanded python heart appears remarkably similar to the larger-than-normal hearts of Olympic-caliber athletes. Colorado researchers report they’ve figured out how the snakes make it happen.

“It’s this amazing biology,” said Leslie Leinwand, a molecular biologist at the University of Colorado Boulder, whose team reports the findings in Friday’s edition of the journal Science. “They’re not swelling up. They’re building (heart) muscle.”

Reptile biologists have long studied the weird digestion of these snakes, especially the huge Burmese pythons that can go nearly a year between meals with no apparent ill effects. When they swallow that next rat or bird or in some cases deer something extraordinary happens. Their metabolism ratchets up more than 40-fold, and their organs immediately start growing in size to get the digesting done. The heart alone grows a startling 40 percent or more within three days.

Leinwand, who studies human heart disease, stumbled across that description and saw implications for people. An enlarged human heart usually is caused by chronic high blood pressure or other ailments that leave it flabby and unable to pump well. But months and years of vigorous exercise give some well-conditioned athletes larger, muscular hearts, similar to how python hearts are during digestion.

So Leinwand’s team led by a graduate student who initially was frightened of snakes ordered a box of pythons and began testing what happens to their hearts.

Python hearts may hold key to healthy heart growth in humans  – NY Daily News

Fedde Le Grand – Paradise at ADE 2011 (Official Aftermovie)

Fedde Le Grand – Paradise at ADE 2011 (Official Aftermovie) – YouTube

Alexis Jordan – Say That (Live Performance)

Alexis Jordan – Say That Live Performance – YouTube

Noua armă a industriei de slăbit: ultrasunetele

O procedură chirurgicală de ultimă generaţie, de remodelare corporală, a fost adusă şi în România. Prin tehnica de liposelecţie Vaser cu ultrasunete poate fi îndepărtată grăsimea nedorită, care va putea fi apoi injectată în alte părţi ale corpului.

Dr. Grant Hamlet de la Londra, Marea Britanie, specialist în această tehnică a explicat că această procedură utilizează energia de ultrasunete şi, spre deosebire de alte proceduri de lipoaspiraţie, precum cea clasică sau cea asistată laser, distinge între ţesutul adipos şi celelalte structure (vase de sânge, nervi, ţesuturi de legătură) care nu vor fi afectate.

“Liposelecţia Vaser selectează ţesutul adipos fără a afecta şi alte ţesuturi şi permite în final o îmbunătăţire rapidă a aspectului pielii din zona tratată. Durerea este minimă, recuperarea rapidă şi rezultate foarte bune. Vaser poate face pentru bărbaţi ceea ce a făcut implantul mamar pentru femei”, a spus dr. Grant Hamlet.

Noua armă a industriei de slăbit: ultrasunetele – Sănătate & Farma > Capital.ro

Giant unicorn-whales with tusks? That’s why I pay my licence fee

Here is what I do when I’m feeling down about the country: I load up the Wikipedia page for the BBC Natural History Unit and click on the “In Production” link. Happy sighs ensue.

The unit’s latest product, aired on Wednesdays, is Frozen Planet, a majestic tour of Arctic and Antarctic wildlife ably narrated by Sir David Attenborough, an 85-year-old man who insists on travelling to the south pole while people many decades his junior make a small noise whenever we sit down.

Giant unicorn-whales with tusks? That’s why I pay my licence fee | Ed Yong | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Neli Petkova – Eto tova (official video)

НЕЛИ ПЕТКОВА – Ето Това (prod. MIRO GEE) OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO – YouTube

Stem-cell find breathes new life into lung repair

“There is new hope for heavy smokers, people with asthma and those with chronic lung scarring. Stem cells have been discovered that rapidly rebuild alveoli, the tiny air sacs in lungs – a finding that could herald new treatments for people with damaged lungs. Meanwhile, a signalling molecule that drives regeneration of lung tissue has also been found.”

Stem-cell find breathes new life into lung repair – health – 28 October 2011 – New Scientist

Smarter cameras help you take slicker snaps

“Photos taken with a small aperture have a large DoF, meaning more of the frame is in focus, but less light gets into the camera. This means it takes longer to achieve the correct exposure and can lead to a blurry photo if the subject is in motion. Using a larger aperture solves that problem but narrows the focus, blurring the background or foreground.

Now Sam Hasinoff, a software engineer at Google, has a solution that gives photographers the best of both worlds. He takes multiple wide-aperture photos with different DoFs and combines them to create a picture with a DoF equivalent to a small-aperture photo but taken in a fraction of the time, since the wider aperture reaches the correct exposure level much faster. His method, called light efficient photography, automatically calculates which combination of photos will produce the desired picture for a selected exposure”

Smarter cameras help you take slicker snaps – tech – 28 October 2011 – New Scientist

Emanuela – Kusam ti nervite ( DVD RIP ) 720p

Емануела – Късам ти нервите ( DVD RIP ) 720p – YouTube

Invisible glass invented in Japan

“Their new substrate can hardly be seen simply because light is hardly reflected – quite unlike ordinary glass. Nippon Electric Glass Co. Ltd. is the company behind this new “invisible glass” that was exhibited it at FPD International 2011. I sure hope that commercial spaces and retail stores will not install this on their premises, as it would certainly result in more accidents if there were more of “me” in this world.”

Invisible glass invented in Japan | Ubergizmo

Daily aspirin cuts risk of colorectal cancer

“It provides the first evidence that aspirin is effective in reducing the very high risk of cancer that these individuals have,” says Peter Rothwell of the University of Oxford, who earlier this year published results suggesting that a daily dose of 75-mg aspirin for more than five years reduced the risk of death by around 34 per cent for all cancers and as much as 54 per cent for gastrointestinal cancers, such as oesophagus, stomach, bowel, pancreas and liver cancers.”

Daily aspirin cuts risk of colorectal cancer – health – 28 October 2011 – New Scientist

Basescu: Senatul s-a compromis de la presedinte pana la fiecare senator

“Senatul in ansamblul lui s-a compromis cand a refuzat sa adopte legea privind mecansimul de promovare a magistratilor de la ICCJ”, a declarat seful statului, joi seara, la postul de televiziune public.

Basescu: Senatul s-a compromis de la presedinte pana la fiecare senator. Sa refuzi sa adopti legea privind mecanismul de promovare a judecatorilor la ICCJ e descalificant – Radio – TV – HotNews.ro

Life on Earth bubbled out of a volcano in Greenland 3.8 billion years ago, say scientists

Life on earth began in a mud volcano in the sea near Greenland 3.8 billion years ago, scientists believe.

Researchers say they have discovered the chemical elements crucial to the formation of life in mud volcanoes at Isua in south-west Greenland.

Life on Earth bubbled out of a volcano in Greenland 3.8 billion years ago, say scientists | Mail Online

Sneakbo – The Wave

SNEAKBO THE WAVE (OFFICIAL ONLINE VIDEO) ON ITUNES NOW – YouTube

Dan Balan – Just before the morning (new video clip)

New Russian romantic clip from Dan Balan. Beautiful photography.
ПРЕМЬЕРА! Dan Balan – Лишь до утра – YouTube

UK scientists grow super broccoli

“An AP reporter who tasted the new broccoli found it was the same as the regular broccoli. Scientists, however, said it should taste slightly sweeter because it contains less sulphur.

Glucoraphanin works by breaking fat down in the body, preventing it from clogging the arteries. It is only found in broccoli in significant amounts.

To create the vegetable, sold as “super broccoli,” Mithen and colleagues cross-bred a traditional British broccoli with a wild, bitter Sicilian variety that has no flowery head, and a big dose of glucoraphanin. After 14 years, the enhanced hybrid was produced, which has been granted a patent by European authorities. No genetic modification was used.”

UK scientists grow super broccoli – Yahoo! News

Nokia’s flexible user interface prototype demo

Nokia’s flexible user interface prototype demo – YouTube