Saturday, April 17, 2010

Gadgets You Won’t Believe Exist

Instant Macho Necklaces
If you are not men enough, let Solo Man Bib turn you into one.
The Solo Man Bib is a hilarious ad campaign by Solo, the real man thirst crusher, that invites men to go back to being REAL men. Solo is an Australian carbonated lemon-flavored soft drink manufactured by Cadbury Schweppes. The Solo Man Bib was designed exclusively for the Australian international twenty/20 cricket series.”






Beer Burglar Alarm




The next time you are drinking some beers with your friend and step away for a second, don’t forget to turn on the Beer Burglar Alarm, it will make the “so called friends” don’t finish your beer.

Basically you attach the alarm system to a glass, and since it has a proximity sensor it will make the (sound) alarm go on if anyone tries to drink the beer.






Sleep Safe Tape

If you have family, children, several jobs day and night, you might find following Sleep Safe Tape useful in case you might have fallen asleecolleaguep during your office job hours. It was an amazing design by Sherwood Forlee, the tape is to be sticked to both of your eye lids in order to camouflage your sleeping eyes!
Of course “no one” would notice you have freaky eyes stuck to your face




Anti-theft lunch
Prevents people from eating your sandwich.Anti-Theft Lunch Bags are sandwich bags that have green splotches printed on both sides, making your freshly prepared lunch look spoiled. Don’t suffer the injustice of having your sandwich stolen again






Intelligent Glass

Tells you whether it is empty or full, so you know when you need to refill.

Monday, March 29, 2010

Popular Myths Busted


1. The six second rule
Having an arbitrary rule justifying the consumption of food dropped on the floor within a certain time frame is convenient, especially when said food is a brownie. Unfortunately, tests (and logic) confirm that germs will stick to most foods right on contact.




2.The Great Wall of China is the only manmade structure visible from space 
It is commonly claimed that the Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from the Moon. This is false. None of the Apollo astronauts reported seeing any man-made object from the Moon. The misconception is believed to have been popularized by Richard Halliburton decades before the first moon landing











3. Lightning never strikes the same place twice
In fact lightning favors certain spots, particularly high locations. The Empire State Building is struck about 25 times every year. Ben Franklin grasped the concept long ago and mounted a metal rod atop the roof of his home, then ran a wire to the ground, thereby inventing the lightning rod.












4. The inventor of the lightbulb was Thomas  Edison
Calling Thomas Edison the “inventor” of the lightbulb is false. Although instrumental in developing a commercially successful lightbulb, he did not create it. A closer examination takes us to 1809, when Englishman Humphry Davy created an arc lamp. A decade later, Warren De la Rue built the first sealed lightbulb and in 1840, William Robert Grove lit an entire room of lamps. Unfortunately, the products were expensive with questionable durability. Eight scientists and three patents later, Edison expanded on these ideas to create a longer-lasting, cheaper product. The rest is history, but it wasn’t Edison’s to begin with.


5. Humans use only 10 percent of their brains
Fortunately, it’s just not true. MRI imaging clearly demonstrates–with fancy colors no less–that humans put most of their cerebral cortex to good use, even while dozing.











6. Goldfish have a memory of only three 
    seconds
The notion that goldfish have a memory of only three seconds is completely false
They have been trained to navigate mazes and can recognize their owners after an exposure of a few months










7. Shaving cause hair to grow back thicker or coarser or darker
Shaving does not cause hair to grow back thicker or coarser or darker. This belief is due to the fact that hair that has never been cut has a tapered end, whereas, after cutting, there is no taper. Thus, it appears thicker, and feels coarser due to the sharper, unworn edges. Hair can also appear darker after it grows back because hair that has never been cut is often lighter due to sun exposure.




8. The Fruit eaten by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden was an apple

Nowhere in the Bible is the fruit eaten by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden referred to as an apple. The fruit is called the “fruit of the tree” (that is, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil), and neither the fruit nor the tree is identified by species. In Middle English, as late as the 17th century “apple” was a generic term for all fruit other than berries but including nuts.