Written on 6:43 PM by FreshelStar
Orange Brand Futures group, the major UK cell phone service providers, developed the computer game 'Relax to Win' with Media Lab Europe. The game is based on the concept that the more you relax, the more you will achieve in the game.
In order to realize the concept, Philips Design designed a device to measuer the player's galvanic skin response and sends the data by wireless connection to a PC or cell phone screen. To play the game, simply slide it between any two fingers and relax. You see yourslef on screen as a friendly dragon; the more you relax the more your dragon will float and eventually fly. the mesh-like textile material contains sensors but is soft to the touch.
Even when not in use, the mysterious form is not out of place worn on the body like a piece of jewellry or a key ring.
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Written on 12:12 AM by FreshelStar
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Written on 4:51 PM by FreshelStar
Our solar system could have its own "mini-me" floating in the vast reaches of space.
That's the theory being proposed by a team led by a University of Toronto astronomer, whose latest research reveals that planetary nurseries could exist not only around stars, but also around planet-size objects about a hundred times less massive than our sun.
The work focused on newly formed planetary mass objects, or planemos—objects with about the same masses as planets that do not orbit stars—as envisioned by this artist's conception.
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Written on 4:32 PM by FreshelStar
No sex before football match please
Kuala Lumpur (dpa) - A top Malaysian minister has urged all football players in the central Malacca state team to refrain from having sexual relations before a national-level football match this weekend, a news report said Thursday.
Malacca Chief Minister Mohamad Ali Rustam said based on past matches, players who had sex before their games performed poorly on the field.
He said that at a recent game played against the southern Johor state, Malacca footballers "were allowed to 'mix' with their wives the night before and did not perform well the next day."
Johor beat Malacca 1-0.
"Wives are not boosters when it comes to football," Mohamad Ali was quoted as saying by the New Straits Times daily.
He said the team would surely be able to win the national-level football match on Saturday against the northern Kedah state.
"They just need to stay away from sex and focus on the game."
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Written on 4:17 PM by FreshelStar
I'm not used to have any bias for the World Cup match but this comment from
"MIKE PARKER, Bangkok" make some shout through his feeling.
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What a shame..!
After the opening games, with a sprinking of surprise results I am left wondering if England has the mental and physical strength to go all the way.
Forget about the beautiful game out there, on the pitch it's a dogfight. The aim is to get on top of your opponent, mentally and physically, and finish them off. Lately England has not shown these attributes brought about probably by their pampered lifestyle of too much money, parties, private jets,visits to the hairdresser, childish goal celebrations and other distractions.
The sight of English players falling over and pleading for a free kick when they should be up and into it confirms my suspicions.
The exception of course is young Wayne Rooney, hard as nails and still with that never-say-die approach to the game ... what a shame it hasn't rubbed off onto some of his team-mates but long-suffering English fans live in hope.
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Written on 4:10 PM by FreshelStar
Energy saving takes on new importance!
The impact of escalating petroleum costs and the rise in energy prices influences the real estate market by increasing the running costs of a building.
The good news is that commercial and institutional buildings can now be built so that the use of fossil fuels to run them is drastically reduced, according to Poul Kristensen, the chief technical adviser of IEN Consultants in Denmark.
"This is being demonstrated in Malaysia where the Malaysian government built a 4,000-square-metre pilot project, the Zero Energy Office Building (ZEO Building)," Mr Kristensen said at the recent FIABCI World Congress held in Bangkok.
The ZEO Building has very low energy consumption as all the energy needed to run it is provided by its own solar electricity system, said Mr Kristensen, who has also done consulting in Malaysia.
"The ZEO building points to the future direction to be taken for sustainable and responsible real estate buildings."
Delegates at FIABCI, an international real-estate group, were told that among the major energy consumers in a home, air-conditioners topped the list at 33%, followed by refrigerators at 18%. water heaters and washing machines at 13% each, and televisions at 8%.
Replacing an old refrigerator with a five-star
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Written on 4:00 PM by FreshelStar
Kodak's digital photography pioneer looks at the past, the present and the future
Story by Sasiwimon Boonruang
Did you know that the digital camera was invented over 30 years ago and has been existence longer than the Internet, the notebook computer and even the PC?
The world's first digital camera was invented in December1975 by Steve Sasson of the Eastman Kodak Company, although it was not for commercial purposes.
Sasson worked throughout the 1970s as a contributor at Kodak's research laboratories where he was engaged in a number of early digital imaging projects, one of them being the design and construction of the first digital still camera.
The inventor, who was in Bangkok recently, said that it had taken him a year to create a camera that weighed four kilograms. The device took pictures at 0.01 megapixels and captured the image from the new type of electronic sensor called a CCD (charge-coupled device) and stored it in 49,000 bits of memory.
"The picture from the camera was displayed on a black and white television and was recorded on a cassette tape, and it was read off into a frame store because at that time there was no PC," he said.
As a pioneer in photography, Kodak has been awarded more than 1,000 digital imaging patents and today almost all digital cameras rely on these competences.
Kodak has patents to the first digital camera, and later developed the techniques to capture colour images with CCD array, and this is the technology still used today, Sasson said.
So why was Kodak a late-comer in the digital camera market, having just launched mass market digital cameras in 2001?
Sasson said …click here...
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