Thought-controlled cybernetic arms demonstrated

Friday, September 15, 2006
Jesse Sullivan has two cybernetic arms, after electrical burns suffered while working as an electrical utility lineman resulted in amputation of both his arms at the shoulder. Claudia Mitchell has a similar cybernetic left arm, after a motorcycle accident resulted in amputation. Sullivan and Mitchell shook hands with these thought-controlled prosthetic arms at an evenRead More…

Woman returns home with Christmas turkey, a month after setting out

Tuesday, January 19, 2010
A Scottish woman who set out before Christmas to purchase a turkey finally made it home on Monday, after being cut off by snow for a month. Kay Ure left the Lighthouse Keeper’s cottage on Cape Wrath, at the very northwest tip of Great Britain, in December. She was heading to Inverness on a shopping trip.
However on her return journey heavy snow and ice prevented her husRead More…

IMF Offers Special Loan for Tsunami-Hit Countries

Wednesday, January 5, 2005
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Rodrigo Rato offered special relief funds for the countries victim of the tsunami disaster. The money is, however, in the form of a loan. The IMF has been present in the area on various occasions. The IMF offered a one billion U.S. dollar loan. The money would be given as Emergency Natural Disaster Assistance facRead More…

Vitamin Supplements Helps You Stay Healthy

Read An Opinion On: Best Supplements For Frenchies Vitamins are known as micro-nutrients, this means they are required in small quantities. Their requirement in smaller quantities doesn’t mean that they are less important. Their requirement is important in keeping the body healthy, than in the building up of the body.Deficiency of vitamins can bring about various diseases. Many a time what Read More…

Hydrogen fuel cell cars promoted in various states, but U.S. federal funding cut

Tuesday, June 2, 2009
American Secretary of Energy Steven Chu is cutting US$100 million dollars from hydrogen fuel cell vehicle research and diverting the remaining $69 million to hydrogen fuel cell research for household current.
Former president George W. Bush advocated the zero-emission vehicles and launched $1.2 billion for hydrogen fuel cell research over a number of years.
President BarackRead More…

OpenSync Interview – syncing on the free desktop

Friday, May 19, 2006
This interview intends to provide some insight into OpenSync, an upcoming free unified data synchronization solution for free software desktops such as KDE, commonly used as part of the GNU/Linux operating system. Hi Cornelius, Armin and Tobias. As you are now getting close to version 1.0 of OpenSync, which is expected to become the new synchronisation framework for KDE anRead More…

Singer Britney Spears faces hit and run charges

Saturday, September 22, 2007
The Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office said yesterday that pop music super-star Britney Spears was facing charges for a hit and run offence and driving without a valid drivers’ license. Charges were filed following an accident in which police allege Spears smashed her car into another vehicle in a parking area in August of 2007.
She could face a maximum of six monthRead More…

Digital Salvaging In Centerville Iowa

Read An Opinion On: Compare Greenslip Digital Salvaging in Centerville Iowa by Jenna FinchCENTERVILLE Most computer users have experienced the sinking feeling of losing valuable files. But Steve Kozak might be able to fix that.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpAexBjfwwc[/youtube] In February 2010, Kozak started his business, Digital Salvaging, which does data recovery, digital iRead More…

World Trade Organization allows Antigua to ignore US$21 million of US copyright per year

Saturday, December 29, 2007
Arbitrators at the World Trade Organization (WTO) have granted the Caribbean country of Antigua and Barbuda a special dispensation to ignore United States copyright law.
In their report, the WTO panel stated that Antigua possessed “no effective trade sanctions against the USA” and agreed to allow the country to ignore up to US$21 million worth of US copyrights a year.Read More…