MP3 player headphones might interfere with Cardiac Equipment

U.S. Researchers informed an American Heart Association meeting in New Orleans about the possible interference that MP3 player headphones might post to cardiac equipment. Pacemakers and implantable defibrillators'...

Meet the weird animal mutants

When we see strange thing concerning against the norm we have to realize the norm is perverted to natural events "EARS something you don’t see every day! This curious looking cat is named Yoda because his...

Frog's ears can change frequencies

Whenever someone nags, be it your mother or your significant other, one cannot help but want to be deaf to their dronings. The unusual Chinese frogs are gifted with this ability. Studies have shown that they can...

MEDUSA - Microwave ray gun controls crowds with noise

Do these companies think of the Acronym first then try to make up words to fit to it."A US company claims it is ready to build a microwave ray gun able to beam sounds directly into people's heads. ...

NowPublic: Reuters 2.0?

" Leonard Brody, founder of NowPublic, rejects the term "citizen journalism," which has often been applied to his business. "What [our contributors] do is not journalism. We don't call it that and never...

BC bridge to have first suicide barrier

Golden Ears Bridge - the bridge that is being built between Surrey and Maple Ridge / Pitt Meadows - is going to have something no other bridge has in BC when it opens next summer. It's going to have a suicide...

Annoying Mosquito: Anti-Teen Sonic Device Arrives in US

As we grow older, our hearing decays as our fragile ears are exposed to loud noises over time. A UK company has leveraged this with the Mosquito, a device that emits frequencies inaudible to most adults, but...

'Wife calls me from the grave'

"A MAN believes his wife is calling him from beyond the grave - on a mobile phone. Frank Jones claims he is being visited by the spirits of wife Sadie and son Steven at home in Thornton, near Blackpool. Sadie...

Real men don't wear bling to the office

Not only do boys not cry, we also don't accessorize, according to today's fashion column in the Globe and Mail.Writer Amy Verner notes that boy bling was on the rise at this year's Academy Awards, with Harrison...

Jim Kunstler in Vancouver tonight

Jim Kunstler, creator of clusterfucknation and prophet of peak oil driven doom is at SFU tonight.  If you can, you should give him a listen.  Here is a sampling of his latest blog entry:"George W. Bush, tried to appease the beast by offering each American adult the...

Give 'Ringing Ears' The Needle

"Acupuncture that calms nerves in the head and neck could relieve tinnitus, or "ringing in the ears." A University of Michigan (U-M) study suggests that touch-sensing nerve cells in the face and neck increase...

Nabaztag Wifi Smart Rabbit

"So you are probably wondering if a rabbit can really be “smart”? Well this bunny can teach you tai chi, read your e-mail, report the weather or stock market, pull RSS feeds and tell you the time. We’d...

The germaphobe's non-contact thermometer

"Of all the shared items in any household, the personal thermometer may well be a germaphobe's worst nightmare. Just think about how it's used--on second thought, don't. But there may be a non-invasive answer to...

BlackBerry & iPhone at war

Target markets for the iPhone and BlackBerry are starting to overlap. The iPhone is a media consumer's dream, playing movies and music with ease. But it's not as finely tuned for the corporate user; large companies have resisted letting employees use iPhones on...

Wife’s Lotto secret costs years of grief

I thought it was men who couldn’t keep a secret. This wife from hell should have kept her mouth shut. Update "A Miami-Dade judge on Thursday will hear the tale of a South Florida woman, her ex-husband and a...

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