If you have seen Terminator, you will know what I am talking about. The T100 rises up from the liquid goo and becomes his evil robot self. Well, they have done the just that…but with pigs. There pigs gets splattered on the floor, then rise up and become exactly what they were before. It is rather freaky to be honest. I have no idea what it is made of, or if it is legal! Take a look.
This is rather interesting! South Korean scientists have cloned cats by manipulating a fluorescent protein gene, a procedure which could help develop treatments for human genetic diseases. However, a side-effect is that the cloned cats glow in the dark when exposed to ultraviolet beams. The cats were born in January and February. One was stillborn while two others grew to become adults. The technology can also help clone endangered animals like tigers, leopards and wildcats.
“The ability to produce cloned cats with the manipulated genes is significant as it could be used for developing treatments for genetic diseases and for reproducing model (cloned) animals suffering from the same diseases as humans,” a scientist added.
Maybe we could get a couple of these for Christmas and stick then on a roof or something!
…for me anyway. Today was an average day, nothing unusual. I got up at the same time, had breakfast and the usual morning business…and then it happened. I walked outside and there was a chill in the air. The grass crunched beneath my feet and then I noticed something…strange.
My car which I had bought a couple of months back didn’t look the same. It was white. Covered in ice and frost. This is the first time it has happened to me as I only started driving a couple of months back. I casually got into my car and put the heating on, thinking the heat would melt the ice within minutes and I would be off on my merry way. But I waited a while and nothing was happening. I decided to put the window wipers on, it only slid across the frost which wasn’t very helpful. I tried to get the windows down but they were jammed.
I sat there for a while. I had to pick a friend up and I was already a couple of minutes late. I decided to get some cold water and pour it over the windows as I had seen someone do it before. It cleared the front screen, but the side windows were still iced up. I had to go otherwise I would have been late. I started driving and when I came to the end of the road I realised I couldn’t actually see if a car was coming or not. So I sat there for a few more minutes and eventually got the window down so I had a good view even though I was shivering like a cow.
As the journey continued the ice removed itself from my car and all was well. I have now set my alarm 10 minutes earlier in case I have to so the same again tomorrow. Winter is my favourite time of the year, but sometimes it can be bloody annoying!
Have you ever had an experience where you had something in your hand, you put it down somewhere and you forgot where it was. Well hopefully you wont get that feeling again, thanks to a handy little camera. The camera can fit in the palm of your hand, and can store up to 30,000 images, which is enough for two whole weeks. The camera is produced by Microsoft and takes photos of daily events every 30 seconds so they can be played back later at high-speed to jog the memory.
Researchers are testing the device on healthy elderly people who would typically struggle to recall memories as a result of ageing. It will happen to us all at some point. They tested it on a 63 year old woman and she would usually forget things after 5 days, but the camera increased her memory by 90%.
Dr Chris Moulin who is involved in the research, said: “It is very early days, but the signs are encouraging. Not only were the memories of the event recalled, but the emotions surrounding it were. It has the potential to help people with conditions such as Alzheimer’s and epilepsy as well as people who just struggle with general memory loss. And what is also particularly appealing is that there are no side effects.”
Personally I think my memory is fine, but it would be cool to have one to relive the day, or what you did last week. I want one!
Around 100 years ago people realised that the number of whales in the world was going down quite rapidly, this was due to hunting. Whales could be used to make soap, umbrellas, handbags, shoes, lipstick, shaving cream, tennis racket strings and pet food. Although a highly useful animal, its numbers were declining so something had to be done. So a number of organisations were put in place to help stop, or slow down these huntings. Eventually in 1994 all of the countries got together to decide to stop hunting whales. Everyone agreed apart from Norway, Japan and Iceland who said they needed to hunt whales for ‘scientific reasons’. They have since been hunting whales every year in the hundreds, so the people at Greenpeace decided to try and do something.
They decided to tag a humpback whale, and follow as it enters the Southern Oceans, otherwise known as the hunting grounds. They decided to get the public involved so they introduced a competition so that people could name the whale. ( I mean if the whale ended up getting murdered the public could scream ‘YOU KILLED JEFF’ or whatever). The competition got around 11,000 names, which was reduced to 20, one of those included Mr Splashy Pants. The name gained a lot of attention. Sites such as BoingBoing.com posted the story. Reddit even changed their logo to include Mr Splashy Pants in the title. Eventually, over 130,000 people voted, 78 per cent of them for Mr Splashy.
There are now SAVE MR SPLASHY PANTS petitions all over the web, and the Japanese will get more than an outcry if he ends up being made into an umbrella. That I am sure of.
MR SPLASHY PANTS!
The world’s most expensive phone number was auctioned for charity yesterday in Qatar for a stupid £1.5 million. The previous record holder was Chinese number 8888 8888, which sold for £270,000. The reason is because the number ‘8’ sounds a lot like the word ‘rich’ in some places in the world.
The number in question, is 666 6666.
Why would anyone want this number? It is the number of the devil (apparently) and will mostly likely bring bad luck to whoever has it. By bad luck I mean people now know their number, so they will probably get hundreds of prank callers a day.
Here are some interesting 666 facts:
A new trailer for Jumper has arrived on the internet, and is a vast improvement from the teaser trailer we got a couple of months ago. You can watch the trailer below:
The film is about a boy/man, placed by Hayden Christensen, who learns he can teleport from place to place. There are shots in the trailer that show him in on the Sphinx in Egypt, Big Ben in London and the Colosseum in Rome. There is Samuel L Jackson who seems to be in every film made. He plays a villain type person in the film, who can prevent Hayden from teleporting. And with every Hollywood blockbuster there is the love interest, played by O.C. actress Rachel Bilson.
The film will be released in February so watch out for it. I would have expected it to be released sometime in the summer as a ‘summer blockbuster’ but it seems they want to get it out early so it has hardly any competition. If it were to be released a bit later it would have Batman, Iron Man and The Hulk to deal with. Yikes!
I didn’t actually think about this until now, but showers are rather boring. You stand there while water is poured onto you. I have regular showers and I didn’t realise how boring it was, because I didn’t know there were alternatives. There is the bath but they are not convenient. My eyes have been opened a little after finding out about this…
The thing you see to your right is known as a ‘fog shower’ and was made by a student at Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Parana in Brazil. Normal shower heads consume 26 liters of water for a five minute shower. By creating a fog of microscopic water droplets, the Fog Shower consumes only two liters of water for a five minute shower. It also looks rather cool.
The Fog Shower reduces water consumption by creating a vapor flow with microscopic water droplets. The water is heated and sent under pressure to an ultrasonic vaporizer, and is then forced through perforated metal plates. An intelligent sensor system aims the water vapor in different angles, depending on the movements of the person showering.
I want one!
You would expect that if your wife wanted you to retire from your job, she would sit you down and talk to you about it. However, this is not always the case.
A woman in New York had marijuana in the house to ease her back pain, and decided to spike her husbands meal with it. The meal turned out to be meatballs. I am sure he enjoyed it, as would any meal ball loving person. Being a cop it is required that he have random drugs tests, and when it came to his he failed, and was fired after 22 years of service. The man, named Anthony Chiofalo has decided to sue to try and get his job back.
Mrs Chiofalo told investigators she had put enough marijuana for six cigarettes in her meatball recipe. She told the court that she just wanted her husband “not to die of a heart attack or get killed” while still in service. But she was fine putting drugs in his food? I wonder what words were exchanged when he found out that it was his wife ‘who dun it’.
Will Smith is a great movie star. He may play himself is almost every movie, but he is a ‘star’. He has gone from TV sitcoms to leading huge blockbusters such as I,Robot, Independence Day and upcoming I Am Legend. So you would think after all his years of playing the Hollywood game he would not break an important golden rule…don’t reveal the ending of your movie before it is even released.
Will Smith was in Tokyo at a press conference for the film, and randomly revealed the plot to the film, along with the ending. At one point, he even had film co-producer and co-screenwriter Akiva Goldsman shouting “Don’t give away the ending.†The reps who work for Warner Brothers had to ask the press not to reveal anything, as the film will be released within a couple of weeks.
Some people are wondering whether Will Smith actually made a huge mistake, or whether it was a publicity stunt. I mean it has people talking about it and the fact that the plot ‘could not be revealed’ makes me want to see it 5% more. The film itself is based on a novel, involving a virus that spreads and turns living things into vampire zombie things. Will Smith, however, is the immune action hero who has to find a cure and save the world. The trailer below gives you a better idea of what it is about, and Will Smith revealing the details would be rather devastating for the film, as it depends on mystery to get buts on seats.
The film is out in the UK on the 21st December. Personally, I will be seeing this and will be looking forward to a scene that apparently cost $5 million to make!
Here is the trailer:
