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10/19/07 |
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Call me superficial, but I love cute haircuts, hot make-up, and creative tattoos, but lately I've wondered, if you're blind, can you enjoy these very visual things. Well one student has thought up a way where the visually impaired can express themselves through tattoos that can be read. The Braille Tattoo, designed by Klara Jirkova (a student at the University of the Arts Berlin), is a series of implantable surgical steel, titanium, or medical plastic that's placed under the skin. The tattoo can then be read via touch. Subdermal implants are nothing new, but using them to create body art for the visually impaired is an interesting idea. Jirkova thinks the implants could be used in the divet between thumb and pointer finger, so when people shake hands they can "read" each other's names and info. |
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10/17/07 |
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In July 2008 it will be 100 years since the Tunguska meteorite fall in Evenkiya (the Krasnoyarsk Region of Russia). The world practice shows that making business on travel to anomalous zones and places of UFO landing yields a profit. This is why the local authorities have decided to take the advantage of the human interest to all mystical and unknown and turn the place of the meteorite fall into a popular travel centre. Taking into account that tens of international expeditions annually come to Evenkiya to solve the Tunguska mystery, there are all chances for development of profitable travel business in the region, and the 100th anniversary of the Tunguska phenomenon can become an effective impact for bringing the idea to life. |
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10/17/07 |
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The skeleton of what's believed to be a new dinosaur species - a 105-foot plant-eater that is among the largest dinosaurs ever found - has been uncovered in Argentina, scientists said Monday. |
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10/17/07 |
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Doctors in India have removed a toothbrush from a woman's nose. The housewife says she isn't sure how the three inch long brush got lodged in her nostril. |
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10/17/07 |
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Now here's a sticky situation. How do you make a tape that doesn't lose its grip when it is peeled off and reused? Tree frogs, crickets and some other animals have mastered the problem. So researchers in India thought they ought to be able to figure it out too, and they did, they report in Friday's issue of the journal Science. |
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