Health, Science and Technology

John Volakis want to make the world a hands-free. Director of the ElectroScience Laboratory, Ohio State University is working to eliminate the need for mobile hardware such as Bluetooth earphones with installing communication devices into the clothes.

“You no longer need to hold the phone in your ear,” Volakis said, as quoted from the New York Times, October 25, 2011. ”We’re going to eliminate it, and it will become part of our clothes,” he said.

Step he did was part of an effort to create ‘smart textiles’ or clothing worn but has an electronic device that can collect, store, send, and receive information in it.

A British company that designed the urinal screens are equipped with video games.
The idea originally came from the toilet at Schiphol airport, Amsterdam. There, the urinal was painted with the image in order that the men who throw urine in there to have something as a target. Thus, a janitor working also so much lighter because there is not much urine is splattered on the floor.

However, a British company to bring further innovation. They designed the urinal is equipped with a video screen. Through this screen, the man who urinated in their urine there can point to the left and right, to control their characters ice skating down the hill.

In one study, researchers succeeded in expressing the importance of passive infection control in hospitals, a method that does not rely on the medical staff or patients to remember and take action.

During this time, it is known that the various objects in patient rooms in hospitals is an area of ​​potential breeding bacteria that cause infection.

According to Michael Schmidt, Vice Chairman of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, who conducted the research, bacteria on the surface of the ICU charge up to 80 percent of infections that attack the patient.

To that end, reducing the number of bacteria around the patient will certainly reduce the risk of infection significantly.

There’s fast food and processed food and practically a deluge of preservatives in the foodstuff we take in these days. Our awareness on healthy lifestyle, particularly healthy eating started at the peak of the uproar over the usage of genetically-modified organisms of fastfood chains like McDonalds.
Individuals are starting to be more aware of their food intake, starting a brand new hype over the need for detoxification. Detoxification is the process of removing toxic substances from the body. Primarily known as a treatment for alcohol and drug dependence, body detox can also refer to the usage of diets, herbs and other methods to remove toxins from body for general health.
So, are you considering cleansing your system? Here are a number of tips for healthy and wise and effective detoxification.
Go for a non-toxic lifestyle.

Flipboard is a news reader app that pulls content from a number of sources and presents them in a more friendly way. It was originally launched on the iPad only. The app has now been updated and with that update it has been converted to a universal app which now makes it compatible with the iPhone and iPod touch.

The iPhone version of the app uses a similar layout to the larger iPad version although it has been modified slightly to fit better on the smaller screen. A new section called Cover Stories has been added. This is the first place that you will visit and is a list of news items from social networks. This part of the app also has the ability to learn what you look at and what kind of information you are looking for.

Evernote has announced in a blog post that Skitch for Android has hit 3 million downloads. The app launched a few months ago which Evernote points out is a download every 1.5 seconds.

As well as hitting quite a large milestone, Evernote has also added a new feature to the app which now allows you to rotate objects. The functions work by tapping on the object, holding two fingers on it and then rotating. If you want to rotate several objects at the same time to the same angle you can select those several objects and rotate with two fingers pressed on the screen also.

Epic Games has given another look in to Infinity Blade 2 for the iPad. The new version of the game is getting ready for launch soon and because of the new CPU and GPU in the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S, the visuals look stunning.

The release date for the game is December 1st, but for those of you eager to see more of the game before you buy it, you can take a look at the video below which explains all the new graphical features such as the light streams and how objects moving in front of them can break up the light. It really is quite impressive to see visuals like these on the iPad and iPhone.

Google is making another design tweak to many of its services. The small tweak gets rid of the black bar across the top of the page and puts it in a drop down found just below the Google logo as pictured below. The bar is now hidden and only made visible when rolling over the Google logo.

It isn’t clear when Google will roll out the design tweak although it could be any day now. Take a look at the video below to see the reasons behind it and what else Google has slightly changed with the designs of its websites.

Microsoft [MSFT] has announced that the Windows Store for Windows 8 will be opening for developers towards the end of February 2012. What that means is that all developers enrolled will be able to submit apps ready for review and launch.

As well as announcing the opening date for submissions, Microsoft has also confirmed revenue share details. The model will start with a 70/30 split (developer/Microsoft) but when an app hits $25K in sales, the share will shift to 80/20 which is quite a good deal. The 70/30 model will be applied to in-app purchases for those that use the Microsoft billing system. The minimum price for an app has been set at $1.49 and there’s a limit of $999.

It’s the beginning of the new year and you have made your new year’s resolution to lose some weight.  If you’re like me, you’ve probably gained a few pounds over the holidays.  It’s the beginning of the new year and we don’t have much time to get you into your bikini weight.  I will describe two exercises you can do very easily at home that will only take a few minutes and may help you burn calories fast.