The dress that changes colour to reflect your mood | the Daily Mail
Topic: Arts
10:57 am EST, Dec 20, 2007
After centuries of wondering, men can finally work out if their partner really is 'fine' or not thanks to a new dress that changes colour depending on a woman's mood.
The Bubelle Dress is made up of two layers, the inner layer contains biometric sensors that pick up a person's emotions and projects them in colours onto the second layer, the outer textile.
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The sensitive dress, which was designed by electronical giants Philips, works by monitoring physical changes associated with different feelings.
Emotions such as stress, arousal, or fear affect the body's temperature and sweat levels and these generate the light that changes the pattern and colour on the dress.
Ingrid Bal from Philip's Design said: "You could programme the material so that it turned red if you were angry or stressed, or green when you're calm."
Should the prototype ever hit the high street it would help British couples to communicate better.
It was developed as part of the SKIN Probe Project, a research programme concerned with what lifestyles might be like in 2020. Time magazine named the impressive clothing as the best fashion invention of the year.
Ms Bal said: "We were interested to see how technology may affect our lives in the future and to provoke debate. We are asking: 'Would the idea of emotional clothing be something we will wear in 10 years time?'"
Scientists at the Dutch firm have also designed emotion-sensitive electronic tattoos as part of their design project.
A spokeswoman said: "In much the same way as make-up is put on and taken off to suit the occasion, a tattoo could alter whenever desired.
"The tattoos could even change in response to gestures or emotions."
This is either a Stargate at the NASA Ames Research Center or the remnants of a 14 foot wind tunnel now being torn down at the facility. NASA Watch has more. Link
No special person in your life to buy you a Nabaztag/tag so that you no longer need a special person in your life? Build yourself this $30 Android and make all the loneliness go away. Built into this charming little styrofoam head is a webcam, microphone, speakers, a few LED lights, light sensors and a small LCD screen, and once you install enough conversational and creepy RSS-based stalker software on it we're sure it'll reach sentience in no time. Video is after the break.
The Associated Press: Police Reward Good Drivers With Coffee
Topic: Society
10:46 am EST, Dec 19, 2007
RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif. (AP) — Happy holidays. Now pull over to the side of the road.
Motorists may be in for a surprise if they spot flashing red lights in their rearview mirrors in this Sacramento suburb during the holiday season.
Police are stopping law-abiding motorists and rewarding their good driving with $5 Starbucks gift cards.
A traffic officer came up with the idea to "promote the holiday spirit and enhance goodwill between the traffic unit and the motoring public," police Sgt. Tim Curran said.
Local businesses donated money to buy the gift cards.
"They raised a substantial amount of money," Curran said. "They'll be pulling over a lot of people."
I don't like this precedent. This sounds a lot like being pulled over for no reason.
The Disney Blog: College course to study Disney as a religion
Topic: Society
10:51 am EST, Dec 18, 2007
It's something I've pondered for a while, heck I even have a category called "Disneyism" on the blog to track it, does Disney fandom ever cross the lines into religion? Well now Jennifer Porter (homepage), a Canadian professor, is prepared to study that issue in a course at Memorial University in St. John's.
The theme park productions, fireworks displays and so on always involve a morality tale and a requirement of the audience to believe in the power of good, and believe in the power of wishes," she said.
I know theres a temple below disneyland with the severed head of Walt Disney.
The entire cast of Karate Kid (minus Miyagi) re-assemble for this music video re-creation of the climactic events depicted in the film, with a surprise ending.
Girl born with 8 limbs leaves hospital - Yahoo! News
Topic: Health and Wellness
2:03 pm EST, Dec 17, 2007
BANGALORE, India - A 2-year-old girl who was born with four arms and four legs left a hospital in southern India on Saturday, little more than a month after surgeons successfully removed her extra limbs. ADVERTISEMENT
The surgeon who led more than 30 doctors in the marathon surgery said Lakshmi was making good progress and should be mobile soon.
"Lakshmi is fine and stable," chief surgeon Dr. Sharan Patil told The Associated Press. "She should face no problem in walking."
I wonder if she still has godlike powers, or if those were in the dead twin.
WHO to investigate Pakistan bird flu - Yahoo! News
Topic: Health and Wellness
1:51 pm EST, Dec 17, 2007
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - International health experts have been dispatched to Pakistan to help investigate the cause of South Asia's first outbreak of bird flu in people and determine if the virus could have been transmitted through human contact, officials said Sunday. ADVERTISEMENT
Four brothers — two of whom died — and two cousins from Abbotabad, a small city about 30 miles north of Islamabad, were suspected of being infected by the H5N1 virus, said WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl in Geneva. A man and his niece from the same area who had slaughtered chickens were also suspected of having the virus.
Another person in a separate case who slaughtered poultry in nearby Mansehra, 15 miles away, also tested positive for the disease, he said.
Details surrounding the cases remained confusing, with Pakistan's Health Ministry issuing a statement Saturday saying six people had initially tested positive for the virus last month, while the WHO said eight had been reported. Hartl said the discrepancy was likely linked to a technicality since six patients had tested positive using an internationally recommended method while a less reliable test was used on the others.
The fit may have just shit the fan. Merry Christmas! I hear gas-masks are the new hot item.
