Thursday, August 31, 2006

Fetus in Fetu: the Male Pregnancy.

Sanju Bhagat’s said he felt self-conscious about his pregnant belly. OK, kind of pregnant belly since he’s a man: But while operating on Bhagat, Mehta saw something he had never encountered. As he cut deeper into Bhagat’s stomach, gallons of fluid spilled out — and then something extraordinary happened. "To my surprise and horror, I could shake hands with somebody inside," he said. "It was a bit shocking for me." … "He just put his hand inside and he said there are a lot of bones inside," she said. "First, one limb came out, then another limb came out. Then some part of genitalia, then some part of hair, some limbs, jaws, limbs, hair." … At first glance, it may look as if Bhagat had given birth. Actually, Mehta had removed the mutated body of Bhagat’s twin brother from his stomach. Bhagat, they discovered, had one of the world’s most bizarre medical conditions — fetus in fetu. It is an extremely rare abnormality that occurs when a fetus gets trapped inside its twin. The trapped fetus can survive as a parasite even past birth by forming an umbilical cordlike structure that leaches its twin’s blood supply until it grows so large that it starts to harm the host, at which point doctors usually intervene.

World’s Youngest Mother.

The world’s youngest mother gave birth at the age of five - yes, FIVE! Regardless of our squeamishness, we have to note that the claim of a five-year-old girl giving birth is apparently true. Her name was Lina Medina, a Peruvian girl from the Andean village of Ticrapo who made medical history when she gave birth to a boy by caesarean section in May 1939 at the age of five years, seven months and 21 days. Lina’s parents initially thought their daughter had a large abdominal tumor, but after they took her to a hospital in the town of Pisco physicians confirmed that her abdominal swelling was due to pregnancy. Lina was eventually transferred to a hospital in Lima, where she delivered a six-pound baby boy by Cesarean section on 14 May 1939 (coincidentally the date on which Mother’s Day was celebrated that year). Lina’s father was temporarily jailed on suspicion of incest, but he was released for a lack of evidence and authorities were never able to determine who fathered Lina’s child.

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Wednesday, August 30, 2006

You, Me and Dupree [ EU, TU E O EMPLASTRO ]

O filme da minha vida............... PS: advinha,mande por e-mail, quem é: EU ????_______________________ TU????_______________________ Emplastro ????__________________

Refilling Dog Bowl: For Potty-Mouth Pets

The Refilling Dog Bowl is a pretty good sight gag, and it actually has a practical purpose. Place a 2-liter bottle of water (or your pet's favorite beverage) in the tank and it will automatically keep that mini-loo full of fresh fluids. Just make sure your kids know it's the dog's bowl and not theirs. Made of glazed ceramic just like the real thing, the $15 bowl is just over 10 inches high, so only the tiniest wee ones will be tempted to wee here.

Bosch Power Box iPod Dock For (Wannabe) Tough Gys

It's been a while since we've covered an iPod dock (or maybe it just seems that way), but Bosch's recently introduced Power Box iPod Dock at least looks different. Housed in a protective roll cage—Bosch is also in the power tools business—the Power Box both recharges your iPod and provides the rock quarry with all the Ace of Base it can handle. It appears, though, that the Power Box is a little too simple for today's iPod market: when you consider that you have to first purchase Bosch's Power Box and then the separate iPod dock compnent, you'll eventually start wondering why you're going through all those hoops for just to get your iPod connected. Still, if you like pretending to be rugged and the name Bosch appeals to you, be prepared to spend some $170 on the Power Box itself, then an additional $40 on the iPod adapter kit.

Logitec WiFi Skype Phone Lets You Talk Wherever There's WiF

Logitec's getting into the WiFi Skype game and releasing their own me-too phone. Again, this Logitec is the Logitec of Japan, not the Logitech (with an H) of the US. Fortunately for Skype phone collectors like me, this is just an OEM of the Belkin Skype phone, but in white, like SMC's OEM version. The Skype phone will be available in Japan and uses either 802.11b or g to place its calls. The phone also supposedly has Bluetooth so you can hook this up as a handset for your computer, but we're not sure how useful that feature will be. Read up on our thoughts on this model of Skype WiFi phone here.

Peugeot Parking Flash Game.

First Launch

A new chapter in space flight began in July 1950 with the launch of the first rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla: the Bumper 2, an ambitious two-stage rocket program that topped a V-2 missile base with a Corporal rocket

Frase para a semana de trabalho...

"SENHOR, dai-me sabedoria para entender o meu chefe porque se me dás força parto-lhe a cara"

Monday, August 28, 2006

The Robotic Drummer

A group of college students (Matthew Webster, John Vernon, and ShengZhu Wu) created a robotic drumming system, called Monster, for their final project. See it in action after the jump. Here’s how it works: Our system works using general MIDI, allowing connection to MIDI controllers (keyboards etc) and also sequencer software (Cubase SX or Pro Tools etc)

6 boas razões para NÃO levar as crianças ao ZOO !!!

Sunday, August 27, 2006

Apple paga 100 millones de dólares a Creative por una patente que usa en el iPod.

Apple Computer pagará 100 millones de dólares a la compañía Creative Technology según un acuerdo extrajudicial entre ambas empresas para dar solución a cinco demandas interpuestas por una patente tecnológica que se utiliza en el popular reproductor musical iPod y otros productos de la marca de la manzana, referente al sistema de navegación de este dispositivo, ya utilizado y patentado por Creative para sus reproductores Zen. Con este acuerdo Apple Computer podrá utilizar esta patente en adelante y por su parte Creative Technology se unirá al programa Made for iPod, comercializando accesorios propios para el reproductor iPod

D'zerto

Saturday, August 26, 2006

Airplane Toilet IPod Causes Chaos

A poster on the Word of Warcraft forums claims that he accidentally dropped his iPod into the toilet of an airplane on a flight to Canada, and one of the stewardesses found it. This then triggered a series of events that lead to an emergency landing, the passengers being evacuated and him spending several hours being grilled by the authorities. At the risk of spoiling the ending, it all turned out allright in the end, but he doesn't say if he took the, erm, soiled iPod back. Personally, I'd just write it off to experience and buy a non-flushed one.

Friday, August 25, 2006

Exercícios para quem usa muito o PC

Para utilizadores de computador por longos períodos. Funciona realmente, é muito relaxante e produz uma sensação muito agradável.
(Exercícios formulados pela Stretching Inc. - Palmer Lake - Colorado - USA)

O Tipo da Madeira...

A miúda vai à primeira festa da sua vida e, com medo Dos avanços dos rapazes, pede conselho à mãe: - Se os rapazes começarem a insistir muito, minha filha, Pergunta que nome eles vão dar à criança. Isso vai fazer com que eles desistam.Assim foi. No meio de uma dança um Alentejano diz: - Vamos para o jardim atrás da piscina, moça? Ela vai, mas quando o moço quer avançar ela pergunta: - Que nome vamos dar à criança? O Alentejano olha-a com surpresa, diz que se esqueceu da Carteira no bar e sai de fininho. Uma hora mais tarde repete-se a cena com um tipo do Porto. Igualzinho, quando ela pergunta qual será o nome do filho, ele fica de pés frios e vai-se embora. Chega um tipo da Madeira. Vai com ela para o jardim. Começa com beijinho aqui, beijinho ali, e apalpa-lhe o peito. Ela pergunta: - Que nome vamos dar à criança? Ele continua e abre o vestido dela. - Que nome vamos dar à criança? Ele pega nos seios dela. - Que nome vamos dar à criança? Ele tira-lhe o vestido e as cuecas.....e continua... - Que nome... Ahhh... Vamos dar... Ahhhh... à criança? Ah...Ahhhhhh...Ahhhhhhhhhhhh... - Que nome Vamos.....não....pares...dar...vai.vai....vaiiiiiiiii....à criança???? Depois de acabarem, ela pergunta mais uma vez: - E agora, qual vai ser o nome do nosso filho? Ele, triunfante, tira devagar o preservativo, levanta-se, Olha para o alto, dá um nó firme e diz: - Se ele conseguir sair daqui, vai ser..."Macgyver!!!"

Thursday, August 24, 2006

The hard drive turns 50

Gary Reyes / Mercury News archives Jacob Bell, left, worked on the first RAMAC hard drive at IBM. His son Howard Bell, center, helped oversee construction of IBM's Almaden Research Center. His son Sonny, right, joined Big Blue in 1976. More photosOn Sept. 13, 1956, an IBM lab at 99 Notre Dame Road in San Jose began shipping a product that changed history. It is Silicon Valley's unsung hero, though it taught us bits and the mega, giga, tera, peta and exa bytes. Dubbed RAMAC, or Random Access Method of Accounting and Control, it was the original hard drive, a funny-looking giant machine with 50 spinning, 24-inch-wide disks covered with red paint. It cost about $50,000 a year to lease in 1956 dollars -- equivalent to nearly $350,000 today -- and had 5 megabytes of information, about enough space to store one song on an iPod. On its 50th anniversary, the hard drive is taking an ever-more-central role in the digital lifestyle, storing movies, photos, e-mail and the other sundry details of modern existence. Industry experts say more hard drives will be shipped over next five years than in the previous 50. But in the long term, as the industry continues to increase the capacity of hard drives 40 percent every year, will the world even need all that space? ``I think the digital revolution is just starting,'' said Bill Healy, Hitachi's senior vice president of corporate strategy and marketing. ``It's hard to think of how the digital lifestyle is going to change.'' The impact of the hard drive's creation can hardly be overstated. The original RAMAC (pronounced RAM-ak) came with heads that, in a few seconds, could read the information on storage disks. Before its arrival, people had to assess information by searching through tape reels for several minutes or hours. The efficient hard drive created an industry, launching as many as 260 companies over time that made hard drives or their components. Paving the way It also paved the way for others: Today, hard drives store data in iPods, TiVos, servers and cars. Amazon.com, Google, eBay and even Web-based e-mail could not exist without the invention of the hard drive. ``Most people miss the fact that they are using hard drives,'' said Mark Kryder, chief technology officer at Seagate. ``They take them for granted.'' Today Hitachi offers a hard drive that holds 500 gigabytes of data, and each gigabyte of storage can cost less than 50 cents. Despite the technology's growth, profitability hasn't always grown with capacity, and hard-drive companies have ridden the ups and downs of the computer industry. However, in recent years, consumers' demand for hard drives and the growth of the Internet have given the industry a real boost. In the past four to five years, the industry has shipped 2 billion drives, about the same number it shipped in the previous 50 years, according to Healy of Hitachi, which bought IBM's hard-drive business in 2002. Getting smaller In 1999, IBM introduced the one-inch microdrive, specifically designed for consumer applications. In 2004, Apple Computer put the drives in its iPod mini -- but when Apple released the iPod nano in 2005, it came with flash memory -- a smaller, faster but more expensive storage medium. Some phones and video cameras rely on micro drives, but flash continues to nip at the hard-drive industry's heels. ``Flash memory has become cost-effective for mobile users, who use the shirt pocket computer,'' said Jim Porter, who ran the research firm Disk/Trend and who worked for one of the first companies to receive the RAMAC in 1956. Still, demand for external hard drives continues to grow as many consumers long to take information with them. Others are choosing to store more data on a company's remote servers instead, as companies such as Yahoo, YouTube and MySpace launch services that behave like giant C drives in the sky. ``Storage is moving away from us,'' said Jim Till, chief marketing officer at Xythos, a San Francisco software company whose software helps institutions manage and share their stored files. But as people store more data on Internet servers, they are likely to also need more hard drives at home as well. ``It's very good for the industry,'' Healy said. ``It's all part of the conversion to the digital lifestyle.'' In five to 10 years, the average household will have 10 to 20 hard drives, according to a hopeful estimate from the International Disk Drive, Equipment and Materials Association. But is there a danger the industry could top out? Is there a point, not too far out in the future, where a single hard drive will store everything cheaply? Ultimate hard drive Perhaps. A future benchmark, maybe 50 years off: For about $200, consumers will be able to buy a single drive that will store everything they have watched or heard in their lives, said Richard Doherty at Envisioneering Group, a market research firm in Seaford, N.Y. But even that won't be the death of the hard-drive industry. ``We can all reduce our appetite for data and music, but I don't think that's going to happen,'' Doherty said. ``It's amazing that our appetite is growing as fast as the hard drive.''

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Wenger Giant Knife 1.0

Wenger went a little nuts putting all their 85 different functioning gadgets into this Swiss Army knife. Yeah. Just a little.

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Mulher / HOMEM

Mulher / HOMEM

Sozinho em casa ....

Novos Airbags

São bem conhecidas as diferenças entre os dois hemisférios - norte versus sul - no que respeita a preferências sexuais de seus nativos e habitantes. No continente americano, os seios fartos das puritanas do norte ficam nos antípodas das bundinhas das orgias tropicais do sul. A pensar nisso (e eles só pensam nisso, dois fabricantes de veículos automóveis trabalharam em duas versões bem diferentes de airbags, a serem testados nos EUA e no Brasil, segundo a preferência nacional vigente em cada país.

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Hoje fui mudar os pneus do carro ....

The lion sleeps tonight

Mais planetas para habitar

Lembra-se do que aprendeu na escola sobre os planetas? Mercúrio, Vénus, Terra, Marte, Júpiter, Saturno, Urano, Neptuno e Plutão, é foi isso que aprendeu? Pois está errado, neste momento o que se crê que está certo é o seguinte: São 12 os planetas do nosso sistema solar: 8 tradicionais - Mercúrio, Vénus, Terra, Marte, Júpiter, Saturno, Urano e Neptuno; 3 “Plutões”, esta nova categoria engloba os seguintes astros: Plutão, Charon e 2003 UB313; e Ceres. A alteração foi tomada pela União Astronómica Internacional, na reunião anual, que começou no dia 14 e termina a 25 deste mês. Os detalhes foram disponibilizados neste press release e em vários apontamentos dos média internacionais.

Sonho

Sexy Mouse

Sexy MousePad

Monday, August 21, 2006

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