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New Controller for the Xbox 360, the R&B Version

The Xbox 360 has received several other controllers along the years, besides the standard black and white models. Now, it looks like a brand-new set of clothes will come for the device. Appearing only in the GameStop schedule, Microsoft seems to be preparing a red and black controller for the Xbox, expected to become...

23 September 2009
12:01 GMT

Redheads Feel More Pain

Blondes have more fun and brunettes are usually seen as more intelligent, these are two of the stereotypes that still stand as regards the color of a woman’s hair. Until just recently, redheads were believed to be the most passionate of the lot but, as it turns out, they’re not just that, as they’re...

14 August 2009
16:21 GMT

Acuity Review (iPhone) – See If You're Color Blind

Acuity is one of the handful of free iPhone apps I've had the pleasure of testing this week. Developed by a company called Intellicore, Acuity is a powerful questionnaire-based application that can accurately tell you whether or not you have good eye sight. Ever had the impression you might have trouble distingu...

12 May 2009
11:02 GMT

Blondes Go Dark to Be Taken Seriously, Poll Reveals

Man has always been fascinated with the age-old question of whether blondes really do have more fun than brunettes. Sadly, given the economic downturn, an answer to that is no longer needed, since more and more women with blonde hair choose to darken their locks to be taken seriously at the workplace and, at the same...

19 March 2009
15:21 GMT

Old Shuffle Still Available in 5 Vibrant Colors

Once Apple's store was back online, the new silver iPod shuffle was not that observable at first. However, the more colorful old shuffles were listed as “still available,” catching our eye. We then realized Apple had introduced a new iPod. As we headed over to the main Apple web site, the mystery was...

11 March 2009
11:03 GMT

Apple Adds More Color (1.0.4) to Final Cut Studio 2

Apple has released an update to Color, the company's professional color grading application and part of the Final Cut Studio professional video and audio production suite developed by Apple for Mac OS X.On the Mac segment of its web site, Apple reveals that the part adding color to Final Cut Studio 2 has reached...

9 March 2009
07:30 GMT

Women Change Hair Colors to Get Over Exes

It’s not unusual for a woman to want to do something for herself after a bad breakup. Be it going shopping or getting a pedicure, a woman needs, and should get some time on her own after splitting from her man – even psychologists know this and recommend it. Garnier Nutrisse now reveals in a new study tha...

2 February 2009
07:57 GMT

Killzone 2 Will Have a 'Varied Color Palette'

If you're a shooter fan, then you might have noticed that in recent games, particularly the ones that use the Unreal Engine, there aren't quite a lot of colors present. Usually it seems that gray and almost all of its shades are used in order to paint the environment, as developers claim that they do such a...

13 January 2009
13:01 GMT

Stylists Urge: Banish Black from Your Wardrobe

Despite the fact that there are thousands of magazines out there telling us about the new pastel colors or strong, almost incandescent shades that are causing hysteria on the catwalks, black is undeniably the color of fashion. We may buy new clothes in pink, purple, or whatever other shade the industry tells us is tr...

6 January 2009
03:30 GMT

Study Reveals Women Are Green and Men Are Red

Brown University researchers, scientist Michael J. Tarr, a Fox professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences and professor of cognitive and linguistic sciences at the University, and graduate student Adrian Nestor, discovered that men have more red pigment on their faces, whereas women tend to have more green. The d...

8 December 2008
20:01 GMT

Easily Capture Your Favorite Colors

Finding the right color for the perfect color scheme is never easy. Most of the applications provide a color browser window by default, but if you are a web developer, what you need are the HEX, RGB and HSL color values. And if you have already found the color but you still have to experience in order to get the corr...

12 November 2008
02:41 GMT

Mitsubishi's LaserVue Should Make Great Friends with Apple TV

With NBC, ABC, CBS and FOX, all bringing their HD content to the iTunes Store, what else could possibly sound better than Apple's set-top-box hooked up to Mitsubishi's laser-enabled flat TV set?Mitsubishi, as some of you may know, announced earlier this year a revolutionary TV set, called LaserVue. As its n...

30 October 2008
10:16 GMT

Rafael's “Madonna of the Goldfinch” Restored

Known by the original name of “Madonna del Cardellino”, Rafael's 107 by 77 cm (42 by 30 inches) painting is perhaps one of the masterpieces with the most violent past. But now it is safe and sound thanks to the joined efforts of a large number of technicians from the Opificio Delle Pietre Dure in Flo...

28 October 2008
06:19 GMT

UNSW Breaks Own Record for Solar Cell Efficiency

The milestone of 25% efficiency for solar cells has now been reached by the researchers from the ARC Photovoltaic Center of Excellence at The University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Kensington, Australia. Actually, it's not a new product or technology used for silicon solar cells that has enabled them to break t...

24 October 2008
10:35 GMT

Apple Launches New iPod Shuffles (Pictures)

iPod shuffle, “the world’s most wearable music player,” is now available in new vibrant blue, green, pink, and red color versions. Apple decided to put the old color models behind it, as they were starting to look a little pale, what with “nano-chromatic” out in the wild.Apple's sim...

11 September 2008
08:35 GMT

The Color-Friendly Nseries Smartphone: Nokia N79

Together with the N85 dual-slider, Nokia has also presented today the N79, its other new Nseries smartphone. This one comes in a candybar form factor, looking like a mix between the N78 and N82 models (which are both available for purchase). While the N85 will be available in only one color version (black), Nokia w...

26 August 2008
06:36 GMT

How 3-D Glasses Work

Most of you might not know this, but 3-D glasses have actually been around ever since the 1920s, reaching their peak of popularity throughout the 1950s. They are still in use even today, although not as much as they used to be. 3-D glasses rely on a technique known as stereoscopic imaging, in which 2-dimensional imag...

24 July 2008
09:01 GMT

Colors Can Be Decisive in Some Sports

Want to win a contest against an equally skilled opponent? Wear red clothing! That should give you a satisfactory advantage. During a study destined to establish how humans perceive the color red in certain situations, Norbert Hagemann of the University of Munster discovered that referees are more likely to unwilling...

10 July 2008
11:03 GMT

Style Friends: The Bow-Tie Blouse

The bow-tie blouse is yet another mark of the latest fashion trend for women - the gender bending boyfriend-dressing trend. Its name basically says it all, and we ladies know very well what that's all about, given that we've all asked ourselves at some point "do I look good wearing his shirt"? The answer to...

24 May 2008
05:25 GMT

How Blue or Green Eyes Appeared

Blue or almost black, slate-gray, golden or violet or fainted green. Our eye color depends on that of our parents or grandparents. This is one of the strictest genetically inherited traits. No matter the hues, eyes are divided in two types depending on their color: dark (brown or black) and light (blue or green). The...

4 April 2008
21:21 GMT

T-Mobile Claims It Owns the Magenta Color

Although today is April Fools' Day, not all the unusual news let loose on the Web in this period are jokes. Engadget, a popular tech-oriented website, member of Weblogs, Inc., yesterday posted an article (click here to view it) in which it's said that T-Mobile, subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom and well-known ...

1 April 2008
11:04 GMT

World's Most Powerful Creature and Better Food for Humans

Which is the most powerful creature in the world? You may think of the largest beasts, like elephants or whales, but the Hercules Beetle, one of the largest beetles in the world, can pull a weight up to 850 times its own weight. Can you imagine a lion dragging a 180-tonne blue whale? But the creature has even more tr...

12 March 2008
06:31 GMT

Symbols of the Flowers

The rose is by far the flower most charged of symbolism and meaning. 25 Ma years old petrified fossils of roses (Rosa sp) have been found. The oldest known human representation of a flower is that of a rose. It appears on a silver medal found in a tomb from the Altay Mountains region (southern Siberia) and it seems t...

29 February 2008
09:46 GMT

Why Humans Have Lighter or Darker Skin Color?

It is simplistic to differentiate people in races based on the skin tones. What we call Blacks can be separated in many races, equally or not related between them and other races; the term White is misleading too. In the case of the so-called Mongoloid race, skin tones vary significantly. But no matter what, skin col...

27 February 2008
14:06 GMT

Pimp Out Your Air. Paint and Customize

Just finished writing about a too-good-to-be-true story and while this here image would have you thinking the same thing, I can assure you that this is not the case. You can indeed pimp out your MacBook Air to look like the one in the image to the left, or even better, but it's gonna cost you. Oh, it's gonn...

19 February 2008
07:02 GMT

What Do Your Color Preferences Say About You?

Colors have various physical and psychical influences on the body, and they can manipulate our mood. A common rule says an individual prefers the light wavelength (colors are nothing more than different values of the light wavelengths) retrieved in its energetic structure. Different energetic structure are impacted d...

5 February 2008
14:06 GMT

Chromotherapy: How Can Colors Impact Your Health?

Light clearly influences human behavior. But the white light we see around is made of a ROY G. BIVspectrum (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet). Other colors are hues of these ones. Each color represents a radiation of a specific wavelength with different molecular effects. Chromotherapy attempts to bal...

4 February 2008
14:06 GMT

Researchers Turn Aluminum Gold!

Researchers from University of Rochester have turned aluminum gold just with the help of a laser, meaning they changed its color into gold. Not only that, but they have been able to recreate a series of other colors in several other metals such as platinum, tungsten and gold. Almost one year before, Chunlei Guo had d...

1 February 2008
10:36 GMT

Blue Eyes: A Mutation Appeared 10,000 Years Ago!

Nature played with one of our ancestors, and it caused the blue eye color to appear; and now, women are in love with the blue eyes of Brad Pitt and men with those of Kristanna Loken. And that ancestor lived 6,000-10,000 years ago, as found by a research carried out at the University of Copenhagen. "Originally, we all...

31 January 2008
03:46 GMT

Why Do Chameleons Change Their Color? It's About Sex and Social Life

There is a widespread opinion that the chameleon changes its color in order to imitate the environment, as a defense against predators. Those jerks at work, or anywhere, who shift their behavior in accordance to their interests are compared to a chameleon, but this does not happen in the case of the animal. These liz...

29 January 2008
04:33 GMT

Why Hot Males Have More Sex?

We already knew this without science. But science now has just proven it: hot males can have more sex. Especially if they are from the ambush bug species. These predatory bugs are famous for their color pattern that camouflage the insects against flowers. This way they can lie in wait to ambush insects stopping on th...

27 December 2007
17:06 GMT

Why Humans Are Black or White?

First humans might have been black, but once they started the migration out of Africa about 100,000 years ago, their skin color gradually paled, in the new colder climes. 10,000 years ago, at the end of the Ice Age, marine stickleback fish started to colonize lakes and streams in Europe, Asia and North America, and t...

14 December 2007
14:11 GMT

Fashion Craze

This end of the year was bombed by some fashion games. Usually we barely have one/year, but not now. Anyway, from games like Fashion Fits, Fab Fashion, Fashion Story and others I chose Fashion Craze.First, because I thought that it is a little tiny bit different than the others and second I liked the graphics better....

7 December 2007
08:57 GMT

How to Dye Textiles

We all know that the colors impact the human mood. No wonder that along the history, people gave textiles a color by dyeing them. And the search has been always for more resistant pigments, so that the color of our clothes will not fade in time. Till the middle of the 19th century, colorants employed for dyeing the f...

27 November 2007
09:49 GMT

YouTube Swaps Old and Good Player for New and Worse One

You must be very familiar with the old style YouTube player and by now you must have come to terms with it and perhaps even love it (not the marriage type of love, let's get things straight). It was like an old dear friend you knew you could rely on to be there and support you whenever you needed him to do somet...

13 November 2007
08:31 GMT

Why Do Autumn Leaves Have So Many Colors?

Every autumn we look in melancholy at the falling leaves. But before falling, the leaves get yellow and orange with shades of red. But why this diversity in the color of the fallen leaves? The undergraduate research project of Emily Habinck at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, revealed that the color of ...

1 November 2007
04:20 GMT

Elephants Can Tell Their Enemies by the Smell

Not all the people are perceived in the same manner by elephants. A Maasai warrior clothing can induce dread in African elephants, driving them to the safety of tall grasses. These war shepherds occasionally spear elephants as a sign of virility (in fact, a Maasai is not considered a man till he has not killed a lion...

22 October 2007
07:22 GMT

The "Chameleon" Gel

This is the chameleon of the non-living materials: a newly structured gel created by a MIT team can quickly shift color reacting to an array of stimuli, from temperature to pressure, salt concentration and humidity."Among other applications, the structured gel could be used as a fast and inexpensive chemical sensor,"...

22 October 2007
05:18 GMT

7 Things You Did Not Know About Chameleons

1. The Chameleons' closest relatives are ...the iguanas and dragon lizards (Agamidae). In fact, there are iguanas living in Americas called false chameleons, that resemble a lot the real chameleons of the Old World, and even have the ability of changing their color. The oldest known chameleon is the Mimeosaurus,...

20 October 2007
07:53 GMT

The Oldest Sea People: 164,000 Years Ago

Amongst many theories trying to explain the humans' physical appearance is that of the marine ape. But a new research reveals the oldest evidence of Homo sapiens living 164,000 years ago on the sea shore and feeding on sea food. Besides the so-called 'beach party', the new research shows a much more ad...

18 October 2007
07:07 GMT

Why Are Flowers Blue?

Plants can be compared to nice human bodies: their colors reflect the plant's health. A plant's main pigments are of two types: caretonoids, the 'precursors' of the vitamin A that give yellow-orange-red hues and anthocyanins that create blue-red hues. A new research has made a crucial advance in ...

3 October 2007
05:41 GMT

Artificial Brains Experience the Same Optical Illusions That Humans Do

Researchers have just reached a profound conclusion: machines imitating human performances will do the same errors that we do. A vision computer program based on the human brain experiences the same optical illusions that people do, pointing to the fact that the illusions are a by-product of how during the infant sta...

28 September 2007
06:50 GMT

Amazonia

The rain has come and with it the gloomy days. If you're not an emo, this kind of weather will probably put your enthusiasm to rest and will make you wanna sleep all day.In this case, you kind of need a bit of color in your life. If you're not a kid to play with colorful pencils and TV just isn't quite...

21 September 2007
09:39 GMT

The Secret of Leonardo Da Vinci's Painting Technique Decoded

The mysterious smile of Mona Lisa (Gioconda) now has run out of secrets, at least for the scientists. What made the paintings of the Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci (April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519) so special was the fact that he did not mix the colors on the palette but directly on the canvas, as found by an Ital...

3 September 2007
04:49 GMT

Yumsters

First thing's first. If you have already seen a pic of this game, then you think this is a game with worms. Well, it's not. And if you went further and thought that this could be a game like those "Worms" you're even more wrong. This game has nothing to do with worms of any kind.So these creatures that...

31 August 2007
03:05 GMT

Dell's Paint Problems Affecting The Inspiron Line Too

After the launch of the colorful line of notebooks that received the name XPS M1330, Dell starting having problems with the quality of the paint finish that was applied on the notebook casings and after many delays and a considerable number of unhappy customers, the hardware manufacturing company decided to cut the n...

27 August 2007
09:37 GMT

Women Go for Pink, Men for Blue

Gay preference for pink is not casual. The belief that pink is for girls and blue for boys has got scientific support. At least women prefer more reddish hues than men do. It appears that color preference in women evolved in part to help females spot rapidly ripe fruit, as these tend to get reddish. "Both sexes find ...

21 August 2007
14:06 GMT

The 'Live' Furniture

Chairs and tables that constantly change their color in your house to match your mood sounds like magic!Dreamed up by a Japanese design company, the Fuwapica furniture follows with the power of technology one of the country's ancient notions that gods inhabit every manmade artifact. The designers said that the ...

9 August 2007
11:23 GMT

Attention! Your Kids Might Be Exposed to Art!

Drawing is an activity we perform almost involuntarily as children and while reading, playing instruments, filming and taking photos are passively substituted to computer-based activities, drawing seems to be the next to become so. Children today have their first mouse click and scroll experiences before holding cra...

31 July 2007
16:27 GMT

Polymer Opal Films Identify Counterfeit Money and Rotten Food

A new color-changing technology could have many practical applications, from letting you know if your dollar bill is counterfeit simply by stretching it to see if it changes hue, to showing you what food in your fridge is spoiled.Developed by scientists at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom and the ...

26 July 2007
11:07 GMT


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