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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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ColorWare will make it possible for the new iPhone owners to bring some color in their lives together with the new mobile phone purchase. People will have the chance of choosing from almost 30 color combinations to dress their handset in.The iPhone looked sleek and elegant in black when first images of it have been r... |
20 July 2007
06:43 GMT |
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Normally, people have three types of cone cells for daylight, for detecting different colors. But some women can see extra colors as they have four types of cone cell receptors. They are called tetrachromats. Compared to them, we all are color blind.The first tetrachromat woman was discovered by researchers at Cambri... |
26 June 2007
14:16 GMT |
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This week's game is one that many of you already like. It has a very well known game-play... same old action-puzzle casual stuff.But nobody cares if the theme is expired, because everybody knows how addictive this game-play is. The rules of the game are easy to learn and in these kinds of cases, the graphics of ... |
1 June 2007
15:24 GMT |
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Silk and purple (a pigment obtained from a marine snail) were two of the most costly products of the antiquity, as purple silk was the mark of royalty. Now a Japanese team has genetically engineered silkworms to directly synthesize purple silk. This research would change the silk color at the genetic level. "The expe... |
10 May 2007
09:24 GMT |
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Your mother tongue has a greater impact on your life than you would have thought. It is proven that you perceive musical rhythm according to its rhythm. Now, researchers prove it influences your sensory abilities: a new research in color perception shows that mother tongue language dictates how you see your surroundi... |
1 May 2007
18:06 GMT |
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Want sex? Put on the showiest clothing, drive the shiniest car, display the catchiest tattoos and maybe you'll get some. Or at least you have tried. But that's, in fact, an ancestral animal trait; that we still have to do it. Just look at the bright colors in feathers, scales, faces, or insect wings. But i... |
28 April 2007
06:25 GMT |
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The age of a star says a lot about its traits, that's why this is one of the first goals of the astronomers when they detect a new one. "The ages of the host stars of planetary systems are needed to understand how these systems change over time," said Sydney Barnes, from Lowell Observatory. Till now researchers ... |
27 April 2007
05:57 GMT |
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These efficient killers have not changed since the dinosaur era. They present sophisticated sensory organs yet scientists believed sharks and their relatives, rays (which are nothing more than flattened sharks) are color-blind. Now a team at University of Queensland has revealed that stingrays could be able to see i... |
11 April 2007
08:37 GMT |
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We live in a green world, but the ancient Earth could have been wrapped in a purple mantle. The eldest microbes might have employed another molecule than chlorophyll to get advantage of the Sun's energy. Chlorophyll absorbs mainly blue and red wavelengths of the sunlight and as it reflects green ones, the plants... |
11 April 2007
05:52 GMT |
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A novel class of smart sunglasses can change instantly into virtually any color at will just by acting on a minute electronic knob on their frames. "We've developed lenses that aren't like anything else on the market. This could be the fashion statement of the future," said researcher Chunye Xu, a chemical ... |
28 March 2007
03:27 GMT |
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Roses are flowers with history. Since Roman times, they became symbols. Red roses stand for passion, white roses represent purity. Rose cultivators have been struggling for centuries to breed a blue rose, but the mechanism of the flowers' color proved more complex than they thought. But the Australian based Flor... |
26 March 2007
04:08 GMT |
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The invisible soldier is the dream of any troop commander. But till an invisibility cloak will be created, a science project realized by two school students could very well become an important defense strategy employed by soldiers. Using the so-called electrochromism, the students have made a soldier's uniform t... |
24 March 2007
08:22 GMT |
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The basic idea of a plasma display is to illuminate tiny colored fluorescent lights to form an image. Each pixel (the tiny dots on the display) is made up of three fluorescent lights - a red light, a green light and a blue light - which are evenly distributed on the screen. By combining these colors in different prop... |
19 March 2007
11:41 GMT |
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Lighting without power would mean smaller energy bills. A wonderful dream, isn't it?Or not just a dream, as a Japanese team developed phosphorescent materials that shine with the whole visible specter and can even produce white light.The researchers from Ryukoku University, Kyoto, say the new material could be e... |
14 March 2007
05:34 GMT |
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