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Nest Labs, Inc. has just announced that they’ve hired a former Apple staffer as vice president and general counsel. Richard “Chip” Lutton, Jr. is the former Chief Intellectual Property Officer of the Cupertino, California-based Apple Inc. Nest makes this cool, Apple-inspired, learning thermostat wh... |
12 April 2012
10:02 GMT |
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Another brilliant invention comes from the individual who was behind the creation of the first generations of iPad and iPhone, Tony Fadell. He has announced the birth of Nest, the super smart thermostat which will change the rules of the game, by making us feel comfortable in our new energy-efficient household. Nes... |
10 November 2011
03:47 GMT |
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Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers, two of the guys who led the teams that created the iPod and iPhone, have unveiled the Nest Learning Thermostat, a $249 piece of equipment that hopes not only to take some stress off, but also to reduce your energy consumption.Fadell and Rogers are no longer on Apple’s payroll, but t... |
25 October 2011
07:42 GMT |
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There are lots of people who simply hate cooking and pretty much everything that's related to the kitchen space, save for eating, hopefully. There are also people who cook (better or worse) and then there are those who find an extreme joy in preparing the most exquisite dishes and who could be caught cooking alm... |
10 December 2008
09:33 GMT |
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It's not often that you see a parent leaving their children in the company of an intruder and hoping they'll be OK, albeit a species of potter wasps known as Allodynerus delphinalis does it anyway. Not only that, but the Ensliniella parasitica, a parasitic mite living in the nest of this particular species ... |
7 July 2008
09:38 GMT |
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1. Cuckoos are classified as belonging to their own order of birds, not closely related to other living birds. Only the weird hoatzin bird of the Amazon is distantly related to cuckoos. Cuckoos are most famous for their habit of brood parasitism. Only 2 out of 5 families of cuckoos comprise species that are brood par... |
15 May 2008
07:06 GMT |
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Two thousands years ago, Plutarch said that the cuckoo was transforming into a hawk. You just have to look at a cuckoo and a sparrowhawk side by side, and you will positively be smitten by the resemblance between the two in terms of plumage, size and posture. Of course, cuckoos have nothing to do with raptors, but th... |
15 May 2008
04:17 GMT |
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1. Flamingos are gorgeous birds that might have inspired the legend of the Phoenix Bird because of their bright plumage. They are distantly related to herons and pelicans. Today, only five species classified in one single family survive. Five fossil families of flamingos are known, that comprised birds of various siz... |
9 May 2008
15:46 GMT |
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1. Hornbills are famous for their huge bills, flattened and curved, with toothed edges and bony helmets over the upper jaw. These large birds have a common origin with the hoopoes. Today, hornbills inhabit only tropical Africa and Asia, but the oldest known species, the Geiseloceros robustus, lived in Saxony (norther... |
8 May 2008
10:00 GMT |
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The emergence of the human settlements during the Neolithic, 10,000 years ago, created a new biotope. In the new environment, not only domestic animals started to flourish, but also wild fauna that began to depend on human villages - and later cities - for shelter, food, and even security. And not all are useful. For... |
15 April 2008
10:11 GMT |
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Swifts are amongst the fastest birds, and even if they resemble swallows, they are in fact related to hummingbirds. A swift weighs a few tens of grams, but with its sickle shaped wings they can reach 160 km (100 mi) per hour. Swifts are the birds the term aerial suits best as they catch food (insects), eat, drink, co... |
1 December 2007
07:06 GMT |
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The oldest ancestor of the hedgehogs could be an 80 million years old mammal found in Mongolia (which lived during the dinosaur era). The oldest known hedgehogs lived in Europe, 45 million years ago. In Africa, the oldest hedgehogs remains are 30 million years old. 10 million years ago, there were hedgehogs in North ... |
15 November 2007
17:18 GMT |
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Did you know that Westerners are some kind of barbarians in the eyes of a Chinese? Because how the heck can you eat fermented milk emulsion (read cheese), which stinks worse than a skunk? Of course, for them, it's very tasty to eat rats, dogs, cats. A Chinese folk speech says more or less that they can eat every... |
20 August 2007
16:11 GMT |
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We tend to humanize animals, to believe they might have human feelings. We even dare to use words like "love" and "monogamous relationship" when we analyze many species. But appearances can be very deceiving. A classical example is the white stork. In the European mythology, the 'stork' is responsible for b... |
8 August 2007
14:06 GMT |
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