Welttoilettentag

Heute, 19.11. ist Welttoilettentag!

Die höchste Toilette der Welt: In knapp 5.000 Metern Höhe befindet sich das Toilettenhäuschen des Mont Blanc.

Die weiblichste Toilette der Welt: Diamonds are a girls best friends

Quelle: www.gmx.net

Staubsaugen per Wiimote

Gehört gewöhnliches Staubsaugen der Vergangenheit an?

Der Japaner Ron Tajima hat einen Staubsauger (Roomba) kurzerhand so umfunktioniert, dass sich dieser per Wiimote steuern lässt.

Zur Bedienung kann man auch das Balance Board verwenden, wenn man es lieber sportlich mag.Da macht Hausarbeit Spaß!

Zu dem außergewöhnlichen Projekt, das der kreative Kopf selbst als "Wiimba" bezeichnet, kann man sich auf Youtube zwei Videos anschauen.

Quelle: www.gameswelt.at

Prime Minister I most want to sing karaoke with

And the title goes to: Yukio Hatoyama, Japan's newly-elected Prime Minister!!

A few weeks ago the debut single "Take heart" of Hatoyama, recorded 1988, finally leaks to the internet - thanks YouTube!! Previously, the copies of the limited edition of the CD sold for 35.000 Yen (well, it's just about 300€ but hey, it's just a (below) average song :P)

For those of you who want to learn more - CNN got it covered ;)

http://www.cnngo.com/tokyo/none/hatoyamas-1988-debut-single-leaks-internet-700352

Bunnies keep Swedes warm

Green energy is a key factor in the worlds efforts to accomplish the defeat of global warming. The car industry is counting on hybrid technology and invests more and more in electro cars. The energy industry sees its future not in oil

but in gas and solar power. Sweden and more in detail Stockholm apparently got some other plans...

According to the swedish "The Local" the city of Stockholm is turning to another alternative engergy source: RABBITS.

If you should be thinking of cute little bunnies, running in a wheel trying to catch a delicious

carrot, then you are kind of wrong. In fact, instead of using rabbits to power the city with green "moving" energy Stockholm decided to do the right and ... easiest thing: to burn them...

In fact, Stockholm's parks are suffering from a huge rabbit problem. To protect the trees and shrubbery in the city they need to battle those little bastards. And instead of throwing those little bodies away they had a more innovative way of doing so...

Good idea or bad idea ... efficient or horrible ... in any case ... I WONT TELL MY LITTLE COUSINS!!

Source: http://www.thelocal.se/22610/20091012/

Iraqi trader forgets 10kg of gold at Dubai Airport

Dubai: An Iraqi trader who forgot 10 kilogrammes of gold at the Dubai International Airport, Terminal Two, while leaving for home on Tuesday, has retrieved his gold from Brig Omar Al Attar, Deputy Director of the General Department of Airport Security.

10kg of gold (or 352 oz) are worth more than 360.000 US$ and the Iraqi trader carried 300kg total of the precious metal - 11 mio US$!!!

Source: Gulf News - http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/general/trader-gets-back-10kg-gold-forgotten-at-dubai-airport-1.512976

Damn, how can you lose 10kg of GOLD!!! And how can you be stupid enough to carry it yourself in the first place?!?

Disney-Robot can sense if you're happy

Disney unveiled it's first-ever robot that can hear, see and sense whether or not you’re in the room. Yes, “Otto” (picture to the left) is interactive. The robot can sense if you’re happy, hold conversations and react, according to Imagineer Scott Trowbridge.

Otto is based on the new Autonomatronics technology which is different from Audio-Animatronics technology. Audio-Animatronics technology repeats a pre-programmed show over and over again. Autonomatronics technology is driven by sophisticated cameras and sensors giving Otto the ability to make choices about what to say and do.

Source: http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2009/09/disney-autonomatronics-figure-can-sense-if-youre-happy/

What do you think about robots that can sense feelings and what do you think will be next?

Swedish town full of sex-mad lesbians

Tourism staff are being swamped with queries from Chinese men over a myth about a Swedish town populated only by 25,000 sex-mad lesbians.

The mysterious 'Chako Paul City' in Sweden was said to have been founded by a wealthy, man-hating widow in 1820.

A pair of blonde female sentries are said to stand guard at the town and men wishing to enter risk being "beaten half to death" by police.

News reports of the city have crippled China's internet providers as millions of goggle-eyed men read up on the town's rampant women and try to find out how to get there.

Source: The Sun - http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2672706/Swedish-Lesbian-City-story-crashes-Chinese-internet.html#ixzz0TXPzfxO1

College issues dress code --- for teachers

It is normally students who are sent home for inappropriate attire, but one English college is threatening to send lecturers home for violating a dress code, which includes a ban on jeans.

Their union has accused Birmingham Metropolitan College of "acting like the fashion police."

The newly re-issued dress code requires lecturers to wear a "business suit; smart jacket and co-ordinating trousers or skirt; smart shirt/top/blouse or smart dress."

Scruffy trousers, jeans, ostentatious jewelry and outrageous hair styles and colors are strictly banned.

Earrings must not be excessive and are the only form of jewelry allowed in visible piercings. The policy also states that tattoos must be covered.

Source: Reuters and http://news.yahoo.com

For the busy executive - an anti H1N1 suit

For the executive who doesn't have time to come down with the flu, a Japanese company has invented a new form of protection -- the anti-H1N1 suit.

Menswear company Haruyama Trading claims the suit can protect wearers from the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, as it is coated with titanium dioxide, a chemical commonly used in toothpaste and cosmetics and that breaks down when reacting with light, supposedly killing the virus upon contact.

I wonder if this suit looks like this one :P

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/smallBusinessNews/idUSTRE5984B420091009

Nasa scientists "bomb" moon in search for water!

The plan is to slam two unmanned spacecraft into a dark crater at the lunar south pole, kicking up a six-mile high dust cloud that may contain water.

British researchers helped Nasa pick the spot for the drama, which will be broadcast live on the American space agency's website.

It is believed water ice could lie at the bottom of dark craters at the Moon's poles, where temperatures are lower than minus 170C.

The crashing spacecraft consist of an orbiter, LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite), which is now mapping the lunar surface, and its 2.2 tonne empty Centaur launch rocket.

Both are currently on collision course with the Moon and still attached together.

In the early hours, British time, the probe and rocket will separate. Then at 12.31pm the larger rocket will smash into the crater at 5,600 mph, blasting out 350 tonnes of debris in a 6.2 mile high plume.

Following close behind, the LCROSS satellite beaming live pictures back to Earth will fly through the material and four minutes later plunge into the crater itself. LCROSS will trigger its own dust cloud a third of the size of the first one.

As the debris is propelled into sunlight, scientists on Earth will study its composition with ground-based telescopes.

To follow the current development take a look at the NASA Blog of LCROSS Flight Director Paul Tompkins on http://blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/lcrossfdblog.blog/posts/post_1254984713637.html

Irish students told to bring their own toilet paper

Obviously Ireland was hit hard by the financial crisis and so was the budget for its schools. As a cost-cutting measure the principal of St. John's Girls National School in Garrigaline asked her students to bring their own toilet paper with them to school!

Seriously, where does cost saving end and cruelty start? ... poor girls, no more valuable toilet tissues.

Source: The Independent - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pupils-told-to-bring-own-toilet-paper-to-school-1798361.html