If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Here’s some good news from the Jordan: Israel, Iran, Syria, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Palestine Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Algeria, Jordan and many other countries from around the [...]

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Rubbish dumps of Oxyrhynchus, a city that flourished after the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C. reveals texts of Trojan Wars and early Christian gospels that do not appear in the New Testament. Originally developed by NASA scientists and used to map the surface of Mars, multispectral imaging was successfully applied [...]

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Needies are interactive plush dolls inspired by codependent, high-maintenance relationships.
Totally attention-starved, they compete with each other for human affection — or, getting touch, as they like to say.
When you give Needies touch (by hugging and squeezing them), they will return your kindness with songs and shameless flattery.
But remember that Needies always know when other [...]

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NASA is developing a subvocal speech system that could enable you to make a phone call while keeping your lips sealed. How do you talk to someone without opening your mouth? Psychics call it telepathy. NASA refers to it as subvocal speech. Scientists at the NASA Ames Research Center in California have developed a system [...]

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That’s right. The founder and CEO of Hufu, LLC — the company that produces hufu, a type of tofu that simulates the texture and flavor of human flesh — claims that his company’s product “tastes like beef but a little softer in texture and a little sweeter in taste.

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AwareFashion are clothes that react to invisible communication technology in the surrounding and thus enable the wearer to sense their immediate digital environment. The detection device is hidden in a detachable pocket and the fiber optics sewed into the cloth. When a mobile is near, small light spots appear on the sleeve.

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In the �70s and �80s, the banana companies Dole, Del Monte and Chiquita used a carcinogenic pesticide, Nemagon, to protect their crops in Nicaragua. Today, the men and women who worked on those plantations suffer from incurable illnesses. Their children are deformed. The companies feign innocence… Nemagon�also known as dibromochloropropane, or DBCP�was developed in the [...]

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A self-illuminating fabric merges tiny flexible optical fibers, originally developed for medical applications, & ordinary fabrics, like polyester & Lycra. It gives off its own light in five different LED colors, runs off of a rechargeable cell phone battery or a normal AC adapter, & can be used for place mats, table cloths, curtains, clothing [...]

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Researchers in the US are using old inkjet printers to produce sheets of human skin to be used on burn victims. They think that this ’skin-printing’ method will minimize rejections by patients and reduce post-operative complications. In this article, the Wall Street Journal (paid registration needed) writes that while the technology is still in its [...]

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Scientists have begun putting genes from human beings into food crops in a dramatic extension of genetic modification. The move, which is causing disgust and revulsion among critics, is bound to strengthen accusations that GM technology is creating “Frankenstein foods” and drive the controversy surrounding it to new heights.
Even before this development, many people, including [...]

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October 2004, I posted a news article about the intentions of Qatar to substitute robots for jockeys in camel races. Now the robot is ready and was tested last week.
The following photos shows ‘Kamel’, the robot jockey, rides Ghazil, a Qatari camel, during a test-run at the Shahaniah camel race track in Doha, Qatar.

The Robot [...]

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Russian doctor makes artificial eye out of patient’s teeth

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Abu Mahjoob way of ” Why buy when you can steal?”

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Qatar is set to substitute robots for jockeys in camel races, a favorite sport in the oil-rich Gulf region which has faced widespread criticism over the use of child jockeys from the Indian subcontinent.
But the sport’s supremo in Doha insists Qatar never abused child camel jockeys in the first place and that the plan to [...]

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An pill-sized brain chip has allowed a quadriplegic man to check e-mail and play computer games using his thoughts. The device can tap into a hundred neurons at a time, and is the most sophisticated such implant tested in humans so far.
In June 2004, surgeons implanted a device containing 100 electrodes into the motor cortex [...]

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All about today! Got a couple of minutes? Then watch this.

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Metphomod is a 3D visualization tool for modeling meteorology and atmospheric chemistry — that is, smog. It was used to study pollution patterns in Europe in the late 1990s, with a particular focus on the air chemistry over Grenoble and over the Swiss canton of Obwalden. The illustration at right is from work done in [...]

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In the not-so-distant future, your wristwatch could stop you if you try to run out the door without the necessities you need for the day, like your keys, wallet or cell phone.
At work, it could prompt you for important items needed for a meeting or a business lunch. In an academic setting, it could remind [...]

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IBM and United Arab Emirates University jointly developed a “smart box” telematics system that can warn drivers if they’re breaking the speed limit, record actions taken during an accident and even issue speeding tickets to offenders. The system combines cellular, GPS and voice recognition technologies to provide totalitarian control of the driving populus. Oh, and [...]

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FISHING APPARATUS, WILLIAM R. LAMB, patented february 20, 1894,

SALUTING DEVICE, JAMES C. BOYLE, patented march 10, 1896

FINGERTIP TOOTHBRUSH, US patent 5,875,513 / issued 1999

INSTANT FACE LIFT, US patent 4,995,379 / issued 1991

‘butter stick’ (not patented), 1995

‘food cooler’ (not patented), 1997

‘drymobile’ (not patented), 1997

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