The coconut octopus

The coconut octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus) is found in tropical Pacific waters. It gets its common name because it uses coconuts and shells to hide from predators. These octopuses are sort of oddballs as they have been documented to show bipedal behavior - "walking" away on just two legs along the ocean floor.

Photo by: Nick Hobgood

Awesome story!

Scamp saved the life of six kitten stuck inside a box on a mountain of trash. Scamp heard them, tore the box apart and brought them one by one where he now happily lives. Scamp is a former homeless dog, and had only one thought: saving them as himself was saved once. Thank you Scamp! You are wonderful! And your story is really heartwarming!

Electromagnetic harvester that gathers free electricity.

"Dennis Siegel, a student at the University of the Arts in Bremen, Germany has built what he calls an electromagnetic harvester—it converts electromagnetic fields in the immediate environment into electricity to recharge a common AA battery. He's won a 2nd place award in the HfK Bremen Hochschulpreis 2013 competition for Digitale Medien, for his efforts."

320-gigapixel photo shatters record!

The photo is made up of 48,640 individual shots and provides a 360-degree view of London.

Helping slum kids to educate

These two guys, Rajesh Kumar Sharma and Laxmi Chandra, have been running a free school under a metro bridge in New Delhi, India for the last 3 years. Rajesh and Laxmi have about 30 students - they are kids who live in the nearby slums and cannot afford a public education.

SpaceTop 3D computer

This transparent computer lets users “reach inside” and move files and data with their hands.

The SpaceTop 3D computer, developed by Jinha Lee, a grad student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was unveiled last week at the TED conference in California.

200,000 Freestanding Playing Cards!

Bryan Berg broke his own Guinness World Record for the largest house of freestanding playing cards at The Venetian® Macao. The buildings used more than 200,000 cards and took 45 days to complete.

Tattoo removal could be disastrous!!!!!

A patient who's skin bubbled up in blood blisters as a side-effect of having laser tattoo removal treatment. These are reportedly as painful as they look.

Gun Lake in British Columbia, Canada - Frost Flowers

When these photographs were taken "the air was extremely cold and extremely dry, colder than the ocean surface. When the air gets that different from the sea, the dryness pulls moisture off little bumps in the ice, bits of ice vaporize, the air gets humid - but only for a while. The cold makes water vapor heavy. The air wants to release that excess weight, so crystal by crystal, air turns back into ice, creating delicate, feathery tendrils that reach sometimes two, three inches high, like giant snowflakes. The sea, literally, blossoms."

Michel Lotito - The man who ate an airplane

From the Telegraph : His diet since 1966 included 18 bicycles, 15 supermarket trolleys, seven TV sets, six chandeliers, two beds, a pair of skis, a low-calorie Cessna light aircraft and a computer. He is said to have provided the only example in history of a coffin (handles and all) ending up inside a man. By October 1997, he had eaten nearly nine tons of metal.

Apparently though, bananas and hard-boiled eggs made him sick to his stomach.

Until he died in 2007, France’s Michel Lotito had eaten two pounds of metal every day for more than 40 years, and he still holds the Guinness record for the world’s “strangest diet.” To cement his title, he dismantled a 1,111-pound Cessna 150 airplane and ate it — piece by piece — over two years.
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Mosquitoes will not only bite you. After sucking your blood, they will pee on you.

In a new paper published by Cornell University, keeping that "gotta go" feeling from being relieved may actually be one way to keep mosquitoes in check. Researchers identified a protein from the renal tubules of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that's involved in promoting urination as they feed on blood. When mosquitoes consume and process blood meals, they must urinate to prevent fluid and salt overloads that can kill them.
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Claudia Mitchell - first woman to have a bionic arm.

 

 

The robotic arm comes from the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, and was developed for $3 million. Mitchell, who used to peel bananas using both feet and one hand, can now carry items, lift cups, and move her prosthetic arm almost as naturally as her real one.

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The poorest president in the world

Caleana major - The flying duck orchid

The flying duck orchid - a flower that looks like a flying duck. It is found in eastern and southern Australia.The binomial name for the flower is Caleana major.

The man with golden arm - James Harrison

After needing 13 liters of blood for a surgery at the age of 13, a man named James Harrison pledged to donate blood once he turned 18.

 

 It was discovered that his blood contained a rare antigen which cured Rhesus disease. He has donated blood a record 1,000 times and saved 2,000,000 lives.

Xperia Z - Sony Water Friendly Phone

Sony Water Friendly Phone.

Sony has announced a new smartphone that can be used in the shower or bath without the risk of damage.

The Xperia Z can also record HDR (high dynamic range) video, a facility borrowed from its camera division.The Android-powered device was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.



white and blue peacock

 

White and Blue Peacock