Kingston unveils Mini Fun G2 USB Drives

With everyone trying to be glossy and slick when it comes to USB flash drives these days, the fun factor of carrying a storage device so small has been diluted. However, with new DataTraveler Mini Fun Generation 2 USB Flash drives, Kingston has decided to bring back the fun factor of carrying one around. The new DT Mini Fun G2 flash drive, which can be attached to your keychain or mobile phone, look like an accessory and style statement. DT Mini Fun G2 will come in 2GB, 4GB and 8GB storage capacities, with each capacity offering a different color combination.

Popular DataTraveler Mini Fun G2 USB drives come in a miniature design with great colors. These small USB drives are perfect to carry around. Packed in rugged silicon housing, the new Mini Fun G2 comes with a key loop to attach it to key ring, phone or a bag.

New DT Mini Fun G2 flash drives would be compatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000 (SP4), Mac OS X 10.5.0 or higher and Linux kernel 2.6.0 based GNU operating systems.

Coming soon: A mind-reading machine!

An international team, led by Prof Bradley Greger of Utah University, has been able to translate brain signals into speech using sensors attached to the surface of the brain for the first time.

The experimental breakthrough, which is up to 90 percent accurate, offers a way to communicate for paralysed patients who cannot speak and could eventually lead to being able to read anyone thoughts.
The team achieved the experimental breakthrough when it attached two button sized grids of 16 tiny electrodes to the speech centres of the brain of an epileptic patient who had part of his skull removed for another operation to treat his condition.

Using the electrodes, the scientists recorded brain signals in a computer as the patient repeatedly read each of 10 words that might be useful to a paralysed person: yes, no, hot, cold, hungry, thirsty, hello, goodbye, more and less. Then they got him to repeat the words to the computer and it was able to match the brain signals for each word 76 percent to 90 percent of the time. The computer picked up the patient's brain waves as he talked and did not use any voice recognition software.

Because just thinking a word - and not saying it - is thought to produce the same brain signals, Prof Greger and his team believe that soon they will be able to have translation device and voice box that repeats the word you are thinking.


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agar aisi apni wife ho to kya hasin life ho

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Money can buy happiness — but only up to $75,000

I found this article in newspaper today & i was astonished to find the statistics of the people who were happy cz of money....It really shook my belief "Money can't buy happiness."

WASHINGTON — They say money can't buy happiness. They're wrong.

At least up to a point.
People's emotional well-being — happiness — increases along with their income up to about $75,000, researchers report in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
For folks making less than that, said Angus Deaton, an economist at the Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton University, "Stuff is so in your face it's hard to be happy. It interferes with your enjoyment."
Deaton and Daniel Kahneman reviewed surveys of 450,000 Americans conducted in 2008 and 2009 for the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index that included questions on people's day-to-day happiness and their overall life satisfaction.
Happiness got better as income rose but the effect leveled out at $75,000, Deaton said. On the other hand, their overall sense of success or well-being continued to rise as their earnings grew beyond that point.
"Giving people more income beyond 75K is not going to do much for their daily mood ... but it is going to make them feel they have a better life," Deaton said in an interview.
Not surprisingly, someone who moves from a $100,000-a-year job to one paying $200,000 realizes an improved sense of success. That doesn't necessarily mean they are happier day to day, Deaton said.

Colombian is world's shortest man at 27 inches...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Edward Nino Hernandez is in many ways a typical 24-year-old Colombian male. He loves to dance reggaeton, dreams of owning a car -- preferably a Mercedes -- and wants to see the world.

He is slightly taller than a piece of carry-on luggage and weighs just 22 pounds.
He has been officially certified as the world's shortest living man by Guinness World Records, measuring 27 inches, or 70 centimeters.
He hasn't grown since he was two years old.

Teachers Day

A bud is born. It blooms into a flower, petals spread out and the fragrance mesmerizes everyone. A flower is no different from a student who grows, matures and finally evolves into a brand new person when coming into contact with a teacher. Lecturers are people to whom we have a tendency to owe our data and therefore, to a massive extent, our livelihood. Lecturers teach not with the idea of finishing the coursework; they teach with the goal of imparting knowledge, inspiring us to want to find out new things, formulate theories, and innovate. Therein lay the distinction between a sensible teacher and a great one.

A syllabus is a framework that limits the horizons of knowledge. A teacher will not seek to break that; he aims to transcend that. Teachers Day is after we salute such lecturers and extend our gratitude to them. They need been the best supply of inspiration for us all and no approach is fitting enough to fully encompass what we have a tendency to feel. However, just like in our school and faculty we have a tendency to might never submit a good work and nonetheless the teacher exhorted us to try to to better the following time. We have a tendency to do our greatest, whether or not we have a tendency to fall short of the high standards lecturers have set for us. They were, are and can always be happy once they see their students happy.

On Lecturers Day, we can’t help but recollect our days of enlightenment, pain, ecstasy, bewilderment and to some extent, irritation. Who has not irritated paying attention been to lectures thinking they are wasting time, solely to understand years down the road how valuable those words were? How can one forget those classroom sessions when we watched the birds play around while our patient teacher carried on in an exceedingly calm demeanor, asking us time and again to look into our books? Will you forget the time your grades dipped sinfully and you were scared stiff regarding the parent-teacher meeting? Your entire teacher told your parent was that you're bright and she or he has faith in you. These are small moments which have accumulated within the respect you have got for your teacher.

In keeping pace with the modern times, you'll not get to fulfill your teachers on a regular basis but on Lecturers Day, it is time to thank that special teacher that was your personal inspiration. Most academics have email at school so as to stay in bit with busy parents. Try your recent college web website and reach out. All academics want to know they created a difference during a student’s life. They can be terribly happy to work out what you're doing today. Most teachers don't decide your success by the zeros on your pay slip. It is how smart somebody's being you are that becomes the yardstick.

Have you ever thought why the word teacher is gender-free? Keeping the complexities of etymology aside, it's because of the fact that irrespective of gender, dedication, determination and devotion determines a teacher. It could be that you simply hold some grudge against a lecturer for a few reason; go and ask them about it and you are seemingly to search out out that you are remembered with a heap of fondness and love. The love for a lecturer begins when you wish what he or she teaches you; it assumes fruition after you notice that those teachings have created you the person you are today.

Elephants are not scared of 'mice' but terrified by 'ants'

Mice are supposed to strike terror into the hearts of elephants  -  at least if Disney cartoons are to be believed.
But Dumbo's tormentors are actually even smaller, scientists claim.
Researchers have discovered that ants are the bane of elephants' lives, with the giants of the African savannah steering clear of trees infested with them just in case they crawl up their sensitive trunks.

he experts who made the discovery believe ants act as 'bodyguards' for some plants to keep trampling elephants at bay.
Dr Todd Palmer of the Mpala Research Centre in Kenya and the University of Florida said: 'It really is a David and Goliath type of story, where these little ants are up against these huge herbivores, protecting trees and having a major impact on the properties of the ecosystemsin which they live.

'Swarming groups of ants that weigh about 5mg each can and do protect trees from animals that are about a billion times more massive,' Dr Palmer said.

'It's yet another example of how the little things run the world.'
The idea that elephants fear mice has long been a staple of cartoons, and features in the 1941 Disney classic Dumbo.
However, animal behaviourists say there is no evidence of rodent-phobia among any mammal.
The discovery that elephants dislike ants came when Dr Palmer and colleague Dr Jacob Goheen noticed elephants avoiding a species of acacia tree in the Kenyan plains.
The trees are found across the African savanna and are normally devoured and trampledby hungry elephants. However, they stayed away from acacia drepanolobium trees if they were home to guardian ants.
'The elephants avoided those trees like a kid avoids broccoli,' Dr Palmer said.
'It seems that elephants simply do not like ants swarming up the insides of their trunks, and I can't say I blame them.
'An elephant's trunk is a truly remarkable organ, but also appears to be their Achilles heel when it comes to squaring off with an angry ant colony.'

The scientists believe that adding ant colonies to vulnerable plants in Africa could prevent deforestation and protect crops.
Elephants have such large appetites they can soon convert woody areas into open grassland.
'A big issue in east Africa is elephants damaging crops, which is one reason elephants have been harassed and sometimes killed,' he added.