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Aging Eyes Blamed For Seniors’ Health Woes
Feb 22nd
Hugh Pickens writes “Scientists have looked for explanations as to why certain conditions occur with age, among them memory loss, slower reaction time, insomnia and even depression looking at such suspects as high cholesterol, obesity, heart disease and an inactive lifestyle. Now Laurie Tarkan writes that as eyes age, less and less sunlight gets through the lens to reach key cells in the retina that regulate the body’s circadian rhythm, its internal clock that rallies the body to tackle the day’s demands in the morning and slows it down at night, allowing the body to rest and repair. ‘Evolution has built this beautiful timekeeping mechanism, but the clock is not absolutely perfect and needs to be nudged every day,’ says Dr. David Berson, whose lab at Brown University studies how the eye communicates with the brain. Dr. Patricia Turner, an ophthalmologist who with her husband, Dr. Martin Mainster has written extensively about the effects of the aging eye on health, estimate that by age 45, the photoreceptors of the average adult receive just 50 percent of the light needed to fully stimulate the circadian system, by age 55, it dips to 37 percent, and by age 75, to a mere 17 percent and recommend that people should make an effort to expose themselves to bright sunlight or bright indoor lighting when they cannot get outdoors and have installed skylights and extra fluorescent lights in their own offices to help offset the aging of their own eyes. ‘In modern society, most of the time we live in a controlled environment under artificial lights, which are 1,000 to 10,000 times dimmer than sunlight and the wrong part of the spectrum,’ says Turner. ‘We believe the effect is huge and that it’s just beginning to be recognized as a problem.’”
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Picture Blocking Beer Cooler Keeps Your Face Out of Embarrassing Photos
Dec 16th
cylonlover writes “It may sound like something dreamed up by a cheesy men’s magazine as a joke, but apparently this is a real thing that actually exists. Ostensibly, the Norte Photoblocker is a functional beer cooler surrounded by four sensors that can detect the flashes from cameras or cell phones. If a flash goes off in the direction of the Photoblocker, it fires its own flash to flood the resulting photos with bright white and obscure anyone nearby. Now you can go about your usual business of cheating on your spouse, being an idiot around your boss, or drunkenly harassing fellow party-goers without worrying that some wildly irresponsible person will tag you in a photo and posts it online.”
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Red Tide in San Diego
Oct 11th
This is a photograph of North Ponto State Beach in Carlsbad, a northern part of San Diego, California depicting a bioluminescent red tide that has been present in the coastal waters off San Diego. This particular species is called Lingulodinium Poleyedrum and emits a bright neon blue color when disturbed.
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Hats galore! Royal wedding guests take headpieces to new level
Apr 29th
The biggest fashion show on earth, the royal wedding, got underway in a riot of bright colors, flamboyant fascinators and larger-than-life hats.
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Ivy Bike Lock Might Be World’s Least Secure
Apr 18th
Sure, the Ivy bike lock may look nice, but in reality, it’s probably equivalent to tying steel wire around a light pole. On the bright side, it was “one of the shortlisted design entries from more than 3000 participants in the designboom competition, ‘seoul cycle design competition 2010′, organized in collaboration with Seoul design foundation.” Click here for more pictures.
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Sony posts strong Q3 profits (+135%!) in PlayStation group
Feb 3rd
Despite a small 6% dip in quarterly sales year-over-year, “due to a decrease in sales in the game business resulting primarily from unfavorable foreign exchange rates,” Sony’s Networked Products & Services group, which houses its PlayStation brand, posted an impressive
HP Envy 14 aficionados rejoice! Radiance displays are back for a limited time
Jan 14th
What once was lost, now is found…for a little while, at least. HP has finally decided to undo its previous mistake, and make the 1600×900 Radiance Infinity LED display a $200 upgrade on its Envy 14 laptops for a limited time. Alas, Dr. Dre fans are not afforded the same luxury, as the Beats Edition only comes with the standard 1366×768 BrightView screen, but we’re just glad to see that beautiful, bright Radiance panel is on one Envy, even if only temporarily.
[Thanks, Maciej]
HP Envy 14 aficionados rejoice! Radiance displays are back for a limited time originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Joystiq Top 10 of 2010: Alan Wake
Jan 2nd
Turns out we’d been thinking of “episodic” gaming the wrong way. Episodic pioneers like Telltale long-since realized that consumers won’t stick around episode to episode unless they buy the season upfront; so, episodic gaming isn’t so much about a new business model as it is about a new (well, for gaming at least) method of storytelling. And that’s where Alan Wake comes in.
When Finnish game developer Remedy Entertainment announced it was turning in wronged NYPD cop Max Payne’s badge and gun, only to pick up mystery writer Alan Wake’s uh, pen … and hoodie … it was clear something was different. Over the game’s prolonged five-year development cycle, Alan Wake morphed from an open-world, sandbox-style game set in the Pacific Northwest’s fictional town of Bright Falls to a carefully scripted, episodic creation that had more in common with Twin Peaks than Grand Theft Auto.
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Joystiq Top 10 of 2010: Alan Wake originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Double Rainbow after the Storm
Dec 25th
Hollywood, California the storm is over and the sky is clear. I looked out of my window and there was this incrediable rainbow. My camera couldn’t pick up the colors, but they were very bright. The rainbow lasted for about 20 minutes.
Gay-rights groups view election as major setback (AP)
Nov 5th
AP – Gay-rights activists celebrated a few bright spots on Election Day, but they also suffered some major setbacks — including losses by key supporters in Congress and the ouster of three Iowa Supreme Court judges who had ruled in favor of same-sex marriage.
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Stoltz To The Future
Oct 15th
Somewhere out there among in the vast array infinite universes and divergent timelines is a world much like ours, but with one small difference: Eric Stoltz starred in “Back To The Future”.
I wonder, was “Doc Hollywood” ever made? “The Secret To My Success”? “Life with Mikey”? On that world, did a little film called “Teen Wolf” tank the hopes and dreams of a young man wanting to break out of situational comedy, and did an unknown by the name of Chris Salales thrill audiences with his debut role in “Bright Lights, Big City”? And what of Stoltz’s role as “Matt Rutledge” in “Sister, Sister”?
We may never know the answers to these questions. In our timeline, Robert Zemeckis’ comedic instincts prevailed and Stoltz was ousted as Marty McFly, clearing the way for Michael J. Fox to pilot a time-traveling DeLorean right into our hearts. But let’s take a small look into what might have been.
Fable 3 Kinect minigames involved statue making, tomatoes
Oct 13th
Though Fable 3 creative lead Peter Molyneux has kept mum every time we’ve asked him what Kinect functionality was to be implemented in his studio’s forthcoming game, a Fable rep casually let slip to Kotaku that the game at one point included statue making and tomato throwing. Wait, huh? Unfortunately, the representative realized the err of their ways and wouldn’t say anything else about the cut minigames.
Molyneux explained to us back in August that the Kinect functionality had been cut from Fable 3‘s launch due to the need for more time to fully develop the experience. “Is this what people would expect Kinect to be in something like Fable?,” Molyneux rhetorically wondered at the time, clarifying that “the answer, quite frankly, was ‘no.’” Though Microsoft and Lionhead have yet to confirm as much officially, Molyneux also teased the possible inclusion of Kinect features in the future of the Fable series, saying, “I think the future for Kinect and Fable is probably bright.” We expect, for example, that the technology harvested from Milo’s virtual corpse is likely coming to the Fable franchise in the future. It appears, however, that the future won’t be bright red.
Fable 3 Kinect minigames involved statue making, tomatoes originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Astronomers Find Diamond Star 4km Wide
Sep 15th
tclas writes “The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallised carbon, 4,000 km across, some 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus. It’s the compressed heart of an old star that was once bright like our Sun but has since faded and shrunk. Astronomers have decided to call the star ‘Lucy’ after the Beatles song, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.”
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Astronomers Find Diamond Star 4,000 km Wide
Sep 15th
tclas writes “The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallized carbon, 4,000 km across, some 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus. It’s the compressed heart of an old star that was once bright like our Sun but has since faded and shrunk. Astronomers have decided to call the star ‘Lucy,’ after the Beatles song ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.’”
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Archbishop Bans Pop Music At Funerals
Sep 11th
pickens writes “The NY Times reports that the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne has announced a ban on the playing of pop music at funerals, which, he said, are not to be described as ‘a celebration of the life of’ the deceased. According to new guidelines published on Archbishop Denis Hart’s Web site: ‘Secular items are never to be sung or played at a Catholic funeral, such as romantic ballads, pop or rock music, political songs, football club songs.’ According to a cemetery contacted by Melbourne’s Herald Sun, a list of more unusual songs played at Australian funerals includes: ‘Always Look on the Bright Side of Life’ by Monty Python, ‘Another One Bites the Dust’ by Queen, ‘Highway to Hell,’ by AC/DC and ‘Ding Dong the Witch is Dead’ from The Wizard of Oz.”
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Philips EnduraLED A21 bulb offers bright light for big bucks
May 17th
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If the expected price tag for Philips’ latest LED light bulb is any indication, a brighter tomorrow won’t come cheap. The “75W replacement,” known as the EnudraLED A21, apparently reduces energy by 80 percent, lasts 25 times longer than its conventional counterpart, and is expected to cost between $40 and $45. Given that’s significantly less expensive than the outfit’s 60W equivalent, but for us regular folks, that’s not exactly a drop in the bucket. However, if you’re picking up what Philips is laying down, the bulb — which uses a mere 17 watts of electricity to beam 1,100 lumens — could save the US 5,220 megawatts of electricity and $630,000,000 annually (if we all switch over tomorrow). That certainly sounds good, but somehow we doubt a $45 light bulb is going to be the incandescent killer. Full PR after the break.
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