Bart Weegens is a scientist from Belgium who has found a low-technology method to go about landmine detection to tackle issue of unexploded mines. The idea could save hundreds of lives. So called the HeroRAT is an intelligent species and easy to train and with many new recruits easy to breed.
According to Bart, the rats have a great sense of smell and it is practically easy to train them although the training is a little time consuming.. So basically he is putting a leash on a rat to lead it or hold it in check by deploying them in the field to detect land mines by scent.
Paramount Pictures and Iconic Brands will be launching Godfather Italian Organic Vodka in Spring 2010. However it is still not clear what ingredients it’s gonna be made with or where it’s going to be bottled, seems these details are kept secrets “in the family.” like this quote from Godfather- Don Corleone to Sonny- “Never tell anybody outside the family what you’re thinking again.”
The Godfather inspired vodka sales can take off like some other famous celebrity brand- Dan Aykroyd’s Crystal Head Vodka to Justin Timberlake’s 901 Tequila. Nothing Sells Like Celebrity- Celebrities appear in 24 percent of the ads in India itself.
Bamboo is the fastest-growing plant, it’s woody perennial evergreen that can thrive without the use of pesticides and grow quickly in different climates. In many countries Bamboo plant has high cultural significance and it’s used extensively in gardens and as a building material. Bamboo can play an important role in plant conservation worldwide along with many other natural resources.
Washington-based, biotech lab, Boo-Shoot Gardens has produced a major achievement in tissue-culture science that enables rapid propagation of bamboo plants. Jackie Heinricher the Owner of Boo-shoot launched Boo-Shoot in 1998. Now Jackie Heinricher with their senior scientist Randy Burr, will supply wholesalers with over two million plants annually.
Boo-Shoot’s technology will help to meet the growing demand of bamboo in wood products, soil stabilization, reforestation paper pulp, textiles, flooring, and all sorts of household items. Since bamboo sequesters carbon 4x as efficiently as hardwood trees, growing bamboo will be good for the planet and for the air we breathe.
This site from Sweden suggests the best suitable outdoor jacket based on your local weather forecast. Depending on the weather conditions in the city, you get a different recommendations on the jacket you should wear during your next destination. The site track your IP address and connect to a weather forecast service and match the product database accordingly.
The site suggested “No Jacket Needed” to me tracking my Indian IP, the city where I am located, which have 27 degree temperature on today. I hope this site is quite helpful for the frequent travelers.
Quantcast ranks Google’s subdomains which can give you a rough idea how Google position for their products and the traffic level. Overall most of Google products showing decent growth, however Google’s main search engine tops the list with an estimated 136.6 million unique visitors in the U.S followed by YouTube which is the second with 70 million unique U.S, Google Maps-36 million, Image Search 31.7 million, and Gmail 10.5 million of visitors. visitors, and Blogger would be in the top 5 with 23.5 million. Here you can view Google’s 101 subdomains and their traffic level;
Wizehive is a Web-based group messaging and task management service for businesses like twitter. WizeHive just launched in beta which carries task management features as well as enabling users to create a small database for workspace – that comes with customizable data fields.
This Twitter-like startup for organizing stuffs making Twitter service more competition, the tools have an extended features that let you create a task, set a due date, and assign it to someone, each task can be marked as “open,” “completed,” or “in progress.” Great tools for workgroups, developpers, and it is free for up to three people with 50MB of storage space. You can also upload files, and everyone can view them in-browser, this feature can help you to interact with your co-workers and organize your work smoothly.
WizeHive is currently on Beta Invites, just enter “TC2009? when you sign up.
Paul Rawlings, a developer from the UK, launched Tweebay on Christmas Day, tweebay is a classifieds listings service for Twitter. Tweebay- micro-classifieds listing site is a revolutionary idea to sale product automatically notifying all followers through a Twitter account. With tweebay You can easily use your Twitter account to buy and sell stuff without entering your Twitter password, you simply follow Tweebay on Twitter, and confirm your bids through the direct message.
Tweeebay let you alert everyone following you on the service that you have something to sell, if people really need that products or service they can surely buy stuffs from you rather than relying strangers on ebay! This idea of social classifieds is gaining the popularity for a variety of different reasons.
I hope this site is quite helpful for the frequent travelers.
