Some people buy weird things when they are shopping. Especially when they are online as there is no one to watch or gatekeep. Bizarre products are something that you often expect to find in shops located in dinghy holes, however, that’s not the case now. Amazon, the world’s leading e-commerce
Most of us don’t think too much about our fingernails rather than just to clip them and color them with paint. But do you know, nails besides making a fashion statement or protecting our fingertips say a lot about the health of our body?
All of us have been brought up to believe that there are certain practices and techniques which can ward off the evil eye. Superstitions are normally attributed to a lack of education and literacy. We live in a country where 61 percent of our employees believe in superstitions and 67 percent of our scientists believe in seeking God’s blessings before a rocket launch for good luck. Today we are going to share some these that followed in various cultures around the world.
Many people close their eyes and murmur their most intimate desire over the glimpse of a shooting/falling star. They believe it makes their wishes come true. But is there any scientific theory behind this, or is it just an urban legend?
The Internet is full of memes and crazy mind-f**k pictures. We scanned everything on the internet for you guys and here are 10 interesting pictures you can’t unsee once you know what is going on in them.
The latest trend of today’s world is ‘tattoo’. It has occupied its place everywhere- from the muscular chest to the irresistible flat abs- from bare shoulders to intimate hidden places of body- tattoo has its access everywhere. For a lot of people, the biggest obstacle to overcome when deciding whether
Have you ever wondered what is the difference between a Hyper Market, Super Market, Departmental Store and a General Store ?
The winter mornings have a charm. They are not as bright and sunny but the foggy sky and cold breeze make them very pleasing & satisfying. As a kid I loathed the season, until this winter month dawned on me! I always thought why people liked this cold weather which
Scientist have already demonstrated maneuvered and controlled insects which could be guide to follow a path. Even you can just use a “DIY kit” to build your own remote controlled cockroach, a cyborg cockroach! A team of researchers from NC State have taken this to the next level. They have
Kashmir the state which has been lauded as “heaven” on Earth but instead is a haven for terror. But did you ever wonder when it all started? It all began when newly formed Pakistan attacked the princely state of Kashmir, which was not a part of the “newly independent” India.
You may be happy with your current refrigerator but you would be happier with this power-less refrigerator. This refrigerator can keep your food fresh without any electricity. This Zeer pot-in-pot refrigerator requires only water, sand, and a hot, dry climate to preserve food through evaporative cooling. Here’s a small Do It
An amazing world record of long jump was set in 1968 by Bob Beamon. He made a crazy awesome leap of 8.9 meters. This world record is considered more amazing as it was set in Mexico City which is 8000 feet above sea level. The air is thinner in Mexico
As sweated dripped from the forehead of Lin Dan, Chinese badminton player in the Wembley Arena last week at the 2012 Olympics, London’s Ainsley Richards jumped into action on the court. Her job was not to pass the shuttlecock to the players. It was to mop up the player’s sweat falling on the floor.
Maldives comprises of 1,192 islands in the Indian Ocean and is the world’s lowest country, just a few feet above the sea level. Sea levels have been rising globally since 1900. If the global warming continues like this then the sea levels would rise by two more feet by 2100.
A doctor can give you medicines to cure your disease and a health insurance can cover the cost of your treatment. But nothing can follow you around and remind you to take your medicines. To solve this problem, FDA has approved a special pill that can do it on its
Now it’s possible to manufacture weapons at your home. You can simply 3D print them. A gunsmith operating under the handle of “HaveBlue” announced recently that he has successfully printed a serviceable .22 caliber pistol. Opposite to everyone’s expectations, the pistol worked. It fired 200 rounds successfully during testing. After success
Wikipedia is an endless source of knowledge formed by the triumph of human effort, knowledge and collaboration. Not only thousands of smart people edit the pages of the online encyclopedia regularly, but hundreds of bots work on it too. These bots take care of all the boring stuff like organizing, formatting and other administrative
How much do you drink at a bar or restaurant? Too much? That’s probably because those bars and restaurants have learnt that loud, fast music makes you eat and drink more, at a faster rate. New York Times has published a report about it which says, “In 1985, a study by
Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs) are very efficient and are popular in cities but these are toxic. That’s why government is promoting LED (Light Emitting Diode) lights. These are not only safe to dispose as they don’t contain mercury, then are even more efficient than CFLs. But LEDs are not as popular
Till now we had only heard of botnets on PCs that usually spam us from hacked email accounts from unknown places. But now they have gone mobile. Terry Zink, Microsoft researcher claims that he has discovered evidence against an illegal botnet has hijacked smartphones running on Google’s Android operating system and used
The time of booking of Tatkal tickets is revised by the Indian Railways. The changes will take effect from 10 July. This has been done in order to prevent touts from cornering tickets. Now the booking of Tatkal tickets would be allowed only one day in advance. And the booking will
When it came into news that Microsoft is removing the start button from its new Windows 8 for good, many fans of its functionality were unhappy. Microsoft has now explained it to the world that why it has removed the start button which was there in every version of Microsoft
Google’s latest and interesting X Lab project is about something that is performed by the internet public everyday. At Google’s Mountain View’s secret lab, they joined together 1,000 computers totaling 16,000 cores to form a neural network with over 1 billion connections, and sent it to YouTube looking for cats. Unlike the popular
Interesting news for all photography freaks, a new and interesting camera that can see five times better than a person with 20/20 vision is here. The resolution is 50 gigapixels, or 50,000 megapixels. Generally the cameras used by professionals reach no more than 40 MP and a typical point and shoot
The interesting company, 3M that made forgetting anything impossible by its small sticky notes is now trying to change the face of interior lighting with a highly-engineered reflector which is capable of spreading the light from a single LED bulb over an incredibly large area. 3M created an interesting technology called ‘Virtual