NeuroSky - Move Things With Your Mind

Moving things with your mind is probably one of the coolest ideas every. Telekinesis is one of the super powers that I would most definitely want, and with NeuroSky’s advancements we’re almost there. What NeuroSky does is develop technologies based around bio-signal information, brainwaves, and neurons. They have created devices that can send out your brainwaves and use them to control various robots and programs. Here is video of one of NeuroSky’s headsets in action.

Honda’s Weird Looking Walking Device

Honda tends to be at the front end of automotive technology. Many people stand by their products, and now some of them are walking with Honda.

8 Cities That Might Not Make It

We’ve seen what our towns and cities look like when people move out and nature moves in – but why does abandonment happen? What factors turn towns into ghost-towns, city centres into wastelands and treasured homes into piles of crumbling debris? Here’s a look at eight modern urban settlements that are either in danger of or in the process of losing their inhabitants – places that might gives clues about how to keep our cities alive.

Animal Oddities

Is animal oddities Mother Nature’s way of telling us to let things happen naturally and stop giving animals hormones and to stop using pesticides? You be the judge. All over the world for decades there have been animal babies born with some sort of strange thing happening to them.

Pink Dolphin

From what is being dubbed as the hot pink dolphin off of the Gulf of Mexico to two headed animals, oddities seem to happen a few times a year and they fascinate us every single time.





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The Wrath of Mother Nature: 46 Shocking Tornado Photos

Shocking, awe inspiring, powerful, mesmerizing, deadly – there are not enough adjectives in the English dictionary to describe Tornadoes. As you will see below in these 55 photos Mother Nature draws a fine line between beauty and destruction.

Jasper National Park – Alberta, Canada

Established in 1907, Jasper National Park is as staggeringly beautiful as anywhere in the Rockies, but it is distinguished by having more remote wilderness than the other national parks. These areas can be reached only on foot, horseback, or by canoe, and backpackers need passes from the Park Trail Office for hikes that last more than one day. Jasper also has a reputation for more sightings of flora and fauna such as bear, moose, and elk than any of the other parks in Rockies’.

Inside The Tube: Incredible Wave Photography

“Tubes” as they are known are a surfers lifeblood and a thing of natural beauty. We salute these adventurous photographers who, one of whom is named Clark Little, armed with a waterproof camera and perfect timing, were able to snap these incredible pictures.

8 Breathtaking Cloud Formations

Clouds come in many shapes, sizes, colors and forms—all unique and beautiful in their own way. Whether it is a sky full of red and orange clouds lighting up the Brooklyn Bridge or rare mother-of-pearl clouds in Scandinavia, we found some unbelievably stunning photos that capture fascinating cloud formations from around the globe. Have a look at the pictures below—and you never know, they may inspire you to look up to the sky every once in a while.

Florence, Italy

As Frank Slack stood over the Arno river, the combination of the setting sun and clouds rolling in produced this magnificent yellow and gray sky. Photo courtesy of Frank Slack via Flickr.com

Vertical crop system is piloted

A new vertical method for growing crops which claims to use less land and only 5% of the water usually needed is being piloted at a Devon Zoo.

The system grows plants in trays of water moving on a conveyor belt.

The company behind it, Valcent, based in Launceston, Cornwall, said it was a sustainable solution to the world's "rapidly-diminishing resources."

Paignton Zoo is planning to use it to grow herbs, leaf vegetables and fruit as food for its animals.

The hydroponic system rotates the plants on a conveyor belt via a "feeding station" to create airflow and stimulate growth.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/8282288.stm

The 15 most toxic places to live

As the world's population balloons to almost 7 billion, it is become difficult to find anywhere on Earth untouched by man-made pollution and development, and far too often it takes things going really wrong before people take action to keep our planet clean. So here is a list that may help to motivate: The 15 most polluted places in the world.