The Medical Mirror from Ming-Zher Poh, PhD student

While it can't tell you if you're the fairest of them all, the Medical Mirror can tell you your heart rate, which is probably more valuable in the long run anyway. A webcam behind the mirror captures variations in reflected light on your face, and an algorithm translates that into heartbeats.

MIT PhD student Ming-Zher Poh is the inventor of the medical mirror.

How does the technology work?
It uses light to measure the information from your body. Every time your heart beats, the blood in your vessels increases very slightly. Blood absorbs light and so this increase absorbs more mono light, decreasing the amount of light being transmitted or reflected by your body. Using optical methods for measuring the flow of blood is not new. You may be familiar with a little clip called a pulse oximeter that the doctor puts on your finger to take your pulse by shining an infrared light under your skin. Our approach is similar but in this case we're not shining light at you, we're just using the ambient light around you: sunlight, room light or anything that's illuminating your environment. The camera then measures the mono light being reflected off you, in this case, your face.

Fake Swimming Pool by Leandro Erlich

In one of the courtyards of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, is a swimming pool framed by a limestone deck. When seen from the deck, the pool appears to be filled with deep, shimmering water. In fact, however, a layer of water only some 10 centimeters deep is suspended over transparent glass. Below the glass is an empty space with aquamarine walls that viewers can enter.The Swimming Pool was designed by Buenos Aires artist Leandro Erlich in 2004.

It is never too late to quit smoking

Within the first 20 minutes of quitting, the healing process begins.

By the end of the first day after quitting smoking, you've decreased your chances of having a heart attack.

The benefits will continue to improve your health and quality of life for years.

Within 12 hours after you have your last cigarette, your body will begin to heal itself. The levels of carbon monoxide and nicotine in your system will decline rapidly, and your heart and lungs will begin to repair the damage caused by cigarette smoke.

As your body begins to repair itself, instead of feeling better right away, you may feel worse for a while. It's important to understand that healing is a process; it begins immediately, but it continues over time. These "withdrawal pangs" are really symptoms of the recovery process.

Immediately after quitting, many ex-smokers experience "symptoms of recovery" such as temporary weight gain caused by fluid retention, irregularity, and dry, sore gums or tongue. You may feel edgy, hungry, more tired, and more short-tempered than usual and have trouble sleeping and notice that you are coughing a lot. These symptoms are the result of your body clearing itself of nicotine, a powerful addictive chemical. Most nicotine is gone from the body in 2-3 days.

Please spread awareness among smokers to quit smoking.

Dinner in the Sky!!!

Dinner In The Sky takes dining with a view to a whole new level. Just as the name suggests, Dinner In The Sky is a structure suspended 50 meters over the ground.

The steel constructed structure is strong enough to support you along with 21 of your closest friends, the chef, and even waiters to serve you guys while you dine over the city. Standard orders for the restaurant are 8 hours, and seeing that Dinner In The Sky is lifted by a crane, it can be mounted anywhere you choose, over the ocean, park, concert, sporting event, you name it.

The man who only owns 15 things

No, he's not homeless, he's not poor, and he’s definitely not unemployed. In fact, this guy is a technology mogul…but he only owns 15 things (not including socks and undies).

Andrew Hyde, an itinerant blogger-cum-interface designer who owns only 15 items. Currently residing in New York City-he's lived everywhere from Colorado to Rhode Island.

The founder of Startup Weekend, and an organizer of TEDxBoulder conference, Hyde sold most of his worldly possessions in 2010, when he set off to circumnavigate the globe by hopping from city to city.

Constantly shuttling between New York and Silicon Valley for work, Hyde doesn’t live in a house or an apartment. When he’s not working, he’s traveling extensively, taking his worldly possessions of 15 things everywhere he goes.

Oh, you want the list, right?

1. Arc’teryx Miura 30 backpack
2. NAU shirt
3. Mammut rain jacket
4. Arc’teryx tshirt
5. Patagonia running shorts
6. Quick Dry towel
7. NAU wool jacket
8. Toiletry kit
9. Smith sunglasses
10. Wallet
11. MacBook Air
12. iPhone 3GS
13. NAU dress shirt
14. Patagonia jeans
15. Running shoes

Cute Baby Dolphin

Little Johnny's tough day in maths class

Little Johnny came home one day and told his dad he had a tough day in maths class.

Dad: "What happened?"

Little Johnny: "The teacher got mad at me."

Dad: "What for?"

Little Johnny: "She asked me what 2 x 3 was. I told her 6."

Dad: "Well, that's right."

Little Johnny: "I know. But then she asked me what 3 x 2 was."

Dad: "OMG! It's the same IDIOT!"

Little Johnny: "I know! That's exactly what I told her!!!"

Husband and Wife conversation @ 2015

Wife wrote an email to her husband saying she was concerned that we have communications issues. Husband immediately sent an IM asking her to clarify. She messaged him on Facebook saying not to worry but that sometimes we're not as connected as she'd like. Husband tweeted her that I love her more than anything. She texted him that she loves me too and was tired after a long day of work.

Finally husband leaned over and kissed her good night!!!

10 Interesting Facts about Human Eyes

1) Eyes are composed of more than 2 million working parts

2) The average person blinks 12 times per minute - about 10,000 blinks in an average day

3) Eyes can process 36,000 bits of information every hour.

4) Only 1/6th of the eyeball is exposed to the outside world

5) Eyelashes have an average life span of 5 months.

6) The eyeball of a human weighs approximately 28 grams.

7) Your eye will focus on about 50 things per second.

8) About half of our brain is involved in the seeing process. Humans are very much visual animals.

9) Under the right conditions, the human eye can see the light of a candle at a distance of 14 miles.

10) The external muscles that move the eyes are the strongest muscles in the human body for the job that they have to do. They are 100 times more powerful than they need to be.

Little Johnny with his teacher at Zoo

Little Johnny is at the zoo with his teacher, and the entire class. They are touring around when Johnny sees a deer grazing peacefully on some grass.

"Johnny, can you tell us the name of that animal?" asks his teacher, pointing to the deer.

"Well," says Johnny, "I think it is a.... I guess it is a..."

"Let me give you a hint," interrupts his teacher. "What does your mother call your father often?"

"Oh, right!" shouts Johnny. "It's an Donkey!!!"

What did the doctor say?

A woman accompanied her husband to the doctor's office. After his checkup, the doctor called the wife into his office alone. He said, "Your husband is suffering from a very severe disease, combined with horrible stress. If you don't do the following, your husband will surely die."

"Each morning, give him a healthy breakfast. Be pleasant, and make sure he is in a good mood. For lunch make him a nutritious meal. For dinner prepare an especially nice meal for him. Don't burden him with chores, as he probably had a hard day. Don't discuss your problems with him, it will only make his stress worse. And most importantly satisfy his every need. If you can do this for the next 10 months to a year, I think your husband will regain his health completely."

On the way home, the husband asked his wife, "What did the doctor say?"

"You're going to die," she replied.

Heart touching gift for wife Birthday

A young woman was taking an morning nap. After she woke up, she told her husband, "I just dreamed that you gifted me a diamond necklace today for my birthday. What do you think it means?"

"You will know tonight." he said.

That evening, the man came home with a small package and gave it to his wife.

She was suprised and opened it with full of happiness and found
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a book entitled "The meaning of dreams".

The Power of Friendship!!!

Boy reached home very late at night.

Father (angrily): where the hell were you?

Boy: I was at my friends home!

Father called his 10 friends,

4 answered: "Yes Uncle! he was here with me."

3 answered: "He just left a little while ago."

2 answered:"He is still here and we are studying."

and the last one crossed all limits,

He answered, "Hello Dad! I will come late tonight."

Scary Story - Read at your own Risk

On a rainy day, an old man was standing with a book for sale.

A young man came to buy. He bought a book for $3000. There were lightening followed by thunder when he touched the first page of the book.

The old man advised "DONT OPEN LAST PAGE OF THE BOOK" otherwise you will face lot of problems.

The young man finished reading the book with great fear but didn't open the last page.

But, after a week, out of curiosity he opened the last page and he almost fainted when he saw
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Retail Price: $30

Stephen Wiltshire - The Human Camera

The human mind is one of the most remarkable things ever, including our endless imagination and memory.

Sometimes we want our memories to last a lifetime, for some we take photos to capture those memories but for Stephen Wiltshire, his mind holds on to those memories in the most finest details with almost accurate precision.

Stephen Wiltshire was mute until the age of five, drawing for him was his language, a way of expression and he was diagnosed with autism. Stephen Wiltshire got his name "The Human Camera" due to his ability to observe cityscapes sometimes for brief moments and recreate these settings in beautiful hand drawings.

Amazing Macro Photography

It's called as macro photography that is, extreme close-up photography. When you zoom in on water droplets, you get that awesome refractive effect where it gives you a wide-angle view of whatever is behind it.

FUN TIME

Saturday, 11 May 2013