Ronda Rousey: ?I try to have as much sex as possible before I fight?

UFC/Strikeforce women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey appeared on Jim Rome's show on Wednesday. What does the champion use as her training secret? Does she have high-level training methods not available to amateur athletes and workout warriors?

Nope. She likes to have as much sex as possible before fights. Though Mick advised Rocky that women weaken the legs, Rousey believes it has the opposite effect on women.

"For girls it raises your testosterone, so I try to have as much sex as possible before I fight actually. Not with like everybody, I don't put out like a Craigslist ads or anything, but if I got a steady I'm going to be like, 'Yo, fight time's coming up,'" Rousey said.

It clearly works for her. Rousey has steamrolled every opponent she has faced on her way to the championship and a 6-0 record. She's won every fight with a first-round submission, and she recently was named the first woman in the UFC. Though her opponent and the date for her first UFC fight are currently unknown, UFC president Dana White said her bout will be a main event on a pay-per-view.

Rousey is also a two-time Olympian, and she won a bronze medal for judo in 2008. It was a fight before the Beijing Olympics that made her think she could be successful in the cage.

"Yes. I got in a fight with a couple of guys at the end of 2007 in a movie theater. It was four couples so four guys and one girl tried to get into it. And I had two friends with me. But I was only really handling two guys by myself. They sued me for assault because it didn't really go too well for them. I guess if you lose a fight in Santa Monica the next option is to sue. Everyone in the theater was cheering for me. I was thinking I might have a future in this. It was before the whole MMA thing."

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How climate change could affect entire forest ecosystems

ScienceDaily (Nov. 28, 2012) ? The fog comes in, and a drop of water forms on a pine needle, rolls down the needle, and falls to the forest floor. The process is repeated over and over, on each pine needle of every tree in a forest of Bishop pines on Santa Cruz Island, off the coast of Santa Barbara. That fog drip helps the entire forest ecosystem stay alive.

Thousands of years ago, in cooler and wetter times, Bishop pine trees are thought to have proliferated along the West Coast of the U.S. and Mexico. Now, stratus clouds -- the low-altitude clouds known locally as "June gloom" -- help keep the trees growing on Santa Cruz Island, Santa Rosa Island, and on one island off Baja California. Other than these locations, Bishop pine trees grow only farther north in California where it is cooler and wetter.

Mariah S. Carbone, first author of a new paper, titled "Cloud Shading and Fog Drip Influence the Metabolism of a Coastal Pine Ecosystem," and her co-authors, studied the influence of clouds on the largest Bishop pine forest of Santa Cruz Island. Carbone is a postdoctoral fellow with UC Santa Barbara's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS). Their study was published in the journal Global Change Biology.

"When people think about climate change, they're often thinking about temperature and precipitation," said Carbone. "When you think about precipitation, it's rain and snow, depending on where you are. What this study showed is that you can have really important water inputs coming from clouds that influence the carbon cycle."

She explained that clouds are one of the largest uncertainties in global climate, and that the forest ecosystem interactions with clouds have a large impact -- one that has rarely been studied before, particularly in Southern California.

Changes in cloudiness or cloud height with global warming will alter the types of forest ecosystems that grow in coastal California, explained Carbone. While predictions about how rainfall will change in California over the next 50 years are uncertain, fog and low-stratus clouds might decline as sea-surface temperatures warm. Like the relict Bishop pines on Santa Cruz Island, and the majestic coastal Redwood forests in Northern California, forests remove and store carbon from the atmosphere, and thus are important for understanding greenhouse gas concentrations in the future. These coastal forests are also highly valued for their aesthetic and recreation qualities.

Fog is often present in coastal California during May through August. It occurs when the land warms in the spring and summer, and moist ocean air is pulled over cold, upwelling coastal waters. This moist air then condenses under a stable atmospheric inversion layer, creating low clouds or fog banks.

"The finding that summer fog strongly impacts carbon cycling highlights the need for improved understanding of whether we should expect coastal summer cloud behavior to change in a warmer world," said second author A. Park Williams, a former graduate student in UCSB's Geography Department, now at Los Alamos National Laboratory. "A change in summer fogginess could produce temperature, moisture, and carbon feedbacks in coastal ecosystems that easily swamp out the effects expected from increased greenhouse gases alone," said Williams.

The carbon cycle involves the movement of billions of tons of carbon between the oceans, lands, and atmosphere every year. Increased amounts of carbon dioxide, a potent greenhouse gas, ??are injected into the atmosphere and contribute to climate change.

The scientists received help from NASA and NOAA in collecting information. "We used satellite data to map the spatial distribution of cloud cover across the western portion of Santa Cruz Island," said senior author Christopher J. Still, formerly an associate professor at UC Santa Barbara, now at Oregon State University. "We had some evidence of a cloud cover gradient from the coast to inland, based on our own observations and our weather station data, but the satellite data -- from NOAA and NASA satellites -- really allowed us to quantify this gradient across the western half of the island and in particular at our two study sites," said Still.

Still said that the authors believe this study is unique in linking clouds to soil microbial activity. "While most previous research on fog and ecosystems has focused on its role in plant-water relations -- such as the well-known linkages between fog and coast Redwoods -- we show that soil microbial activity and metabolism in these coastal ecosystems may be very dependent on the light but frequent fog drip that occurs during the rainless summer months," said Still. The study is also unique in linking fog and low clouds to the carbon cycle of a coastal ecosystem, including its impact on tree growth and soil respiration.

"What we found was that there are two major effects of the clouds," said Carbone. "One is shading, which keeps the temperatures cooler and the soil moisture higher. The other is fog drip, which is a water input into the soil."

The soil moisture content was not depleted as rapidly where the trees were under more cloud cover, and thus they were able to grow longer into the dry season. Water pulses from fog drip immediately stimulated microbes in the litter and soil below, but did not directly enhance pine tree activity. The microbial activity releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

"This study provides us with a greater understanding of how fog and the low coastal clouds which Californians commonly call 'the marine layer' affect plant growth and the activities of microorganisms in the soil," said John Randall, scientist with The Nature Conservancy, which owns and operates Santa Cruz Island in cooperation with the National Park Service and the University of California. "Their findings of the importance of fog and low clouds in influencing plant growth and survival and microbial metabolism in the soil will help us understand how changes in coastal fogs and low clouds that may accompany climate change will affect the forests and soils on Santa Cruz Island, other islands off the coast of California and Mexico, and all along the coast of the adjacent mainland."

The work on Santa Cruz Island, conducted in cooperation with The Nature Conservancy, was funded by grants from the Andrew Mellon Foundation and the Kearney Foundation of Soil Science. The NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis have supported Carbone.

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POLICY FOR DEATH AND DYING | Hill House Nursing Home ...

POLICY FOR DEATH AND DYING

INFORMATION GATHERING

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• Death and dying requires great sensitivity.? Many older people are realistic in recognising that the end of life is relatively close, so this subject should be dealt with sensitively but not unduly secretively.
• At all times, attempt to respect any expressed wishes of residents in relation to death or period of dying.
• We also put into practice Advanced Care Planning which is based on the Liverpool Integrated Care Pathway for the dying patient (LCP).? This provides a template of care to guide our staff and to provide communication.? This would include :

?An initial assessment and care of the dying patient, care of the family and care after death of the patient.

This would provide appropriate information so that discussion and review of choices? between residents, their families, health and social care professionals can take place.? This would result in the drawing up of a palliative care plan which would improve care (allow discussion to avert difficulties at a later date) and enable family involvement and care to be individually focused.

• Ensure the resident has got a Lasting Power of Attorney or a Living Will that they wish to follow.

• We must attempt to ascertain and record any personal wishes in relation to residents eventual death.
• We welcome the involvement of relatives and friends in the information gathering process, provided permission is sought from the resident.

?CARE PRIOR TO DEATH

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• We aim to provide the best physical care for a dying resident, seeking expert advice on specific needs, pain control and other disorders.? We strive to assist to provide peace of mind preparing for death with residents and their relatives.
• Once a resident has been diagnosed and their care needs assessed and the decision taken that the individual needs palliative care, the palliative care plan would be put into practice.? This also provides specific information e.g. care provided, name of funeral director etc. and whether cremation or burial has been requested.
• We attempt to provide a homely environment within a resident?s room, even if special equipment is required.
• If a wish has been expressed to move to hospital/hospice, all assistance will be given and advice sought.
• Recognise acute and often distressing emotions experienced at a time close to death and try to offer comfort and support.

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• We would (where possible) endeavour to offer comfort and support to family members and friends during this emotional time.

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• We actively encourage family and friends to visit where welcomed by a dying resident and try to make them as comfortable as possible.? We encourage family to stay with the resident if they wish.
  
• We are also aware that hearing is one of the last senses to be lost and we are aware of talking sensitively in front of that resident and any distressing conversations would be held outside the room.
• We respect the beliefs and spiritual needs of a dying resident and will seek expert advice when dealing with residents who subscribe to religious or other groups of which we have little experience.
• When a resident is seriously ill or passes away, they are remembered in our monthly Home?s Communion Service, and residents committee meeting within each home.

AFTER DEATH

• Remember that it is possible for the deceased to take a gasp of air after death, no pulse means death.

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• We will ensure we communicate with the Next of Kin or whoever is the main point of contact as soon as possible after the death, providing whatever help we can.
• We will treat the deceased with the utmost respect in accordance with the wishes of the deceased?s family and friends.
• During illness and after death we will be sensitive to the needs of the other residents.
• We will make efforts to enable residents and staff to attend the funerals if they wish.? Of course, permission from the relatives will be sought first.

?PROCEDURE ON EXPECTED DEATH OF A RESIDENT? i.e. IF THE RESIDENT HAS BEEN SEEN BY GP WITHIN LAST 14 DAYS AND GP CONFIRMS CONDITION IS TERMINAL

• Senior person on duty/on call should be contacted to confirm death.
• Record time, date and circumstances of death on MAR sheet.
• Call GP to confirm death or the registered nurse from Hill House who is qualified to do so.
• Inform relatives, proprietors and Manager of death ? Record time on resident?s M.A.R.
• Call chosen undertakers, ensure time is appropriate so that deceased can be discreetly removed, taking into account other residents and relatives.

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• Check on the care plan if there are any religious or cultural considerations before handling the body.

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• Check the deceased is clean and tidy, and laid out as flat as possible.? Open window a little.
• Make a note or remove all jewellery before resident is removed by undertakers.
• If own GP did not certify death, phone surgery at 9.00am next morning to inform residents GP.
• Ensure after deceased is removed, room is left tidy.? Remove all laundry and bedding.

UNEXPECTED DEATH IF RESIDENT HAS NOT BEEN SEEN WITHIN 14 DAYS? BY GP FOR TERMINAL CONDITION

• Record the time and circumstances of death accurately and do not move any possible evidence.? Document jewellery and clothes on deceased.
• The deceased must remain untouched, the police should be contacted.
• GP called to certify death who will then call the Coroner/their representative.
• Advise relatives, proprietor and Manager of death.
• The Coroner/representative will arrange for undertaker to remove the body.
• If own GP did not certify, telephone surgery at 9.00am next working day to inform registered GP.
• The staff on duty must document circumstances leading to death which may be called upon by Coroner.
• Ensure after deceased is removed, room is left tidy.? Remove all laundry and bedding.
• CQC must be informed of the death of a resident ? a Reg. 16 ? 20 form must be completed and sent.

ACTION OF RELATIVES

• To make contact with chosen undertakers.
• To telephone surgery at 9.00 am next day to confirm suitable time to collect Death Certificate.
• To inform the home of certified cause of death at earliest possible time so they may notify the Commission.

LEGAL REQUIREMENTS

The following information must be sent to CQC within 24 hours of death:

??????????? -?? number, age and sex of resident

??????????? -?? date of admission to home

??????????? -?? date and time of death

??????????? -?? cause of death (if known)

??????????? -?? was death referred to the Coroner?

??????????? -?? date of inquest

??????????? -?? cause of death following inquest

Registration of death will be done within 5 days of death at the Registrar of Births, Marriages and Deaths.? Where there are no relatives, the Manager or Proprietor shall be responsible for this.? Documents required:

??????????? -?? death certificate

??????????? -?? resident?s NHS card

??????????? -?? details of resident?s date and place of birth

??????????? -?? marital status, occupation, maiden name and husband?s occupation if widowed.

Source: http://www.hillhouse-nursinghome.co.uk/policy-for-death-and-dying/

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I recently bought a new tablet (Samsung Galaxy Tab2 7.0), specifically to start using the Total app (found my phone too small to use it feasibly for my taste). Currently, I have had a major problem that I cannot trouble-shoot since the synching has worked fine most of the time:

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Star Trek Classroom: The next generation of school desks

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Researchers designing and testing the 'classroom of the future' have found that multi-touch, multi-user desks can boost skills in mathematics.

New results from a 3-year project working with over 400 pupils, mostly 8-10 year olds, show that collaborative learning increases both fluency and flexibility in maths. It also shows that using an interactive 'smart' desk can have benefits over doing mathematics on paper.

Using multi-touch desks in the new classroom, the children were able to work together in new ways to solve and answer questions and problems using inventive solutions. Seeing what your friends are doing, and being able to fully participate in group activities, offers new ways of working in class, the researchers say. The 'Star Trek classroom' could also help learning and teaching in other subjects.

The findings published in the journal Learning and Instruction, show that children who use a collaborative maths activity in the SynergyNet classroom improve in both mathematical flexibility and fluency, while children working on traditional paper-based activities only improve in flexibility.

During the project, the team found that 45% of students who used NumberNet increased in the number of unique mathematical expressions they created after using NumberNet, compared to 16% of students in the traditional paper-based activity.

Lead researcher, Professor Liz Burd, School of Education, Durham University, said: "Our aim was to encourage far higher levels of active student engagement, where knowledge is obtained by sharing, problem-solving and creating, rather than by passive listening. This classroom enables both active engagement and equal access.

"We found our tables encouraged students to collaborate more effectively. We were delighted to observe groups of students enhancing others' understanding of mathematical concepts. Such collaboration just did not happen when students used paper-based approaches."

The Durham University team designed software and desks that recognize multiple touches on the desktop using vision systems that see infrared light. The project called SynergyNet set out to integrate a fully collaborative system of desks, building it into the fabric and furniture of the classroom. The new desks with a 'multi-touch' surface are the central component, and these are networked and linked to a main smartboard.

In terms of current teaching, the new system means that the 'move-to-use' whiteboard is by-passed and the new desks can be both screen and keyboard. The desks act like multi-touch whiteboards and several students can use any one desk at once.

The technology allows all students to take part as opposed to one individual dominating.

Researcher, Emma Mercier, School of Education, Durham University, said: "Cooperative learning works very well in the new classroom because the pupils interact and learn in a different way. The children really enjoy doing maths in this way and are always disappointed when you turn the desks off!

"We can achieve fluency in maths through practice, however, boosting a pupil's ability to find a range of solutions to arithmetic questions is harder to teach. This classroom can help teachers to use collaborative learning to improve their pupils' flexibility in maths."

The teacher plays a key role in the classroom and can send tasks to different tables to individuals and groups. The teacher can also send one group's answers on to the next group to work on and add to, or to the board for a class discussion. A live feed of the desks goes directly to the teacher who can intervene quickly to help an individual while allowing the group work to continue.

Professor Steve Higgins said: "Technology like this has enormous potential for teaching as it can help the teacher to manage and to orchestrate the learning of individuals and groups of learners to ensure they are both challenged and supported so that they can learn effectively."

Such a classroom may be some way off being a regular feature of schools across the world due to the costs in setting it up, and the level of support needed to make it work, however, in just 3 years the project team have noted major improvements in the technology, and a reduction in costs.

The researchers also recognise that task management in the class environment is an issue requiring thought and planning, but the overall potential of the new classroom for improved numeracy, learning, and on-going assessment is very good.

The project has worked with 12 different schools in the North East. SynergyNet is one of eight technology enhanced learning research projects funded by the ESRC and EPSRC as part of the ?12M Teaching and Learning Research Programme into Technology Enhanced Learning.

The project is an inter-disciplinary collaboration at Durham University between the School of Education, the Department of Psychology and the Department of Computer Science.

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Automotive Icon Jennifer Lopez Opens This Insane 100,000-Sq.Ft ...

Exciting news out of the United Arab Emirates this week as famed automotive industry icon and noted Fiat enthusiast Jennifer Lopez was tapped to open Audi's latest mega-dealership in Dubai.

As we all remember, J-Lo starred in controversial, much ridiculed ads for the Fiat 500 last year, only for the public to discover that she wasn't really driving around the block at all. Fiat has since dumped that campaign for some ads that are slightly less annoying.

Not one to give up easily, J-Lo is now apparently spokeswoman-ing for Audi in the Middle East, as Motor Authority reported.

But the new facility is way more fancy than your normal neighborhood car dealership. As Motor Authority reports, it's not even called a dealership, but a "terminal," because it's 100,000 square feet and three stories of Audi madness with two car elevators and one floor exclusively dedicated to car customization. It is, apparently, the largest Audi dealership in the world.

The terminal also features what Audi calls a "Powerwall," a floor-to-ceiling screen that displays images of the cars and their customization options in 1:1 scale. I want to go to there.

Say what you want about J.Lo, she seems to be committed to staying in the automotive shill game. And I wish my ass looked that good in white pants, girlfriend.

Photo credit Motor Authority

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Minecraft Reality: Drop Minecraft Creations Into Real Life

If you've ever found yourself wishing you could find items you built in Minecraft out in the real world, your dreams just came true. More »

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Obama health law to face religion-based challenge

(Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for a Christian college to pursue a religion-based challenge against part of President Barack Obama's healthcare reform, which it claims forces taxpayers and employers to subsidize abortions and contraception.

Liberty University, based in Lynchburg, Virginia, may now also argue that Congress exceeded its power by requiring big employers to provide healthcare coverage to workers, though legal experts said the argument faces an uphill battle in court.

In June, the Supreme Court by a 5-4 vote upheld most of the healthcare reform, but left open a possibility for groups or individuals to challenge how the law is applied.

Monday's order allows for oral argument to proceed in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia.

Liberty University filed one of the first private lawsuits against the overhaul, on the day Obama signed the law in 2010.

It claimed that forcing individual taxpayers and employers to subsidize abortions and contraception impeded the free exercise of religion under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The Supreme Court decision in June did not address the employer mandate or the religious freedom claims, according to the university.

Ilya Somin, a law professor at George Mason University in Virginia, said the challenge to the employer mandate would be a "tough sell" based on the June decision, which let Congress require people to buy health insurance under its power to tax.

"If you look at the way Chief Justice John Roberts upheld the individual mandate, and made it a tax, there is considerable reluctance on his part to strike down a major portion of this law," Somin said.

JURISDICTION?

In September 2011, the 4th Circuit had said it lacked jurisdiction because challenging the mandates would have violated the federal Anti-Injunction Act's ban on lawsuits seeking to halt collection of a tax.

The Supreme Court in June formally declined to review Liberty's appeal. But the university later said that because the 4th Circuit was wrong to decide it lacked jurisdiction, its decision should be thrown out, and a new lawsuit should proceed.

In October, the Obama administration said the university's claims lacked merit, but Solicitor General Donald Verrilli in a court filing said that "under the circumstances of this case, (the government defendants) do not oppose further proceedings in the court of appeals to resolve them."

Liberty Counsel, a law firm that represents the university, said Monday's order could pave the way for the case to return to the Supreme Court in 2013.

"Congress exceeded its power by forcing every employer to provide federally mandated insurance," Liberty Counsel lawyer Mathew Staver said in a statement. "But even more shocking is the abortion mandate, which collides with religious freedom and the rights of conscience."

The U.S. Department of Justice declined to comment.

More than 40 other lawsuits are challenging a mandate that group health plans provide coverage for emergency contraceptives, according to the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. At least two federal judges have temporarily blocked the requirement from being enforced against the religious owners of a family business.

The case is Liberty University et al v. Geithner et al, U.S. Supreme Court, No. 11-438.

(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in Washington and Terry Baynes in New York; Editing by Howard Goller and Cynthia Osterman)

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Alabama shooter kills one deputy, wounds another

(Reuters) - A man shot and killed one Alabama sheriff's deputy and critically wounded another when they went to his home near Fairhope on a report that he was acting aggressively toward family members, authorities said on Saturday.

The shooter, Michael Jansen, also was killed in the exchange of gunfire on Friday afternoon, the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.

Baldwin County Sheriff Huey Mack told reporters that the deputies responded to a report that Jansen had "been confrontational with some family members" and were speaking with him at his home near Fairhope, about 15 miles southeast of Mobile.

"While the deputies were on scene and talking to the individual, the individual produced a handgun and began firing at the deputies," Mack told reporters.

A third deputy at the scene was not wounded.

The two deputies suffered multiple gunshot wounds and were taken to USA Medical Center in Mobile, where Deputy Scott Ward was pronounced dead and the second deputy, who has not been identified, was listed in critical condition, the sheriff's office said.

Ward served as a sheriff's deputy for 15 years.

"I'm very proud of him, it's a big loss," Mack told reporters. "But he was doing his job and we'll pull together in a time like this and we'll honor his memory by carrying on."

The shooting is being investigated by the Baldwin County Major Crimes Task Force, he said.

(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis; Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Vicki Allen)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/alabama-shooter-kills-one-sheriffs-deputy-wounds-another-164347082.html

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On the road again: Travelers head home after holiday

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The Thanksgiving feast is over, and the majority of travelers will be heading back home Sunday. It?s a busy day that could prove challenging if Mother Nature decides to tag along. NBC?s Michelle Franzen reports.

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Daily Digest Coolest Gadgets for 11/20/2012 ~ DailyTechBytes

Nov 20, 2012 10:30 am | Alison Hot Water: Key to Recycling Electronic Components? Our love for gadgets means one thing in life: gadget waste will continue to grow. As new generations of laptops, tablets, phones, PCs and the like appear on the scene one has to wonder where the old ones go. Sure, some can be recycled, but there is certainly cost involved. Realistically much of what goes into a circuit board cannot be reused unless completely taken apart ? which is challenging. If it can?t be recycled it gets thrown into the general trash, only to go into and pollute the earth. I would imagine that growth of industries finding enviro-conscious solutions to dispose of e-waste will start to keep pace with the electronics industry itself. Researchers at UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL), in conjunction with research partners, have come up with a solution that may help with this waste issue down the road. The research was conducted as part of the ReUSE (Reuseable, Unzippable, Sustainable Electronics) project, a UK government backed initiative to increase the recyclability of electronic assemblies. Currently in the UK only about 2% of assemblies can be reused. The group designed and tested a number of different layers of polymers which were able to be separated into their individual parts at end of life when submerged in hot water. Result? The components on the circuit boards were easily removable after the hot water soak and 90% of them were reusable. Check the video above to see how simple NPL made it look. And who knows, maybe someday we will be able to turn old electronics in with confidence, knowing the insides can be used again ? thanks to NPL and hot water. Thanks: Liliputing [ Hot Water: Key to Recycling Electronic Components? copyright by Coolest Gadgets ] Nov 20, 2012 09:30 am | Alison Mobility + Office Convenience Mobility rocks, usually. Sometimes our mobility clashes with the conveniences we have become used to in an office environment. Have you ever tried popping a cell phone on speaker and getting colleagues to crowd around? Far from professional eh? And the sound quality ? on both ends ? leaves something to be desired. More and more businesses and individuals rely on mobile technology to communicate. Yet be realistic, cell phones are not meant to be speaker phones or true video conferencing options. invoxia ? makers of telecom products meant to simplify life ? want to bridge the gap between office convenience and mobility. The AudiOffice, $299 at invoxia.com, does just that, while offering comfort, high quality sound and practical functionality. This dock offers iOS compatible voice and video calling features. Connect your iOS device directly or via Bluetooth and receive or make calls with FaceTime, Skype, Viber or other mobile communication programs. Talk through the handset or the 4-speaker equipped speakerphone mode, where invoxia uses their In Vivo Acoustic technology and to effectively overcome the typical limitations directive speakers. You hear the call through the entire space. Likewise, 2 microphones enable those on the other end to accurately hear the conversation. And when the workday is done ? or the calls stop coming in ? connect your device and play your tunes through the same quality acoustics. AudiOffice is compatible with iPod Touch gen 4, iPhone 3GS, 4, 4S and now 5 plue new iPad and iPad 2. Touch gen 3 and iPad can be used for music. Shipping is available in US, Europe and the UK. So whether you are a small office that is totally mobile in communication, or you need a good office/home office solution for effectively making and taking mobile calls invoxia AudiOffice offers a stylish and functional solution. [ Mobility + Office Convenience copyright by Coolest Gadgets ] Nov 20, 2012 07:00 am | Edwin Radiation Detecting Watch You might be living in a peaceful country, but bear in mind that there is always the threat of nuclear warfare breaking out at any time no thanks to some renegade failed states, insane regimes as well as established nuclear powers who are too jittery. For those who are paranoid androids, being totally afraid of a radiation fallout wherever you go, then the $1,500 Radiation Detecting Watch does sound like the perfect timekeeping device to own in these troubled times. I suppose it would have sold particularly well for folks who wanted to visit Japan after the tsunami hit the Land of the Rising Sun in the first quarter of 2011, crippling a nuclear power plant in the process. Although the Japanese government did deem their country to be safe to visit, there were instances of sushi bars making available a geiger meter for customers to give them peace of mind, that they are not eating irradiated seafood. Well, 2011 might be a distant memory for you now, but at least you can use the Radiation Detecting Watch to pick up residues of unusually high radiation wherever you go ? and perhaps detect some mutants along the way. The watch itself boasts of a durable ultra-lightweight Titanium case, an anti-reflective sapphire crystal, and is water resistant to 330?. [ Radiation Detecting Watch copyright by Coolest Gadgets ] Nov 20, 2012 06:30 am | Edwin minibru Coffee Mug You might think that a coffee mug is just that ? a coffee mug. However, what if we were to tell you that the $24.99 minibru Coffee Mug is no ordinary coffee mug? Sit down and hear us out for a while as to the uniqueness of this particular drinking contraption. Basically, it is capable of making a single cup of French press ? executing it to perfection, if you will, and yet remains dishwasher safe for easy cleaning up once you have kick started your day with the perfect cuppa. The minibru Coffee Mug more or less eliminates two niggling issues for those who can be pretty particular in their lives ? it means you need not rely on a French press pot any more, and there is no worry to drink all of it before it gets cold, and neither do you need to look silly while drinking from one of those French press travel mugs. With the minibru Coffee Mug, you can have a single, perfectly brewed cup of French press coffee while oozing with class. All you need to do is fill your cup with coarsely ground coffee to the lower fill line, pour in some hot water to the upper fill line, and be patient for up to three minutes before you insert the filter cylinder and press it down slowly until the entire brew is completely filtered. [ minibru Coffee Mug copyright by Coolest Gadgets ] Nov 20, 2012 06:00 am | Edwin Most expensive Scrabble board yet We all know how easy it is to come up with the title of "the most expensive (insert item name here)" by slapping on a few precious jewels, and you are good to go. After all, the Vertu range of mobile phones do a pretty good job at that ? even though the innards underneath the hood are far from satisfactory, of course. Well, what about board games? I am quite sure if you were to have a diamond studded board game, you would most probably display it behind a secure glass cabinet instead of having your kids throw it around in a temper tantrum whenever they are on the losing end of things. However, this Scrabble board is very different from the rest ? especially when Mind Sports International gave their take on a classic board game, updating it so that it remains technologically relevant in the 21st century. For starters, this spanking new Scrabble board looks pretty ordinary from the outside at first glance, but it was specially constructed by using RFID chips within each tile, allowing it to detect just where each letter is placed, while transmitting the data to an online channel in a near instantaneous reaction. Not only does this allow folks to follow the game live in a different manner remotely, it also reduces the incidences of potential cheating. All the necessary electronics remain hidden from sight though, thanks to the raised platform. The 100 letter tiles, as mentioned, will contain a unique RFID tag, while all nine circuit boards are connected to 225 RFID antennas ? meaning one for each square on the board, where these will help monitor just where each letter is placed. Your tile rack is not just wood, as it contains RFID sensors as well, helping scan the play area for each tile, takes approximately 974 milliseconds while they are at it. Just how much would such a Scrabble board cost you? Mind Sports invested more than ?20,000 (around US$31,800) to construct each new board, not to mention taking months to test. You take a good guess at what the final sticker price will be like then. Source [ Most expensive Scrabble board yet copyright by Coolest Gadgets ] Nov 20, 2012 05:52 am | Edwin CM4 Q Card Case for iPhone 5 starts to ship At long last ? well, it is not that long actually, considering how the iPhone 5 has not exactly been out for that long on the markets, but at the very least, we do know that the CM4 Q Card Case has begun to ship. After all, don't you love your iPhone 5 to bits and pieces, and hope that this smartphone will be able to get through an entire year without any nicks or scratches? Well, the CM4 Q Card Case intends to fill this big pair of protective shoes for the iPhone 5, where it is touted to deliver device protection in a smart design, boasting a built-in wallet sleeve as well which is capable of holding up to three different cards as well as cash. This particularly updated version of the Q Card Case is proud to be the thinnest of the lot to date, and yet it will still sport CM4's classic Black Onyx and Pacific Green, in addition to a couple of new colors ? and we are talking about Red Rouge and Mahogany Brown. The iPhone 5 version has also undergone a special session of craftsmanship, where this means it is now able to play nice with the spanking new Lightning dock adapter, enabling users to also continue using their 30 pin accessories. I guess you can more or less say that the Q Card Case is an ideal solution for folks who tend to travel a whole lot, in addition to others who prefer to travel light by wanting to look slim even with something in their pockets or purses. It does not matter if you are attempting to navigate through airport security, meet up with new business prospects, or simply to go shopping with the rest of the family, the CM4's extremely convenient Q Card Case will definitely do its bit to reduce the insane amount of clutter that we have managed to accumulate in our pockets and purses over time. Made out of soft-touch rubber as well as a premium fabric wallet sleeve which fits an ID, credit or debit card, and some cash, you end up with a lightweight and yet secure fit around the iPhone 5. There is also a protective front bezel thrown into the mix with lay-flat Screen Guard design, delivering an added layer defense for the iPhone screen. The Q Card Case will retail for $39.99 a pop with a one-year premium warranty. Press Release [ CM4 Q Card Case for iPhone 5 starts to ship copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]

Source: http://dailytechbytes.blogspot.com/2012/11/daily-digest-coolest-gadgets-for_21.html

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