Something cool thread

[skinsmarydu]

^^OMG, I laughed so hard I almost hurt myself!!   She got own3d by a door. :lol:

[China]

^^OMG, I laughed so hard I almost hurt myself!!   She got own3d by a door. :lol:

 

Except that it's fake; a prank by Jimmy Kimmel:

 

[Destino]

THE DOOR OF THE FUTURE.

The guy closing this door of tomorrow seems wary of it, like he's worried that it might take his arm.

[Fan since a Fetus]

I saw this on the YouTube link in post #775. I had to click when I saw a hot woman. This is awesome pole dancing from Ukraines Got Talent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9FS1bxaGTg#t=230

Edited August 23, 2014 by Fan since a Fetus

[skinsmarydu]

Kitty love!

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/84261185/

[Jumbo]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/25/tech/innovation/alzheimers-smart-home/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_tech+%28RSS%3A+Technology%29

 

 

Sensors let Alzheimer's patients stay at home, safely

 

 

 

(CNN) -- Mary Lou doesn't know that she's being tracked.

The 77-year-old is in the middle stages of Alzheimer's and though she lives on her own, her family keeps close tabs on her. If she leaves her Washington D.C. home between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m., a silent sensor on her front door texts her daughter an alert.

 

There is a sensor on each of Mary Lou's two key chains that detects when she goes outside her condo's grounds. A motion sensor in the kitchen helps monitor her eating habits, and another in the bedroom notes when she wakes up in the morning and catches any sleeping issues. There is even a flood sensor in the laundry room.

 

All the sensors are made by SmartThings and relay the information back to a small wireless hub. Her two daughters, who act as her caretakers, can monitor it all on a smartphone app and set up special notifications.

"It's kept her to the point where we haven't even had to have in-home care yet. Our goal is to keep her in her home for as long as possible," said her daughter Cathy Johnson.

 

Caregivers like Johnson are increasingly turning to smart-home technology and wearable devices to monitor family members with Alzheimer's and dementia, helping them live independently longer. One of the first things Alzheimer's patients lose is the ability to learn new things. It makes getting their bearings and adjusting to a new residence especially difficult. But living alone can pose its own dangers, such as leaving a stove on, wandering off or forgetting to take medication.

 

"Often, decisions about care are made when safety becomes an issue" said said Beth Kallmyer, vice president of constituent services for the Alzheimer's Association. Tools like these sensors "can allow people to feel more comfortable" and ease the transition.

 

 

 

 much more at link

[frostyj]

Kitty love!

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/84261185/

 

He is toning muscle and burning off fat for a 6-pack!

[gortiz]

I just think this oozes cool ... 

 

[PCS]

Not really what the title says,(I think the uploader was having fun),but still pretty cool. 

 

 

[btfoom]

Not really what the title says,(I think the uploader was having fun),but still pretty cool. 

 

 

 

That was sweet.  Cool to watch.

[steve09ru]

Forgot about this thread but saw this the other week.  Pretty awesome:

 

[PCS]

The Summer/Early Fall night sky in Great Basin National Park. 360 view. My attempts at pics really don't do it justice. Look towards the park,look up,then look the other way,nothing but stars and stars. It was difficult,at first,to even spot the constellations as there were so many stars to see.

 

 

 

 

[skinsmarydu]

That's awesome, PCS. Wow.......!

[S.T.real,lights,out]

That video is awesome!

 

Great work as always PCS

Edited September 25, 2014 by S.T.real,lights,out

[PCS]

Thanks. What was really cool,was there was an astronomy festival going on there. Thursday night there were about 15 plus telescopes set up and the folks who owned them pointed them at all kinds of places in the sky. Several of them,including the guy who taught a night sky photography workshop the wife and I attended,were amazed and/or delighted with the sky that night. The only thing we had going that night were thunderstorms and they were far West of us,(you can see the flash of one in the lower left corner of the last pic). Incredible place to visit,(and very,very remote. Camping is great there though). 

[mcsluggo]

this website has a map that places (by county) a ton of Depression era photos (from the fed/WPA artists programs)   really cool

 

http://photogrammar.yale.edu/map/

[RawBBQSauce]

How about DiedInHouse.com?

 

You can find out if someone previously died in your house lol

[S.T.real,lights,out]

How about DiedInHouse.com?

 

You can find out if someone previously died in your house lol

 

Yea for $15! Thats not cool. lol

[steve09ru]

these are all pretty cool:

 

photo illusions

http://www.rsvlts.com/2013/01/15/34-double-take-photos/#1

 

google street view wtf's:

http://www.rsvlts.com/2014/06/12/the-57-most-wtf-moments-in-the-history-of-google-street-view/

 

perfectly timed photos:

http://www.rsvlts.com/2014/07/09/perfectly-timed-photos/#9

Edited September 26, 2014 by steve09ru

[twa]

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2014/09/25/medieval-belgum-city-plans-beer-pipeline/?intcmp=features

A medieval Belgium city is planning to build a beer pipeline under its cobblestone streets so its citizens can enjoy the sudsy stuff without all the traffic.

Agence France-Presse reports that the pipeline is set to connect the historic De Halve Maan brewery to a bottling factory two miles away, eliminating the 500 trucks that drive down the city's small streets each year. De Halve Maan hosts 100,000 tourists each year and local residents were concerned over the loud trucks driving through the city.

[GoSkins0721]

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2014/10/13/scientists-create-lithium-ion-battery-with-super-speed-charging-and-longer-life/?intcmp=features

 

Researchers at Nanyang Technology University recently created a new kind of battery that charges super fast and has a shelf life of 20 years.

The ultra-fast batteries can charge 70 percent in only two minutes and don’t need to be replaced every few years. The batteries will work for more than 20 years, a timeframe that’s nearly 10 times longer than the typical lithium-ion battery.

The new battery has a 10,000-cycle life, which Chen says could save those with electric cars a lot of money in replacement batteries, which sometimes cost $5,000. Additionally, the fast charging capabilities would make it easier to charge electric cars on the go, instead of having to juice the batteries up every night.

The researchers have already licensed the technology to a company and expect to see the new batteries on the market in approximately two years

[steve09ru]

Super Hero Kid Part 2

 

[frostyj]

[Jumbo]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/6000-year-old-temple-with-possible-sacrificial-altars-discovered/ar-BBaoJNs

 

6,000-Year-Old Temple with Possible Sacrificial Altars Discovered

 

A 6,000-year-old temple holding humanlike figurines and sacrificed animal remains has been discovered within a massive prehistoric settlement in Ukraine.

 

Built before writing was invented, the temple is about 60 by 20 meters (197 by 66 feet) in size. It was a "two-story building made of wood and clay surrounded by a galleried courtyard," the upper floor divided into five rooms, write archaeologists Nataliya Burdo and Mykhailo Videiko in a copy of a presentation they gave recently at the European Association of Archaeologists' annual meeting in Istanbul, Turkey.

 

Inside the temple, archaeologists found the remains of eight clay platforms, which may have been used as altars, the finds suggested. A platform on the upper floor contains "numerous burnt bones of lamb, associated with sacrifice," write Burdo and Videiko, of the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The floors and walls of all five rooms on the upper floor were "decorated by red paint, which created [a] ceremonial atmosphere." [See Photos of the Prehistoric Temple & Animal Remains]

 

The ground floor contains seven additional platforms and a courtyard riddled with animal bones and pottery fragments, the researchers found.

 

Massive settlement

 

The temple, which was first detected in 2009, is located in a prehistoric settlement near modern-day Nebelivka. Recent research using geophysical survey indicates the prehistoric settlement is 238 hectares (588 acres), almost twice the size of the modern-day National Mall in Washington, D.C. It contained more than 1,200 buildings and nearly 50 streets.

 

A number of other prehistoric sites, of similar size, have been found in Ukraine and other parts of Eastern Europe. These sites are sometimes referred to as belonging to the "Trypillian" culture, a modern-day name. The name is derived from the village of Trypillia in Ukraine, where artifacts of this ancient culture were first discovered.

 

Archaeologists found that when this prehistoric settlement was abandoned, its structures, including the newly discovered temple, were burnt down, something that commonly occurred at other Trypillian culture sites.

 

Ornaments and figurines

 

Fragments of figurines, some of which look similar to humans, were also found at the temple. Like findings at other Trypillian sites, some of the figurines have noses that look like beaks and eyes that are dissimilar, one being slightly larger than the other.

Ornaments made of bone and gold were also discovered at the temple. The gold ornaments are less than an inch in size and may have been worn on the hair, researchers say.

 

At the time the prehistoric settlement near Nebelivkaflourished other early urban centers were being developed in the Middle East. And the newly discovered prehistoric temple is similar, in some ways, to temples from the fifth to fourth millennia B.C. that were built inancient Middle East cities, such as those in Anatolia and Mesopotamia, Burdo and Videiko note.

 

For example a 6,000-year-old temple at the ancient city of Eridu, in modern-day Iraq, also had a floor partitioned into smaller rooms, they note.

The discovery was recently published, in Ukrainian, in the journal Tyragetia. Another paper reporting on recent research at the settlement was published recently online in the journal Antiquity.

 

 more inc pics at link

[Corcaigh]