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Foursquare now has 1 million users

Foursquare now has 1 million users

Do you ever heard of Foursquare? It completed in March, a year old and already has over one million users worldwide. This is a social network, those in which the user has to be registered to enter. And it must also register a cell phone, type smarthphone. Each time you enter a registered place, she or he must warn, with a click in the cell, where the [...]
Zanier Gives World its First GPS Enabled Ski Gloves

Zanier Gives World its First GPS Enabled Ski Gloves

There was a time phase when everything portable was given a USB jack with some useful storage space too. There were lipsticks, crystal bearing pendants, action figures and even a Swiss Knives. Now the trend seems to have been shifted to navigation capabilities with Zanier introducing Ski Gloves with GPS functionality. Zanier Introduces World’s [...]
Some European scientists have Launched a Satellite that Predicts Floods in advance

Some European scientists have Launched a Satellite that Predicts Floods in advance

Science and Technology is ever advancing. Today some European scientists launched a satellite called “Smos Spacecraft”, which will make flood prediction easier by tracking water flows around the Earth. The satellite will also provide better weather forecasts and estimate the impact of climate change including drought. The satellite was [...]
Cell phones make people act like zombies

Cell phones make people act like zombies

We all have moments of distraction and we sometimes don’t see something that is well ahead. Researchers at the University of Washington, USA, did a test to determine exactly how much of human perception is impaired when talking on a cell phone. They did an experiment documenting examples of real people who were so distracted while talking on a cell [...]