Tag Archives : Stockholm

Mental training games don’t work as expected

Mental training games don’t work as expected

Mental training games can be a waste of time. People who have done these activities had the same gain – modest – from people who spent as much time surfing the internet, new research shows. Over the past five years, there was a boom in Releases brain training programs, which supposedly keep the mind accurate. The BBC then approached Owen [...]
Sweden Gets The First Taste Of 4G Communication Services

Sweden Gets The First Taste Of 4G Communication Services

The dominant wireless carrier in Sweden, TeliaSonera has announced the launch of the next generation high speed 4G communication network in Oslo and Stockholm, paving the way for high speed internet services on mobile phones and exceptional network coverage. The all new 4G services will provide the users with upto 100 megabits per second of wireless [...]
Brain of gay men similar to brain of straight women: study

Brain of gay men similar to brain of straight women: study

Findings of a study that biologically link sexual orientation and brain function are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. According to this recent research, there is a similarity between the brains of homosexual males and heterosexual females, thereby suggesting that biology is central to sexual orientation. With the use [...]
Stockholm’s Autonomous Tram: You Would Love This Dream Transport

Stockholm’s Autonomous Tram: You Would Love This Dream Transport

It’s a transport system you have dreamt of for your city. On road, and yet, with amazing carrying capacity. While trams have been phased out of many cities in the world, Alstom, a well known maker of high-speed trains and Citadis trams, has tied up with Stockholm Local Traffic department. And that is, to bring out an innovative public transport system [...]
Sustainable Urbanism: Stockholm, Sweden is EU’s 2010 Green Capital

Sustainable Urbanism: Stockholm, Sweden is EU’s 2010 Green Capital

The air is clean. Traffic is minimal. There are no coal-fired boilers. 70 percent of households receive a water heating system that comes from a large centralized plant that uses electricity. The European Commission has recognized Stockholm as Europe’s most sustainable city. The Swedish capital has achieved a record in energy conservation and quality [...]