Author: luapo

Old newspapers and magazines offer a wealth of insight into history and critical events as they were unfolding at that time. In the past, the only way to get hold of this treasure trove of information was your local library where the back issues of certain newspapers and magazines may have been preserved.

Fortunately, the Internet and digitization of content has made everything just a click away and now you can access previous issues of old newspapers almost as easily as today’s newspaper that’s lying on your coffee table.

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For an upstart smartphone operating system, Microsoft is beginning to make a showing for itself. While still dwarfed by the App Store and the Android Market, Windows Marketplace has made great strides within the last few months and is predicted to take over the smartphone platform number two slot by 2015.

Apple’s App Store has more than 500,000 apps while the Google Android Market has more than 300,000 apps.

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One of the many fascinating variations that exist among humans (and other animals) is heterochromia iridis, or heterochromia iridum – terms used to describe different colored eyes in the same person. Caused by an excess or lack of melanin, heterochromia can occur as a result of genetics, disease or injury. Yet, whatever its underlying cause, heterochromia is almost always eye-catching!

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This is the family game based on the Guinness World Records book, the annual arbiter of the longest, the fastest, the tallest and other superlatives of the strange. The board game version of the book calls on family and friends to guess answers to the bizarre trivia that has made Guinness a perennial bestseller since 1955.

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The dial at the front of the projector’s barrel rotates for selection of one of eight fireworks images that are backlit by an LED, including one- and three-burst peonies, contrasting diadems, and a cascading horsetails. Held like a hand-cannon, a pump of its bottom bar “launches” a firework with a mortar “poomp” and whistling trail sound.

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