Author: luapo

The sounds in this video are ACTUAL sounds from the Jeep. Everyone began rehearsing their parts 2 weeks before we shot the video. It took us 7 hours of filming to get a solid take.

This incredible iPhone 4 was yesterday unveiled as the world’s most expensive mobile – worth a jaw-dropping £5 MILLION. The handset is wrapped in more than 500 individual flawless cut diamonds totalling 100 carats. It features two interchangeable diamonds which fit over the ‘home’ button – a single cut 7.4 carat pink diamond and a rare 8 carat single cut flawless diamond which are together worth more than £4 million.

If you’ve recently gone for a couple of 88mph spins in a souped-up DeLorean outfitted with a flux capacitor running at 1.21 jigawatts and have somehow ended up in an alternate universe in which internet memes don’t exist, then you may not yet have read about the 12-year old McDonald’s Hamburger that still looks just like a McDonald’s Hamburger. For the rest of you who are already with me, you’ll have to indulge me for a moment while I fill-in the time travelers as to what’s been going on.

Apple is trying to prevent teen sexting by replacing inappropriate text messages with pictures of a shirtless Steve Jobs. Part of this story is true, I made the other part up.

Seems pretty basic–it’s a patent for censoring text messages. It’s kind of like those personal television censors that bleep out “objectionable” words and replace them with safe alternatives (they usually use the closed-caption text in order to figure out which words are objectionable, so this is very similar). Perfect for parents who like to control every inch of their children’s lives.

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The bad news…all these damn touch-screen devices we use harbor flu germs that will most certainly kill you. The good news…iPad owners will be the first to be thinned from the herd.

Personal touch-screen devices – iPads, BlackBerrys and Droids – are now seemingly everywhere, potentially harboring the germs and viruses that turn voices raspy and send noses running.

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Cancer is a modern, man-made disease caused by environmental factors such as pollution and diet, a study by University of Manchester scientists has strongly suggested. The study of remains and literature from ancient Egypt and Greece and earlier periods – carried out at Manchester’s KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology and published in Nature – includes the first histological diagnosis of cancer in an Egyptian mummy.

Finding only one case of the disease in the investigation of hundreds of Egyptian mummies, with few references to cancer in literary evidence, proves that cancer was extremely rare in antiquity. The disease rate has risen massively since the Industrial Revolution, in particular childhood cancer – proving that the rise is not simply due to people living longer.

Professor Rosalie David, at the Faculty of Life Sciences, said: “In industrialised societies, cancer is second only to cardiovascular disease as a cause of death. But in ancient times, it was extremely rare. There is nothing in the natural environment that can cause cancer. So it has to be a man-made disease, down to pollution and changes to our diet and lifestyle.”