The total absence of sound outside your body makes you keenly aware of what’s going on inside your body. Your heart pumps. Your lungs inflate and deflate. Your ears buzz. Your blood pulses. In an anechoic chamber, you are one noisy organism. With no reverberation in the room, you have no spatial orientation cues. After about half an hour in the dark, you can become disoriented. Eventually, you might experience visual and aural hallucinations.
The anechoic chamber doesn’t exist as a kind of engineering curiosity. The researchers at Orfield Labs use it to test products such as hearing aids, automotive parts, heart valves, hard drives, and sleep-apnea machines.
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A simple mistake turned one lucky person into a millionaire. In Flint someone said they mistakenly fed a $20 bill into a lotto ticket machine. They meant to only use $10, but decided to buy a Cash for Life ticket anyway.
It turned out to be a big winner. It was worth at least $4.1 million. Workers at the store where the ticket was bought say the recent win has business booming.
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Walter Isaacson who Steve Jobs picked for his official biographer wrote an extremely interesting nearly 600-page opus on probably the most successful CEO of the century, but let’s face it – Jobs was such a weird person, that it would hardly fit even in that many pages.
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Status update: Barely got away from cops, LOL! Thanks for all the well wishes! [x] Like [ ] Comment [ ] Share
He’s on the lam, but Travis A. Nicolaysen still had time to update his Facebook page. His first day on the run, one friend posted to his account: “Cops all over you.” Nicolaysen responded the next day with: “ya got away thanks bro.”
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Did you know AT&T charges a $325 “activation fee” for a cellphone wiretap. Verizon charges $700 a month and T-Mobile is just a flat fee of $500?
To wiretap a customer’s phone, T-Mobile charges law enforcement a flat fee of $500 per target. Sprint’s wireless carrier Sprint Nextel requires police pay $400 per “market area” and per “technology” as well as a $10 per day fee, capped at $2,000. AT&T charges a $325 activation fee, plus $5 per day for data and $10 for audio. Verizon charges a $50 administrative fee plus $700 per month, per target.
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