Mt. Everest the highest peak in the world in Nepalese Himalayas has just got a live webcam installed for everyone to get some live views of the top of the world. The project was created by Italian Scientific Committee in collaboration with Nepal Academy of Science and Technology. The webcam is powered by solar cells and installed at Kala Patthar mountain at the height of 18514 feet. The camera will stream the live images from 6AM to 6PM Nepalese Time when enough brightness is there.
Toto, Japan’s foremost toilet manufacturer, has made a motorized tricycle that runs on human crap. The saddle is a functional toilet, and if you can muster up enough colonic motility to keep up a steady stream, you could travel the world.
As the person drives, he can poop into the bowl, and that poop will be turned into fuel for the car. It’s actually part of a campaign that Toto is running in an effort to reduce its CO2 emissions by 50% in the next 6 years. The motorcycle will be making its way from Kyushu to Tokyo over the next month (departing in six days). Very exciting! I’m not sure who’s driving but I’m sure that, in addition to having a drivers license, they had to check his stool to make sure its healthy and fuel-worthy.
It all began with a mid-life crisis. Jean Béliveau’s small sign business went bankrupt, which compelled him to run around the world to shake off his despair. He did run in the beginning, but the journey soon took on a slower pace that led him through 64 countries on six continents.
Béliveau, now 56, has gone through 53 pairs of shoes.
The Department of Homeland Security is testing a pre-crime detection program on the general publi….*knock* *knock* *knock* …hang on for a second guys, someone is at the door.
If this sounds a bit like the Tom Cruise movie called “Minority Report,” or the CBS drama “Person of Interest,” it is. But where “Minority Report” author Philip K. Dick enlisted psychics to predict crimes, DHS is betting on algorithms: it’s building a “prototype screening facility” that it hopes will use factors such as ethnicity, gender, breathing, and heart rate to “detect cues indicative of mal-intent.”
