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Why are Insects attracted to light?

Insects attracted to light because they think it is the Sun, or is it just that they use them as travelling reference points? 

Nobody really knows for sure, but moths/Insects are thought to use the moon as a point of reference to travel in a straight line. This might help to explain why more moths seem to be attracted to artificial lights on nights when there is no moon. If moths are drawn in very close to a bright light source they may become dazzled, due to their eyes being unable to adjust quickly enough to the sudden brightness, so will circle the light instead of flying away from it.

Who invented the Bulletproof vest?

You might imagine the inventor being someone from the Army or a policeman, but the true creator was a pizza delivery man! On July 21st, 1969, Richard Davis was delivering pizzas in Detroit when he was held up at gunpoint.
 
Luckily for the former marine, Davis had a gun of his own and shot two of the attackers but was hit twice himself. This incident gave him an idea for people like cops to avoid injury by wearing padding of some kind. The first prototype for the bulletproof vest was created by Davis out of a roll of nylon and the straps from his car’s seatbelt.
 
He went around to police stations shooting himself in the chest to demonstrate its power. Later, Davis created a second vest design using Kevlar, which is 230% stronger than nylon.

Designer Concept Chair: Chair Book

Designers of the company’s 6474, inspired by reading books, created a chair Pages. The essence of design is the ability to adjust the height of the place itself and the back, “flipping through the pages.” Design a chair shaped, has a unique, fun, colorful and aesthetically pleasing home.

Korean Twin Towers

Architects have designed a pair of apartment towers in South Korea that are unbelievably reminiscent of the 9/11 attacks on New York's World Trade Center.

These incredible pictures show how Dutch architecture firm MVRDV somehow managed to design the eerie 260-metre and 300-metre towers next to each other, connected by a ‘pixelated cloud’. And in a good contender for quote of  the year, a company statement insists they did not ‘see the resemblance during the design process’ for the buildings - due to be completed in Seoul in 2015. 

Dutch architecture firm MVRDV has designed a pair of apartment towers in South Korea that are unbelievably reminiscent of the 9/11 attacks on the World TradeCentre 

Plans: MVRDV designed a 260-metre and 300-metre tower next to each other, joined by a 'pixelated cloud'
The luxury residential towers have been named ‘The Cloud’, with one reaching 260 metres or 54 floors and the other covering 60 floors over 300 metres. The total surface area is 128,000 sq metres.

The ‘cloud' is housed in a 10-floor tall structure positioned halfway up the structures, and the towers feature a fitness studio, pools, restaurants, cafes and a conference center.

Origin Of Big Names

Mercedes
This was actually the financier's daughter's name.

Adobe
This came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.

Apple Computers
It was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 O'clock.

CISCO 

It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco.

Compaq
This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.

Corel
The name was derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands for Cowpland Research Laboratory.

Google
The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number
represented by 1 followed by 1 00 zeros. After founders - Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google'

Hotmail
Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.

Hewlett Packard
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.

Intel
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.

Lotus (Notes)
Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or
'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Microsoft
Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to
MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was
removed later on.

Motorola
Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started
manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.

ORACLE
Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). The project was
designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring
it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same name for the company.

Sony
It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.

SUN
Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla
recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.

Yahoo
The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.

Interesting Facts about the White House

For a building that was once called “the glamorous prison”, the White House still enchants many wannabe prisoners. It’s been the official residence and office of the President of United States since November 1, 1800, when John Adams the second president of United States moved into it. The building is symbolic of American presidency and so well-known that the term “The White House” is often used to represent “The President” himself. The presidential palace has outlived war of 1812, the American Civil War and escaped an alleged terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.The White House is the official venue for hosting get-togethers and dinners to international guests and above all, a symbol of American pride in being a world super power for past 100 years and more. It is also one of the most visited buildings in U.S.A, with nearly six thousand visitors each day. 
Interesting Facts about the White House:
  • The architect for the White House was chosen through a design competition. George Washington selected the winner, James Hoban on July 16, 1792, after a brief review.
  • The East room present today was added on George Washington’s recommendation, inspired from a large reception room at his own home -Mount Vernon.
  • When John Adams moved into the White House, it was not fully completed, but just ready for occupation.
  • The White House was originally natural gray in color, which is the color of sandstone used for the building.
  • North side of the White House draws inspiration from the Leinster House in Dublin, Ireland, while the south side can be compared to the Château de Rastignac, a country house located in France.
  • The building was originally called “President’s Palace” or “Presidents Mansion”. In 1901, Teddy Roosevelt established the formal name by having "White House - Washington" put on all government stationery. Till then the house was called “Executive Mansion “ on official papers .
  • Some suggest that the building was painted White to hide the damages incurred during the burning of Washington on August 24, 1814.
  • Harry Truman, who was the 33rd president of U.S, called the White House “a glamorous prison”
  • This presidential palace received running water and central heating in 1835, while electric lights were only added in 1891.
  • Though it is the stronghold of the American president, most of its external walls are still made of wood, which require 570 gallons of paint to cover up.
  • The White House has indoor tennis courts, a swimming pool, a movie theater, a running track, billiard room and a bowling lane to serve the need for recreation at home by the First Family.  
  •  About $25,370 is spent every day to maintain the White House, taking its annual maintenance bill to about $9,260,000
  • There are 5 full time chefs employed at the White House, who are also responsible for serving guests at presidential dinners.
  • The President and First Lady are charged for all meals and incidentals, but the President gets an expense account to cover these costs.
  • Guests of the First Family can stay free at the White House, but are billed for outside services.
  • White House has been home to trendsetters. John Tyler became the first president to have his photograph taken during his tenure (1841-45), while Teddy Roosevelt (1901-09) became the first president to ride in a car and travel abroad.
  • The White House has 3 elevators that are used to move around the 6 floors, with 132 rooms, secured by 412 doors and sunlit through 147 windows. Adding to the grandeur are 28 fireplaces and 7 staircases. The best of hygiene is assured by the 35 bathrooms.
  • Ironically, the residential building was built by the enslaved as well as free African-American laborers. Also employed were other immigrants, many of whom did not have American citizenship. For instance, the sandstone walls, the high relief rose and garland decorations above the north entrance and the "fish scale" pattern beneath the pediments of the window hoods were erected by Scottish immigrants without American citizenship.

Interesting Facts about Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower, one of the most famous monuments of the world, is an iron tower in Paris. It has been built on the Champ de Mars, beside the Seine River. It took 2 years, 2 months, and 5 days to build this huge tower, which was completed in 1889. Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, the same person who built the internal frame of the Statue of Liberty, was the main architect of the tower and it has been named after him only. The tower is beautifully illuminated at night, for which it consumes 7.8 million kWh per year. In order to know some more fun and interesting facts about Eiffel Tower, go through the following lines.


  
Fun and Interesting Facts about Eiffel Tower:

  • Eiffel Tower has been named after its designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel.
  • Eiffel Tower is the tallest building in Paris.
  • The height of Eiffel Tower, including its 24 m (79 ft) antenna, is 324 m.
  • The height of Eiffel Tower is equivalent to 81 levels in a conventional building.
  • The construction work of Eiffel Tower started on January 26, 1887 and was completed on March 31, 1889.
  • Till 1930, Eiffel Tower was the tallest building in the whole world.
  • The metal structure of the Eiffel Tower weighs 7,300 tonnes, while the entire structure, including non-metal parts, weighs around 10,100 tonnes.
  • Fifty engineers and designers produced 5,300 drawings, and over 100 workers built more than 18,000 different parts of the tower in a workshop.
  • Eiffel Tower was inaugurated on March 31, 1889.
  • 2,500,000 rivets and 18,038 iron parts make up the Eiffel Tower.
  • In 1889, the cost of construction of the Eiffel Tower was around 7,799,401.31 French gold francs.
  • The four pillars of the Eiffel Tower stand in a square that measures 125 meters on each side.
  • The 1st floor of Eiffel Tower stands at a height of 57 m, while the 2nd and 3rd floor are 115 m and 276 m high, respectively.
  • One can visit the different floors of the monument via elevators.
  • Strong winds can sway Eiffel Tower slightly. During the storm of 1999, it moved approximately 13 centimeters from its initial position.
  • Eiffel Tower hosted the first French radiophonic experiments and also played a crucial role in the inception of French television.
  • Eiffel Tower is home to dozens of antennas, of all sorts, including a television mast that is 324 meters high.
  • Le Figaro sets up a printing press on the second floor of Eiffel Tower in 1889. Till date, the paper is published on site and visitors who buy it can have their name inscribed on their copy.
  • Eiffel Tower is painted every 7 years. It gets covered in 3 shades of brown, with the darkest one at the bottom.
  • The 19th painting of Eiffel Tower is scheduled to begin in autumn 2008
  • Approximately 60 tons of paint and a time period of 15 to 18 months is required to paint the Eiffel Tower.
  • On a clear day, one can see up to 42 miles away, from the top of Eiffel Tower.
  • The base of Eiffel Tower is spread over an area of 100 square meters.
  • The Eiffel Tower is open 365 days a year.
  • 4 tons of dusters & cleaning cloths, 10,000 doses of cleaning items, 400 liters of detergents and 25,000 bin bags are needed to clean Eiffel Tower.
  • Eiffel Tower has two restaurants, on the first and second platforms, named Altitude and Jules Verne.
  • Till 2003, over 200 million people had visited the Eiffel Tower, since its inception.
  • Eiffel Tower was initially intended to be dismantled and sold as scrap 20 years after its construction, but this never happened.
  • The sides of Eiffel Tower, just beneath the first platform, have been affixed with named of 72 prominent French scientists and famous personalities.
  • Wheelchair-bound people can visit the Eiffel Tower up to the second level, using the elevator.

Google's Instant Pages, Voice Search & Search by Image

Google has come up with yet another advanced feature called Instant Pages that predicts the link users wants to use and begins fetching its data – even before the user has clicked on the link. The new feature, expected to save 2 to 5 seconds on search query time, is based on Google Instant, which furnishes search results even before the user has finished typing the query or pressed the enter key. Google Instant is likely to be included in the newest test version of Google Chrome browser.

Apart from Instant Pages, Google has also unveiled two more major updates to its search engine – Google Voice Search and Google Search By Image. Voice Search allows users to search by just speaking the search keywords. The feature will be available to Chrome users initially. The feature only accepts voice in English language for now and is likely to support other languages in near future as per Google.

Google Search By Image ensures users can search an image by just dragging the sample of the image to be searched in the search engine box. After having dragged the image, the search engine searches similar images. If you are searching for the Eiffel Tower image, just drag and drop the image to the search engine box, and you will be served with the results. Google, however, has made it clear that the new image search feature will not support face recognition technology.

Google, which makes most of its revenues through search-based advertising, is enriching its Internet applications as it faces stiff competition from Bing. The Microsoft search engine is gaining popularity worldwide mainly due to its innovative Internet features. Several reports have also confirmed the growth in Bing's share in search engine space.

Power Strip Inventions

Wet and Wild 
Liquids and electrical outlets don't mix, but few power strips are built to withstand even an everyday water or coffee spill. Wet Circuits is a water-resistant strip that won't short-circuit or leak electrical current when wet. Priced at $70, it conducts electric power only when a plug is fully inserted--good news for parents with curious kids who try to jam hairpins, tweezers, or even tiny fingers into a socket.

Socket Sense

On a conventional power strip, bulky adapters often block adjacent outlets, rendering them useless. Socket Sense solves this dilemma by offering six movable sockets and a base that expands and contracts accordion-style. Priced from $20 to $35, Socket Sense comes in four models, with 1080 to 2160 Joules of surge protection and with cord lengths ranging from 3 to 12 feet.

Cord Meets Strip 
The folks at Connect Design are onto something here: an extension cord that doubles as a power strip. The Multi Lines power cord ($16 to $22) has three sockets evenly spaced along its length. Three cord lengths are available: 2 meters (6.5 feet); 3 meters (9.8 feet); and 5 meters (16.4 feet). And you can choose from three color options: white, pink, or blue.

 UFO Power
Earthlings, meet the mother ship of all power supplies. The $100 UFO Power Center is larger than most strips, and its power-saving features are designed to lower your electrical bill. Featuring four 110-volt sockets, the Power Center measures (and logs) energy usage of each socket. The free Energy UFO app for the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad communicates with the Power Center via Wi-Fi and has diagnostic tools to help you manage power consumption.
Built-In Timer 
The Coralife Power Center is designed for reptile owners who want a timer-controlled power strip to run heating, lighting, and humidifiers for their cold-blooded friends. It features a 24-hour timer and eight outlets for indoor use. Available in three versions priced from $24 to $36, Coralife has separate diurnal and nocturnal outlets that alternate power depending on the time of day.

Swivel Sockets 
Need a creative outlet? This flexible strip folds around table legs, bed posts, and other home and office obstructions. In addition, the bendable design of the Pivot Power accommodates bulky AC adapters that won't fit on a conventional power strip. With six surge-protected outlets and 6 feet of cord, the $30 Pivot Power can snake its way into hard-to-reach places.


Clever Calamari 
One common problem with power strips is the lack of space between sockets. A bulky power brick can obstruct an adjacent socket, preventing you from using every outlet at the same time. The unique design of the PowerSquid Surge3000 Calamari Edition solves this predicament: Six tentacle-like sockets extend from a base unit. Also, two of the outlets glow with a blue neon light, making it easy to find a plug under a desk, or in low-light conditions.

Wi-Fi Strip 
Here's a power strip with a built-in Wi-Fi network. The iRemoTap from Japanese embedded-systems developer Ubiquitous has four sockets that you can control wirelessly via PC or mobile device. If a device is using too much power, iRemoTap sends you a tweet, text, or email, and invites you to turn off the energy hog remotely.


Green Monster 
Home-theater buffs, this one's for you. The Monster GreenPower HDP 1400G High Definition PowerCenter comes with a remote control for shutting off power to your HDTV, DVD or Blu-ray player, receiver, and subwoofer when they are idle. The 10-outlet PowerCenter automatically disconnects from live power lines during surges and spikes, protecting itself and your expensive gear, and reconnects when power levels are safe. One drawback: This Monster is awfully pricey at $280.

Power Dude
What's more fun than an anthropomorphic power strip? Electric Man is a whimsical change from the boring brick o' sockets. With four grounded plugs masquerading as arms and legs, Electric Man provides plenty of room between sockets, so you don't have to worry about a bulky power brick blocking an adjacent plug.

Another Mothership
What is it with spaceships and power strips? The $30 ezSpace UFO has six standard grounded outlets, each with enough elbow room to accommodate a large transformer. The on/off switch is situated on the bottom of the unit to prevent you from accidentally cutting power to your devices.

Build-a-Strip 
Why buy more sockets than you need? The Multi-Tab Power Strip concept consists of detachable sockets that hook up train-style. To remove a plug, simply press (or step on) the socket's tab, and the plug pops out easily. One potential drawback: The mini-sockets seem likely to be easier to lose than a connected (albeit boring) beige brick.

A Number-Cruncher's Delight 
If you wonder how much money your gargantuan 3D plasma HDTV costs to run each month, here's one way to find out. The Power Cost Controller is an eight-socket strip and surge protector that measures energy consumption by 8- to 1800-watt appliances. The LCD shows costs by kilowatt-hour, so you can monitor the hourly, daily, or weekly expense in electricity. This $75 superstrip ships with a replaceable 1.5V battery, too.

Most Expensive Potatoes in the World

World's Most Expansive Potatoes was la Bonnote, this kind of vegetable was known as the rarest kind of potatoes all over the world's, only several luxury restaurant with the most talented chef that can made a food with la bonnote potatoes. curious about the price of la bonnote?

The price of one kilogram of La Bonnotte potatoes can reach $700, making it the most expensive potato on Earth, This variety of potato is only cultivated on Noirmoutier, an island off the coast of western France, and just 100 tons are produced every year, mainly because they have to be picked by hand. La Bonnotte’s tuber remains attached to the stem making too fragile to harvest by machine, not to mention it also needs to be fertilized with algae and seaweed to give it that distinct earthy, salty flavor. Its fragile nature simply didn’t make it profitable enough for large agricultural companies, and it was only because of teh love and care of a few French potato lovers that it didn’t go extinct.

La Bonnote was also called as the King of potatoes, La Bonnotte is planted in February and ready to be picked in the first week of May. The entire crop is usually exhausted by the first weekend of the month, because they retain all of their flavor if their picked and shipped to the restaurant the same day.

Beauty of Maths

1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321
 
1 x 9 + 2 = 11
12 x 9 + 3 = 111

123 x 9 + 4 = 1111

1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111

12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111

123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111

1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111

12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111

123456789 x 9 +10= 1111111111

 
9 x 9 + 7 = 88
98 x 9 + 6 = 888

987 x 9 + 5 = 8888

9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888

98765 x 9 + 3 = 888888

987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888

9876543 x 9 + 1 = 88888888

98765432 x 9 + 0 = 888888888

Brilliant, isn’t it?

 
And finally, take a look at this symmetry:  
1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121

111 x 111 = 12321

1111 x 1111 = 1234321

11111 x 11111 = 123454321

111111 x 111111 = 12345654321

1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321

11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321

111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321

LG IMAX Theatre, Sydney - World’s Biggest Screen

The LG IMAX Theatre Sydney uses the largest and most exciting film format in the world. It boasts crystal-clear 3D images, ten times larger than traditional cinema format. 


The LG IMAX Theatre Sydney boasts that their IMAX experience “draws you in with pictures so real you want to touch them, so powerful you can feel them”.

The IMAX Theatre Sydney experience takes an image that is already rich in clarity and definition; it projects it onto the world’s biggest screen so you can see it in three dimensions (3D), and then it wraps the viewer in digital surround sound.It is approximately eight stories high, with dimensions of 35.73 × 29.42 m (117.2 × 96.5 ft).

In Built Air conditioner in Clothes and Bed

USB Air Conditioned clothes
The shirt uses USB- fans to blow fresh air into it, powered by your USB drive. Great for any hot office or room, or even for portable action with a laptop or other device. You can have it for $ 159 if you can fit into a Japanese size.

Air conditioned Bed
After wearing your air-conditioned clothes, you can come home from a hot day and sleep on your air-conditioned bed. Using extremely quiet dual-fans at the foot of the bed, cool air is pulled in from behind your head and circulated through the soft membrane which also acts as an air-cushion to support you. Best of all, the bed uses extremely low power, costing only $0.24 per month if used eight hours a day. 

Bill Gates House and Car

Microsoft founder Bill Gates

The former big boss of Microsoft does have a nice little pad down on the shores of Lake Washington
 Bill and Melinda Gates' $150 million house. Annual taxes are over $1 million.
 Much of the house is built underground into the hill, so the house looks smaller than it actually is.
Unfortunately the hidden section underground did not escape the taxman's view; Bill paid over a million dollars last year on property taxes.
 A stream flows through the property.
The pool room is in the background.

Inside garage, you'll find a luxury car Porsche 911 Convertible and 1988 Porsche 959 Coupe.
Steven Ballmer drives a 1998 Lincoln Continental.In fact, due to the 959’s questionable emissions and unknown crash ratings, It took a federal law signed by President Clinton to legally drive his 959 on American roads.
 Review: Four car garage, House for the maintenance staff has its own 3-car garage. Nanny parks in the 6-car carport across from the main entry. An additional 10-cars can be parked in a subterranean arched concrete building which through an electronic transformation becomes a classic basketball court.


House View from the Lake
 The 1997 total assessed value of the house was $53,392,200 with the land value being $9,122,200
 His living room

Water Jet Dental Cleaner

The water jet dental cleaner earned the highest rating from the Hammacher Schlemmer Institute because it thoroughly cleaned between teeth and along gumlines and was the most comfortable. The Best Water Jet Dental Cleaner is clinically proven to remove 99.9% of plaque in three seconds, thanks to 5-90 psi water pressure and 1,200 pulses per minute that reach between teeth and below the gumline–areas neglected by traditional brushing and flossing. Panelists lauded The Best model for being comfortable to hold and gentle on the gums, thanks to a slim, ergonomic handle and 10 water pressure settings. Unlike lesser models that were difficult to use, panelists agreed that The Best model was the easiest to fill with water and its attachments removed and inserted with minimal effort.

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