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Daily Crunch: Gift Bag Edition

Dintz — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:00:45 +0000

The Goodbyn Lunch Box: You Know, For Kids
I Love This Tool Box
Save Packaging By Getting Your Amazon Deliveries Via Reusable Tote
DIY: A Custom Android Gaming Mount Using Spare Wii Parts
The Ewee-PT, A Budget German Segway

Sensing Air Purifier

Dintz — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:46:10 +0000

The Sharper Image has started selling the Sensing Room Air Purifier. The home air purifier comes equipped with the pollution indicator light that changes its color as the air gets cleaner. It shines red for high pollution, dark purple for medium pollution, light purple for low pollution, and bright blue when your air is clean. With its exclusive easy-to-clean 3 stage Hepa filter system, the Sensing Air Purifier traps 99.5% of airborne particles, removing them from your air. You can purchase the Sensing Air Purifier for $279.99. [The Sharper Image]

German Segway knockoff actually looks like a winner

Dintz — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:48:06 +0000

We've given the Segway a pretty rough time over the years here at Dvice, mostly because it's kind of big and clunky. A sleek slimmed down version is what we really needed, and now a German company called Nolodesign has created one.

Holograms you can touch: innovation or gimmick?

Dintz — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:27:05 +0000

A team at Tokyo University has figured out how to make holograms "touchable." When you think of holograms, you probably picture your hand sliding right through them, being a projection of light and all. Here, you won't feel anything, but you certainly can interact.

Which Social Gaming companies are Hiring

Dintz — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0000

“Animal connection” helps separate humans from other species

Dintz — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:10:00 +0000

For centuries, people have tried to pinpoint what makes humans unique. The most current scientific theory suggests that three main qualities separate Homo sapiens from other animals: the construction and use of complex tools, the use of symbolic behavior including language, art, and ritual, and the domestication of other plants and animals. However, in a new paper in Current Anthropology, Dr. Pat Shipman suggests a fourth trait unique to humans.

Shipman cites humans’ long history of learning about and understanding animals as a unique trait, calling this tendency “the animal connection.” She claims that this relationship is the common unifying factor that underlies each of the other three previously recognized human traits, and has played a major role in human evolution over the last 2.6 million years.

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Scientists post lower speed limit for cell-signaling protein assembly

Dintz — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:14 +0000

The apparently random self-assembly of molecular threads into the proteins that make the body work is far less frantic than previously thought, Michigan State University scientists say. That discovery could be a key to help unlock the nature of some diseases.

Unexpected viral ‘fossils’ found in vertebrate genomes

Dintz — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:04 +0000

Over millions of years, retroviruses, which insert their genetic material into the host genome as part of their replication, have left behind bits of their genetic material in vertebrate genomes. In a recent study, published July 29 in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens, a team of researchers have now found that human and other vertebrate genomes also contain many ancient sequences from Ebola/Marburgviruses and Bornaviruses - two deadly virus families.

Resting brain activity associated with spontaneous fibromyalgia pain

Dintz — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:03 +0000

A recent study from researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and University of Michigan provides the first direct evidence of linkage between elevated intrinsic (resting-state) brain connectivity and spontaneous pain intensity in patients with fibromyalgia (FM). This research shows an interaction of multiple brain networks, offering greater understanding of how pain arises. Details of the study appear online and in the August issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism.

Just drop it: The one-size-fits-all approach to blood sugar control, that is

Dintz — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:02 +0000

Aggressive blood sugar control does not improve survival in diabetic patients with kidney failure, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The results suggest that physicians should individualize blood sugar targets for these patients and not rely on recommendations based on studies in the general population.