What I am going to share further is an unbeatable example of how to promote a brand like a petty ice cream. Marring the earlier experiments of gluing prizes on the stick, Unilever’s Brazilian ice-cream company Kibon has gone a step further by inking a deal with Apple to embed their iPod shuffles within the Popsicle. Is it possible? Yah, it has been made possible and thanks to the great mind Mentor Muniz Neto-creative director for Bullet Brazil. The company has produced 10,000 such Popsicles.

Their earlier plan of putting the shuffle within pack didn’t materialized as even a blind can tell the presence of iPod with the packet by feeling it. So, What Next? One thing was sure that the form and structure of the Popsicle need not be deformed but question was how it is possible. But like said nothing is impossible, the idea clicked to insert shuffles inside a real Popsicle and to their much-surprise it also got failed as the humidity would have cracked the shuffle within no time.

Another trial! A fake ice cream that is a prototype of a real ice cream and it worked as there were no actual humidity issues involved and also one can feel the real ice cream. Virtually, it is next to impossible to identify it being a fake one. This entire exercise was followed by another check-up on Infinite Loop’s end to test if the electronic circuitry is shielded against temperatures between -4 and -22 degrees Fahrenheit (-20 and -30 degrees Celsius), the standard temperature range of a typical freezer. And it got a green signal from Apple to carry on with their productions. To do justice to the customers’ penny, they fake ice cream was also complemented with a real one.

So, finally Kivon’s “iPod no palito” summer promotion is expected on 18 December.

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If your hunt for finding soul-mate is still on then follow the scientific path influenced by romance. A Florida-based company claims that body aroma can be seen as important factor for sexual attraction. Considering this it has discovered the first-ever scientific way of finding true love. This dating service claiming to be the first of its kind makes use of DNA to identify your Mr /Ms Perfect was lately launched in Boston.

ScientificMatch also assures that the expertise would make use of DNA to find a date with “a natural odor you’ll love and with whom you’d have healthier kids and a pleasing sex life.” While examining DNA, the company discloses that it eyes the genes of the immune system and on the basis of it recognizes the well-matched buddy amongst the mob of various immune systems. But folks, availing this service demands a $1,995 and offers the DNA matching and a background check on prospective dates. I think you would love to taste the aftermaths of this service before spending outrageously on the wedding venue.

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Frank pringle did some R & D over squeezing oil and gas from just waste or anything and the results are worth applauding. His recycling machine seemingly a green hawk knows how to pull petroleum and gas from a mere piece of tire, rock or even a plastic stuff. Anything made up of hydrocarbons can be the source of oil and gas for this microwave emitter. It aims at compressing the petroleum and gas veiled deep inside every object that we use in day-to-day schedule. Within one-hour, the first viable version will churn 10 tones of auto waste-tires, vinyl, plastic-into sufficient natural gas that can fabricate 17 million BTUs of energy. It demands around 956,000 of BTUs for its functioning. The first order of the machine is under process in Rockford, Illinois. This $5.1-million microwave machine is not less than the size of small bus called the Hawk used for an auto-recycler based in Long Island, New York.

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I never anticipated the debatable issue of global warming to reach to any conclusion. But use to confide in alternatives and reckon this is the best way out. Albeit the mention of August assures it is seemingly summers and ought to be hot but the splotches of snow, mountain landscape and clichéd snow apparatus used to confirm its winter by cladding in the guise of ill-effects of global-warming.

With glaciers liquefaction and snow attenuation, Alps-based ski resorts tend to stay in front of global warming by converting their resorts with massive spas, sleek construction and other off-slope magnetism. Renowned architects such as Zaha Hadid are engrossed designing high-altitude ski features. Shopping centers are reaching peaks of the mountain. And esteemed hotels likewise the Tschuggen Grand is forming itself into a new avatar offering all-weather resorts by adding a $30 million spa spread over 43,000-square-foot conceptualized by the Swiss architect Mario Botta.

Switzerland is been seen as the benchmark for emerging tourist destinations and the credit goes to its architectural non-ski appeal. There is a lot of praise spreading all over for eco-friendly architect Matteo Thun who designed the spaceship-like InterContinental Resort, which is an elliptical-shaped compound with built-in 186 luxury hotel accommodation, residential apartments, shops, conference rooms and a cosmic spa. Identified as “a new planet,” it would hit the board by 2010.

Not to forget the nascent spas in the vicinity of Austrian Alps. Featured above is an Aqua Dome, a 140-room contemporary spa lodge near the glacier ski resort of Sölden in western Austria. It’s impossible to ignore the three massive tangible bowls that look like al fresco birdbaths. Whilst one is a supersize whirlpool tub, second has a string of massage jumbos, and the third is flowed with saltwater with a submarine music. This dome-topped spa has two more pools and a waterfall. If you wish to dip into the designer pool of the Aqua Dome positioned in Längenfeld (Oberlängenfeld 140, Längenfeld) then you can enjoy that on a drop of 135 euros per person per night.

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Picture this: You are standing surrounded by all haute babes in the leftovers of one of the US’s biggest scandals with a glass filled with overpriced liquor. Yah, it is possible as the featured above is a cargo plane called El Avion, now a restaurant cum bar built around a 1954 Model, Fairchild C-123. This is a clear indication of the available future prospects for ant cargo plane that is shot down. Good enough! Fairchild C-123 is been associated with one of the biggest scandals in the mid 1980’s when Reagan administration’s strange network for arms was sold to Iran. It met its end as a cargo plane on 5 October, 1986 on its way to deliver supplies to the Nicaraguan Contras.

Now in its new avatar, El Avion serves lavish food and drinks. Now you can think of wrapping your bag with $$$$$ and things of spending days under the wings of this 1954 Model. One of the attracting features besides its menu and unique accessibility is its scenic ambience wherein seacoast blends with mild reddishness during the evening sunset. This is an inspiration for to-be-retired planes.

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Call it weird, extraordinary, crazy but it is productive and now inviting! It is some one’s hobby to churn bicycles into systematic outdoor sound systems that is offering a new range of automobile to the people allowing them to enjoy music while strolling on bicycle. It has happened! A biker gang of teenagers is seen strolling on the streets of Richmond Hill, Queens along 103rd Avenue just west of the Van Wyck Expressway. Don’t mistake by identifying their vehicle as bikes but ordinary bicycles that roar and burn the road without engines. Well, these machines look and sound more like undulating D.J. booths. They are equipped with sophisticated stereo systems established by the youths.

The one with 5,000 watts is retailed at $4,000 and features superior speakers, two 15-inch bass woofers and four midrange amplifiers. The bicycle plays music from his iPod and is motorized by car batteries outfitted on a brawny motocross bike. There also exist varieties of bikes that are equipped with DVD screens offering clear screening while riding.

What is helping them gain momentum in that region is the very ignorance of people. For them having amplifiers in four-wheeled vehicle is enough. The great minds engaged in this activity include Ragbir, his brother Elvis Ragbir and their friends who invest hours here building and upholding their arrangement of bike-stereos in a garage on 103rd Avenue near 130th Street. These folks invest equal good hours in installing car stereos to generate money to sustain their hobby. It is their skills and interest that has made them to headlines.

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Representatives based in northern Sweden have given the green signal for the construction of the world’s largest elk (moose) as the animal is known in North America. Hovering on pinnacle of a peak, the 45-metre (148-foot) elk has much-more to offer. It features a restaurant and concert hall that can accommodate around 350 guests. Roughly 500 meters above sea level, visitors can enjoy the impressive glimpse over the gorges from its antlers.

With its obverse legs towards Norrbotten and hind quarters in Västerbotten, Stoorn will be located to nibble on a colossal pine tree. With a built-in lift, you can be transported through the tree to and from the creature’s mouth. The greeting area would be positioned amidst the teeth and the tonsils.

Now what is in the belly of the beast? Food for your belly! It offers space to a conference centre that resembles a concert hall and can offer space to 350 people. For commuting, visitors can make use of spiral steps constructed inside the elk’s legs. The cost of construction for the building is expected to be $6.5 million and the entire funding would be done through private investment. No word about its final installment but I wish this concept soon turns into a tangible product.

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Wang Zedong, 41, a China-based barber has set a world record by chopping customer’s hair with 10 pairs of scissors concurrently. The barber from Jiujiang city, Jiangxi province took the opportunity to flaunt the skills in a TV studio amongst a huge audience including Guinness officials. Wang was a bit conscious to perform before number of customers; therefore he rehearsed this stunt on the customers visiting his shop demanding a beautiful hair cut.

What could be the reason or let me put it this way what made Wang use 10 scissors at the same time? Whooping number of customers, who rushed his shop forcing him to be more efficient or rather over-efficient to deal with all of them within time. Well, you must be thinking that Wang would have deputed more staff but instead he preferred training himself with more than one pair of scissors. Another shock! He claims that he can even cut hair with as many as 18 pairs of scissors concurrently with closed eyes.

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Now surgeons are too tired-up with the use of 64-slice X-Ray scanner. They demand an updated tool, a revised version that delivers transparency in their proceedings’. Considering this Philips has lately exposed their 256-slice scanner that delivers 3-D images of the body’s shell, blood vessels, organs and every miniscule detail. This $2-million Brilliance CT machine was exposed to public in Chicago, at the Radiological Society of North America’s annual meeting. Within a minute, patient can view his body being scanned and with 80% less exposure of radiations to traditional X-ray machine.

Featured above is the image produced via technological advancement highlighting the core of the human body with unbeatable clarity. Its targets could be the skull, bones, blood vessels, and entire digestive system. The very process of capturing images from this device is known as Tomography. The rotational and translucent nature of the images allows you to take a 360 degree view of the body parts, enabling a complete and successful diagnosis. Presently, only the Metro Health medical centre based in Cleveland, Ohio is the proud owner of this unique scanner.

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Even in your wildest imagination can you think of tasting a dessert prepared in a scientific laboratory amidst chemicals? At least I can’t! But now I will as the dessert ‘tea on toast’ has earned a label of Britain’s top dessert in Restaurant magazine. The dish by Chef Sean Wilkinson is successful in inviting foodie people. His recipe for the dessert went through freezing a cup of Earl Grey with liquid nitrogen and dropping it on the crispy toast.

It was least anticipated the creation that started as a lab experiment would rule the minds of the people. Sean (35) is a head chef at Durham’s gourmet restaurant The Avenue, the place where the dish is being served currently. This creation is a plain twist on the face of an ordinary plain national favorite and to your much surprise, a balloon is used as a base that was overblown via nitrogen gas, crammed with earl grey tea and then frozen solid with liquid nitrogen. Chef also conveyed that a frozen tea is plated with brown toast, jelly puree, raspberry preserves and shortcake.

This one-of-its-kind dish has helped Sean won the first award of his life. Patience and Practice Pays, Right Sean!

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