Mother-of-two Laura Binder seemed destined to succumb to cancer as the cancer spread from her breast to her liver and that there was nothing the doctors could do. Her situation seemed hopeless. But one person steadfastly refused to give up: Mrs Binder’s nine-year-old daughter Linzi. Linzi wrote her mother a letter every day for the next seven months urging her ...
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Go To Google And Do A Barrel Roll
Are you bored? Try this. Go to Google and type in the words “Do a barrel roll” and watch what happen. Alternatively you could type “z or r twice”. The fun query, ‘do a barrel roll,’ was created by a Google software engineer with the primary goal of entertaining users — while showcasing the power of CSS3, a presentation feature ...
Read More »Japanese Defender Ryujiro Ueda Scores World Record 63-yard Header
Remember Norwegian midfielder Jone Samuelsen? During a Norwegian Tippeligaen match between Odd Grenland and Tromso on September 25 this year, Jone headed the ball from about 62 yards into an open goal. That goal was hailed as one of the most amazing headed goals ever seen in world football. But this past weekend, Fagiano Okayama defender Ryujiro Ueda scored an ...
Read More »Swallowable Perfume: A Perfume Pill That Makes Your Sweat Smell Sweet
Sweat has never been known for its nice smell, but that’s all going to change when “Swallowable Parfum” becomes a reality. We will no longer need perfume or deodorant in order to prepare for a date; a pill with all the right ingredients will help make us smell attractive and confident instead . Netherlands-based Australian artist Lucy McCrae teamed up ...
Read More »Sushil Kumar Becomes Real-Life Slumdog Millionaire
Sushil Kumar is a real-life Slumdog Millionaire after becoming the first person ever to win $1 million on an Indian game show. The poor government clerk from a desolate region of eastern India won on the popular Indian version of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire”, transforming him into a role model for millions of aspiring youth yearning to escape ...
Read More »Push Push Video ‘Star’ Txawjvam Hawj Aka Calvin Her
A video of a shirtless 18-year-old Txawjvam Hawj energetically mimicking K-Pop girl group Sistar’s dance moves in their 2010 smash hit “Push Push” has gone viral. In the three-minute video that shot in his bedroom, the teen faithfully copies the exact hand, body and even facial expressions of the four-member girl group in their dance video.
Read More »Carlsberg Stunts With Bikers In Cinema – That Calls For A Carlsberg
At the beginning of this year, Carlsberg launched a new global positioning and strapline ‘That Calls for a Carlsberg’. With this global positioning Carlsberg aims to add essence to the brand and tell the Carlsberg story, so every market understands that Carlsberg beer stands for tradition, quality, great taste and making the right choices. To reinforce the new baseline ‘That ...
Read More »Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera
Researchers at the Technical University of Berlin (Technische Universität) have come up with an ingenious Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera, a multi-sensor camera about the size of a cantaloupe that snaps a single, instant 360-degree panorama.
Read More »To A Baby, A Magazine Is An iPad That Does Not Work
A video of a techno-baby playing with an iPad and magazines has gone viral. The YouTube video, from a software engineer in Paris, shows his 1-year-old daughter tapping away at a touchscreen iPad with relative ease. But when given magazines, the cutie baby seems all lost. The idea of turning pages and looking at pictures seems foreign to her. She ...
Read More »Dog Playing Keyboard Video Goes Viral
“Chocoholic”, a black pug from Japan, looks set to be the next internet sensation, with over 70,000 YouTube users viewing the video of him playing the keyboard since the video was uploaded to YouTube on October 9. The pooch, dressed in a sparkly bow tie and a red top, uses his paws to create a ‘melody ‘ on a child’s ...
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