A Solar Handbag That Charges Devices

DIFFUS, the Danish design studio has launched a solar purse that enables people to charge electronic devices while on the go.

The chic Solar Handbag features 100 small silicon solar cells that are seamlessly woven into its conductive embroidery. The solar cells on the bag’s surface collect sunlight & generate 2 watts of energy that’s stored on a lithium-ion battery.

The solar power is used not just to charge electronic  devices, but also to activate optical fibers located inside of this hand bag.

The optical fibers come on automatically when you open the bag, rendering it easy to search things inside the handbag.

The luxury solar handbag is to retail soon.

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Itching Is Visually Transmittable

You can catch an itch simply by seeing someone else scratch themselves, U.S. scientists have confirmed.

Just as yawning is contagious, itching, too, can be caught visually, in what is called itch transmission.

Researchers have found that just seeing a video clip of someone else scratch themselves was enough to provoke the itching sensation in volunteers.

Even when the test subjects were given a histamine solution designed to provoke itching on an area of their skin, they tended to scratch all over their body.

Dermatologists at the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, North Carolina, think itching becomes contagious as the brain tends to become hypersensitive when someone close by scratches & therefore misinterprets any sort of physical sensation on the skin as an itch.

On the basis of earlier studies done on primates, scientists are of the opinion that contagious itching is an inborn biological alarm, which helps in detecting infection in people.

It’s hoped this initial study will be supported by MRI scans in order to study the brain activity in people while itching is induced. The aim is to provide relief to people with severe skin ailments.

By understanding this itch & scratch response, researchers hope to eventually develop medications or techniques that would target specific brain areas to reduce the intensity of itching.

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Madame Tussauds – The Indian Connection

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Now A Blood Test That Predicts How Long You’ll Live!

Soon, you just need to pay £435 to find out how long you’ll live. A blood test has been developed recently by scientists that can show people their speed of ageing and help predict their longevity.

This new controversial “death test”, developed by Life Length, a Spanish firm, will soon go on sale to the British public by the end of the year.

The test findings may be very important to life-insurance firms offering health cover that depends on an individual’s lifetime risk of dying prematurely or falling seriously ill.

The blood test has been devised to accurately measure the length of an individual’s telomeres, which is believed to be an indicator of longevity.

Telomeres are DNA sections that cap the tips of chromosomes, shielding them from damage & the loss of cell functions that comes with ageing. Experts believe that these vital structures are important indicators of the ageing process.

Scientists say that the blood test will be capable of accurately determining whether an individual’s “biological age”, as indicated by their telomeres’ length, is younger or older than their real chronological age.

Shorter telomeres indicate faster ageing. People with shorter telomeres tend to have a shorter lifespan. However, whether longer telomeres give people a longer lifespan is not known.

Scientists are optimistic that the blood test will prove to be an amazing breakthrough in satisfying people’s curiosity regarding their mortality, and help them plan their life accordingly.

However, scientists don’t yet think that the blood test predictions can exactly help calculate the number of months & years an individual has yet to live.