No matter what age is every single boy or adult man wants to play with or at least have an R/C toy. Some buy R/C toy cars and others miniature helicopters or planes. Thanks to two inventors, Michael Connally and Ernest Butler anyone who is really mad about can now enjoy HydroFoam which has been available on the market as Storm Launcher for a couple of years now.

This amazing all-terrain vehicle – water, ground and air - was designed by Connally and Butler in 2004 and soon they sold the patent to a private company which started to produce and sell this amphibious R/C. Originally called “hydrofoam” by its two inventors this unique vehicle is promoted and marketed as Storm Launcher by Air Hogs. The pack that includes the vehicle and the remote has been available in US market such as – Walmart,or E-Toys – since October 2006. Read the rest of this entry »

iPhone arrived on June 29, 2007 and even in the first few hours after its official releasing it became a success with the consumers and the professionals. iPhone is more than just a mobile phone – it is also a music player, a video player, an internet device and a camera all in one. Apple developed during the last few years a series of high tech devices such as Apple iPod Nano and iPod Video that integrate the latest technologies available in the field of electronics and telecommunications. The dimensions of the iPhone would make green with envy any model: 11.6mm thick, 2.4-inches wide and 4.5-inches tall. The screen is a generous 3.5-inch, 320×480 pixels at 160 ppi touchscreen display with multitouch support and a proximity sensor to turn off the screen when it is close to your face. The iPhone has an unbelievably storage capacity of 4GB or 8GB, internal flash memory.

As far as the battery is concerned Apple quotes 5 hours of battery life for video and talk with 16 hours in music mode. No data about the standby time is available yet. Read the rest of this entry »

Talent is not the only thing that makes her as a ‘wonder child’. Cleopatra Stratan is THE precocious child that drew the attention of Guinness Book, she is the child who, at the age of 3, is the star of a clip and at the same time she is the only singer who got three important awards from the world famous TV channel MTV at the age of 3.

Young Cleopatra is the daughter of a Romanian singer, Pavel Stratan, who said that he had originally wrote the songs now sang by his child for himself. It seems that Cleopatra follows her father in his career and she is even one step ahead of her parent. In December 2006 she has already sold 150,000 units of her first album “At the Age of 3” (released on the 1^st of August 2006) which includes hits such as “Mama” (Mother) and “Ghita”. Read the rest of this entry »

The Story

On the 18^th of May DreamWorks SKG is about to release the third film of the very successful Shrek series – Shrek the Third. The new movie is based on the same ideas of friendship and love in a fictional animated setting only that this time Shrek and his adeventurous mates are looking for a new king for Far Far Away and a baby is on its way.

In the second movie (2004) of the series Shrek the Ogre finds his love, the charming princess Fiona who transforms at night into an ogress and who is, at first at least, very reluctant to reveal her own real identity. When he married Fiona his last intention and priority was to rule the land of his father-in-law. On the sudden death of king Harold Shrek quickly becomes fitted suitable for the throne. The unexpected and unwanted royal duties put a great pressure on the green smelly ogre who has no other solution than to look for a fitted king lest he should become - willy nilly - the ruler of Far Far Away. Read the rest of this entry »

A few decades ago people discovered and brought to their homes the magic box – the TV set to be more specific. In the 1980’s the PC became very popular with the public and television slowly lost its top position. Now it’s high time these two competitors on an ever increasing market called a truce and joined to exploit the huge potential of both computer and visual entertainment industry.

Bill Gates - is there anyone who has not heard about the giant of the giants in the computer industry? of course not, just asking – foresaw the future of both TV and Internet. Speaking to the businessmen present in Davos, Switzerland, Gates said that the Internet is set to revolutionize television within five years, due to an explosion of online video content and the merging of PC’s and TV sets. Talking to the business leaders and politicians he said “I’m stunned how people aren’t seeing that with TV, in five years from now, people will laugh at what we’ve had”. As so many times before Bill Gates’ words are worth listening to. Read the rest of this entry »

The world’s longest TV can be found in Hong Kong Jockey Club. The Diamond Vision display was built by the Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and measures 70.4 meters or 231 feet long and 8 meters or 26 feet high.The world’s longest TV is about as long as a 747.

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Everyone of us wants to have a house of his or her own. I guess it does not have to be the fairy tale castle, it has just to be a house that meets the demands of a modern family. On the other side there are companies that are interested in building a facility that can either accommodate offices or a production line.

So we have got a plan and some needs to be fulfiled, we have got the land and the money or we have just bought an old building that has to be refurbished. The best solution available at the moment to go to a company specialized in the art of creating images showing the characteristics of a proposed architectural design that means specialized in architectural rendering. Traditional hand-drawn architectural rendering has been extensively used until recently but the ever increasing commercial demand forced the pros to use computer rendering. 3D interior and exterior renderings play major role in real estate sales. This also facilitates making decisions about the final design well before the house is actually refurbished or built. This technique helps developers or individuals experimenting with old or new construction design thus leading to a unique result that can add value to a property. One of the best web sites that provides such services to those interested in rendering the outside of a house or a building is http://www.computer-rendering.com/ Read the rest of this entry »

Anyone who is interested in finding any information on the internet about Lancaster Castle will definitely come across this sentence: “Reception Criteria: Normal reception arrangements: The prison is not presently accepting Life Sentence prisoners and has some restrictions on long term prisoners.” So if you are looking for a nice cosy atmosphere in a romantic medieval castle you’d better search again unless you want to enter the castle for a long term high quality … imprisonment.

The present day correctional facility was opened in 1955 but in fact the Castle is the oldest and longest serving prison in Europe. It has been a prison since at least 1196 when Richard I commisioned the first Keepers of the Peace.

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Simple and good ideas, good promotion and a little bit of luck are the ingredients that always pay off when it comes to making money on the internet. A Romanian student steered the interest of the Yahoo! staff after conceiving a series of emoticons for the worldwide famous Yahoo! Messenger service called “emoticoncert”.

What are emoticons?

Emoticons were invented in 1982, to be precise on the 19th of September, by Scott Fahlman. In the late 1990’s Yahoo! Started using emoticons for the Yahoo! Messenger service. Emoticons evolved and gradually replaced words that could not fully express one’s feelings or mood with smiley or sad faces. Their purpose is to avoid misunderstandings due to the lack of contextual information and lately it has been developed whole soft industry that produces emoticons. The word “emoticon” is a blend of “emotion” and “icon”. Read the rest of this entry »

This year both the Orthodox and the Catholic Church celebrate Easter on the same day, the 8^th of April. Easter is the most important Christian celebration and it commemorates the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. This fundamental idea – the sacrifice and the Resurrection of our Lord – is at the center of the Christian faith. “He is not here: for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.” (Matthew, chapter 28, 6). “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” (Matthew, chapter 28, 19). Read the rest of this entry »

What is a niche market?

It is a portion of a market sector, a part of an industry that offers specific types of products or services to the small number of customers who want them. Business focused on a niche market is addressing a need for products or services that are not normally addressed by other marketers. The secret of successfully providing with the expected products the niche customers is to find and persuade them to purchase your products.

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Various definitions of the word ‘witchcraft’ start from the same idea and reach different conclusions. Witchcraft is commonly defined as the practice of magic and it consists mainly in the use of supernatural forces. The problem is what kind or forces – good or evil? This fundamental opposition – good versus evil, yin and yang, alpha and omega – can be found in many cultures and civilizations.

In the Middle Ages people, mostly illiterate and ignorant, accepted the doctrine according to which all witchcraft or supposed witchcraft practices were inspired exclusively by the devil. And thus under the influence of the religious leaders thousands of people got killed for the “guilt” of practicing magic for evil purposes. Read the rest of this entry »

Considering the danger represented by the climate changes and the global warming phenomena scientists and businessmen worldwide started to look for alternative energy sources. Besides the wind power or the nuclear energy is has been recently taken into consideration a new power generating substance: helium 3.

What exactly is helium 3? Helium 3, an isotope of helium, a gas used to inflate balloons, has a nucleus with two protons and one neutron. The solar wind, the rapid stream of charged particles emitted by the Sun, strikes the planets and their sattelites in the solar system and thus helium 3 is deposited in the superficial soil (also called regolith). As the Moon’s atmosphere is not very dense this flow of particles easily penetrates the gas layer and reaches the ground. Over millions and billions of years that adds up. But for its denser protective gases layers the Earth would have been under the direct action of the Sun too thus being contaminated by toxic products. Read the rest of this entry »

Born in the UK 57 years ago and migrated to Australia in 1977, Tim Patch does more with his penis than any other man in the world.

The worldwide appreciated artist uses as brush his own penis to paint almost all kind of subjects from landscapes to portraits and from female nudes to caricatures. His approach to painting techniques consists in dipping his penis in the paint and then applying it to a canvas. Although a modest man – former construction worker in Brisbane – Tim Patch likes to be called ‘Pricasso’. Like the famous Picasso he might be considered one of the greatest artists in the world only that he is the greatest ‘penile artist’ ever.

His works are sold at fairly high prices starting from $200 (Australian $300) and he claims that his clients leave the exhibitions and the art galleries satisfied with … their acquisition, of course. Tim, aka Pricasso, is, in his everyday life a married man, father of four. He told AFP that he still does a bit of construction work just to compensate and subsidize his ‘meager income as a struggling artist’. Read the rest of this entry »

The last 100 years brought into the lime light of the contemporary literature and show industry an old element of the traditional European folklore and legends: the vampires. Thought to be un-dead damned persons, cursed creatures of the night, blood thirsty killers passing to innocent people their terrible burden, the vampires haunt the imagination of the public who is eager to be frightened by horrific images. Bram Stoker, an Irish novelist, is among the first notable western authors to have used the myth of vampires in a successful literary work. His famous novel Dracula, published in 1897 by Archibald Constable and Company, was at the time of its publication a moderate success. After 1922 when it was released a film adaptation, the popularity of Dracula and the vampires increased considerably. Nosferatu, directed by the German director F. W. Murnau brought into the show biz the image of the un-dead man who haunted the imagination of people seeing one of the first horror movie ever made.

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