The complete history of Sony’s Playstation console in just a minute!
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The complete history of Sony’s Playstation console in just a minute!
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With more wearable devices entering the market, the way we read online content could change significantly. Instead of taking out a smartphone, readers of the near-future will more often read from devices like Google Glass or the Galaxy Gear.
A new service makes it easier for content from RSS feeds and websites to transition to wearable technologyWearably helps publishers display their content on wearable devices such as smartwatches or Google Glass
See also: Google Glass Gets an Accessory Store
Atlantic Media, National Geographic and NPR already use the service, created by a three-person team called Silica Labs. The company's biggest selling point is its ability to help companies keep up with the rapidly changing digital content arena while saving money. Silica Labs co-founder Marvin Ammori told Mashable that customers come to the company because they know it will avoid "costs that are more unpredictable." Read more...
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The deadliest animals in the world, female mosquitoes, target their prey—us—because they are attracted to the carbon dioxide that we exhale. But just finding breathing human beings isn't really enough to guarantee the one big sip of blood the mosquito needs to get the nutrients necessary for laying eggs. Most mosquitoes can't bite through heavy clothing, so they need to head for exposed skin like ankles and ears. Finding that perfect spot to suck our blood depends on more than just carbon dioxide. In fact, experiments have shown that if you turn off the mosquito's ability to sense carbon dioxide, they can still detect and target human odors.
A team of scientists from the University of California Riverside studied mosquito sensory perception and wanted to figure out how the mosquitoes sense our skin: which of our many body odor compounds do they recognize and what organs sense those compounds? They found that the same olfactory neurons on the mosquito's maxillary palp—the little sensory appendages around the mouth—that sense carbon dioxide also play a major role in identifying human body odors.
To test this, they needed some human body odors. They collected a bit of distinctive fragrance by having a couple of subjects rub their feet on some glass beads. They then watched as the test mosquito, Aedes aegypti, homed in on the beads even when placed in a small wind tunnel.
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