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They say eye is the most valuable organ in our body. The man who has lost the sight of his/her eye can only can feel how he/she is missing in the world. There are many treatments in medical science for the people who have lost their eyesight. Recently, some researchers from the Polenov Russian Neurosurgical Institute, Russia, and Institute of Medical Psychology, Germany, developed a new procedure for the treatment of blindness.

The new research and research result shows that non-invasive current stimulation has the ability to induce ‘neuroplastic’ changes in the brain and also improve the visual system structures. This is the main basis of the research.

The researchers treated 446 patients, who were blind because of nerve problem, with non-invasive repetitive transorbital alternating current stimulation (rtACS) for 10 days, which reduced the nerve lesions of the patients. Applying rtACS the visual field (VF) size was improved about 7.1 percent and 9.3 percent in the right and left eye, respectively, according to the result. The research report was published in the journal Brain Stimulation.

The lead researcher of the research Dr. Bernhard Sabel said, “We have shown for the first time that partial blindness can be reduced by a short-lasting therapeutic procedure using non-invasive electrical current stimulation.”

According to the result of the research, the rtACS improves the visual acuity and visual field size effectively. Because of some clinical and psychological requirements, the researchers are still working to get the clear result of the treatment.

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The Guinness World Records is the storehouse of world records within a book, as it is called The Guinness Book of World Records that published yearly. There are many types of records in the Guinness book. A young woman, named Chanel Tapper, 21, has become the part of this prestigious records book because of her tongue. Yes, she is the owner of the longest tongue in the world.

The cute young lady, lives in California, US, is a student. The committee of the Guinness invited her in September 2012 to Los Angeles and measured her tongue that is 3.8 inches (9.75 cm) from tip to top lip. She broken the previous records and also beaten two other women who were the competitors for the record this year.

She became famous after a video clip posted in YouTube, showing her huge tongue, when she was only thirteen years old. She says that she does not mind about the reaction from the public and she always gets an encouraging response from them when she shows her tongue.

“I have always been silly and goofy. I love sticking my tongue out at people. I started doing that back in school. I’ve never had a problem with having a long tongue, it’s just fun,” she said.

Her tongue is as long as an iPhone. She can touch her nose and elbow which are really impossible for an ordinary person. She also admits that she can eat an entire cup of yogurt without using a spoon.

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The magician is a great wonder than a magic developed by him. Professional magician Simon Pierro is the wonder who has represented Apple iPad magically. He has created a special Halloween edition of his magical representation, blending his special brand of prestidigitation with wisely constructed digital wizardry.

After a hard working along with his helping hands, he has been able to surprise audiences with his new media magic tricks. Pierro said, “It was a hell of a lot of work” and he spent 10 weeks putting together this Halloween iPad acts. He also added, “Luckily my iOS programmer Masashi Beheim again joined the project. It took him more than 100 hours of programming this time, being as fanatical about details as I am”.

“I came up with the idea to tell a story about a killer and together with my magic colleague Thomas Fraps we decided to take the clown as the usual suspect,” Pierro said.

However, the background is not a short story of this wonderful magical representation, so obviously thanks to Simon Pierro to dazzle our eyes with a new magical device.

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Copper cable, optical fibers, free spaces are mainly used as the communication path in the present world’s networking and information society. The conventional semiconductor lasers, used for the ever faster optical data transmission, have a maximum speed of 50 GHz. However, increasingly networking and the necessity of transmitting large amounts of data are the main obstacles of the speed over the transmitting path. Researchers all over the world are trying and researching to speed up the data transmission more and more. Recently, the researchers, of the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) in Germany, have developed a new concept of ultrafast semiconductor lasers, called ‘spin laser’, which could inaugurate a new era to the high-speed data transmission for the Internet of tomorrow.

The Scientists of the RUB make intelligent use of natural angular momentum of electrons, called spin, to break the previous obstacles efficaciously. New spin-laser modulation frequencies can reach well above 100 GHz in the future. This is a crucial step for the high-speed data transmission in the future global networking.

In the spin lasers, the spin of the electrons are determined from the previous spin state, whereas, in the conventional technology, the spin of the electrons was randomly determined. The use of the electrons in the new model, forces the laser to work simultaneously on two laser modes with different frequencies. “This frequency difference can easily be tuned using the so-called birefringence in the resonator, for example by simply bending the microlaser” said Dr. Nils Gerhardt. Using these two modes in the micro-resonator can speed up the transmission rate upto 100 GHz, according to the news release of the RUB.

The researchers tested the new model and obtained their results in the collaborative research center 491 of the Universities of Bochum and Duisburg-Essen. The report of their research was published in the journal ‘Applied Physics Letters’ of the American Institute of Physics.

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The Midori Green Halloween costume party was celebrated yesterday night at LAVO in New York with a star stunned celebration. The main attraction of the celebration is that all stars dressed up like we have never seen them before. The 31-year-old sexy reality star, Kim Kardashian, dressed up herself with an all-green dress and she was looked like the poisonous Batman Villain ‘Poison Ivy’.

There is no doubt that Karadashian usually chooses sexy dresses and she also likes Halloween very much. For yesterday’s party, she wore a low-cut green dress decorated with leaves. She selected supper-high heels as shoes. Her hair was looked like ‘fire-red wig’.

In her blog she wrote, “Tonight I’m dressed as Poison Ivy for Midori’s Halloween Party at Tao! What do you think? I love the red hair!! I’ve never tried a look like this before! Thanks to Rob and Joyce for working their magic!”

“The party is obviously with Midori. So I wanted to wear something green and I thought, what really is there to wear green? There’s Tinkerbell or a mermaid — and I wanted to be Poison Ivy. I like the red hair idea,” said the stunning star to US Weekly.

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For the third time, London is going to host the world’s most prestigious gaming event, Olympic Games, and the next, 2012 Summer Olympic Games, is going to start from 27 July 2012. The Olympic Games always starts with a gorgeous opening ceremony.The 53-year-old superstar, Madonna, is planning to return onto the music scene with a huge concert in Hyde Park in order to coincide with the 2012 Olympic Games.

Madonna is preparing herself with Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. for the concert. The queen of the pop will perform the track ‘Give Me All Your Love’ from her 12th studio album, produced by French DJ Martin Solveig, in front of 60000 audiences in Hyde Park.

“Madonna is planning a huge comeback and was determined to do it at Hyde Park while the Olympics are on,” according to a source. The source added, “She’s been out of the limelight musically for a while but is ready to jump back into the saddle and thinks there’s no better time to do it than when London hosts the Olympics.”

The applications for the tickets to the 2012 Olympic Games have now closed because the demand of the tickets is huge than the supply. The 2012 Olympic Games has used an automatic and random process for the distribution of the tickets.

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Operations always put hurt on the body of patients, and particularly it is obvious for complex operations. Usually, the surgeons use 3D X-rays to observe the results of the operation in the operation theater. Although the use of the X-rays helps to detect any kinds of problem, it requires stopping the operations before using the usual X-rays technology. However, the German researchers have been researching to develop such a 3D X-ray system that will help the surgeons to check the operation complexity without any interruption.

The researchers of the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology (IPK) and Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin medical school have been working together to integrate the new 3D X-ray technology into operation. Maneuverability X-ray source is mounted on a hinged support that can be attached to the ceiling or mounted on a wheeled stands for mobile applications, so that X-ray scanning always takes place from above.

According to the researchers, the new technology will speed up the checking without interrupting whereas the usual ‘C-arm’ system takes about 15 minutes to produce the image of the checking results. Professor Dr. Erwin Keeve said, “Unlike existing three-dimensional imaging procedures, ORBIT doesn’t have to surround the patient to capture images. Instead, it’s an open system in which the X-ray source follows a circular path above the operating table. This makes capturing images much quicker, because it does away with time-consuming preparation.”

The new system is advantageous than the usual ‘C-arm’ system in many ways. It is very easier than the ‘C-arm’ technology because the surgeons need not to use various analytic tools in the operation theater. The images produced by the new technology are less affected by the interference of metals as its X-ray plate and detector move on different plane.

The prototype of the new 3D X-ray technology is under construction and its testing will be started in next year. It is expected that the 3D X-ray system will be ready for shipping in three to five years after.

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There is no doubt that the users who have a broadband internet connection can get the facility of entertainment from different websites and can download movies, music videos, TV shows, festival video and other streaming videos for entertainment from Internet. However, a recent observation, by the network management hardware and software seller company Sandvine, dictates that the broadband connections users are moving completely online for a few months in United States.

In the Global Internet Phenomena Report for Fall 2011, the observers of Sandvine developed an infographic, which graphically describes that the US broadband connection users are more and more using the real-time video streaming, real-time gaming and other real-time entertainments online.

According to the report, about 96 percent of the users use real-time entertainment each month. In 2010, the percentage of peak period downstream traffic was about 50 percent, but, this year it has increased and stood to 60 percent. On the other hand, using some modern devices like Game Console, Smart TVs, Set-tops, Tablets and Smartphones other than PC, about 55 percent subscribers are creating real-time online traffic.

The observers also said in the report, “…when subscribers watching online video are free to choose between screens, they generally choose to watch content on the largest screen available to them.” For the real-time entertainment, the networks have to handle a large flow of data, and as a result, it could bring a great problem to the network if the users use their broadband connections for real-time entertainment.

In the end, Sandvine’s observers suggest that the raising of the real-time streaming can be prevented by providing the charge free downloading facility to the users.

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The search engine giant and world’s best brand Google has brought a lot of updates in the past few months. They released a new fascinating search tool Google Hotel Finder, and also updated Google Map by adding weather layer, real-time traffic facilities. Google is not only developing the desktop applications but also improving the services in the mobile web applications. Today, Google introduced a series of highly requested features for Gmail in mobile browsers like iPhone, iPad, Smartphone and tablets.

Multiple sign in is very useful for the users who want to access several accounts simultaneously for his personal or business purpose. The facility has been here in the desktop for quite some time. From today, the users can get the multiple account access facility in their mobile devices.

By clicking the account switcher at the bottom of the thread-list and then signing into another account, the users of the mobile browsers can sign into an additional account. Furthermore, Google is adding the auto-correct and other mobile spell-check facilities. By pressing the new signature button and choosing the signature, the users can create new essential signature, according to the GmailBlog.

“Ever forgotten to set your out-of-office auto-reply in Gmail before going on a trip? You don’t have to worry about that anymore, since you can now set your auto-reply using the mobile interface. Simply choose a start and end date and specify your message, just like on the desktop interface,” wrote Dominic Leung, Google’s mobile software engineer.

To provide the new facilities Google has already updated URLs and, as a result, each account can have distinct bookmark. Google advised the users to update the bookmark who have already bookmarked Gmail for their mobile devices. Otherwise, the users have to add a bookmark to their mobiles from mail.google.com.

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The doctors of the Great Ormound Street Hospital, in London, have finally removed the birthmark of the little angel-like boy, Gorge Ashman, of Radstock in Somerset, successfully.

Gorge Ashman, 5, was born with a bright red blemish on his forehead. His mother, Proud Karen, 33, feared that he would suffer from lifetime bad comments. So, at the age of four, doctors treated him and undertook a surgical treatment to remove the blemish from his forehead by covering with new unblemished tissue. During that operation, they implanted two tissue expanders under his skin. But, these tissues rose and formed patterns that they looked like two perfect devil’s horns.

His mother said, “When I first saw the implants in place, I was speechless. They were larger than I expected – and placed on either side of his tiny head looked like horns. My cute, angel-faced baby looked like the devil. But I’m really proud of the strength he has shown through all of this. He has never let it hold him back.”

After four months of the implantation, the doctors again undertook another surgery to remove the horns. After that, the blemish was cut out allowing the new skin to be stitched together. Then the skin became clear but there is a small scar on his forehead. However, during the four months, he had to face cruel taunts from the passers-by because of his devil-like horns.

Now, Ashman is fully OK. Everyone, now, takes him normally and he started going school with his friends. His mother said, “My little devil’s got guts – and with or without his birthmark and his horns I’ll always love him to bits for that.”

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Day by day, the development of robots is increasing and many scientists have been working for developing the working power of the mechanically smart agent, robot. French developers have invented a new fascinating humanoid robot NAO, which has the ability to charge itself.

The developers have been working on this project since 2005. Using a 500 MHz X 86 CPU and 256 MB of RAM, they developed the brilliant robot NAO. It consists of a wide array of sensors, two cameras, four microphones, an accelerometer and sensor, so that it can stand, sit, recover from fall, and detect obstacles, according to the reports. The new robot NAO is 23-inch tall and only 11 pounds by weight.

NAO can find its charger and charging station, plug itself in, and even can unplug itself when it is charged fully. It also has been programmed to play football, cooperate with others of similar kinds, and help autistic children. If there is no NAO Energy Station (NEST) near to the NAO and its batteries goes down then it can lead a ‘semi-independent’ life.

Though the recent invention has some drawbacks that it has to sit down until it is fully charged and can not run more than 90 minutes after full charging. However, these tiny drawbacks can be omitted by taking some modifications and the developers are working for it.

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