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Pretend Martians wanted: must be short, non-smoker
Are you interested in experiencing isolation, confinement, close quarters, lack of privacy, high workload, repetitive food, and limited communication with the outside world? Are you highly motivated, a non-smoker, not in jail, shorter than 185cm, physically and psychologically fit, and a fluent speaker of English or Russian (preferably both)? The Institute of Biomedical Problems in Moscow seeks volunteers to pretend they are living on Mars for 520 days, on behalf of the European Space Agency. It includes 250 days to ‘reach Mars’, 30 days ‘on Mars’ and 240 days to ‘return to Earth’. Compensation is “in line with international standards for participation in clinical studies.” Serious inquiries only. [GT]
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US Congressional Caucus on Robotics
Congressman Mike Doyle, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, and Congressman Zack Wamp, a Republican from Tennessee, have formed a bi-partisan Congressional Caucus on Robotics. “Robots are now being used well beyond traditional industrial automation applications like assembling automobiles,” said Doyle. “Today, they are also being used to defend our nation, perform surgery, fill prescriptions, deliver supplies and materials, and even as tools to educate our children, so it is important that we create a forum by which Congress can familiarize itself with the impact this first great technology of the 21st century is likely to have on the lives of all Americans.”
Levi's mobile phone comes in silver and sand
Levi’s Jeans having already manufactured iPod jeans has decided that the next logical step is to brand a cellphone with a detachable chain that attaches the cellphone to your jeans. The Levi’s phone is offered in metallic silver, black and brown copper. “Shiny silver” and “shiny sand” editions, featuring a “mirror” screen have also been created to appeal to the fashion conscious. No word on whether the Levi’s phone will be compatible with other brands of pants. [GT]
Levi’s phone [via Digital Tech News]
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Hoarding old mobile phones slows EU recycle drive
The EU wants to recycle 45% of old mobiles — a tough target, because people tend to throw their old mobiles in the back of drawers and leave them there. Even the president of the the European Battery Recycling Association admitted he still has his first mobile phone. “It is in a drawer, and every three years I change, I put it in and I keep the old accumulators,” EBRA President Bertrand Schutz said. “Forty-five percent is challenging.” Oxfam notes that fewer than 5% of retired mobiles in the UK will be recycled — but if you’ve got one (or several) that you want to get rid of, you can either send them via freepost to the Oxfam Bring Bring Scheme or drop them off at any Oxfam store. [GT]
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DIY: Green Lantern ring — it even glows!
“In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight! Let those who worship evil’s might, beware my power: Green Lantern’s light!” Make your own GL beams complete with healthful green glow courtesy of Instructables’ How to make a Green Lantern ring. The original GL DIY was sterling silver, but this one is transparent green resin, since most people don’t have access to silver casting, and since making a resin-made ring glow is much easier. [GT]
How to make a Green Lantern ring- including a glowing version! (via MAKE)
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'Fish on a chip' could save your life
New technology called ‘fluorescent in situ hybridization‘, or FISH, automates testing for chromosome mutations in a bunch of different types of cancer. This cuts test costs by 90% and speeds up the test process by a similar factor. It also means patients in rural areas don’t need to travel so much, because test kits can be administered under simpler settings. Finally, since it tests for a variety of cancers, it means quicker notice of the disease jumping from one organ to another, like a stealth evil Tarzan in the jungle of your intestines. “I believe that this might be the most important thing that any of us ever do,” said the University of Alberta professor Dr. Linda Pilarski. [GT]
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Veteran Hollywood director recuts 'Success', re-releases on Google Video
Until now, only about four copies of William Richert’s dark 80s fairy tale, ‘American Success Company’, were known to exist (one owned by a television network, one by Steven Spielberg, and two VHS dubs, one owned by me). Richert has remastered the 1983 release of his picture, retitled ‘Success’, starring Jeff Bridges, Ned Beatty and Bianca Jagger. Not only is Richert selling DVDs of it directly, but has also put the entire movie on his website, in chunks hosted at Google Video. This movie was so obscure that it was never even released on VHS. Richert has also placed complete Google Video of his movies Aren’t You Even Going To Kiss Me Goodbye, The Man in the Iron Mask and Winter Kills (also starring Jeff Bridges). Richert is currently involved with The Vindicator, a mobster drama that will be released on the internet. Dailies of The Vindicator after the jump. [GT]
Juice Bag solar beach tote
The usual problem for the gadget geek is what to do when you’re in the middle of nowhere with nowhere to plug your stuff in — a problem I encounter downtown here all the time. Juice Bag’s solar beach tote solves that dilemma by being equipped with a solar panel and a universal CLA/Car Charger Female Socket so you can just plug your gadget into the bag. $249.99, which would be worth it if there were sun where I live. [GT]
Juice Bag-Solar Beach Tote [via Chip Chick]
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'Microsoft security worker' ranked 6th worst job in science
The latest issue of Popular Science ranks the ten worst science jobs and ‘Microsoft security worker’ is number six, since — and if you’ve ever done tech support you know this — nobody ever calls security because they’re happy. Other jobs include Olympic drug tester (watching people pee gets boring after a while), elephant vasectomist, and, depressingly, oceanographer, because the oceans are in such lousy shape. Eep. [GT]
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Chinese Internet users rail against the Great Firewall
In response to images of the Tiananmen Square massacre being posted on Flickr, China has banned Flickr access. “I just want to look at some photos! What’s wrong with that?” said 24-year-old accountant Yang Zhou, who discovered the ban when he went to Flickr to browse his friend’s holiday snaps. “Of course, [privacy is] the first thing people seek when they have the economic resources,” said Nicholas Bequelin from Hong Kong-based Human Rights Watch. “We see this growing in China in the wake of ideas of ownership and property.” Reuters has video coverage of global privacy issues. [GT]
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