Once you pop the top of a tube of potato chips, it can be hard to stop munching its contents. But Cornell researchers may have found a novel way to help: Add edible serving size markers that act as subconscious stop signs. As part of an experiment carried out on two groups of college students (98 students total) while they were watching video clips in class, researchers from Cornell's Food and Brand Lab served tubes of Lays Stackables, some of which contained chips dyed red. Unaware of why some of the chips were red, the students who were served those tubes of
Read MoreResearch In Motion (RIM) today announced its most affordable BlackBerry® 7 smartphone for customers in India. The new BlackBerry® Curve™ 9220 smartphone offers all the market-leading BlackBerry messaging and social-centric features that people love in India. Designed to be easy to use and easy to own, this compact and sleek smartphone provides many conveniences and applications to help keep users connected to the people and information that matter most to them. It also offers the longest lasting battery life yet in a BlackBerry Curve model, allowing users to make the most of their day. Specs The BlackBerry Curve 9220 has everything a
Read MoreGoogle and Reliance have partnered to offer 1GB free data to Indian 3G Android users. All existing and new RCom users who plan to go Android now or in the near future, can take home 1GB of free data as a part of the offer. This 1GB of free data will be valid for a period of one month and cannot be carried past the stipulated period. Customers can avail of this offer only from April 15 to June 15, 2012. This free data offer is available for both prepaid and post paid users. The product page reads that this offer
Read MoreResearch in Motion (RIM) recently cut prices of its select devices including the PlayBook tablet (13,490 (16GB), 15,990 (32GB) and 24,490(64GB)), BlackBerry Curve 8520, Curve 9380, Curve 9360 and the Torch 9860. The company, facing a stiff competition from Apple's iPhone and Android-based smartphones in the international market, is now aiming to tap the Indian market. The BlackBerry makers believe the price reduction will help boost sales by 25-30 per cent in India. To consolidate its position in the competitive Indian market, RIM may slash price of its handsets even further. Model Old Price New Price Lowest Price BB Curve 9380 20,990 16,990 (-18%) 15,125 BB Curve 8520 10,990 8,990 (-18%) 8,399 BB
Read MoreA new insurance product promises to protect families against damages to their e-reputation, a new but important concept in this era of fading privacy. But one writer wonders if this isn't all just a scare-mongering way to make new business. First it was Swiss Life, now AXA has joined the party. Insurers have started selling e-reputation insurance products to protect your family’s image on the internet. Called “Protection Famille Intégr@le”, AXA’s new product will protect you against identity theft, credit-card fraud, harm to your online reputation and e-commerce disputes. Both insurers use a dedicated e-reputation agency called the “Reputation Squad”, which
Read MoreIf you have you ever lost your child, even for a moment, you know that it is every parent’s worst nightmare. Here’s a product to make you feel better about that eventuality: Quick Stick Custom SafetyTat (starting $19.99), which are preprinted with your custom information are temporary child identification tattoos that when applied to a child’s arm provide an immediate and highly visible form of identification and contact should your child become lost. Unlike just writing your telephone number of your child’s arm, the temporary tattoo is waterproof. (Stick size is approximately 2.25" x 0.875) Made with proprietary Tateck®,
Read MoreChances are you haven’t heard of languages Chamacoco, Remo and Tuvan, and while they are nearing extinction, thanks to a digital project by National Geographic, each of them is now reaching a wider audience – online. National Geographic’s Enduring Voices project is trying to slow down the rate at which languages are disappearing. Giving listeners a chance to hear some of the most little-known sounds of human speech. Every 14 days a language dies. By 2100, more than half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth—many of them not yet recorded—may disappear, taking with them a wealth of knowledge
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