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Chewing too much hassle? Japan's got just the thing
Are you worried that you're just not chewing enough to keep your mind and body in tip-top condition? Then never fear: Japan has invented something to help you count your bites.
A small-scale Japanese study last year, among others, suggested there was a connection between chomping and cognitive function, and the belief in a link between chewing and health is widely held in Japan.
Now a Tokyo-based gum-maker has created earphones that record the number of times you move your jaw, along with the speed and strength of each bite.
"Chewing, unless you make a conscious effort, can be seen as a bit of a pain," Katsumi Kawai, chief marketing officer of Lotte said, adding the firm has noticed some people consider chewing gum to be something of a hassle.
"As a gum maker, this is a great concern," he said.
Lotte's "Rhythmi-Kamu" -- a pun on the English word "rhythmical" and "kamu" ("to chew" in Japanese) -- uses sensors mounted inside ear pieces to carefully measure each bite.
It bleeps and flashes as it sends the data to a smartphone app, which can be used to track exactly how much chewing a user has done in any given period, should that need ever arise.
The technology can also be used to switch on or off music on phone by chewing in a certain pattern, Lotte says, while admitting mastering the skill takes a bit of practice.
Hiroshima City University engineer Kazuhiro Taniguchi, whose ear-switch technology was used in the device said he was pleased with how it had turned out, adding that the gadget had "satisfying functions".
Lotte has no plans to commercialise the Rhythmi-Kamu, but would like to persuade research institutions to use it to advance studies on human chewing.
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$10K Will Get You a Clunky, Slow Hoverboard That's Nothing Like Marty McFly's
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Mystery of dinosaur with giant arms solved
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A dinosaur mystery that has baffled palaeontologists for 50 years has finally been solved.
In the 1960s, researchers unearthed two gigantic dinosaur arms. For decades, scientists have speculated about what kind of beast they belonged to.
Now, the rest of the dinosaur's body has been unearthed, and researchers say that the creature is even more bizarre than they had thought.
They say it was huge, with a beak, a humped back and giant, hoofed feet.
The study is published in the journal Nature.
Lead researcher Yuong-Nam Lee, from South Korea's Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (Kigam), said: "It turned out to be one of the weirdest dinosaurs, it's weird beyond our imagination."
Slow mover
For half a century, all that was known about this dinosaur was that it had enormous forearms, measuring 2.4m-long (8ft) and tipped with three giant claws.
Reconstruction of Deinocheirus mirificus Researchers say the beast has a very strange combination of features
Its name Deinocheirus mirificus means unusual, horrible hands. In various reconstructions, it has been imagined as anything from a T. rex-type predator grasping at prey with its claws, to a giant, sloth-like climber, using its arms to dangle from trees.
But the discovery of two nearly complete skeletons in Mongolia have finally laid this speculation to rest.
The international research team says the beast was very large, measuring about 11m (36ft) long and weighing six tonnes.
It had an elongated head with a duck-like beak, and a large humped sail on its back.
Its legs were short and stumpy, but its feet were very large with hooves, which would have prevented it from sinking into the boggy wetlands where it lived.
The researchers think that the beast was probably a very slow mover. The contents of its stomach suggest that it ate plants and fish.
Dr Yuong-Nam Lee said: "We did not know their function before, but the long forearms with giant claws may have been used for digging and gathering herbaceous plants in freshwater habitats."
Commenting on the research Prof John Hutchinson, a palaeontologist from the UK's Royal Veterinary College, said: "Many dinosaur fans have seen pictures of the 8ft-long arms and hands, and they really are amazing and wonderful. People were really wondering what the rest of this animal looked like.
"Now we know, and it's just so freaking weird - we never would have expected this animal to look so bizarre.
"It really is shocking to see how many weird features it has. It changes our view of what kind of forms dinosaurs can even take."
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Study: Bee Venom Kills HIV
Discovery could lead to topical gel to prevent HIV transmission.
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I think I'd be wary of spreading bee venom on sensitive areas, but I guess if the alternative was possibly catching AIDS...
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Supply rocket headed to space station explodes
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/1...n_6069970.html
Amelia Earhart Plane Fragment May Have Been Identified
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NASA’s Orion spacecraft could make ‘Interstellar’ a reality
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Well, it IS Fox news.Originally posted by Mister Ed View PostNow THAT'S a comically overstated headline.
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Planet formation captured in photo
The clearest ever image of planets forming around an infant star has been taken by the Alma radio telescope.
In a vast disc of dust and gas, dark rings are clearly visible: gaps in the cloud, swept clear by brand new planets in orbit.
The sun-like star at the centre, HL Tau, is less than a million years old and is 450 light years from Earth in the constellation Taurus.
The image was made possible by Alma's new high-resolution capabilities.
Because the process of planet formation takes place in the midst of such a huge dust cloud, it can't be observed using visible light.
Alma, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, has snapped the impressive new image using much longer wavelengths, which it detects by comparing the signal from multiple antennas up to 15km apart.
To test out its latest high-resolution capability, only in operation since September, Alma scientists pointed the antennas at HL Tau. They found themselves looking at a "protoplanetary disc" in more detail than ever before.
"I think it's phenomenal," said Dr Aprajita Verma, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford.
"This shows how exciting Alma is going to be - it's going to be an incredible instrument."
Prof Tim de Zeeuw is director general of the European Southern Observatory, one of several organisations involved in Alma. He said: "Most of what we know about planet formation today is based on theory. Images with this level of detail have up to now been relegated to computer simulations or artist's impressions."
Dr Verma agreed that the image was a significant new piece of evidence - particularly because the star HL Tau is very young.
"I think the big result is that you might have expected just a smooth disc," she told the BBC.
"But you're really seeing multiple rings - and where it's darker, that's where you've cleared the material already in the disc."
The whole process is happening faster than we would have predicted from existing data, Dr Verma explained.
"It means that things are coagulating. It's really a planetary system, that you're seeing at a very early time.
"These rings will form planets, asteroids, comets... And eventually as the star evolves, this will cool and settle and there will be more clearing and more individual objects, just like we see in our solar system."
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China's New Exoskeletons: Not just for Call of Duty or Tom Cruise Anymore
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Meet the Tesla K80: Nvidia's most powerful graphics card yet has an insane 24GB of RAM
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Mystery of why millions of star fish dissolved into goo off Pacific coast solved
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