A new study has found older men who are slightly overweight are less likely to develop dementia.
The University of Western Australia study surveyed men aged between 65 and 84 years of age over a ten year period — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Brisbane woman is suing a luxury United Arab Emirates resort after she was jailed for adultery when she complained of being drugged and raped by three men.
Alicia Gali was sentenced to 12 months in prison after an assault by three co-workers while drinking at the Le Meridien Al Aqah Beach Resort staff bar in Fujairah, UAE in June 2008.
After reporting the incident to police, Ms Gali was jailed for adultery and served eight months before being pardoned in March 2009 and returning to Australia. — via Brisbane Times
A grand debut for the Aquanaut series: the Patek Philippe Aquanaut Travel Time (Ref. 5164A). This adds to the Aquanaut collection a new Travel Time model with two hour hands for two time zones – local time and home time – and a new self-winding movement, Patek Caliber 324 S C FUS. The dial sports two day/night indicators and an analog date. The Patek 5164 price is $32,300 — via Perpetuelle.com Blog
The tower is a site-specific artwork located at the Oliver Ranch in Alexander Valley. Designed by the artist Ann Hamilton, with Jensen Architects/ Jensen & Macy Architects as architect of record, the tower was imagined as a space for performance — via ArchDaily
Federal Labor MP Ed Husic last week criticised Apple and other technology giants for asking more in Australia for their products than they do in the US, noting that he would write to the managing director of Apple Australia to demand why the mark-ups occur — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Swiss watchmaker has officially presented its new range of watches built with modified historic movements inside. The Armand Nicolet L09 in rose gold and DLC titanium (Ref. S619N-BU-G9610) is one of the new trio of sporty timekeepers.
The movement in question is the caliber AN0711A. According to the company’s press release, it is based on the Unitas UT 600 movement that was made in 1957 and, till now, awaited its fate in the Swiss company’s warehouse — via World Watch Review
Western Digital has introduced a new line of external hard disks featuring dual drives and 2TB, 4TB and 6TB capacities. Called the My Book Studio Edition II, the new storage line will provide creative professionals and Mac enthusiasts with 33 percent more storage than the previous hard-drive models while maintaining the same footprint, the company said. — via redwolf.newsvine.com
eBay on Monday announced plans to acquire GSI Commerce for about $2.4 billion. That equals $29.25 per share for the e-commerce and interactive marketing services provider.
eBay is shelling out a 51 percent premium over GSI’s closing price on Friday and a 47 percent premium over the average closing price over the past 30 trading days. eBay will finance the acquisition with debt and cash — via redwolf.newsvine.com
20GB of data storage for $5 a year or 16TB for $4,096. That’s Google’s offer for cloud storage despite the loss of data for some Gmail users. Google’s User Managed Storage has been extended to apps such as Google Docs, Picasa Web Albums, and Blogger photos. An analyst said User Managed Storage should be limited to expendable data — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Part of the process of becoming a new eBay employee is selecting your company laptop. I was offered a choice: Lenovo Thinkpad or MacBook Pro. Coming from a Linux development world, I picked the Mac, thinking it would be closer to what I am used to.
Man, did I fuck up.
Thankfully, I still have my Ubuntu workstation to get real work done on, but the Mac does it duty — running Outlook, maybe Firefox or Google Chrome every now and then. Oh, I also have VMWare installed on it so I can boot Windows to browser test in Internet Explorer. I should have picked the PC, at least then I would save myself the step of booting VMWare.
So what’s wrong with using the Mac as a development machine for Milo, a Python application backed by PostgreSQL and Redis (or any web project, for that matter)? Well, sacred cow, here come the spears — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The new observation tower on the River Mur (Southern Styria, Austria) opened to the public just in time for the beginning of spring 2010. The design for the sculptural structure set amidst the landscape of the European habitat system Green Belt
was developed by the Munich-based architects and landscape architects, terrain:loenhart&mayr, who are renowned for the new and trend-setting Olympic Ski Jump in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. With the look-out on the banks of the River Mur, the observation tower offers access to the ecology of the surrounding floodplain forest and lets visitors experience the river catchment, which changes according to the intensity of the water’s flow — via ArchDaily
I’ve often wondered why people who use their PCs for basic stuff–like checking e-mail and browsing the Web — are required to buy hardware that’s far more powerful than what they really require. With that power comes the complexity of operating systems preloaded with applications and utilities that many people will never use, making PCs unapproachable for people who aren’t tech savvy.
That’s all changing–first, with the introduction of netbooks, and now even more so with the iPad. Apple’s tablet brings appliance-like simplicity to light computing needs, and brought my mother, who is in her early 60s and had never used a computer before, onto the Web. I’ve documented her fresh perspective on the iPad in this interview — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The folks at Parker Brothers Choppers have put together a bike that’s the baddest Big Wheel since The Shining.
It’s based on the Green Machine, the toy all the cool kids on our block got to ride when we were kindergartners with tricycles. It’s got a massive 45-inch front wheel and, just like the real thing, steers from the rear. Power comes from an 80-cubic inch Harley-Davidson Evo engine — via Wired.com
This year, Rolex is going to resurrect the beautiful Tudor Advisor alarm automatic wrist watch. The new iteration of the historic model will be sold as the Tudor Heritage Advisor.
As one might have expected, the new watch carefully preserves the DNA of the original, but comes in a much larger case.
While the Advisor from 1957 was available in a small by today’s standards 34 mm case, the new Heritage Advisor comes in a more impressive 42 mm body.
Made of stainless steel and titanium, the new case offers a nice mixture of polished and satin-finished surfaces that provide the watch with more depth and make it look even more interesting — via World Watch Review
The owners brief was to design [SAOTA] a dramatic, memorable house. The house needed to suit his specific aesthetic considerations and have the flexibility that it could be either partially or completely rented out. The client has a discerning eye for striking contemporary design and that, along with the fantastic position of the site lent, to creating an elegant response — via ArchDaily
This huge neo-rococo mirror is carefully hand-molded from plaster. The rumor has is that the one who dares to gaze at it long enough would see a certain superhero symbol unravels — via Katz
At Baselworld Seiko officially launched three limited edition Grand Seiko timepieces as a part of the brand’s 130th Anniversary Commemorative Collection. All three models house a newly developed mechanical hand-winding movement, and all three will come to the US, market, albeit in very small numbers — via WatchTime
US scientist Paul Baran, whose work in the 1960s helped pave the way for the internet, has died aged 84 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A drug containing the sleep hormone melatonin is to be tested in Scotland to find out if it helps reduce the effects of dementia.
Glasgow-based firm, CPS Research, aims to recruit 50 people with Alzheimer’s disease for the clinical trial of the drug, Circadin — via redwolf.newsvine.com
ArchitectenConsort have completed the GT Tower East in Seoul, South Korea — via CONTEMPORIST
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