Located on the bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean, the 3,500 sqf Zeidler Residence, designed by Ehrlich Architects, arranges interior and exterior living spaces to maximize views, natural light, and ocean breezes within a subtle, sophisticated material palette — via ArchDaily
In theory, stopping spam is easy: just make it uneconomic to send millions of messages by charging for each one sent, or make senders authenticate their identity to stop address spoofing and simplify blocking.
In practice, that would involve building a secure, parallel e-mail infrastructure linking electronic authentication with real-world identities: a daunting task. Yet that’s just what Germany is about to do.
De-mail — a play on the country-code abbreviation for Deutschland (Germany) and the word e-mail — is a government-backed service in which all messages will be encrypted and digitally signed so they cannot be intercepted or modified in transit. Businesses and individuals wanting to send or receive De-mail messages will have to prove their real-world identity and associate that with a new De-mail address from a government-approved service provider. The service will be enabled by a new law that the government expects will be in force by the end of this month. It will allow service providers to charge for sending messages if they wish — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The upcoming HD3 Slyde digital touch watch will be equipped with a high-definition touch-screen that will effectively let you have dozens of watches on your wrist at just a fraction of a price.
Created by Jorg Hysek Jr who happens to be a son of the famous watchmaker Jorg Hysek, the watch uses the same approach to the user interface that was first developed by Apple.
It takes just a simple slide of a finger to page through different functions of a watch or even change the dial layout altogether — via World Watch Review
A revolutionary new gel for healing wounds after sinus surgery has been successfully commercialised in a lucrative collaborative deal for the University of Otago.
Otago University officials say the exact financial details are commercially sensitive
, but it is understood the deal is likely to substantially boost university research funds — via redwolf.newsvine.com
One of the reasons why people gravitate toward WordPress is the seemingly unlimited numbers of open source plugins available. Today, I’d like to go over a few plugins that I think absolutely warrant your attention. I’m sure I’ve missed some, though, so make sure to chime in within the comments! Hopefully, this article will morph into an absolute monster of a list that can act as a reference for fellow WordPress developers — via Nettuts+
Architect Jonas Retamal from Chile designed a house made entirely from wood. The house dubbed Maintencillo is located at the ocean coast in the Valparaíso region of Chile. The entire project is very minimalistic — via Architecture Blog
A US man high on methamphetamine drove with his wife on the hood of their minivan for more than 40 miles, hitting speeds of 100 mph, according to police — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Camel meat in the dog bowl is in the spot light today after a recent report published in the Australian Veterinary Journal.
According to the report, three dogs were euthanased after contracting severe liver disease and the common denominator was that they had all eaten a mixture of camel meat and sweet potato. All three were found to have the toxin indospicine
in their systems — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Five black-footed rock wallabies born in captivity are to be released in the outback soon, to give the endangered species a boost in the wild — via redwolf.newsvine.com
At Baselworld 2011 the Swiss watchmaker will present its new Atlantic Seaport Day Retrograde watch.
Available both with a Swiss quartz Ronda 7004.P movement and with the well-known automatic ETA 2824-2 caliber, the watch will feature a retrograde day of week indicator, an off-centered big date aperture at 1 o’clock and an oversized subsidiary seconds display at 6 o’clock — via World Watch Review
When the 39th Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race starts in Anchorage on Saturday, 62 mushers and their dogs will embark on an annual trek that has evolved far from its shoestring roots.
The leading contenders are professionals, working year-round to prepare for the race and financed by corporate sponsors. There is a significant monetary reward at the end — $50,400 (31,023.02 pounds) and a new truck for the winner, and smaller cash prizes for all the finishers.
Mushers are equipped with the most high-tech outdoors equipment available, including custom-made sleds with adjustable runners for varying snow conditions and, starting this year, global-positioning-satellite (GPS) devices to check on their progress — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Rubber finger puppet shaped like a tentacle (complete with suction cups). Sold per piece – be sure to buy 5 to get a complete hand’s worth! — via Neatoshop
The project [AR+TE Architects] is built in an area surrounded by public facilities in a residential suburban character near Paris. The proposed extension is built while maintaining the wooded character of the bottom plot. The neighboring houses are built in traditional forms with gabled roofs, thereby extending the crib comes with a gabled roof curved. To insert the building in an environmentally sound approach, structure, roofing and siding are made entirely of wood components — via ArchDaily
Australia’s aim to be world leaders in commercialising the bionic eye
has been dealt a blow with a US company gaining approval to sell its device this year.
Los Angeles-based Second Sight Medical Products said Australia was now one of a series of countries “on its radar” for marketing and transplanting its bionic eye, which this week received commercial go-ahead in Europe.
Second Sight’s bionic eye, the Argus II, will be available commercially after it attained the required CE Certification in Europe — via redwolf.newsvine.com
University of Chicago infectious disease specialist Ken Alexander still remembers the shock he felt almost 18 months ago when his pager shook with the message that a colleague had died from the plague.
A half-hour later, Alexander was sitting at a table in the dean’s office with researchers, lawyers, administrators and campus security officers, he recalled in an interview. The stricken colleague, Malcolm Casadaban, a 60-year-old genetics and cell biology professor, had checked into a hospital five days earlier and died within hours. Lab results were positive for the plague, and the university’s biosafety fire alarm
had been triggered, Alexander said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Unpublished Government research suggests the plastic carrier may not be an eco villain after all – but, whisper it, an unsung hero. Hated by environmentalists and shunned by shoppers, the disposable plastic bag is piling up in a shame-filled corner of retail history. But a draft report by the Environment Agency, obtained by the Independent on Sunday, has found that ordinary high density polythene (HDPE) bags used by shops are actually greener than supposedly low impact choices.
HDPE bags are, for each use, almost 200 times less damaging to the climate than cotton hold-alls favoured by environmentalists, and have less than one third of the Co2 emissions than paper bags which are given out by retailers such as Primark — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An arborist’s legs have been severed after he got caught in a wood chipper in Sydney’s north-west — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Regular use of the painkiller and anti-inflammatory drug ibuprofen may reduce the risk of Parkinson’s disease by a third, a major study has found.
People who took the drug at least twice a week had a 38% lower risk of developing the condition than those who used other painkillers, such as aspirin, scientists said.
The findings, based on a review of 136,000 patient records, build on previous studies that also reported an apparent protective effect in those who took the drug — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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