Tuesday, August 10, 2010

HumanCar Imagine PS

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It's been a long while since reports first came out about the HumanCar, a vehicle powered by electricity and human rowing power, but some things just take longer than others. The design has come a long way since 2006 and the latest news is that the model you see above, called the Imagine PS, was recently taken out for a test drive.

Professor Charles Samuel Greenwood, the inventor of the HumanCar, went for a drive in the $15,500 street-legal, low-mass vehicle with his son Chuck. The car took on "several" hills (with four to six percent grades) at 30 miles per hour using power from both the driver and the battery pack.

Even though development of the Imagine PS is slow-moving, Chuck says he has more ideas in the pipes:
"We have a new sedan coming out - it's a big deal. Many significant items - for now the Imagine PS is rocking way more than we hoped for. It's fast and it corners crisp and clean."

Woman kills four million mosquitos

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A Taiwanese woman has set a world record for killing mosquitos after swatting four million in just one month.

Huang Yuyen, from Yunlin county, beat 72 rivals to the $2,850 top prize in a contest organized by insect trap-making company, Imbictus International.

Her catch weighed in at more than 1.5kg (3lbs 5oz) - more than double that of her nearest rival, reports the Daily Telegraph.

The company has sent an application to Guinness World Records asking that Miss Huang be recognised as the world's leading killer of the pest.

Mosquitoes were a major public health hazard in Taiwan as carriers of malaria until its official eradication on the island in 1965 - and are still responsible for the spread of dengue fever.

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JOKE: Paddy's Confession

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Paddy had kept a secret for years and he had to tell someone so he went to confession where he admitted stealing building supplies from the timber yard where he worked."What did you take?" his priest asked.

Enough to build my own house,and my sons house, houses for our two daughters,and our cottage by the sea.

"This is very serious" the priest said,"I shall have to think of a far-reaching penance.

Have you ever done a retreat?

"No father.I haven't" the man replied'

"But if you can get the plans, I can get the timber".

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Man happy to lose world's biggest man boobs

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A Chinese man who had the world's biggest man boobs is enjoying a new lease of life after an operation to remove them.

Guo Qingpo, 53, from Jiuying village, Dezhou, in northern China's Shandong province, said the surgery had ended a ten year nightmare.

For many years he refused to leave his home after people labelled him a freak or falsely accused him of undergoing transgender surgery.

"About ten years ago, I first noticed my breasts were larger than other men's but I just thought I was putting on weight and didn't pay much attention," he said.

"Then about two years ago they began to grow outrageously until they were as big as footballs. People would stare at me wherever I went."

He visited a number of hospitals in major cities around the country but none would treat him until he finally found a chest hospital in Jinan willing to help.

Director doctor Zhang Jianhua said: "I had never seen anything like it in 40 years. There has never been such a case in China, or anywhere in the world."

He got together 20 experts from eight hospital departments to come up with a plan for operating on Guo, reports the Shandong Business Daily.

To reduce surgery time, two teams of medical staff worked side-by-side, each removing one breast, and the operation was over in six hours.

After a month of recovery, Guo checked out of the hospital saying he felt like a new man.

"Never again shall I fear others calling me a she male," he said.

Experts believe he suffered from lipodystrophy syndrome, a metabolic condition which involves the abnormal distribution of fat around the body.

Chinese Girl Wants to Know Why She is So Hairy

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A five-year-old cruelly nicknamed Monkey Girl wants to become a scientist to find out why she is covered in thick black hair.

Cian Cian lives with her grandparents who regularly shave her face and body to remove her unwanted hair.

Doctors at Tongliang People's Hospital, where Cian Cian was recently treated after suffering an epileptic fit, are mystified by her condition.

Doctor Chu Hongbo said: "There is nothing like this in her family going back three generations so it doesn't appear to be genetic."

Her grandparents say they no longer take Cian Cian into the city because people stare and ask why she's "so hairy".

"Even at kindergarten each morning, people look at her and ask me why she is so hairy. Questions like that make me feel very bad," said the grandma.

The little girl, whose parents are divorced, says classmates at kindergarten in her village near Chonqing tease her.

But she is happy at home, telling the Chongqing Evening Post: "I love my grandparents, especially my grandma, they are good to me.

"I want to be a scentist when I grow up so I can find out what's wrong with me."

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