Thursday, March 26, 2015

Alps plane crash: Investigators return to disaster site

French investigators say they have begun listening to the cockpit voice recorder of the passenger jet that crashed in the Alps yesterday, killing 150 people.
So far there is no indication of what caused the Germanwings flight, from Barcelona to Duesseldorf,to come down in a remote valley.
It is now known that passengers and crew from 18 nations were on the flight, including 72 Germans and more than 40 Spaniards.
At least three British passengers were among the dead. Clive Myrie reports.

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Friday, March 6, 2015

Is Google developing digital deodorant?



According to the patent, which was filed back in 2012, the device would be a small wearable fan complete with sensors that track your sweat. The user straps the "odor-removing device" to their body and it autonomously emits a fragrance when it detects body odor.
The device will also alert you when you smell and warn you, via a social media linkup if your friends are close enough to get a whiff of your stench. Then the GPS kicks in offering "an alternative route to travel such that the predicted odor may not offend others that are socially connected to the user."
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