21 century inventions picture

The 21 century inventions picture has been highlighted by the invention of a humanoid robot. Japanese scientists have invented robots to help old people in the country in their everyday needs. The robots' list of duties includes such common activities as serving tea, cleaning dishes and sweeping floors.

The unusual presentation held by the inventors showed humanoid robots serving drinks to their master. Other robots fulfilled the task of continuously keeping an eye on their master, registering the special movements of the body, transformed into commands and operations.

	The most important inventions and discoveries of the humanity
...and colleagues in 1948); - fourth invention was declared the glass processing (circa 2200 B.C in South-Western Iran); - fifth discovery was named the invention of the optical microscope in the 17th century; - invention of concrete by John Smeaton was placed on the sixth place among the inventions; - the seventh invention in the list was given to the steel processing, found about year 300 B.C. in India; - brass proces...
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	Blondes Make Men Act More Silly, Study Says
...eotypes. In earlier studies it was discovered that people tend to walk slower in front of the elderly people. Experts say that blondes became a subject of numerous stereotypes and jokes over the past century. From the psychological point of view, many people associate blonde hair with childhood as babies are often blond at birth, thus people looking at fair-haired women may take them not too seriously. The study, was p...
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	Caves With Stone Age Paintings Have Better Acoustics
...of Niaux in Ariege, most of the remarkable paintings are situated in the resonant Salon Noir, which sounds like a Romanesque chapel," said Iegor Reznikoff, an expert in the acoustics of 11th and 12th century European churches, who works at the University of Paris. He was the one to lead the research. Presumably these caves were considered to be places of natural power. This brings evidence to the theory that decorated cav...
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	Humanoids continue invading
...The 21st century is not the time, when people can be easily impressed, this can be refered to another, whether weird or wise, invention of the Japanese, that is a humanoid robot. On the other hand the most impressive thing is that people are still striving to create somebody, or something, to resemble themselves. This game has ended up in a demonstration of bots to help the aging population of Japan in their everyda...
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	Chemical Found in Cosmetics, Soaps and Lubricants is Hazardous for Men
...ries. Stahlhut stated that phthalates should definitely be in the list of chemicals that require a careful study. It is worth mentioning that phthalates have been actively used for more than half a century. However, only now did scientist start thinking about the possible health problems to which the chemical might lead. Studies made on animals showed that phthalates consistently depress the levels of testosterone. Rece...
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	Google is out testing new old features
...es, but our team had it always in nearly 100 different queries, as, for example vacation, politics, science, service, however and so on. One could actually 'note' the 'click here' query. Here is a picture of a logged in search for the query 'vacation': And here is a picture of the same query, though in the signed-out state: When we press the 'Note this' button, we see that Google has 'Duly noted' the query fo...
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	Men look at face, women look down there
..., particularly for brain activity of men and women. Presumably women who took hormonal pills were more often focused on genitals and those who took no pills paid their attention to the context of the picture. Although it is known that men would more readily respond to visual stimulation, their concentration is initially less sexually oriented. Researches suggest, that key to the findings may lie in peculiarities of bra...
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	New Electronic Display to Be Used on Clothes and Beer Cans
...One of the latest inventions in the field of light emitting devices might change the way people light their homes and design clothes. The device represents a thin film of plastic able to conduct electricity and create solar power. Scientists working on the international project are looking forward to bring the organic light emitting devices to the masses. Thus the invention could significantly cut costs by billions of ...
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	Worms and Humans Are One Family
...object for research for almost any area of science, be it genetics, or be it paleontology. As for genetics, it has found that the human brain is in a continuous process of evolution and people in the 21st century are more developed than their ancestors. Two years ago paleontologists made a sensational discovery: they dug out a petrified brain. And here we are today with the molecular biologists saying that we are direct r...
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	Digital Photos Testify Against Domestic Abusers
...issed by Polaroids, and the human eye. Digital photos depict for example cuts on an outstretched hand or bruises that are difficult to notice on the dark complexion skin. When specialists magnify the pictures, there appear other wounds, like tiny cuts and broken capillaries. By computer, police officers are able to transmit the pictures immediately to a database used by prosecutors of the city. When they used to take P...
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	Overcoming the Culture Shock with a Mobile Phone Game
...ty of Portsmouth, Nipan Minar is leading the development of a new interactive mobile phone game for students in the UK to help them overcome the culture shock. This is expected to be achieved through pictures of students drinking alcohol or a couple kissing in public, integrated into the game - things not allowed in certain cultures. The game is called C-Shock and it is being developed by Nipan Minar, who himself arriv...
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	School Cleaner Took Pics of Kids in the Toilet
... were photographed through the holes of the toilet by a school cleaner. Adrian Alan Mayne, 31, worked as a school cleaner but seemed to take advantage of his duties after it was found that he took pictures of schoolgirls and female teachers in the toilet. He made a large hole on the floor of the toilet and hid the camera in it to make photos of the intimate parts of the children . More than 90 images were later superi...
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	Microsoft Reached 40 Million Licenses of Vista
...forward to manufacture products for Windows Home Server. The new software has the goal of helping families with multiple PCs to centralize easier and share with and protect digital content, including pictures, documents, audio and video files. Powered by www.infoniac.com. ...
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