A sore throat is not exactly what you’d expect from an appendix operation, not so for Mr Scholtz, 42, who secured a place in medical history by having his appendix removed through his mouth.
There are more than 50 million people passing away each year, imagine the negative environmental impact that would have with traditional burial and cremation practices. Death is something that nobody want to talk about, but maybe when we finally leave this earth, wouldn’t we want to leave behind a cleaner planet for the ones we left behind?
IKEA the Swedish furniture giant have stepped up their marketing campaign for the opening of their new retail outlet at Port Island on April 14 by turning the Kobe Portliner Monorail, Japan into a traveling showroom.
For some reason, there are people out there who just have to take a perfectly simple and well proven item of technology and make it over complicated. The sundial was the ancient forerunner to the clock. The problem is that it only works when the sun shines.
Dr. Ray LaPierre of the Department of Engineering at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario showed Joel Johnson of Boing Boing Gadgets this amazing picture of the McMaster school logo Ion-etched onto a human hair. The picture hasn’t been published online before until Joel put it on Boing Boing Gadgets.
The Gates Head Millennium Bridge spanning the River Tyne in the UK is not your ordinary drawbridge. This concept actually tilts, rather than opening, to allow ships pass underneath.
The Millennium Bridge unusual design came from a competition held by the local government back in 1996. There were 150 designs submitted, but in the end, Wilkinson & Eyre Architects took the prize with their unusual concept.
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