Unfortunately Placed Ads

clipped from www.oddee.com Ad on the bus reads: "If you don't gave GIO Third Party Property Insurance, we suggest you don't hit this bus"

Study predicts 75% overweight in U.S. by 2015

The Diet industry is going to grow and grow in revenue

clipped from www.reuters.com If people keep gaining weight at the current rate, fat will be the norm by 2015, with 75 percent of U.S. adults overweight and 41 percent obese, U.S. researchers predicted on Wednesday. A team at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore examined 20 studies published in journals and looked at national surveys of weight and behavior for their analysis, published in the journal Epidemiologic Reviews. "Obesity is a public health crisis. If the rate of obesity and overweight continues at this pace, by 2015, 75 percent of adults and nearly 24 percent of U.S. children and adolescents will be overweight or obese," Dr. Youfa Wang, who led the study, said in a statement. They defined adult overweight and obesity using a standard medical definition called body mass index. People with a BMI of 25 or above are considered overweight, while those with BMIs of 30 or above are obese and at serious risk of heart disease, diabetes and some cancers.

fingers as credit cards

The Japanese revenge on america, Don't need a Social Security card for credit

clipped from physorg.com Japanese look at fingers as credit cards An employee of Hitachi demonstrates a cash machine using a biometric security system to read the user's fingers during a press conference in Tokyo in 2005. Taking the idea of a cashless society to a new level, the Japanese company has said it will try out a way to let customers pay simply by scanning their finger. Taking the idea of a cashless society to a new level, a Japanese company said Monday it will try out a way to let customers pay simply by scanning their finger. The system uses biometric technology to identify the veins on a person's finger, which can then serve as a credit card or ATM card. Electronics maker Hitachi Ltd., which developed the technology with credit card maker JCB Co. Ltd., said the system was the ultimate in security. "The growing use of credit cards is leading banking institutions to introduce reliable security based on biometrics to prevent fraud," Hitachi said in a statement.

Plants tell sensor when they need a drink

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clipped from www.abc.net.au Tracy Staedter A clip-on sensor the size of a fly's wing could save farmers' time and money, scientists say. How do you know when your plants have had enough to drink? Monitor their chemical profile with a sensor, scientists say The sensor works with a wireless network to alert the farmer when crops need water or can even start irrigation systems automatically. "We're talking about saving 30-40% of water used," says the technology's inventor, Dr Hans Seelig, a research associate at the University of Colorado at Boulder's BioServe Space Technologies Center. "If you have an irrigation system that applies water in certain sectors, you could be even more efficient," he says. Seelig and his team are working towards a wireless version that uses radio frequency identification, or RFID. This technology allows not only the data, but also the power to be transmitted wirelessly, eliminating the need for batteries. The sensor would be clipped permanently to a leaf during the growing season