Tag: DENMARK

In studying cell phones' effects on human health, University of California Los Angeles researchers have concluded that pregnant mothers who use cell phones are more likely to have children with behavioral problems. Although lead researcher and epidemiologist Dr. Leeka Kheifets is reticent to say that cell phone exposure causes such problems, she did tell Reuters: "It is hard to understand how such ...

Nearly forty years after Yuri Gagarin became the first person in outer space, Denmark is set to become the fourth nation ever to put a man into orbit (following Russia, the U.S., and China). More importantly, however, they are doing it without government funding, and, if successful, will be the first nation in history to do so. The team, the Copenhagen Suborbitals, is made up of Danish ...

Usually, you have to hop on a plane for Japan -- or at the very least, find a savvy importer -- to get your hands on the best new gadgets around, but to land a Copenhagen Wheel, you won't have to go quite as far. Unveiled yesterday by a team of MIT students at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, the aptly named Copenhagen Wheel is aimed at city cyclists ...

Turning yourself into the police is never all that fun. Unless, that is, you're on a crusade to catch the government in a sticky web of legal contradiction. A martyr man in Denmark is on such a holy mission to prove a point about the Danish government's legislation on anti-piracy. After unsuccessfully lobbying an anti-piracy group for a trial, Henrik Anderson has now taken the plunge and gone ...

Since we already have a color-coded system to tell us how afraid we should be, it only makes sense that someone would create a similarly colorful metric to tell us whether or not we should wear galoshes tomorrow, right? That's exactly what a cool new building called 'Tomorrow's Weather' does. The eight-story structure in Copenhagen, Denmark, designed by Swedish art duo Bigert & ...

Most of the times we see a Wii remote controlling something tangible, it's for something entertaining -- like an airsoft gun or Rovio. The Casmobot lawnmower, however, developed by scientists from the University of Southern Denmark, is actually quite useful if you loathe outdoor chores. You can steer it into grass-cutting action simply by tilting the Wii-mote, which is synced to the mower with ...

Note to Roomba owners -- shut that bad boy off before leaving the house and arming the alarm system. In what we can only imagine was a pretty comical scene, a runaway Roomba in a Denmark home tripped the motion sensors after it acted on its itch to suck up a few pints of dust and debris while its owners were out on the town. Once the alarm was tripped, authorities were automatically phoned in to ...