entelehet blog: October 2010

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Unusual Chicken Ever' Wearing Clothes | 7 pics

Unusual Chicken Ever Wearing Clothes :

Zero Emission Car | Volvo Air Motion Canyon Carver

Yet another entrant to the LA Auto Show design challenge is the Volvo Air Motion Canyon Carver that is powered by air turbines harnessing power of wind and converting it to electric energy, and all this is done floating 1,000 feet high in the air.

The vehicle weights less than a formula-1 racing car (made out of carbon fiber material) and to achieve this thousands of fewer components are used the credit for which goes to a powerful compressed air motor that eliminates the need for a heavy internal combustion engine.

This motor cools down under intense driving load thereby shedding-off another important component that is a cooling system. Here Are The Volvo Air Motion zero-emission car design :

To compress the air needed for the air tank, Air Replenishment sites are used that too are powered by air turbines. Talking about the looks Volvo Air Motion has a beautifully carved Scandinavian body from ultra light carbon fiber which looks more like a clam shell.

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Vehicle For Adventures' Black Widow 4WD by Juan Pantano

Black Widow 4WD is specifically designed for mountain lovers and adventurers. This vehicle was inspired by nature and the need getting the feel of nature.

The designer says that this concept is a fusion between organic forms of nature and robust design. The Black Widow spider idea came from the need to unify the seat with the bumper to highlight the idea of protection and containment.

Ride this vehicle, feel the wind and the power of nature around you.
Here Are Vehicle For Adventures' Black Widow 4WD designer by Juan Pantano :

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Male Spiders' Prefer Virginity to Size

Washington: A new study has revealed that male spiders that get to have sex only once or twice in their lives are far more interested in a female spider’s virginity than in her size. Most male wasp spiders have only a single shot at love because their female partners eat them right after copulation.

Even those (doubly) lucky guys that escape this sexual cannibalism, however, can mate only one more time before their skirt-chasing days are over. The study’s findings have illustrated an unusual battle of the sexes in the animal kingdom.

“Usually the general wisdom is that the male sex has a large number of sperm cells, so the male is rather unlimited [in fertilizing] as many females as he can find,” Live Science quoted Jutta Schneider, a co-author of the study, as saying. “At the second of genital contact - it’s very easy to observe - the female suddenly bends, and it looks like he stabs her.

“Then he has only seconds to complete his mission before she starts to take silk out of her spinnerets” in order to ensnare him,” said Schneider. For the experiment, researchers placed two females - one heftier than the other - before roving male spiders in the laboratory and in nature.

Regardless of how voluptuous they were, most female spiders received a randy male visitor or two. But contrary to the researchers’ expectations, virgins emerged as the clear favourite. Among 21 pairs of females wherein one female went from virgin to non-virgin, the virgins attracted and mated with 12 male spiders. Only one male opted to have sex with an experienced partner.

In another recent study in Biology Letters, Schneider and colleagues suggested that male spiders can detect if a potential paramour is actually one of their sisters who, like them, never wandered too far from the shrub of their birth. The study was published in Animal Behaviour. Source(ANI)

How the Brain Forms Habits

Washington: A new study from MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research has shown that brain’s habit formation appears to be an innate ability that is fine-tuned by experience- specifically, the costs and rewards of certain choices. Neuroscientists led by Institute Professor Ann Graybiel found that untrained monkeys performing a simple visual scanning task gradually developed efficient patterns that allowed them to minimize the time it took to receive their reward.

The task was designed to mimic natural scenarios - a nearly infinite number of choices for the monkeys to make and an unpredictable reward structure. “We wanted to create an environment that would be similar to the world we walk around in every day - an environment where there are lots of choices the animal can make,” says Theresa Desrochers, an MIT graduate student and lead author of a paper.

The findings not only help reveal how the brain forms habits, but also could shed light on neurological disorders where amplified habit-formation results in highly repetitive behavior, such as Tourette’s syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder and schizophrenia, says Graybiel. Graybiel and Desrochers took an unusual approach to their study. In most behavioral studies of monkeys, the researchers first train the animals to perform a task, then begin experiments. In this case, Graybiel and Desrochers wanted to see if the monkeys could learn a simple visual free-scanning task with no training at all.

The researchers measured the monkeys’ eye movements and brain activity as they looked at a grid of either four or nine dots. In each trial, after a period of time when the monkey just looked around, a different dot was randomly chosen to be “baited,” meaning that the monkey succeeded in the trial when its gaze landed on that dot. After a successful trial ended, the monkey received a food reward.

While the task itself is simple, it is capable of generating a rich variety of behavior, due to the number of choices available to the animals. The monkeys performed such trials about 1,000 times a day, and over several months, they developed ways to look at all of the different dots in sequences that were more and more cost-effective - meaning that they reached the target dot faster.

The changes were gradual: The animals would use one pattern for five to 10 days, then shift to a slightly different pattern. When looking at the entire mass of data, the researchers couldn’t tell what was driving these changes.

However, a trial-by-trial analysis revealed that very small variations in the scanning patterns could reduce the overall time to receive the reward, which would then reinforce that behavior and lead the monkey to adopt the new pattern.

“The upshot was that tiny little changes in cost - how far they moved the eyes - seemed to be driving these shifts until they did it as optimally as they could, despite the fact that they had never been instructed,” says Graybiel. This suggests that primates have an “inborn tendency to maximize reward and minimize cost,” says Graybiel. She and Desrochers believe the same kind of phenomenon, known as reinforcement learning, may also guide human habit formation.

“When you drive to work, it’s never going to take exactly the same amount of time. You might try one different street to avoid a stoplight, or some other subtle variation. At some point, you may completely shift,” says Desrochers. The study has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (ANI) Source

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Cool Albinos Monkey Photos | 10 pics

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Alexandria Mills The Miss World 2010

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Hainan, : Alexandria Mills (18) U.S. origin, was crowned Miss World 2010 in a coronation ceremony in Hainan, China, Saturday (30/10) night.

Alexandria Mills leaving his two closest rivals, Emma Wareus from Botswana, first runner-up and Adriana Vasini from Venezuela, the second runner-up in the final night of Miss World 2010.

Alexandria Mills came from Louisville, Kentucky. The girl had just graduated from high school.

Contestants from China, Tang Xiao, made it into the top five.

More than 100 countries to send their representatives to participate in this 60th Miss World.

Electric Motorcycle Wears Aggressively Stunning Looks | Paolo De Giusti’s

Italian designer Paolo De Giusti has created a stunning electric concept bike called the Big Battery naked se.

The unique concept incorporates an aggressively look with an all black and silver coloring. Above everything else, the bike is eco-friendly and is powered by a shared battery system.

The user can swap the empty battery with a fully charged one at an automatic robot station envisaged by the designer.

Here Are the Electric Motorcycle Wears Aggressively Stunning Looks designer by Paolo De Giusti .

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Futuristic car concept | Nike One Concept

Total Concept

The work of Nike and the makers of Gran Tourismo 4, a totally fictional car that had a whole history creatively fabricated for the GT4 release party.
These images have been around a while but I just come across them again and thought they where worth putting out there again.

“The dramatic and futuristic design of the Nike ONE with its athlete focus, stretched surfaces and less-is-more philosophy is directly inspired from the principles of Nike founder Bill Bowerman” explains Phil Frank, Principal Phil Frank Design, LLC.

”We went to great lengths to understand what a Nike car should be,” explains Frank. “There were many discussions and concepts that evolved to ultimate solution, a very Nike solution for what a future performance vehicle should be.”

”As Nike is an athletic company, we understood there had to be more to the concept than just another fast car” says Frank. “The athlete is the critical part of this vehicle, so we designed from that perspective, taking our inspiration and learning from the human body, its motion and dynamics.”

”You don’t just drive this vehicle, you are a part of it,” explains Frank. “There is much more required to master this vehicle than being a great driver, it is just as important to be at peak physical performance.”

”An athlete training to drive the Nike ONE uses a physical resistance simulator, that mimics the vehicle’s controls, along with the digital simulation within GT4 to train their muscles and mind for specific tracks and competition scenarios,” explains Frank, “it’s the ultimate in convergent technologies.”

”The driver’s position is akin to a stretched out motorcycle rider”s, but with the added efficiency of clip-in pedals,” says Frank, “to accelerate/decelerate the athlete uses the large muscles of the leg and arms, thus the physical training that is needed to master the Nike ONE”

”The unique drive train, chassis, suspension and wheel layout leverage the future of nano-technologies,” explains Frank. “When you are working in a blue sky environment it is always important to have one foot in reality and the other one as far forward as possible.”

Some ‘Fake’ Details

The Nike ONE would utilize heads-up display with race line tracking, NikeMax Optics Smart Glass that adjusts color to conditions for optimal contrast and clarity, Hub-less MMIW micro-motor-in-wheel, carbon/titainium weave flex frame/suspension, active aero, variable profile regrind tires (motorcycle-like strait line profile and racing slick-like cornering profile) combined with active camber/caster, Nike SHOX seat suspension to name a number of the high-end innovations.
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Elephant's trunk Got bitten by crocodile

Fun Drinking, Elephant Trunk was bitten by Crocodile

During this often heard how fierce tiger or lion hunt prey Africa, such as horses, cattle, bison, buffalo, and deer. Or crocodiles that lurk the animals were drinking near the swamp hideout.

However, there is a rare occurrence that was caught on camera amateur photographer named JohanJohan Opperman (38) when visiting the Kruger National Park in South Africa. This photo was published by The Sun, October 28, 2010.

In the photo it appears the child is engrossed elephant with its trunk drinking swamp water. Suddenly, a large crocodile emerged from the swamp and it proboscis straight clamp with strong molar teeth.

The attraction between an elephant and a crocodile of children take a few moments. Children elephant also has a strong power so it can pull it up to the mainland crocodile marsh boundary.

Children elephant roaring and called his family shortly elephant troupe came to help.
The elephant was trying to save the child with wail and stepped on his foot alligator body. The scene is much like the fight between the elephants and crocodiles.
Because the herd of elephants and crocodiles beaten for his life, eventually prey is in sight it was secrete.
Johan said the incident during the day and do not usually crocodile dare mess with this giant animal. Was predictable, crocodile failed lunch. "I think this is very rare and, to my knowledge, crocodiles do not usually try to catch the elephants," said Johan.Via: Source

Zombie - The Cranberries

Music video by The Cranberries performing Zombie. (C) 1994 The Island Def Jam Music Group

Zombie - The Cranberries
Another head hangs lowly,
Child is slowly taken.
And the violence caused such silence,
Who are we mistaken?

But you see, it's not me, it's not my family.
In your head, in your head they are fighting,
With their tanks and their bombs,
And their bombs and their guns.
In your head, in your head, they are crying...

In your head, in your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie,
Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head,
In your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, dou, dou, dou, dou, dou...

Another mother's breakin',
Heart is taking over.
When the vi'lence causes silence,
We must be mistaken.

It's the same old theme since nineteen-sixteen.
In your head, in your head they're still fighting,
With their tanks and their bombs,
And their bombs and their guns.
In your head, in your head, they are dying...

In your head, in your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie,
Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head,
In your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, oh, oh,
Oh, oh, oh, oh, hey, oh, ya, ya-a...

Halloween Costumes For Baby | 42 Images

Halloween Costumes For Baby :