Saturday, March 29, 2014

MA Xiuxian - 102 year old Woman becomes Worlds Oldest Student

  • Proving you are never too old to learn, a chinese Grandmother attended School for the first time at the age of 102. 
  • Ma Xiuxian needed ao use a hearing aid and magnifying glass when she joined first - graders at elementary school in shandong province.
  • The mother of nine never had a chance to go school and worked in a  cotton mill from the age of 13.

Friday, March 21, 2014

World's First playable Ice Piano

World's First playable Ice piano
  • The world's first playable piano made entirely of ice was displayed at the snow sculpture Art expo in Harbin, North East China at January 10, 2008.
  • Visitors did not need to be  musical maestros to tickle the icy ivories as it was programmed to automatically play a repertoire of 30 classic pieces.

Monday, March 17, 2014

World Smallest Woman - Jyoti Amge

  • Indian teenager jyoti Amge is tinier than a toddler and weight just 12 pounds at 20 years.
  • Jyoti Amge (born 16 December 1993), a resident of Nagpur, India, is the world's smallest living woman according to the Limca Book of Records and Guinness Book of Records.
  • People in her hometown of Nagpur treat her like a mini celebrity and some even regard her as a Goddess.
  • Jyoti suffers from a form of dwarfism and will never grow any taller,yet,despite her small stature,she has big ambitions.
  • She has already released an album with bhangra/rap star Mika singh and dreams of becoming a Bollywood Star.

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Baby Bot

  • Researches at Tokyo University are using a robot baby, named Noby, to study child development.Noby has been programmed to behave like a nine- month old.
  • He has 600 sensors across his body so he can feel touch, while cameras and microphones in his head allow him to see and hear.

Monday, March 10, 2014

NAT2 Transformable shoe - From sneakers to slip on




  • NAT 2 is a 2 in 1 shoes able to transform from sneakers to shoes.
  • Looking like a canvas shoe on the outside the shoe can be converted into a sandal just by unzipping the sole.
  • you could use the shoe in Summer as well as winter.
  • There are more than 20 different designs and the top of the shoes are interchanagable so you can mix and match the soles with different uppers.

Monday, March 3, 2014

Robot wedding - Robot Officiates Wedding - Japanese Robot Officiates Wedding

  • Tomohiro shibata and his bride satoko Inoue tied the knot in Tokyo all the attention was on the officiant, as the ceremony was conducted by a robot named i -Fairy.
  • The bride works for the company that makes the four-foot robot and her husband is a professor in robotics.