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Yesterday, I wrote about the Electrolux Design Lab concept for 2050, Heart of the Home .  To give you an idea of how out there Heart of the Home is (and I mean that lovingly), the kitchen’s pots and pans are traced into existence with an index finger, and they don’t need to be washed or stored, just erased!  Now, wait until you see what Philips Design has cooked up for 2050! 

The most famous mummy in history, Tutankhamun, has had his artifacts exhumed and studied since 1922.  For the last two years, in an effort to reveal why the Egyptian ‘boy king’ died young, teams of scientists from Egypt, Germany, and Italy, have studied Tut’s DNA and come up with some interesting conclusions.

A free online service from Japan called ‘Last Letter’ lets you send your loved ones a final message… after you’ve drawn your final breath.

Apparently the new trend in high(er) education is to combine alcohol with highly-caffeinated energy drinks.  Oh well.  But those in the University of Florida’s (UF) College of Public Health and Health Professions took an interest in studying the actual effects of this trend….

What a clever and fun design is the Chop Stick Wardrobe.  Not created by an Asian, but by Swiss designer Andreas Saxer, who happens to be a design professor at the Chang-Geng University Taipei in Taiwan.  I’d say Saxer’s Chop Stick Wardrobe just may have been influenced by his stay on the Chinese island.

The Annual TED Conference taking place February 9-13 in Long Beach, California has an elitism about it.  If you have $6000 to spend on an event – If you are an expert in the field of technology, entertainment or design – if you know how to deliver information in a new and innovative fashion – and of course there is that little matter about being invited – you might be worthy of  being considered a TED-Head with TED-Cred. If not, join the rest of us -  the club of TED-Fed D-Listers who can only witness the affair from afar, like a kid with no funds peering into the window of a candy store.

Pretty soon, we’re going to be a very happy nation and it will all be sanctioned by the medical establishment.  Aside from those with serious illnesses getting to take a few legal hits on a marijuana joint daily, our glass or two of wine a day has been shown to support cardiovascular health.  Now, we learn that beer, particularly beer with high levels of malted barley and hops, is good for our bones!

Dependent on what team you are rooting for in this year’s Super Bowl (#SB44), you might be surprised to learn who is winning on the Social Media field of play.

Well, it was bound to happen. As popular as location-based services are becoming, it didn’t take long for the Spamalot Brigade to step in for a little menace and mayhem

Well, it was bound to happen. As popular as location-based services are becoming, it didn’t take long for the Spamalot Brigade to step in for a little menace and mayhem.