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Having the ability to paint or draw is a gift not all of us have. But even among those that can draw well, some people just excel at it.
The people you see in these photos are not real. They are in fact a painting on a wall done so well the characters look as though they are popping out of the wall and even standing in front of it. There is no camera trickery or computers involved here, this is just paint on a flat surface.
The artist who created these paintings is David Kassan.
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Do you know anyone who is waiting with bated breath for Microsoft to launch Windows Phone 7 on November 8th?
Probably not.
I mean, it is awfully hard to explain to the masses why they should ditch their BlackBerries, Androids and iPhones for an untested Son-of-Kin.
Indeed, even the most shameless Microsoft fanboi is likely to think twice before taking the plunge into a dark world of endless mobile bloat that reeks like the haunted River Styx. <
Your smartphone or touchscreen tablet is not your friend — not with flu season approaching.
“If you’re sharing the device, then you’re sharing your influenza with someone else who touches it,” warns Stanford University doctoral student Timothy Julian, discussing deadly digital disease-delivery devices with The Sacramento Bee.
Julian was a co-author of a virus-transmission study in Risk Analysis, published by the sure-to-be-the-life-of-the-party guys ‘n’ gals at the Society for Risk Analysis.
The study by Julian and his band of bug boffins determined that viruses can easly be transmitted by touch — so stop sharing your phone, especially if the person to whom you’re about to pass it has rheumy eyes, a raspy voice, or just coughed into their sleeve.
“If you put virus on a surface, like an iPhone, about 30 per cent of it will get on your fingertips,” Julian warned, noting that “a fair amount of it may go from your fingers to your eyes, mouth or nose.”
Or, as the abstract for his study describes his team’s research methodology: “We develop a stochastic-mechanistic model of exposure to rotavirus from nondietary ingestion iterated by simulated intermittent fomes-mouth, hand-mouth, and hand-fomes contacts.”
A “fomes”, by the way, is the singular of “fomites”, which our dictionary defines as “objects or materials that are likely to carry infection, such as clothes, utensils, and furniture.”
Or your iPhone, Droid, BlackBerry Torch, iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab, or any number of other 21st-century touchscreen plague rats.
Although Julian’s study focused on viruses, bacteria also have an affinity for phones. Aft
It’s midterm season students, why not help yourselves out with a powerful notebook to pull you through it all?
The HP Pavilion dm4 14-inch notebook is sized just right for stow and go computing while not sacrificing too much screen space. It has also got plenty of processing power to chug with, due to its standard Core i5 processor, 4GB of DDR3 ram, and Intel HD graphics. The only thing we suggest is to upgrade to the Core i7 processor and a free 500GB 7200rpm The storage device that holds your OS, programs, and data.Learn Morehard drive for maximum computing prowess.
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Raptr, a social network for gamers, just released an iPhone app that makes it even easier to track your friends’ gaming habits on Xbox Live, PSN and Steam. It’s a pretty nice way to keep in touch across platforms.
You’ll need to get a Raptr account to start but you can sync it up with your Xbox Live, PSN and Steam accounts to get all your gaming friends and their updates displayed in one stream. For Xbox Live users, you can even send and receive messages to your friends (which is way easier to do on the iPhone than on the Xbox controller). If you game regularly on multiple platforms, give Raptr a try. Free. [iTunes via TUAW]