All Entries in the "Health" Category
Go Invisible
Here’s a cool green suit that you can use with any Chroma Key video effect to disappear on camera. The idea is that you can use it while standing in front of a green screen to manipulate objects while remaining completely invisible. The Video Green Full Cover Suit is also available in blue and in [...]
Foot Long Cheeseburger
Only in America: a foot-long cheeseburger. A cheeseburger sold as a foot-long sandwich, with three burgers and three cheese slices, is being tested at 50 Carl’s Jr. restaurants in Southern California and 50 Hardees units in Indiana. That’s the same chain that introduced the world to the 1,400-calorie Monster Burger and the Monster Breakfast Sandwich, [...]
NYC’s First Electric Vehicle Charging Station
GE may be taking time in launching designer electric vehicle charging stations, although Coulomb Technologies is already deploying quite a lot of free charge spots. The startup, which is installing nearly 5,000 public and home charging stations across the U.S. as part of the $37 million ChargePoint America program, unveiled its first New York City [...]
Oil Hits Florida Beaches
The BP Gulf Oil Disaster is just that. And the only clean up story circulating right now is the contract actor Kevin Costner has struck with BP. So if you are currently on the west coast of Florida and want to spend a sunny day on the beach, Think again! At least if you’re in [...]
Sunscreen Could Give You Cancer
This report actually made me laugh, because who are you to believe? Sunscreen is supposed to protect us from cancer, but with more and more people actually getting skin cancer these days, maybe it’s these man made products and not the sun after all? A new report from the Environmental Working Group claims that many [...]
New York: Urban Farms
Illustration by Don Foley. So New York’s concrete jungle is about to get more green, nice! Thanks to Gotham Greens, which is building a hydroponic rooftop farm in Brooklyn. The eco-efficient farm will take a small bite out of the $2 billion in produce that’s trucked into the city each year. Here’s how it works. [...]
