This is the smallest planet discovered outside our solar system so far

 

NASA telescopes have discovered that, so far, is the smallest planet discovered outside our solar system, being part of something like a miniature planetary system. The planet is located in a system 210 light years from Earth and has been named Kepler-37b. As you can see in the image below comparative, the little planet is approximately equal to the size of the Moon, which indicates to what extent they are able to refine the systems current planet detection.

The project of the NASA Kepler is designed to find extrasolar planets located in the habitable orbit of a star, ie, in an area not too close or too far away to be found that life as we know it and liquid water. As technology advances can discover even more distant planets and smaller as the Kepler-37b, although in this case it appears that the surface temperature of the planet is not very conducive for life to exist: more than 400 degrees Celsius because it is closer to its star than Mercury is to our Sun

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New trend in Japan: The girls in miniskirts legs turned into billboards

 

Japan is known among other things because it is an inexhaustible source of ideas and inventions really strange that you do not find elsewhere in the world, although in this case seems to have curly curl. A mix of current fashion trends and marketing in a rather curious stockings girls in miniskirts just turned into billboards advertising products of all kinds. A change to become walking advertisements receive money.


The company is undertaking this new advertising technique called Absolute Territory PR and already has 1,300 girls participating in the project. In some countries there are similar advertising systems, for example, a few years ago you could sell your car adding space ads and earn a few euros that.

However, this Japanese advertising company not mince words and says 'ads should be where people look', so from that point of view one of the best sites seems to be in the legs of the girls who walk by streets of cities in Japan.

Actually the system seems to work in every way, advertisers are happy and over the past year more than 1,000 women were registered to rent her legs in exchange for a sum of money but obviously not everyone accepted for work . First the girls must have good presence, should use short clothes so that the ads are clearly visible, walking for 8 hours a day and they must post on social networking taking pictures of themselves advertising messages.

Do we expect a world full of people-ad? Surely in countries that are suffering problems of crisis would be an idea that would convince many: you get paid to walk down the street and it is always better to take one of those classic signs and heavy 'ad man'.

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They make a real-looking ear with a 3D printer

3D printers are becoming one of the great hopes for the world of medicine. Imagine here print parts of your body that you need them as easily as you get parts for your car. So far we obtained some successes in this regard and the last one can contemplate in the image below: an ear made with a 3D printer looks like a real human ear.

The ear has been achieved combining information technology and bioengineering, ie consists of organic material, even when you know the details of the feeling perhaps that the invention is less attractive than it appeared. The invention in question operates in this manner: first scanning is performed digitized patient's ear that is to be replicated or digitally drawn using an appropriate software. Once you design a mold is achieved thanks to the 3D printer.

The mold is filled with a collagen based substance obtained from cells found in rat tails (this is the strangest part of all, because you just might say a 'rat ear' attached to the head) and millions cartilage cells obtained from a cow. Finally it bathe all in a nutrient substance for cell culture grow and adapt to the shape of the mold.

Scientists say it takes half a day in the mold design, print a day, 30 minutes to inject the gel solution and 15 minutes later you have the ear list. Hopefully will get similar techniques to get other body organs.

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Millionaire wants to send humans to Mars and bring them back in 2018

 

Some experts say that in a few decades someone send a manned spacecraft to Mars and humans may their mark on the red planet. However, it is possible that this historic feat and technological forward as they say there, next to the corner, in 2018. Behind this project is Dennis Tito , an American billionaire who became one of the world's first space tourists around the year 2001. Now is willing to contribute money to found what he called the 'Mars Foundation, an organization whose main objective is to send two people to Mars on a mission that would last more than 500 days of travel and culminating in just 5 years from today.

The election of 2018 is not merely technical issues, this year is that Mars has a favorable alignment with Earth to begin a space trip of this nature. If this opportunity is lost in that year would have to wait until 2031.

The astronauts would be sent on a spacecraft to Mars where they would spend a few hours before returning, but not long enough to leave a mark on the planet, take samples and make your way back.

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Apple supplier faces law for polluting a river in China

A manufacturer of case for the iPad has been sanctioned by the government of Shanghai because they have contaminated a local river, reports the Financial Times. Dumping waste into the river by Riteng, Casetek subsidiary, has slowly contaminated water since it opened # 3 Songjiang factory two years ago. There are hardly any live fish in the river, and local farmers say they can not use their water to irrigate crops.

The latest incident took place a few weeks ago during the celebration of Chinese New Year, when some workers threw debris into the river, and the company has stated that this should not be the case and that was a mistake on their employees. Fengqiang Liu, one of the environmental leaders in the area, not quite agree with the version of events offered by the company and insists that the housing management is the real culprit of this.

It was requested that representatives of Riteng explain the case at a hearing next week, and no-shows, the local government has said it will have the worst punishment.

Apple has refused to comment on it, but has said yes Riteng iPad manufactures some parts, but have not opened my mouth for anything else. Surely in the coming days we will have more developments.

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Samsung Galaxy launch a low-priced camera

 

On Tuesday, Samsung has announced that it will release a cheaper version of its popular Galaxy camera, which as we know runs the Android operating system. The new camera Galaxy have all the same features found in the original model that was released in the month of November, but the big exception is that it will not have 3G or 4G connectivity, only WiFi available. Samsung announced a whole line of cameras at CES 2013, and it is likely that this is the first model of many others to come.

We do not know what the price of this new camera, but the company has said it will be cheaper and also ideal for those who do not require a permanent connection. So you know, you can be our for some amount less than $ 500.

Remember that the camera Samsung Galaxy has a 16 megapixel CMOS sensor, HD touch screen and a 4.8-inch quad-core processor at 1.4GHz.

Would you buy the new version of the Galaxy camera?

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The PS4 could cost less than $ 600 as the CEO of Sony America

The Sony press event organized last February 20th left us with more questions than answers. The CEO of Sony America, Jack Tretton, answered several questions after the announcement of the PlayStation 4.

The interesting question everyone is obviously much will the PS4 and whether it will be as expensive as the PS3 when it was released about 7 years ago. Tretton did not give a direct answer, but it was more like an evasion, and he said he "hopes" that the price is less than $ 600. Consider now a PS3 can be purchased from $ 250, so obviously hope to bring the price of the PS4 between these two amounts mentioned. The idea of the company is that the PS4 is more friendly to our pockets, but have not yet decided on a final price.

As for the absence of the console in the event announcement, Tretton said he found it necessary to make it known yet, after all, once it is ours, we will look at what will be playing our TV screen and not the console other.

He also said that some aspects of the PS4 are not yet finished, and polish some things missing and some design specifications. Something similar happened with the PS3, which is said to be announced that would have all kinds of ports that were not part of the final product, so do not be surprised if the same applies to the new PS4.

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Google plans to launch the Glass this year for less than $ 1500

Google hopes to launch the consumer version of Glass glasses before year end. The device will be offered for sale with a price of less than $ 1500, or at least that's what the company hopes to do. Recall that $ 1500 was the price paid for software developers Explorer version of the Glass Eye.

The Glass are able to connect to devices like the iPhone and Android smartphones via Bluetooth to get a data connection, plus WiFi and GPS feature.

Several days ago Google released a video which shows how great is the interface of your glasses, further demonstrating that we can use the various functions using voice commands and through touch controls. Besides this, the company has opened a sort of competition to pre-order the Glass. The idea is to explain the uses we would give the device. Obviously, the more creative and useful applications will be the grand prize, which is certainly not a copy of the glasses, but invitations to future events related to Glass, plus the possibilities to pre-order them.

What do you think will be the final price of the glasses Glass of Google? Will the company sell for under $ 1500?

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