iHome has announced the iP76 LED Color Changing Speaker Tower with Bluetooth technology. Available in July 2012, the tower contains 16 multi-color LED clusters to create exciting light effects. The three-foot-high speaker can stream music from Bluetooth-enabled devices. It can also charge iPhones and iPods when docked and send video content from your device to your television via the built-in component video outputs. The iP76 will be available in July 2012 at retailers nationwide and on ihomeaudio.com for $199.99.
Evan Stein, Director of Marketing, iHome, says, "We're very excited to release our first speaker tower and believe the design and array of features will make the iP76 stand above the competition."
A new study out of Stanford University found that about 4 percent of the adult U.S population is sleepwalking, and that one third of Americans have sleepwalked at some point in their lives. The phenomenon is much more common than previously believed. People do really bizarre things while sleepwalking: binge eating, randomly emailing people and even violently assaulting a
loved one (which they had no memory of the next morning).
Sleep violence is very serious and puts other family members
at risk. Dr. Carlos Schenck
of the Minnesota Regional Sleep
Disorders Center says that
it is the fight or flight
response taking over while
asleep. They feel a threat,
so they either run away or
fight the perceived threat.
The brain tells the body to move,
and to become violent. Researchers say there is much we do not know about sleep disturbances, which need a great deal more study. ABC News takes a look at some of the strange things people do while sound asleep:
Taylor Swift has released the lyric video for "Eyes Open." The song is one of two songs Taylor Swift wrote for The Hunger Games soundtrack. The words in the lyrics are animated with the help of different types of paper and office supplies on a desk. Take a look:
A rare corpse flower has finally
bloomed at Foster
Botanical Garden in Honolulu.
Horticulturist Scot Mitamura said,
"This was
the first time it has bloomed for us.
It took 10 years."
The plant has a terrible odor which reminds most people of
rotten meat. The odor attracts a specific type of beetle the plant
needs to pollinate. KHON's Brianne Randle says the odor
hits you the minute you go in the door
of th botanical garden. This plant
was donated as a bulb and it's finally
blooming. It only blooms
every 3-5 years and is beautiful.
The plant is endangered. Take a look:
Verizon announced that it is phasing out its unlimited data plans as customers upgrade to faster 4g devices. Customers who have unlimited data plans who don't upgrade their devices will get to keep their plans, for now. But if they upgrade, they won't get unlimited data.
Naturally, customers are furious over the move. The New York Times asked Verizon to clarify the new policy and it sent this statement:
Customers will not be automatically moved to new shared data plans. If a 3G or 4G smartphone customer is on an unlimited plan now and they do not want to change their plan, they will not have to do so.
When we introduce our new shared data plans, Unlimited Data will no longer be available to customers when purchasing handsets at discounted pricing.
Customers who purchase phones at full retail price and are on an unlimited smartphone data plan will be able to keep that plan.
The same pricing and policies will be applied to all 3G and 4GLTE smartphones.
The AP reports on this news and gets some very unhappy customer reactions:
Dawn Casale and Dave
Crofton of One Girl
Cookies in Brooklyn and author of One Girl Cookies: Recipes for Cakes, Cupcakes, Whoopie Pies, and Cookies from Brooklyn's Beloved Bakery, demonstrate how to make
perfect buttercream frosting. Dave says
to use room temperature butter --
it must be soft and easily mixed.
He says the milk should also be room
temperature. He said don't be afraid to
add extra milk so the frosting is not
too dry. He says keep the speed
of the mixer low to medium -- don't
add too much air to it. The vanilla
extract should be high quality, and
vanilla beans are better. If you'd like a colored frosting, you can add food coloring, but don't add too much. It makes the frosting taste strange. Dave says he likes professional food coloring gel, available at a kitchen supply store.
Take a look:
A new study by researchers from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and AARP, has found that older adults who drank coffee -- caffeinated or decaffeinated -- had a lower risk of death overall than others who did not drink coffee.
Coffee drinkers were less likely to die from heart disease, respiratory disease, stroke, injuries and accidents, diabetes, and infections, although the association was not seen for cancer. These results from a large study of older adults were observed after adjustment for the effects of other risk factors on mortality, such as smoking and alcohol consumption. Researchers caution that they can't be sure these associations mean that drinking coffee actually makes people live longer. The results of the study were published in the May 17, 2012, edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Neal Freedman, Ph.D., Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI, and his colleagues examined the association between coffee drinking and risk of death in 400,000 U.S. men and women ages 50 to 71 who participated in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study. Information about coffee intake was collected once by questionnaire at study entry in 1995-1996. Coffee intake was assessed by self-report at a single time point and therefore might not reflect long-term patterns of intake. The participants were followed until the date they died or Dec. 31, 2008, whichever came first.
The researchers found that the association between coffee and reduction in risk of death increased with the amount of coffee consumed. Relative to men and women who did not drink coffee, those who consumed three or more cups of coffee per day had approximately a 10% lower risk of death. Coffee drinking was not associated with cancer mortality among women, but there was a slight and only marginally statistically significant association of heavier coffee intake with increased risk of cancer death among men.
Freedman says, "Coffee is one of the most widely consumed beverages in America, but the association between coffee consumption and risk of death has been unclear. We found coffee consumption to be associated with lower risk of death overall, and of death from a number of different causes. Although we cannot infer a causal relationship between coffee drinking and lower risk of death, we believe these results do provide some reassurance that coffee drinking does not adversely affect health."
Freedman also says, "The mechanism by which coffee protects against risk of death -- if indeed the finding reflects a causal relationship -- is not clear, because coffee contains more than 1,000 compounds that might potentially affect health. The most studied compound is caffeine, although our findings were similar in those who reported the majority of their coffee intake to be caffeinated or decaffeinated."
USA Todayquotes cardiologist Steve Nissen of the Cleveland Clinic who tells the public to ignore the study's findings.
The first poster for Skyfall, which stars Daniel Craig as James Bond, has been revealed. The poster has a classic Bond look. The movie, directed by Sam Mendes, will arrive in theaters in November. The first trailer is expected to be unveiled later this month.
Toshiba's Digital Products Division has announced its new Canvio 3.0 and Canvio Basics 3.0 portable hard drives. The drives offer up to 1.5 terabytes of storage. They also come with USB 3.0 technology. The devices are available in several colors, including black, silver, white, red, blue and green.
The Canvio 3.0 line, which includes a NTFS driver for Macs, ranges from $119.99 for 500GB to $199.99 for the 1.5TB solution. The Canvio Basics 3.0 line ranges from $109.99 for 500GB to $189.99 for the 1.5TB drive.
Coca-Cola has recorded a new song for its Coca-Cola London 2012 Olympic campaign. The song is performed by Mark Ronson and Katy B. Ronson traveled the world gaining inspiration for the song and meeting young athletes to record the sounds of their sport, before teaming up with UK chart-topper Katy B to provide the vocals. he athletes whose sounds form the beat of the track include Maria Espinoza, Dayyan Jaffar, Darius Knight, David Oliver and Kseniya Vdovina. Take a look:
Olympic athletes cover Vogue's June 2012 issue. Some of the athletes featured in the cover shoot include Hope Solo, Serena Williams, Ashton Eaton, and Ryan Lochte. Annie Leibovitz captured the athletes for the cover shoot. Model Karlie Kloss, a former High School cheerleader, posed with the athletes. Karlie is pictured sitting on a basketball hoop in one of the photos and wearing an amazing Alexander McQueen silver-sequin appique dress and embroidered mask inside a locker room in another. You can see the photographs from the shoot here. Take a look:
The Mount Olympia dancers performed last week. Now, the Olympic flame has been handed to Britain's Princess Anne in a ceremony. The ceremony was held at the ancient Panathenaic stadium in Greece. It was a rainy day, but the passing of the flame went smoothly. Take a look:
A smart washstand was on display at a recent expo in Japan. The washstand mirror is a digital screen powered by Android. The mirror can be controlled using hand gestures. It contains a camera and a scale enabling users to record their daily weight. A big downside is the obvious privacy risk of connecting a bathroom mirror to the Internet. Another downside is the possibility of ads while you are washing your hands. Take a look:
Pinterest, a social network that lets users create virtual pinboards, has been valued at $1.5 billion after raising $100 million in a new round of financing. The financing gives Pinterest a lot more money to build its business. It also makes it is a much more expensive acquisition target. Investors believe Pinterest could be used to create a new way of buying things. Some retailers have already started using the site promote products. You can follow us on Pinterest here. Take a look:
Taubman Centers, Inc. has announced that construction will begin this summer on a 640,000 square foot shopping center in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Formerly known as Plaza Internacional, The Mall of San Juan will be a two-level, enclosed mall featuring a 138,000-square-foot Nordstrom and a 100,000-square-foot Saks Fifth Avenue. It will be the first upscale mall on the island and the first and only location in Puerto Rico for both Nordstrom and Saks.
The $405-million shopping center will include more than 100 specialty stores and restaurants, approximately 60 percent of which are anticipated to be new to the island. It will also have a 264-room Crowne Plaza hotel and casino. The mall is anticipated to open in late 2014.
The San Diego Zoo has welcomed two adorable jaguar cubs - a boy and a girl. They are the first surviving jaguar cubs born at the San Diego Zoo since 1989. The mother of the cubs is a jaguar named Nindiri. Take a look:
OraSure's Home HIV test, called OraQuick, received a positive recommendation from the FDA's Blood Products Advisory Committee (BPAC). The committee voted 17-0 that the benefits of the test outweight the risks of false positive and false negative test results. The committee also voted 17-0 that the test is safe and effective for its intended use.
CNN's Elizabeth Cohen says OraQuick is similar to a home pregnancy test and will be available in stores in a few months. The test provides results in 20 minutes. Take a look:
CBS has an interesting new show for fall called Elementary. Set in modern day Manhattan, the show follows Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) who has just come out of rehab. Sherlock's wealthy father requires that Sherlock have a new sober companion to keep an eye on him, Dr. Watson (Lucy Liu). Aidan Quinn also stars. It's a new twist on the classic story. The first trailer looks interesting. Take a look:
This new CBS comedy looks pretty funny. Partners is from the
creators of Will and Grace, David Kohan and Max Mutchnick. The show is based on their lives -- they have been best friends since childhood. Louis
<(I>Ugly Betty's Michael Urie) is gay and Joe <(I>NUMB3RS' David Krumholtz) is straight. Brandon Routh plays the male nurse boyfriend of Louis and Sophia Bush plays Joe's girlfriend.
Some of the fall comedies look so lame. This one really stands out with the snappy dialogue and the great acting. Take a look:
Singer Donna Summer has died at the age of 63 from breast cancer. She was working on a new album at the time of her death. Known as the Queen of Disco, she was known for her numerous number one hits from the 1970s and 1980s, including "Last Dance," "MacArthur Park", "I Feel Love" and "Bad Girls."
She had three multi-platinum albums, and won multiple Grammy Awards and
American Music Awards. Here she sings "She Works Hard for the Money" during a live concert series at The Today Show. She was a true talent that will be missed. Take a look:
You will forget to feed your dog or cat with this Feed-Time Stoneware Pet Dish for the simple fact when it's empty it shows the words " Feed Me" in red writing. To make the bowl easy to clean it is dishwasher safe.
Please note: the price is the one bowl has indicated by the arrow in the photo.
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