Dispensary Corner 13 Nov 12
November 13, 2012
HOW about this as an incentive to
keep moving as you age?
Ideal for tech-savvy grannies, a
new rocking chair has been
launched by a Swiss company
which charges your electronic
gadgets while you sit in it.
The Micasa Labs iRock generates
power from the rocking motion,
with its creators claiming that an
hour of rocking will charge an iPad
to 35%.
And so you can listen to your
favourite music at the same time,
the iRock also comes with an iPad
or iPod dock and a pair of speakers
integrated in the backrest.
HEALTH and safety gone mad.
A BBC host in the UK has
expressed amazement after he
was banned from listening into a
distant planet on live TV in case
the aliens breached health, safety
and editorial guidelines.
Professor Brian Cox runs a BBC2
show called Stargazing Live, and
recently featured a planet
discovered by two amateur
astronomers called Threapleton
Holmes B.
He wanted to listen to the new
celestial body live on air, but was
told “you can’t do that because
we need to go through the
regulations and health and safety
and everything in case we
discover a signal from an alien
civilisation”.
Apparently the BBC bosses were
concerned that any new lifeforms
might swear during the broadcast.
FOUR creative African girls have
invented a urine-powered
generator which is able to
produce electricity for up to six
hours from one litre of wee.
The generator works by
separating hydrogen from the
urine in an electrolytic cell,
purifying it in a water filter and
then passing it through liquid
borax before igniting it to operate
a magneto.
It was unveiled at a science fair
in Lagos, Nigeria last week.
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