From Autoblog: Video: Japanese man makes the best Transformers model we’ve ever seen

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Michael Bay’s Transformers were true enough (for a Bay production, at least) to the original articles in their car and robot states, but their transforming sequences were epilepsy-inducing explosions of cranks and gears that made no sense at all. Admittedly, it didn’t stop us from enjoying the first movie.

But the work of a Japanese modeler is what we’ve been looking for: his Transformer takes us all the way back to the original eightes series when Bumblebee was a Volkswagen Beetle. This is version eight, fitted with 22 servo motors – it even throws punches and does a jig – and we’re told that version nine is on the way. We’d like to humbly request that all research on flying cars stops, and every resource be poured into a production version of this right now. Scroll downto check out the video.

 

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From Lifehacker: Why You Should Stop Wasting Money on Body Detox Products

The world is filled with plenty of myths about health and your body, many of which have been productized. One of the worst offenders is body detoxification, which attempts to sell you products based on the idea that your body is toxic. It’s not, and buying related products is an attempt to fix an issue that doesn’t exist. Brian Dunning of the myth-busting show inFact explains why: More »
 

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From Droid Life: Verizon to Begin Letting You Text 911 During an Emergency, We Say “It’s About Time”

So you’re in a dire situation, but calling 911 might not be either advisable or possible. Verizon is looking to help its customers with that by building an SMS-911 system over the next 12 months. This new system will also come in handy for people with hearing or speech disabilities by allowing people to text 911 to report emergencies.

The FCC has been planning to upgrade their call centers to receive texts and photos even for a few years now, and it seems that things are finally moving in that direction. Somewhere near 70% of all 911 calls come from mobile phones these days it only makes sense that the technology gets scaled up to the times. Verizon expects to start rolling out the service in early 2013 in metropolitan areas.

Via: iOnApple

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