Designer wears her chain-mail gown and is then shocked with half a million volts of electricity

The dress was created by Dutch designer Anouk Wipprecht (pictured) in partnership with band ArcAttack, which makes music using Tesla coils. It consists of a spiked helmet and plate-metal dress secured in a head-to-toe suit of chain mail

This is quite strange. 
Dutch artist,  Anouk Wipprecht wore a full metal dress and used it to conduct electricity from two giant Tesla coils. The metallic clothing was made by a famous Dutch artist Anouk Wipprecht. Ms Wipprecht wore the dress on stage and conducted almost half a million volts as she stood between the coils.

Here's what she had to say;

‘We don't only want to show off a cool project - we also want to educate the viewers by sharing our process to engage and inspire them in the technological facets.

‘Wearing the dress I was standing in between two giant

Sony being sued over Killzone?

Could this be true?
Sony was actually sued over false info about their resolution...

Sony Computer Entertainment is facing a lawsuit over the marketing of Killzone: Shadow Fall's visuals.

The lawsuit, filed by Douglas Ladore in Northern District California court, claims the game's multiplayer doesn't run at a full 1080p resolution as advertised by Sony through its videos, website, social media and retail packaging.
"Unfortunately, Sony's marketing and

IBM Builds A Scalable Computer Chip Inspired By The Human Brain?

“I’m holding in my hand a chip with one million neurons, 256 million synapses, and 4096 cores. With 5.4 billion transistors, it’s the largest chip IBM has built.”

Dr. Dharmendra S. Modha sounds positively giddy as he talks to me on the phone. This is the third time I’ve talked to him about his long-term project – an IBM project with the goal of creating an entirely new type of computer chip, SyNAPSE, whose architecture is inspired by the human brain. This new chip is a major success in that project.

“Inspired” is the key word, though. The chip’s architecture is based on the structure of our brains, but very simplified. Still, within that architecture lies some amazing advantages over computers today. For one thing, despite this being IBM’s largest chip, it draws only a tiny amount of electricity – about 63 mW – a fraction of the power being drawn by the chip in your laptop.

What’s more, the new chip is also scalable – making possible larger neural networks of several chips connected together. The details behind their research has been published today in Science.

“In 2011,

Could ants solve GLOBAL WARMING?

They may only be tiny, and live for just three months, but ants could be the key to solving climate change.

Rough harvester ants have been found to ‘weather’ minerals in sand to produce calcium carbonate, also known as limestone.

When the ants make this limestone, the process traps carbon dioxide in the rock, ultimately removing it from the atmosphere. 

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It is unsure how the minerals are converted, however, and theories range from ants licking the sand, to excreting the substance.

The discovery was made by Professor Ronald Dorn from the University of Arizona Tempe.

Professor Dorn buried sand at six sites in the Catalina Mountains in Arizona, and Palo Duro Canyon in Texas, 25 years ago.

Every five years, he measured how much the minerals olivine and plagioclase degraded in the sand, and discovered the ants break down minerals up to 300 times faster than sand left undisturbed.

A little gaming 'helps children': Youngsters who play on a console for an hour a day 'are better behaved'

Children and teenagers who play on computer games for up to an hour a day are better behaved, according to new research.

The Oxford University study suggests that the influence of games such as Nintendo Wii and Sony Playstation on children is “very small” when compared with more ‘enduring’ factors like schooling and wealth.

Researchers found that young people who indulged in a little video game-playing were associated with being better adjusted than those who had never played or those who were on video games for three hours or more.

The study found no positive or negative effects for young people who played ‘moderately’ between one to three hours a day.

However, the study, published in the journal Pediatrics, suggests that the influence of video games on children, for good or for ill, is very small when compared with more ‘enduring’ factors, such as whether the child is from a functioning family, their school relationships, and whether they are materially deprived.

Participants, aged 10 to 15, were asked how much time they typically spent on console-based or computer-based games. The same group also answered questions about how satisfied they were with their lives, their levels of hyperactivity and inattention; empathy; and how they got on with their peers.

The results suggest that three in four British children and teenagers play video games on a daily basis, and that those who spent more than half their daily free time playing electronic games were not as well adjusted.

Download a movie in LESS than the blink of an eye? World's fastest network can download a film in 0.2 MILLISECONDS

The frustration of trying to download a film online, watching the progress bar move mind-bogglingly slowly, may soon be a thing of the past.

Scientists have created the world’s fastest network that can download a movie faster than you can blink.

Danish researchers achieved the feat by creating a next-generation optical fibre that transfers 43 terabits per second.

Scientists have created the world's fastest network that can download a movie faster than you can blink, by using a new type of optical fibre to transfer 43 terabits per second

Oscar Pistorius gets into fight in Johannesburg nightclub.

Johannesburg: Oscar Pistorius, the Paralympic athlete on trial in South Africa for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, got into a fight in a nightclub on Saturday evening with a man who "aggressively engaged" him about the case.
The 27-year-old athlete's spokeswoman confirmed the altercation took place but insisted Pistorius had been sitting quietly in the VIP section of the club, in the upmarket district of Sandton in Johannesburg, when he was approached.

The man, named by South African news website The Juice as Jared Mortimer, claimed Pistorius was "drunk and very aggressive" and poked him in the chest while telling him "you'll never get the better of me".

Transformers: Age Of Extinction' Is Now The Highest-Grossing Movie Of 2014 After Just 2 Weeks

'Transformers: Age Of Extinction' Is Now The Highest-Grossing Movie Of 2014 After Just 2 Weeks Paramount Pictures Poor reviews haven't hurt "Transformers: Age of Extinction." The Paramount film may sit at 17% on film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, but the sequel is now the highest-grossing movie of the year after being at the box office for little more than two weeks. That's due in large part to the film's phenomenal performance overseas in China. While the movie has made $209 million domestically, the film has soared in the foreign country making more than $262 million.

Beyonce and Jay-Z put on defiant front as speculation persists about their marriage

Jul 15, 2014 00:25 By Chris Richards The pair have published a photo showing them looking at ease in each other's company during an afternoon stroll Beyonce and Jay-Z are showing a defiant front as speculation about their marriage continues to swirl - if this picture is anything to go by at least. The photo shows the Halo singer and her rapper husband taking a stroll together through a garden. The couple aren't holding hands, nor are they close to one another, but dressed in casual, summer attire they appear to be at ease in each other's company.

BBC RAPED FOR NAMING ED SHEERAN ''MOST IMPORTANT ACT IN BLACK MUSIC''

A British rapper has attacked the BBC for putting singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran at the top of its list of 'The Most Important Acts In Black And Urban Music'. The list, compiled for digital channel BBC 1 Xtra, also includes Disclosure at number two and Sam Smith at four – meaning three out of the top four acts were white. 'Godfather of Grime' Wiley – who made it into the list at number 16 – hit out on twitter at what he referred to as “the saddest list in music history”. Wiley tweeted: “Not taking anything away from Ed. He is sick. But black artists in England, we are getting bumped... We influence a man and all of a sudden it turns he has influenced us.” He later added: “England (sic) music industry is backwards.” The highest ranking black act in the list was Tinie Tempah, at number three, but the BBC defended their choices and insisted that the decisions were made irrespective of colour. Entertainmentwise quoted a BBC spokesperson as saying: “Artists were considered on variables such as sales statistics, quality of music and impact across the wider industry. “It is not about the colour of someone’s skin.” Source from http://entertainment.stv.tv/music/282683-bbc-rapped-for-naming-ed-sheeran-most-important-act-in-black-music/