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