World's First Solar Powered Stadium In Taiwan

World's First Solar Powered Stadium In Taiwan

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First Haircut

Everybody is probably afraid of getting a bad haircut. But when you are an @dult, you can talk to your hairdresser and discuss your future hair style. But if you are a child and if this is your first haircut ever, you react differently. How? More images after the break...

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World's First 3D Camera - Fujifilm FinePix Real 3D W3

Fujifilm FinePix Real 3D W3 was the world's first 3D camera, beside launching this first 3D camera, fujifilm would also launch a 3D digital printing service to print the 3D photos that taken from this 3D camera into a special 3D paper shortly. Unlike the 3D films in cinemas, special glasses do not need to be worn to show the 3D image. Fujifilm's Real 3D W3 camera allows users to print and view photographs in 3D

Fujifilm's camera takes two photos simultaneously from its two lenses which are fixed a similar distance apart to human eyes. Using ''lenticular'' technology, the separate left and right eye images are interlaced on a furrowed surface to create the stereoscopic illusion. So what is the special features of this 3D camera by fujifilms? Fujifilms FinePix Real 3D W3 features two Fujinon lenses - each with its own 10MP CCD sensor - that are securely mounted side by side inside a robust aluminium die-cast frame that protects them from movement, vibration and impact.

When using the camera in 3D mode each of these sensors records its own image, which are then fed into the camera's 'Real Photo Processor 3D' image processor.

This method has been used since the 1940s typically on novelty items and stickers, featuring simple two-frame animations, such as a winking eye. However, the old technology is now being used in a wave of state-of-the-art 3D products, games consoles and billboard posters.

The new camera also incorporates a high-definition 3D video camera, allowing users to watch their home movies back on any 3D TV. The new FinePix Real 3D W3 will go on sale in early September, costing around £400 or approximately $620. Fujifilm said its 3D printing service will be available ''shortly'' after the camera's launch.

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World's First Terrifying Glass Bottom Hot Air Balloon launched

Weird and wonderful shapes filled the skies as Europe's biggest hot air balloon festival marked the golden jubilee of modern ballooning.

More than half a million people were expected to attend the four-day Bristol International Balloon Fiesta, held on a country estate in Bristol, southwest England.

Some 150 balloons from around the world joined in at one of Britain's biggest outdoor events, which runs till Sunday.

Balloons from Dubai, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United States were among those joining in the fun.

Bristol-based Don Cameron, the world's biggest balloon manufacturer, is the event's flight director, and at 71 is still in love with their charm.

"It's beautifully old-fashioned, gloriously obselete, a vintage way of flying," he told AFP.

"There is a magic about flying in balloons because you're not rushing, you can drift along quite slowly, lean over the edge of the basket, and sometimes fly so low that you can chat to people on the ground."

This year's festival marks 100 years of Bristol's key aviation industry -- Concorde was built here in the 1960s -- as well as the 50th anniversary of modern ballooning.

In 1960, American Ed Yost first used a nylon balloon and propane gas on board.

Beforehand, balloons dating back to the Montgolfier brothers' pioneering flight in 1783 were heated by a fire on the ground and were limited in how far they could fly.

At the Bristol fiesta, the balloons are inflated first with cold air, before the pilots jump in the baskets. With repeated, fierce blasts of propane gas flames that roar and hiss, the immense, bizarre shapes gradually take form.

A giant motorbike with a helmeted rider, a light bulb, a dog, a monster, a Jaguar car, squares, a huge wine box and a green dragon slowly emerge to fill the skyline.

The motorbike is one of the biggest special shapes ever built, while the dragon is Britain's only glass-bottomed balloon.

"It's a great view for passengers, though they do dwell on the fact that there's seemingly nothing between them and oblivion," its pilot Richard Turnbull told AFP.

After dark, a ring of 30 regular balloons lit up the night sky, their flames blasting in time to music, filling the cavernous nylon with light and colour.

It was a romantic sight for Anthony Grant, 32, and his wife Leanne, who were among the anticipated 100,000 people watching the night glow.

"It's really great, you don't realise until you see it. The colours are awesome," he told AFP.

"We came for the first time three years ago. I proposed, got my timing right and we got married last year."

The fiesta was first held in 1979, when 27 balloons gathered. Now only the annual festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico has more balloons.

Though more than two centuries have passed since France's Montgolfier brothers made the first manned flight, ballooning can still capture the imagination.

Last year's moving 3D Disney-Pixar film "Up", about a man whose house takes off on helium balloons, won five Oscars.

In May, American Jonathan Trappe crossed the English Channel dangling from a bunch of helium balloons.

And last October's hoax, in which it seemed a six-year-old boy had crawled into the basket and flown off across Colorado, earned blanket coverage.

Cameron, the first man to cross the Sahara desert in a hot air balloon, reckons the pastime will still be there in another 50 years.

Balloons are now mostly used for sports, advertising and pleasure rides.

"I doubt we'll see the end of it. We're practicing an art that's already 227 years old," he said.

"Although a lot of modern technology now goes into it, the fundamental principle of being lighter than air won't change.

"Ballooning remains a lot of fun. Hopelessly impractical because you go where the wind goes, but that's part of the charm."

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The World's First Male Pregnancy

The first man in history to become pregnant speaks up

New York, NY (AP) -- The world's first pregnant man is finally speaking up today after months of relative silence about his remarkable condition.

Officials at RYT Hospital-Dwayne Medical Center in New York today has confirmed reports that Mr. Lee Mingwei, a Taiwanese American artist who has exhibited at The Whitney Museum of American Art, will be holding a news conference today to answer questions about his historic pregnancy.
RYT Hospital's web site, MalePregnancy.com, has been online for a number of years during the early stages of their clinical trials with this procedure. Initial errors with the web site led some observers to believe that his pregnancy was a hoax.
"Americans are so gullible," wrote a visitor on the web site's message board. Several other web sites have also claimed to show proof that Mr. Lee's pregnancy was fictitious.
For better or worse, however, it seems that fertility experts have accomplished another unsettling achievement in the brave new world of human reproduction. The actual clinical data is currently being reviewed by outside sources, but initial findings seem to confirm the claims by RYT Hospital.
"Fertility experts have known for years that men could bear children," explains Dr. Elizabeth Preatner, a prenatal geneticist and embryologist at RYT Hospital. "With the success of delivering ectopic pregnancies in women, it has became clear that a uterus is not essential to childbirth. We have proven that within the proper biochemical environment, an embryo can indeed implant itself within a male abdominal cavity and thrive."
Dr. Preatner is already receiving requests from as far away as India to start creating pregnant men. "A woman from India asked me to fly over and impregnate her husband, who – upon hearing about male pregnancy – has insisted that he carry their second child."
Is this the next stage in the fight for gender equality? Stay tuned.

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Interesting facts-World's First X-Ray

World's First X-Ray (1895): Röntgen's wife hand

In 1895 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, professor of physics the University of Wurburg in Germany, was doing experiments with electrical discharges in evacuated glass tubes. Late in 1895 Wilhelm Röntgen was alone at night doing his experiments, this time in the dark and noticed a glow was produced on the wall, which he knew was not caused by fluorescence or visible light. He named these new, unidentified rays 'X' or if you prefer; X-rays.

After several months of playing with his discovery he noticed that objects place in the path of the rays cast shadows and created images on the wall. Soon after he used a photgraphic plate and had his wife, Frau Röntgen, place her hand in the path of the X-rays, creating the world's first X-ray picture. In 1901 Wilhelm Röntgen was awarded the very first Nobel Prize in Physics for this discovery.

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Japan Mobile Stadium

Amazing, only Japanese can imagine & execute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sapporo (A commercial city in northern Japan on western Hokkaido) stadium Seating capacity of 42,122, what's unique about this Stadium is that, it's an indoor stadium with the playing field out side, and when required, the field will move inside the stadium... and not only that, the field once inside it will rotate within its axis to ensure the spectators will get a all round view of the game being played...

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Worlds First Bald Bear

You’d have thought a fur coat would have been the ultimate bear necessity.But not for the unfortunate Dolores who has lost all her body hair and has just been left with a few tufts around her head.Vets have been left baffled by the condition of the bespectacled bear, who lives at a zoo in Leipzig.
And Dolores isn’t the only one. The sudden hair loss has affected all female bears at the zoo.Some experts believe it could be due to a genetic defect though the animals do not seem to be suffering from any other affliction.The bears, which originate from South America, normally have fluffy dark brown fur and would now be growing a thicker fur coat to keep warm during the winter
But instead they have developed nasty rashes and inflammations on their skin. Unfortunately for the bears, their lack of hair has been pulling in the crowds who want to see want to see the wrinkly animals.Hopefully the zoo will be turning up the heat in their enclosure.

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