Wow-Nokia patents magnetic tattoo
In the future, people could sport magnetic tattoos that vibrate when they get an alert on their phones. At least, that's Nokia's vision of the future. The company has filed a patent for "a material attachable to skin, the material capable of detecting a magnetic field and transferring a perceivable stimulus to the skin, wherein the perceivable stimulus relates to the magnetic field." According to tech writer Jaime Condliffe, that means vibrating tattoos. "Basically, that means a magnetic field would cause a tattoo to vibrate in a specific way. The tattoos, the patent suggests, would have to use 'ink enriched by ferromagnetic or paramagnetic compounds' -- not too tricky, given that tattoos already contain metallic compounds," he wrote on the blog Gizmodo. "Then, different magnetic fields could be used to provide different sensations, allowing the tatt-wearer to discern between different callers, or different kinds of alerts." Wall Street Journal tech reporter Ben Rooney compared it to ring tones. Nokia's thinking is that in much the same way that you can have different ring tones for different callers, so too a future phone could emit a different magnetic field depending who is calling, or if your battery is running low, or you receive an SMS, for example," he wrote.
LOL-Drunk, hungry, pantless -- and busted
A 20-year-old man was charged with impaired driving after a motorist approached a drive-thru at a McDonald's without pants, apparently impaired and demanding food. Greater Sudbury Police Service officers were called and arrested the man at about 4:15 a.m. Saturday.He will appear in court later this month. Police did not release his name.
Why-Pink-haired student invited back to U.S. school
A U.S. school that barred a sixth grader after she dyed her hair pink with her parents’ blessing to celebrate her good grades lifted its ban on Tuesday following an outcry from civil rights advocates. After missing three days of classes, pink-haired Brianna Moore headed back to Shue-Medill Middle School in Newark, Delaware, on Tuesday after administrators reversed their decision after a call from the Delaware branch of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). “We’re on our way right now,” said Kevin Moore as he drove his 12-year-old daughter to school. At his daughter’s request last week, he helped dye her hair a shade called crimson storm, which has a pink hue, as a reward for improving her grades. But when she showed up for school the next day, she was sent home and told not to return until her hair met school policy mandating a “natural color, brown, blond, black, natural red/auburn.” The ACLU soon got in touch with attorneys for the school district and asked, “Don’t you think this is unconstitutional?” said Kathleen MacRae, ACLU executive director in Delaware.
Who-Teenager Venus Angelic Is A Real Living Doll
A lot of girls enjoy dressing up their dolls, but a 15-year-old London teenager gets her kicks dressing up like her dolls. She's Venus Angelic and she is becoming the latest Internet cult figure thanks to her bizarre YouTube videos. Angelic teaches viewers how to make themselves look like a ball-jointed doll and offers other strange makeup tips. "Some people were asking me, 'how do you do your makeup?' and I decided to put a tutorial on YouTube," Angelic told the cast of RightThisMinute, a daily syndicated TV show that focuses on the strangest clips hitting the Internet.Angelic has been dressing up like her doll for two years and was inspired by a love of Japanese anime culture that started when she lived in Japan for a couple of years, according to RightThisMinute producer Betsy Gessel. "She's not Japanese," Gessell told HuffPost Weird News. "But she spent some time there and it influenced her."It not only influenced her look, but also her voice, which sounds like a babyish version of Yoko Ono. Angelic insists it's real."Yes, of course it's my real voice," Angelic told RightThisMinute. "I think [it sounds that way] because I speak five languages and all the accents mix together."
Wow-Girl, 15, dialed from car, said parent was "impaired"
MARCH 16--An Iowa woman was arrested for drunk driving last night after her 15-year-old daughter--who was a passenger in her mother’s car--called 911 to contemporaneously report that her parent was “impaired” behind the wheel. As a result, cops busted Lori Anne Sedlacek Becicka, a 47-year-old Oxford resident, for operating a vehicle under the influence, child endangerment, and resisting arrest, all misdemeanors. According to District Court criminal complaints, Becicka’s daughter, “who was in the car with her,” called 911 to “report defendant was impaired and driving.” A Johnson County Sheriff’s Office deputy subsequently contacted Becicka after she pulled her vehicle into a parking lot.Becicka, the cop reported, “smelled heavily of ingested alcohol. Her speech was slurred. Her eyes were bloodshot and watery.” The wobbly Becicka copped to drinking and failed a series of field sobriety tests. Additionally, a Breathalyzer test recorded her blood alcohol level at .235, nearly three times the state limit.Becicka’s daughter told Deputy Matt Hendricks that her mother “was even consuming while driving with her in the car.” The investigator reported discovering “open containers in the car.” Pictured in the above mug shot, Becicka was booked into the county jail following her 8:10 PM arrest
