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Augmented reality. Google digital glasses 'coming soon' Google's Goggles: Is The Future Right Before Our Eyes? : All Tech Considered. Hide captionWhat would the world look like seen through Google's eyes?

Google's Goggles: Is The Future Right Before Our Eyes? : All Tech Considered

AFP/AFP/Getty Images What would the world look like seen through Google's eyes? Like flying cars and time travel, eye glasses with computing power have long been sci-fi fantasy, relegated to Terminator movies and the like. Now it appears that Google may be a few months from selling a version of their own. Google glasses — which may be released as a "beta" product — could put smartphone capabilities such as GPS maps, weather, time, Web streaming and more inches from your eyeball.

There have a been rumors for months that Google's secretive X Lab in Mountain View was hard at work developing goggles or glasses that would bear the Google name. They will reportedly overlay graphics, ads and images into your field of view. Imagine a facial recognition program in your glasses discreetly reminding you of the name and title of an acquaintance. The implications — things like Minority Report-style advertising — are mind-boggling. Facial recognition.

Yogurt Mountain: Love at first bite - relish&savor. Yogurt Mountain: Love at first bite Yogurt Mountain, 4453 Walnut Street, Beavercreek, OH Forget the evenings at the coffee shops.

Yogurt Mountain: Love at first bite - relish&savor

Disregard the ice cream parlors for a cool treat on a smothering hot day. This spring and summer, I will be at Yogurt Mountain, where my obsession with FroYo is quenched. In just one visit I became obsessed with Yogurt Mountain (or as regulars affectionately call it, YoMo). 1) Sample cups. Choose your flavor... 2) Self-serve frozen yogurt. Pile on the toppings. 3) Pile. Here are my two favorite combinations so far: Vanilla with every fresh fruit topping and peanuts to add a nice sweet and salty mix. 4) After that, go to the counter, weigh your selection, punch in your phone number to get frequent buyer points, and voila!

Stacy and I enjoying our frozen yogurt. I can’t get enough of this place and neither can my friends. I know I recently wrote about Yoba, and while I’m still a fan of that place, I find Yogurt Mountain more fun. A market for social-media data: Sipping from the fire hose. MOST tweets are inane, but a million may contain valuable information.

A market for social-media data: Sipping from the fire hose

Fed through clever algorithms, a torrent of microblogs can reveal changes in a nation's mood. Hence the excitement about a new market: the sale and analysis of real-time social-media data. DataSift, a start-up, will soon launch a marketplace for such information. Analysing social media used to be a cottage industry. Firms gathered data slowly and patchily, through mechanisms not built for the purpose. Laser light fireworks. Africa cell pho nes metals precious. Japan's 'Rare Earth' Mineral Discovery Could Fix iPad Supply Shortages. Large deposits of so-called "rare earth" minerals crucial for manufacturing electronic devices like iPads and flat-screen TVs have been discovered on the ocean floor by Japan.

Japan's 'Rare Earth' Mineral Discovery Could Fix iPad Supply Shortages

Scientists found the minerals on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, according to the Wall Street Journal. The trove is said to include minerals such as gadolinium, lutetium, terbium and dysprosium. The minerals could multiply the known supply on land by 1,000 times. Currently, China produces the vast majority of the global supply of rare earth minerals and has used its 97 percent share to threaten export blockages.

The low supply of such minerals has been a cause of concern for some time, fueling fears that electronics prices could skyrocket, or that supply of the gadgets themselves could be reduced. "The deposits have a heavy concentration of rare earths. The deposits are located in international waters, according to reports. To collect these minerals, extraction pumps will pull mud up from the sea floor. Three-tier (alcohol distribution) The three-tier system of alcohol distribution is the system for distributing alcoholic beverages set up in the United States after the repeal of Prohibition.[1] The three tiers are producers, distributors, and retailers.

Three-tier (alcohol distribution)

The basic structure of the system is that producers can sell their products only to wholesale distributors who then sell to retailers, and only retailers may sell to consumers. Producers include brewers, wine makers, distillers and importers. Some states chose to become alcoholic beverage control jurisdictions after Prohibition. In these states, part or all of the distribution tier, and sometimes also the retailing tier, are operated by the state government itself (or by contractors operating under its authority) rather than by independent private entities.

In 1933 the 18th Amendment was repealed by the 21st Amendment. Rules also vary according to what kind of relationships each of the tiers can enter into with the other two tiers. Spy net stealth video glasses. Rotating grill top. Privacy Policy. New Math in HIV Fight.