What is LifeSaver bottle?

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The Lifesaver bottle is a portable water purification device. Designed by Michael Pritchard, the bottle filters out objects larger than 15 nanometres. The bottle is used by people hit by disasters to create safe drinking water or while camping. It is also used by impoverished people around the world to make safe drinking water.

Development

After the 2004 Asian Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina disaster in the U.S., Michael Pritchard, a water-treatment expert in Ipswich, England began to develop the Lifesaver bottle after hearing the idea from Dr. Zackary Kepes and Austin Castellano. Pritchard presented a prototype of the Lifesaver at 2007′s DSEi London, where the product was named “Best Technological Development”.Pritchard’s entire stock of 1,000 bottles sold out within four hours of the presentation.

Speaking at TED in 2009, Pritchard estimated that by utilising the Lifesaver bottle reaching the Millennium Development Goals of halving the number of people without drinking water will cost $8 billion; while $20 billion would provide drinking water for everyone on Earth.

Ultimate dictionary of text symbols for Facebook ϡ

How to use

Just copy-paste symbols that you like into your status, comments, messages. You can’t put symbols into Facebook names due to recent change in Facebook.

It seems like some symbols can form “combos” (like in video games) =) and don’t work if you put them one after another. So if you see some of your symbols turning into squares after you have put some new symbol into the input field – that might be a problem. To solve it just press “Ctrl” + “Z” and don’t put these troublemaker symbols. Or put them in a first place.

Right-left

Notice that there are some right-to-left written symbols here, and if you put them – characters you put after them may appear before them. Tricky ones ^.^

Fonts

Funny thing about these symbols is that they are different in different fonts (like “Arial”, “Helvetica”, etc.). I noticed this when I’ve seen snowman and umbrella look different in Firefox and Chrome. They looked better in Firefox.

The Official Amy Winehouse Aging Timeline

• 1983

  

25 Everyday Things You Never Knew Had Names

• 1. Tittle

  The dot over an ‘i’ or ‘j.’

SPlayer

SPlayer is a unique video player.The reason for its uniqueness is the fact that it downloads subtitles for every video we play in it.

Other Features-

HD

• ShaderEngineTMimage enhancement engine, reducing screen noise while rendering sharp picture quality
• LiveColorTMcolor enhancement algorithms, presenting vivid images
• SmartAmplifyTMIntelligent sound field balancing technology, giving your ears a treat

Low consumption

• FastMotionTMsignificantly reduces CPU and memory footprint. Optimizated for modern multi-core CPU and GPU
• PowerTravelTMpower-saving mode, reducing energy consumption and increasing the battery time for notebook
• EyeCareTMtakes care your eyes for long time watching, ensuring a healthy viewing experience

Intelligent

• Anti-SillyTMsmart, fuzzy-logical configuration, hundreds of branch logics automatically select the best mode based on the hardware configuration.
• CloudMatchingTMIntelligent Subtitle Display technology, no longer need to google matching subtitles for foreign language films

VISIT SPlayer

RESTROOMS

You can get both directly via Splitreason store

The First Avenger is Here! (Review)

It feels fair to say that when ‘Captain America’ was first announced, no one outside of the 50 states was expecting anything special. As the film’s subtitle alleges, the Captain may be ‘The First Avenger’ but he’s still a patriotic prat in tights whose main powers, much like the real-world superpower that spawned him, seem to be excessive arrogance and blunt force. So respect is due to Joe Johnston and his screenwriters for not only fashioning a nifty, highly entertaining slice of pulpy comic-book action, but for making this most divisive of costumed crusaders universally relatable.

When Cartoon Characters are Skeletonized

In this post, I will introduce an interesting project from Michael Paulus. He decided to take a select few of some popular cartoon characters and render their skeletal systems as he imagine they might resemble if one truly had eye sockets half the size of its head, or fingerless-hands, or feet comprising 60% of its body mass.
The reason why he did that is because he thought it might give him a better understanding of those well-know personals in the most basic of terms.

How fast the Universe is expanding

A PhD student at the University of Western Australia has produced one of the most accurate measurements ever made of how fast the Universe is expanding.

Florian Beutler, a PhD candidate with the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) at the University in Perth, made the calculation by measuring the Hubble constant.

“The Hubble constant is a key number in astronomy because it’s used to calculate the size and age of the Universe,” Beutler said.

As the Universe swells, it carries other galaxies away from ours. The Hubble constant links how fast galaxies are moving with how far they are from us.

Beutler’s work draws on data from a survey of more than 125,000 galaxies carried out with the UK Schmidt Telescope in eastern Australia.

Saturn gets water from its own moon!

At least four distinct plumes of water ice spew out from the south polar region of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Dec. 25, 2009. Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

These crucial observations reveal that the water creates a doughnut-shaped torus of vapor surrounding the ringed planet.These crucial observations reveal that the water creates a doughnut-shaped torus of vapor surrounding the ringed planet.The total width of the torus is more than 10 times the radius of Saturn, yet it is only about one Saturn radius thick. Enceladus orbits the planet at a distance of about four Saturn radii, replenishing the torus with its jets of water.

Despite its enormous size, it has escaped detection until now because water vapor is transparent to visible light but not at the infrared wavelengths Herschel was designed to see.