WANT more than just glossy paint on your nails? A new machine with a camera can paint a photographed image, whether it be a loved one or a pet, in just 30 seconds onto your nails.
A group of Singaporean entrepreneurs recently launched E-Manicure. They say the resolution is good, and they can add glitter and sparkles to jazz up the image. Similar machines already exist in other countries, but they are mostly gimmicks. E-Manicure is smaller and lighter than others on the market. It’s about 1 foot wide and 2.5 feet tall and each costs up to US$3,570 to produce.
Several Singaporean businessmen came up with the idea after waiting a long time for their wives to finish manicures while on a trip to Thailand.
NEW Delhi's government has a rat catching department that hasn't caught a single rodent in more than a decade.
There are 97 rat catchers on the municipal payroll, all working for the Rat Surveillance Department, a decades-old agency that last saw a lot of action back in 1994, when a plague outbreak killed 56 people in areas of northwest India near the capital. Each rat catcher earns about 3,500 rupees (US$77) a month for catching, but there are no records of any rodents being caught in the past 10 years.
In New Delhi, rats can be easily seen scurrying across public parks, streets and even in homes. Many residents use their own traps to catch rats in the absence of any government effort to catch the rodents, which often carry diseases, including the plague.
AN allegedly drunk driver stunned pursuing police in northern Australia by jumping into the back seat with his three passengers, leaving his car to careen out of control on an outback road.
One of the car's passengers suffered minor injuries when she panicked and jumped from the driverless car while it was still rolling at over 40 kms per hour. The man had a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.178 per cent, more than three times the legal limit. He was charged with driving in a dangerous manner, driving while disqualified and driving an unregistered vehicle.
The police said the driver's hazardous maneuver was meant to avoid arrest. "His cunning plan, in his muddled state of mind, was that he wouldn't be the driver."
