Words with Friends game saved man's life

The iPhone has become one of the more popular casual portable gaming platforms, and one of the more cerebral titles would be Words With Friends. Here is an interesting use of it – instead of making full use of your word power and vocabulary, a woman in Blue Springs, Missouri, used it to save lives. She started playing Words With Friends with a a stranger who resides halfway around the world a few months ago. Australian Georgie Fletcher went up against Beth Legler, where both of them struck up a friendship within a short time and started to take advantage of one of the game's feature which allows you to text your opponent.

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Higher prices, more controls slow auto sales in China

. China saw the slowest growth in the country's auto market in over a decade last year, according to the Associated Press. Sales rose by just 2.5 percent in 2011, thanks in part to more expensive vehicles and tighter buying controls. All told, consumers brought home 18.5 million vehicles last year, compared to 18 million in 2010. Chinese buyers endured the expiration of various tax breaks and buying subsidies, changes that saw the bottom line on most vehicles increase substantially. In addition, the Chinese government installed new restrictions on car buying in Beijing, further crimping sales growth.

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Mercedes boss Zetsche offends Cubans with Che Guevara joke

For every college student with a Che Guevara poster on their dorm room walls and a copy of Motorcycle Diaries on their shelves, there are plenty of Americans who remember the communist leader as a cold-blooded killer. That's the problem with revolutionaries; they're nothing if not divisive. Mercedes-Benz recently received a first-hand lesson in just how polarizing Guevara himself can be after the company used a massive image of the leader in the company's presentation on car sharing at CES.

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Phoenix Photonics in World Launch of 2 Micron Fiber Couplers at Photonics West

Phoenix Photonics, the UK based fiber optics specialist, will next week show for the first time its new 2 micron fiber couplers as it expands its product range across longer wavelengths.Phoenix Photonics will be exhibiting at Photonics West from the 24 – 26 January in the UK Pavilion, booth #4109, for the first time this year. With growing demands for products in the 2000 nm range, Phoenix Photonics has addressed the market by extending the operational wavelength of its current selection of all-fiber based components and introducing 2 micron couplers available in 1x2, 2x2, tap, and cascaded configurations.

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Notion Ink Posts New Ice Cream Sandwich Alpha for Adam Tablet, Teases Announcement of Next Generation Developments

If you needed proof that the folks at Notion Ink were working hard on ironing out the bugs in the Ice Cream Sandwich update for their Notion Ink Adam tablet, here it is. Esteemed CEO Rohan Shravan has taken to their blog to post an update that fixes a ton of different things. Take a look at what we can expect so far:. Major fixes include:

AudioSensors (including Compass)BluetoothSleep bug partially fixed (you need to change the wi-fi policy for this)In case you have installed and device is not coming out of sleep, there is a re-set button near the MicroSD card. Press it to reset the device.

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Nano Coating Could Make All Gadgets Waterproof

In the future, you will be able to drunkenly drop your phone in the toilet with impunity. All phones should be waterproof. Nothing kills a gadget dead faster than a dunk in the toilet or a splash of beer. Cracked, broken displays are annoying, and missing switches impair functionality, but there is usually no coming back from an impromptu swim.

Soon, though, your iPhone might be as H2O-friendly as a duck, with water sliding off its back in much the same way.

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Cyborg rats tests could fix brain damage in humans

Dr. Frankenstein's monster is famous for having different parts of cadavers sewn together, functioning after being animated with plenty of energy from a lightning strike. Well, here on planet earth, scientists are testing cyborg rats, hoping that through these tests, they might be able to discover a method of fixing brain damage in humans in due time. The rat itself will lie motionless on a sterile, spotless table, kept alive albeit being heavily sedated. Electrodes are used to simulate its brain, resulting in waveform readings on a nearby computer display.

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