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8-Year-Old ‘Human Calendar’ Can Accurately Calculate Any Day-Date Configuration until 2068

Posted: 24 Nov 2014 05:02 AM PST

At first glance, Aryan Parab looks like a regular eight-year-old kid; he likes going to school and playing football with his mates. But ask him a few questions about future dates and you'll realize that he's actually a mathematical genius with superhuman computational skills. The boy can work out the day on which any date falls, up to the year 2068, within seconds – faster than his friends can open their iPhone calendars!

Aryan lives in Mumbai, India, with his parents who work as software engineers. He discovered his unique skill earlier this year when he was talking about birthdays and found that he could accurately predict the days of his friends' birthdays several years into the future. His unique talent has now made him popular as a child prodigy and he regularly entertains audiences with his precise predictions.

His third-grade teachers say that Aryan is also brilliant with numbers. According to his grandfather Suryakant Bhosle, "He loves numbers, and is constantly playing around with dates in his head and coming up with statistics. He is gaining more insight over time, and locks himself up in his room during summer vacation to draw calendars."

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Artist Creates Amazingly Realistic Food Hats

Posted: 24 Nov 2014 04:47 AM PST

Israeli artist Maor Zabar's creations look deceptively delicious, but they are meant to be worn not devoured. He uses felt, plastic and wire to create incredibly realistic models of delicious dishes and incorporates them into fashionable headgear. Some of his clever designs include a berry pie beret, an outdoor picnic fascinator, and even a salad sombrero.

36-year-old Zabar began designing the hats a couple of years ago, when he was diagnosed with Crohn's disease. "When I discovered I had Crohn's disease, I was forced to start a special diet and was unable to eat many of the foods I have always loved," he revealed. "So instead of eating them, I created them out of felt and fibers and made them into beautiful fascinators." And although he's cured of his illness now, he still loves adding new designs to his Food Hat Collection.

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Blood Sport, an Immersive Gaming System That Takes Some of Your Blood Whenever You Die in a Video Game

Posted: 24 Nov 2014 04:28 AM PST

Blood Sport is a new gaming system that's all set to revolutionize the way we donate blood. While traditional blood donation methods can be 'draining' to say the least, the makers of Blood Sport have designed a fun process that involves playing video games. You'll be so immersed in the game that you'll hardly notice the blood being taken from you every time you lose a life

Blood Sport is the brainchild of Canadian inventors Taran Chadha and Jamie Umpherson, who are well-known for gaming-related projects like Shoot the Banker, Surrogaid and Prank House. Now, with Blood Sport, they're "taking the consequences of the gaming world and having them affect you in real life. So every time you get hit in the game, blood will be intravenously drawn from your arm."

Their new idea, they say, is stupidly simple. "Nowadays, most video game controllers rumble when you get shot in the game," they explained on their Kickstarter page, through which they're trying to raise $250,000 CAD (US $222,700). "That rumbling means that an electrical signal is being sent to the controller to let you know you've been hit. All we're doing is re-routing that same electrical signal and using it to turn on the blood collection system."

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