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X-Rays are an amazing medical diagnostic tool.
However, some of the items they reveal are literally unbelievable!
This article on DigitalBusStop takes a look at some x-ray images that will amaze and horrify you. The victims were either amazingly stupid, or incredibly unlucky.

Coke bottle

This poor man was actually assaulted (and inserted) with the Coke bottle.

Bullet in the face

During the Chinese Cultural Revolution in 1967 Hou Guoying was shot in the face. She didn't seek medical treatment until 1975 and she didn't have the bullet removed from her face until 2010.

Swallowed engagement ring

Simon Hooper wanted to propose to his lady friend. Unable to shell out any money on an engagement ring he swallowed it while the jeweller looked the other way. Unconvinced that the ring had vanished into thin air, the jeweller called the police, who detained Hooper, had him x-rayed, and waited three days for the ring to reappear.

Car keys

Somehow this poor baby ended up with its parents car keys lodged in its face. Fortunately the little one made a full recovery!

Nails in the skull

This gentleman on the other hand, was not OK. He was shot with thirty nails, tied up with electrical wires and extension cords, rolled in an area rug, and bundled up.

Chair leg through the eye socket!

A night club scuffle ended badly when a young man ended up having a chair hurlded at him. The chair leg impaled the man through his eye socket and lodged in his throat. Luckily for all involved, he lived to tell the tale.

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Worst Inventions Of All Time

June 11th 2010 02:04

On this article from Time Magazine, they take a look at the 50 worst inventions of all time and the reasons whey they're so bad.
From the zany to the pointless and downright dangerous here is a sample. View the full list of 50 here.

Segway

Give inventor Dean Kamen this: he's a master of buzz. A closely guarded secret that was supposed to change the world upon its release in 2001, the Segway never brought about its promised revolution in transportation. Though the technology is pretty cool — very expensive gyroscopes make the thing nearly impossible to tip over (though George W. Bush found a way) — the Segway's sales far underperformed vs. Kamen's predictions. It lives on as the vehicle of choice for mall cops and lazy tourists

New Coke

Marketers should have known — don't mess with consumers' sentimental attachment to a product. Especially when it's 99-year-old Coca-Cola. The "newer, sweeter" version, introduced April 23, 1985, succeeded in blind taste tests but flopped in the real world. Phone calls, letters and rants from Coke die-hards flooded in, and just three months after its debut, New Coke was removed, and the word Classic was added to all Coke cans and bottles to assure consumers they were getting their first love.

Ford Pinto

The 1971 model is, hands down, one of the worst cars of all time. That's what happens when an automobile has the nasty tendency to literally explode when involved in a rear-end collision. Adding insult to injury was the infamous memo Ford wrote after learning about the problem, arguing it'd be cheaper to pay settlements to victims than to fix the Pinto.

Betamax

Betamax wasn't so much a bad product as a lesson in marketing gone awry. The also-ran to VHS in the video-format wars, Betamax was pushed by Sony as a proprietary format in 1975 before it was completely ready, in a race to get manufacturers on board. But while Betamax could record up to an hour of video, VHS could record up to two hours. That slight advantage was enough for VHS to gain a foothold in the market, one it never relinquished. Betamax became a footnote.

Subprime Mortgages

The flimsy piece of foundation that brought the U.S. economy tumbling into recession, subprime mortgages are risky loans given to people with shaky credit histories. When interest rates dipped in 2004, banks began granting mortgages to people who really, really shouldn't have had them. Even worse, many were structured adjustable-rate mortgages, with interest rates that climbed after the first few years. The result was a wave of foreclosures and banks with a lot of bad loans on their books. In short, financial catastrophe.

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The World's Most Innovative Thrill Rides

May 14th 2010 02:55

For many years amusement parks have been trying to outdo each other by installing the biggest, fastest and craziest rides. One common solution is to build a roller coaster which is faster and higher than anyone else’s. But what about the smaller operators taking their rides to inner city areas and small towns across the country? Designers of these rides need to use real innovative thinking to keep the masses happy with new thrills.
As reported on Popular Mechanics, here are some of the strangest and most innovative non-rollercoaster rides around the world. Read the full article here.

SkyRoller

This swing-type contraption allows riders to control the number of barrel rolls they do by manipulating the positioning of the wings as they spin around. The concern often is subjecting riders to high g's for a sustained period, but points out that SkyRoller is self-limiting in many ways, according to Edward Pribonic, an engineering consultant for theme parks and a former design manager at Walt Disney Imagineering. "The faster you roll, the higher the g value would be," he says. "But the faster you roll, the g-force duration becomes shorter. Since you're going through it so quickly, you hit that peak g-force for only a split second and drop out of it." And while there is no limit on how many barrel rolls a rider can perform, nausea tends to be a nice biological safeguard.

FreeFall XTreme

A 1000-hp V12 twin-turbo engine generates winds up to 120 mph, allowing modestly sized riders to "fly" to about 8 feet. Custom wind suits and a few minutes of training are obviously required, but riders with some skills can pull 360s and other nifty manoeuvres. According to the website, riders need to weigh between 25 kilograms and 130 kilograms, but the park brags that the engine was able to lift someone who weighed 170 kilograms, or 375 pounds.

Ejection Seat

The two-seat pod in which riders sit is held to the base of the machine by an enormous magnet. After the elastic ropes are pulled tight, the conductor releases the magnet, blasting the pod toward the sky. Technical Park, manufacturer of this particular reverse bungee, says on its website that the Ejection Seat subjects riders to 4.8 g's.

Flying Fury

This massive machine is one of the most interactive rides on the market. A joystick gives riders control of the four-passenger miniature planes, allowing them to pull barrel rolls and rotate 360 degrees while the arms lift them to heights in excess of 120 feet.

Shweeb

Riders climb into translucent, pedal-powered tubes that hang from a monorail and face off in head-to-head races or compete against the clock. The 2000-foot-long course snakes through scenic farmland and can be powered through in less than a minute. The pods are equipped with sufficient seven-gear drivetrains and seem similar to recumbent bikes. Agroventures says on its website that riders can get up to 28 mph as they swing around 60-degree turns. The current course record stands at 57.1 seconds, but we'd like to see what Lance Armstrong could do on this thing.

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In Depth Look at Nintendo

April 28th 2010 03:04

Nintendo is a huge company that has been at the forefront of video games for decades now.
However, there are some facts about Nintendo that maybe you weren't aware of such as:
When and how the company formed?
How have their games consoles sold compared to rivals?
What are the biggest Nintendo franchises?
Exactly how many Mario video games has there been anyway?

The answers to all these and many more can be seen below. Click on the info-graphic to visit the source.

Via: Online MBA

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World of Medicine

November 20th 2009 01:43

The Wellcome Trust is a charity that funds health research. For ten years it has awarded prizes for pictures that creatively explore the fields of medicine, social history, healthcare and biology. Thanks to the New Scientist here are some winning images from this year. See many more pictures here.

Scanning electron micrograph of a seed from a bird-of-paradise flower.

This plant is native to South Africa and has a distinctive orange and blue flower, which resembles an exotic bird. The seed was originally bought to become the study of a watercolour painting by Annie Cavanagh, but Dave McCarthy's interest in it produced this stunning image.

The moment of human conception from an in vitro fertilisation (IVF) procedure.

The ovum (brown) is much larger than the sperm and is surrounded by protective cumulus cells (yellow). The membrane surrounding the ovum is the zona pellucida. The head of the sperm carries enzymes to dissolve the zona pellucida, allowing it to fertilise the egg.

This light microscope image by Spike Walker is of blood capillaries in the ciliary body of an ox's eye: the tiny holes that secrete a liquid called aqueous humour are shown. This liquid provides most of the nutrients for the lens and cornea.

Sensory nerve endings at the end of a hair follicle.

Sensory nerves respond to stimuli to communicate movement, pressure and pain. The colours in this image were created by treating the tissue with silver nitrate and then processing it like photographic film. The nerve axons are stained black.

Another image by Spike Walker shows plankton. In this image he uses Rheinberg illumination, whereby coloured discs are used to provide vibrant colours, making fast-moving plankton visible against a brilliant blue background.

Plankton are small organisms, plant or animal, that drift in the sea with little or no locomotive ability. They are split into two main categories: phytoplankton, which are plant plankton that drift close to the surface and rely on photosynthesis for energy; and zooplankton, which are animals and include small protozoans or metazoans that normally feed on other plankton.

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Extreme Observatories

September 21st 2009 21:49

The view of the heavens is different depending on where you stand on our grand planet, hence the necessity to place space observatories in some of the most extreme locations and environments. However, these grand installations aren't limited to astronomy. Geology, oceanography and volcanology are just some examples of uses for modern day observatories. Thanks to the Discovery Channel, these are some of the most extraordinary observatories on the face of our planet. Find more information and pictures here.

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Moon Landing: Sceptic or Believer?

July 24th 2009 04:36

The 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission landing man on the moon has just passed. It is one of mankind’s greatest achievements, however many people believe the whole thing was a hoax shot in a studio. Do these sceptics have a case?
Thanks the The Guardian lets take a look at some of the most popular claims. Find more information here.

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Twist Together Lamps

July 15th 2009 02:24

For many of us as kids, playing with Lego was a favourite pastime, now you can apply those skills learned to some interior decorating!

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What is HDTV?

June 5th 2009 13:09

Exactly what is the difference between regular TV and High Definition Television?

The graphics below will explain.

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Incredible X-Ray Images

March 30th 2009 09:12

X-Rays have become an essential part of medical diagnosis. They also give us incredible insights and amazing images.
It's astonishing what some people can survive!

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The Early Days of Apple Mac

February 6th 2009 05:18

Thanks to the Telegraph, today let's take a look at some of the first computers sold by Apple Inc.

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Don't Order Birthday Cakes Online

February 4th 2009 05:08

Can you guess what happened here?
Apparently this cake was ordered online and the printing process is automated. As such the error occurred and no-one at the cake company noticed!

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Inventions That Enhanced Laziness

January 7th 2009 13:23

Humans are always looking at ways to make our lives easier. The inventions below have achieved this goal more than most. Thanks to mentalfloss for pointing out these fantastic ideas.

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Effects of Static Electricity on Hair

December 22nd 2008 09:10

Static electricity is the build-up of charge on the surface of objects. Using machines such as a Van de Graaff generator, with its hollow metal sphere commonly seen at science discovery centres a large amount of static electricity can be built up on a person. When this occurs, that persons hair becomes charged and as like charges repel each other the hairs all stand on end to get as far away from each other as possible. The results can be quite amusing, as seen in the pictures below.