Cloning Your Pooch

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Household, Science

For years people have saved their pets through taxidermy, including Roy Rogers, who had Trigger and Bullet stuffed and placed in his museum. Now, thanks to a So. Korean company, you can have your pup forever immortalized by cloning. RNL Bio will gratefully accept your $150,000 and claims that there is a 25% possibility of success. Seoul National University will be performing the actual procedure and although RNL prefers creating guard dogs, they won’t turn down a beloved pet. While this is a nice idea if you adored your dog, you might want to double think the idea if he/she was hesitant to become housebroken when a puppy.

Read More | Korea Times

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South Korea to Cure Cyberspace Addicts

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Editorial, Internet, PC / Laptop

South Korea has decided that Cyberspace Addiction is a definite problem and has created the Jump Up Internet Rescue School to fix it. Students must go through military type obstacle courses, counseling sessions, and workshops to teach pottery and drumming to get away from those keyboards to break “bad” habits. The government has come up with an actual checklist based on the K-Scale (for Korea) and claims that about 2.4 million people under 18 are close to becoming addicts there. We are thinking that instead of trying to cure them, they might just take those same users and find out how they can help their country with their obvious technological skills.

Read More | International Herald Tribune

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Activist Builds Toilet House

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Design, Household, Misc. Tech

South Korean Sim Jae-Duck is the head of the World Toilet Association. In order to raise funds for over 2.6 billion worlwide who have no bathroom facilities, he is building a 1.6 million dollar house about 24 miles south of Seoul. Named Haewoojae, the 4,508 square foot cement and glass building contains two bedrooms, two guest rooms, and three deluxe toilets, of course. The house’s grand opening will be November 11, and if you would like to book it for a day, it will cost you $50,000. That will buy a lot of toilets, and sufficient TP to go with it.

Read More | AFP

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D-click iriver S10 Revealed

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Music, Portable Audio / Video

South Korea’s latest D-click input-based portable media device is tinier than ever. The iriver S10 has 2GB of flash storage for MP3, ASF, Ogg Vorbis, and WMA playback. Its OLED display is a mere 1.5” at a resolution of 128 x 96 pixels. With dimensions of 42 x 30 x 10.8mm and a weight of just 17.5g, maybe you can even hide it from the boss.

Other features:

• Interface Type: USB 2.0
• Rated battery (audio) life: 8 hours
• Picture format: BMP
• Compatibility: PC
• FM radio/recording: Yes
• Voice recording: Yes
• FM recording: Yes

Not much else is known about the little critter, but we will keep you posted on its whereabouts, if we can find it.

Read More | Cnet Asia Review

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