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Amazing Things Drones Can Help You Do

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Amazing Things Drones Can Help You Do
While most people are still getting used to the new level of opportunities opened up by the innovative technologies, some people already benefit from it. The unmanned drones are the perfect example for this. People use drones to solve various problems: from delivering goods to fishing to entertainment. Here are the most fascinating things drones can help you with.

Become a better photographer

The first photo was taken in the beginning of the 19th century. For the next few decades, photos were something rare, special, and not quite accessible for everyone. Today, you can easily take thousands of pictures in a few hours, even if you do not have a professional camera. But with the newest drones coming to the market, you do not need to hold anything in your hands in order to find a perfect view and take a picture. Drones will do that for you.
These three UAV may be a great alternative for your professional camera and selfie stick.Watch an eruption

Nixie: the wearable camera that can fly

Nixie is one of the finalists of the Make It Wearable challenge organized by Intel. The device the guys created is still in the early development stage, but it looks like we will see in on the market sooner, rather than later.
According to Nixie’s founder Christoph Kohstall, the main idea is to combine drone with a camera and to make the new device look like a watch. With that made, people will be able to literally wear a flying camera and use it whenever they need: on a walk, while climbing a mountain, inside and outside any building.
Since the device is not yet finished,  there is not much technical information available. But you can imagine how it would be like to own this Nixie drone while watching the video below.
SKEYE Nano Drone

SKEYE Nano Drone with Camera

In contrast to Nixie, SKEYE Nano Drone is already available and costs only $69. The device is actually a quadcopter with an  in-built camera. This drone can fly around, take pictures or shoot video. It can help you improve your photography skills and brings a lot of fun to your family, friends, and even pets.
To see how it works, watch the following video.
TBS Discovery Pro

TBS Discovery Pro

Team Black Sheep, or simply TBS, has a few flying devices with professional cameras on board that can be really helpful when you want to capture something from the bird’s eye view. A few years ago, the only way to do that was to take a plane or helicopter. Today, you do not need world best airlines to help you raise above Burj Khalifa in Dubai and take a perfect picture of it. The drone can do this for you.
Nixie: the wearable camera that can fly

Get rid of your fears

Every person has a list of fears they have to live with. And although facing your biggest fear often may be a good thing to do, you do not have to put your life and health at risk all the time. Some drones can help you accomplish your mission and keep you away from danger.
Here are the three most dangerous situations when you can use a drone instead of a human.

Watch an eruption

Some people want or even need to be extremely close to a volcano, despite the fact that this may cost them their lives. But if you have a drone with all the required equipment attached, you may stay far away from the danger yet still achieve your goal. For example, if you are a completely crazy photographer or a scientist who needs to take a closer look at an eruption, you may use a drone instead of actually walking to the volcano crater with a camera in your hands.
Furthermore, you can enjoy the hypnotizing view of an eruption and feel like you were there, right above the awakened volcano, without leaving your home.
Drone Flash Mob

Fight the fire

Whether or not you are a firefighter, a firefighting drone is a thing that might come in handy one day. This drone may be really helpful when it comes to extinguishing the fire. With drone’s help, you can find the source of the fire or identify the most dangerous parts of it. The drones may also be used by the rescue teams that are looking for people who get lost in a flaming forest. The bigger UAVs may even be used as an alternative to planes that bring water to the heat source.

Rescue people from the water

A drone with a camera is a perfect assistant for the rescue teams when it comes to finding people lost in the water. It helps you expand the search area without involving too many people in the process. Moreover, there is a drone that can fly, float and function underwater. This broad range of features make it an ideal tool for search and rescue missions over and under water.
Set new records

Set new records

There are some newest technologies that let people set new records, and drones are definitely on the list of the innovations of that kind. Here are the latest records set with the help of the drones.

Drone Megacopter

A group of Norwegian scientists created a giant remote-controlled drone with 48 propellers. The device was able to lift 61 kg (over 134 lbs), which is the heaviest weight lifted by a remote-controlled drone so far.
Watch an eruption

Drone Flash Mob

This year, Intel has set a Guinness World Record by launching 100 drones simultaneously. These UAVs were not simply flying above the ground; they were performing a quite amusing show. There was even an orchestra playing Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 during the drone’s flight. Instead of the final movement of the symphony, though, the orchestra played Intel’s melody.
Drone Pizza

Get a new flying pet

While most innovators work on the UAVs that are useful and may help people on a daily basis, like the delivery drones, the others try to bring their dreams to live. And some of them even succeed, giving the world something truly special and unique, like the bionic birds, butterflies, or dragonflies.
If you always wanted to keep a bird in your house, you do not actually need to keep a real bird in a cell anymore. There is a robotic drone that behaves almost like a real bird.
You can also choose some really beautiful insect instead of a bird, and enjoy it flying around without harming any living creatures. Moreover, these drones usually are way bigger than their prototypes and are not afraid of you at all.

Three Reasons Why 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans Are Useless

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Three Reasons Why 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans Are Useless
Every five years, the government tries to teach Americans how to eat properly and what kind of food to put in their mouths. Eat more vegetables. Do not abuse sweets. Stay away from fast food. All these recommendations are based on the best available and most up-to-date nutritional science for leading a healthy life and are familiar to us from childhood. But what do we really know about healthy nutrition for sure? Do we really believe in the absolute invincibility of the dietary recommendations?
Earlier this month, the Department of Agriculture and Health and Human Services issued the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans—a 571-page report containing the nationwide standard for national food programs. The guidelines were first issued in 1980 and are updated every five years. A group of fourteen appointed high-competent scientists and doctors have been working on the report that designed to help people make healthy dietary choices and give health-care providers, public health agencies, and educational institutions a pillar for creating their federal nutrition policy. That means that the nutrition plan your doctor recommends you or your child’s school lunch menu were likely to be developed on the basis of these recommendations.
In short, this time, the guidelines urge Americans to cut back on sugar and sodium, eat less red meat and food that contains saturated fats, and focus on vegetables. And now you can safely drink up to five cups of coffee per day without a twinge of conscience! Moreover, the doctors said that you should eat as little cholesterol as possible, so eat egg yolks (according to the doctors, they are not high in saturated fat) and wash them down with another steaming cup of Americano.
As you can see, the new Dietary Guidelines look more than controversial: along with some well-known food recommendation we used to follow, it includes a number of points that provoked a lot of healthy debates. Some public health experts express concern that the guidelines contain mixed recommendations that could be interpreted by people differently. So, while you are thinking whether the suggestions are right or wrong, we want to tell you why these guidelines (or any other ones) are useless in some sense.This Year's Advice Could Not Necessarily Be Next Year's Advice

This Year’s Advice Could Not Necessarily Be Next Year’s Advice

You must be aware of it: there is no guarantee that the next Dietary Guidelines will include the same recommendation as the current ones do. Furthermore, it seems like the guidelines are created with the help of the Price is Right wheel that turns every five years and gives a new portion of nutrition advice. For example, we used to think that cholesterol was the devil in the world of healthy nutrition, so we needed to limit our intake to 300 milligrams a day—slightly less than the amount in two eggs. But the latest guidelines dropped the previous recommendation calling dietary cholesterol a “nutrient of concern for overconsumption.” We used to think that meat is the most important source of protein and kids should eat it every day. But now we are recommended to abandon consumption of red meat or processed meat because according to recent studies, there is a strong link between this food and the number of incidents of heart diseases and cancer. Drink less coffee. Now drink more coffee. Abandon coffee. Eat meat. Be vegetarian. Drink five, or wait, six, no, eight glasses of water a day.
And the worst thing for people obsessed with healthy diet is that each recommendation is based on a study of a very competent medical institution. It is no wonder that the 2012 Food and Healthy Survey by the International Food Information Council found that for half of Americans it is much easier to deal with their taxes than to compose their healthy diet and follow food safety practices.Keep Calm and Enjoy Your Meal

Keep Calm and Enjoy Your Meal

All this noise around food you should or should not eat can cause serious stress, and last Monday’s steak for dinner can cause a sense of guilt for the entire next week. Throw it out of your head! Everyone has a list of healthy eating habits in his head which he relies on to some extent. And we are sure that there is no mentioning of the possibility that the classic English breakfast of omelet with bacon will immediately kill you. Perhaps, just in perspective.
There is a list of unbreakable rules for people having a healthy lifestyle: minimum sugar and junk food, more plant food and whole grains; no overeating and no starving; fresh water instead of Pepsi, etc. Of course, there could be some variations and deviation from the system, like vegetarianism, veganism, religious diets, and other nutrition practices, but the core idea of them all is balance. The latest Dietary Guidelines are not the Bible but simply some general recommendations that depend on global statistics data and scientific research and influence the United States food-related laws and regulations.
Instead of immediately changing your already healthy habits and following the next big diet trend, it is more important to focus on what really counts. Advertising agencies make a huge amount of money on fanatics, so do sports clubs, retailers, catering companies, and many, many others.It Reeks of Industry Interest While Displacing Public Needs

It Reeks of Industry Interest While Displacing Public Needs

The government will never tell you not to eat red meat or drink Coca-Cola, and the only reason is industry interest.
The first chapter of the guidelines actually only recommends people to eat less or more of the particular kinds of food and gives some advice, but none of these recommendations appear in the executive summary. Just the recommendation to eat less red meat was enough to anger the meat industry, especially beef producers, whose large-scale operations were accused of taking a big toll on water and land. Later, federal officials promised not to include environmental factors in their guidelines. The cattle industry does not like the government telling Americans to stop eating meat, so food manufacturers and food producers insisted the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Heath and Human Services avoid the “not to eat” wording. As a result, many experts claimed that the guidelines are based on out-of-date science and research from years past. An author of Food Politics and former chair of the Department of Nutrition at New York University Dr. Marion Nestle believes that there is a great deal of money at stake when it comes to what the guidelines say.

6 Things Your Life Would Be Miserable Without

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6 Things Your Life Would Be Miserable Without
I think, most of us would like to be more efficient and generally achieve more in our lives, but preferably without having to work hard on that. The perfect variant would be to wake up in the morning, and voila—you know a new language, you can play guitar, you know how to code. Well, I do not promise you miracles, but I do know how to get this kind of things without honing your skills non-stop. The secret is simple.
Last year, I managed to learn a new language, read the books I always left for later, sort my numerous photos (the whole bundle was stored in one folder on my laptop for years), and I started to do exercises regularly (which helped me to lose 17 lbs). As I am writing this article, I myself feel amazed by how much I managed to do. But in fact, it was not strenuous, I did not have to push myself and exceed my limits. All these achievements became possible because of the small habits I developed during the year. The general idea is to do little, yet do it every day, over an extended period of time.
So as I know it from my own experience, I may say, that if you do not have a deadline, it is better to work smarter, not harder. And here is what I mean.

Do not be too strict with yourself

1. Do not be too strict with yourself

If you are thinking about bringing some changes to your life, it may be tempting to decide to “start a brand new life from Monday.” In your imagination, everything is simple: when a new week comes, you immediately start doing exercises in the morning (30 min), you learn one lesson of (whatever you need) every evening (45-60 min) and at night, lying in your cozy bed, you will read for an hour all the books that you have downloaded to your e-book reader. Right. Just like this.
If the difference between your lifestyle now and the lifestyle you want to have is too big, the chances of failing are overwhelming, as you barely can maintain the changes for a single week. Nothing personal; you should not think you are the only one who cannot handle this situation.
Routine life makes you feel safe and gives you an illusion of stability. Changing your life completely in a day is simply too stressful for your mind and body. You kind of fighting with your life; it is almost like a real war. But do you really want to be an enemy to yourself?
If you need the result, it is better not to put strict time limits. Do not be too cruel to yourself, let everything go smoothly. Make the changescome naturally, without epic fights.
 Start small

2. Start small

I honestly believed that doing exercise can easily become a habit if you push yourself to go to a sports club every second day. Then I found that I am very tired after work. I decided, okay, I can do it all by myself without spending time on the way to a sports hall, changing clothes, and looking at those people with bodies-I-will-never-get. I bought a Jillian Michaels’ set of exercises, each workout for about 30 min. But I gave up already after five minutes. After another set of jumping jacks, I felt like I was going to die. And I had no desire to die every evening.
The problem was, I wanted too much from myself. When I came across the idea of starting small, the solution to my problem came by itself. I found 10-minutes HIIT workouts that were concentrated on a certain problem zones. Though it was not as efficient as half-an-hour hard exercising, it gave me an opportunity to get used to sports. Quantity first, quality later.
And it is not only about exercising. Instead of spending an hour on my Dutch (and I never found a whole hour for that), I started doing just short one-page lessons. I downloaded the free Duolingo app and started doing 5-minute exercises. Easy, no stress, and yet you can see the process. You can apply the same idea to basically everything.
 Focus on small victories and visible progress

3. Focus on small victories and visible progress

The secret about starting small is not to expect big changes at once and enjoy the small victories every day.  You should realize that you cannot become an expert in coding in one week, no matter how hard you try and how many hours you spend learning: this kind of things simply does not happen so fast. It requires time and practice.
It is much wiser to divide your task into small pieces and let yourself get a small victory every day. You can even make a list of what you have to do, or circle the pages or chapters in a book when it comes to the reading or learning process.
Think of it as of a brick wall. You need a final result (a wall), but you cannot achieve it without putting the bricks next to one another. If you try to put all the bricks at once, it will be just a pile. You need to take one brick after another and carefully put them together, giving the cement time to get harder and stronger. With every line of bricks, your wall becomes higher. The same goes with all the little victories you get every day: slowly they bring you closer and closer to the final result you are craving for.
 Focus on the process, not on the result

4. Focus on the process, not on the result

In most cases, procrastination is the reason we do not achieve our goal. You will find all possible excuses not to start what you are planning to do. I remember that even one page of Dutch lesson sometimes seemed to me impossibly long to complete. I thought about the new words I usually write down in a special notebook, about making my mind focus on the translation (which is sometimes a real heroic deed, especially after a hard working day) and it made me think that I would better do my lesson next time, when my mind will be in a fresher state.
This is exactly how procrastination works. We spend more time to find reasons not to feel guilty for not doing things than we would spend on actually doing them. It is not easy to conquer procrastination, otherwise we all would know several languages already, have a nice trained body and a pack of scientific or fiction books written.
To solve this problem, you should not think of what you will get as the result, focus only on the process. Just give yourself a time limit and say, “No matter how difficult the thing is going to be, I will do what I can within these 5/10/30 minutes.”
If you promised yourself to read a chapter of a book per day, but the next chapter takes 50 pages, there is no need to stick stubbornly to your promises. Do what you can, read for a while and, after some time, the chapter will be finished.
 Create one habit at a time

5. Create one habit at a time

It is way too tempting to change your life completely with a bunch of new habits, but the reality usually strikes you back. The real life shows that focusing on too many things at once leads to poor results in all of them. You may start with great enthusiasm, but in a week or two procrastination will take its turn, or it will be too difficult to focus on everything, and you will simply forget to do things.
This problem has pretty much the same explanation as why multitasking does not work—because our brain simply cannot focus on many things at the same time.
Also, different habits take different time to form. You may start doing exercises in the morning voluntarily already after one month, but you will not start speaking a new language fluently after the same period of time.
The best way not to fail is to focus on one habit at a time. If you have decided to switch from drinking coffee to drinking water at work, have patience and wait until you do not have to focus on it, until it becomes a routine for you. Once you are done with it, you can start focusing on another thing, for instance, answering all your emails before checking your Facebook (you know how much time it takes).
It is well known, that usually it takes 21 days to build a habit, but the reality shows that it is far from the truth. One study shows that there is simply no specific amount of time for forming a habit, everything is very individual (time required to form a new habit may vary from 18 to 254 days). So, as I mentioned it before, do not focus on the result, just do your thing, and the habit will come when it is time for it. One day, you wake up and start following your habit automatically without even paying attention to it. And that would be it.
 Create triggers

6. Create triggers

It is much easier to follow your new habits if you do not give yourself a chance to find an excuse. It would be wiser to put the book you want to read next to your bed, so you do not need to take it off the shelf every time. If you do your language or coding lesson, for instance, using a mobile app, you may do it while you are drinking the morning coffee. So, every time you go to the kitchen in the morning, take your smartphone with you, or even put an alarm to remind you to do it.
A trigger will help you to remember to follow your plan. If you decided to go for a run every morning, it is easier to stick to this resolution if you put on your exercise cloths on right after the shower, so that there will be no excuses to postpone the running. You can put the cloths in the bathroom in advance, so the moment you see it, you know it is time for going out and having some exercises.
This way of creating new habits can become a sort of a hobby for you. At least, this is exactly what happened to me. For 2016, I have a plan to change my eating habits, learn to play guitar and do several more useful things I postponed during the previous years. It excites me that I do not have to work hard. Just by doing the small things every day, I achieve so much. I wish I knew it earlier.

New Barbie Conceals Shocking Risks

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New Barbie Conceals Shocking RisksNew Barbie Conceals Shocking Risks 

When the first Barbie brand talking doll appeared in the early 60s, it quickly became one of the most desirable gifts among little girls in the U.S. It was Chatty Cathy, which could say simple phrases like “Please change my dress!” or “Tell me a story.” This year, toymaker Mattel has tried to revitalize the brand with a new doll—Hello Barbie. In addition to talking, this innovative toy can listen and remember, which makes parents very suspicious and child psychotherapists rather concerned.

How to Travel With a Friend And Not Drive Each Other Crazy

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How to Travel With a Friend And Not Drive Each Other CrazyHow to Travel With a Friend And Not Drive Each Other Crazy

Unless you have already tested your friend in many travelings, there is a great chance that they will drive you completely mad if you go on a journey together. And it can happen regardless of how long and well you know each other: chatting to each other in a bar or even working in the same office is absolutely different from spending 24 hours a day together. What if they snore? What if they are ready to walk around the city non-stop for 18 hours? What if they cannot make a decision when you need it?
It depends on the situation and the level of your whateverism, but suchcases can lead your friendship into dangerous territory. You may end up feeling annoyed the whole time of vacation, or even falling out with your friend. Nobody wants that, right? So let us help you with a few things you should consider when planning a vacation with your friend. We hope our tips will let you enjoy your travel adventure despite all the little misunderstandings.

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