Smart Wireless In Ear Headphones

Dash (Price is $199), a set of smart Wireless In-Ear Headphones, packed with a lots of sensors, so you can “track your pace, steps, cadence, distance, heart rate, oxygen saturation, and energy spent, whereas relaying the information back to your devices via Bluetooth.” You can use it as wireless headphones, and features include 4GB of storage and a built-in music player. All these features are available via touch gestures on the outside of the buds themselves, by the way. The battery will last three and four hours.

Stemonitis Axifera

Stemonitis axifera is a species of slime mold, and its fruits in clusters on dead wood, and has distinguishing tall reddish-brown sporangia, supported on slender stalks. This species was first described as Trichia axifera by Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard in 1791. Thomas Huston MacBride transferred it to the genus Stemonitis in 1889. Stemonitis fasciculata and Stemonitis smithii are synonyms. It requires almost 20 hours finishing making its fruit bodies. Out of this 8 hours are required for induction of the sporangia and the development of the stalk and the columella, 6 hours more for the sporocarps to yield pigment and mature, and an additional 6 hours the spores are discharged. The slime mold grows on decaying wood when the fruit bodies contain of milky white sporangia, they are a favored food source for Philomycus slugs.

Source: Charismatic Planet 

Wintery Wonderland of Central Park

This has been a cold winter so far in New York, with heap of snow storms and freezing temperatures have sent most public indoors to look warmth under fuzzy blanket with hot chocolate in hand. Photographer Dina Litovsky takes this opportunity to go outside to document the amazing landscapes in central park. She born in Ukarine and then moved to New York 20 years back.  She is expressing her feelings “I expected it to be scenic but was just overwhelmed by how beautiful everything was, and the park, normally booming with energy and life and vibrant colors, is completely bleak and dreary”. These photographs show the accumulations of snow covering everything in a quiet, wintery wonderland. She has captured extremely breathtaking images that convey a few rare moments of quiet in an otherwise bustling city.Source: Charismatic Planet

Life in Desert in a Sleek Design Home

These days life is extremely busy, and everyone wants some relaxation in a quite atmosphere. Creative director Marc Atlan has designed a Black Desert House in collaboration with architecture firm Oller & Pejic and interior design company Moderne Builders. It is located only 30 minutes outside of Palm Springs, actually boasts the environment of the Mojave Desert. All the basic needs are available in the house, including three bedrooms, and dining room, and outside there is a central courtyard, a terraced patio, and a black-tiled pool. The sleek modern house is the polar opposite of the natural landscape it is embedded in, making for a fascinating cooperation among nature and manmade home. The spectacular house offers the all amenities of comfort house with a scenic environment of a retreat. A beautiful swimming pool offers a pleasure relaxing mood with gorgeous sun setting view. The architecture serves as a contrasting staple in the deserted area that oddly complements its surroundings, and exceptional quality of silence is supreme and the beauty of the dark night sky borders on spiritual. Five minutes from civilization, the site yet gives the sensation of being beyond time. The great concept and construction were considerate enough to let the spectacular views of the landscape to beautifully translate within the home through its massive glass windows and sliding doors.

Source: Charismatic Planet