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Cellphones and PDAs: Replacing Watches Everywhere

LordM | 29 August, 2006 16:38

I am a man of the future. I do not need to wear a watch anymore as I can easily look at the time with my nifty Nokia phone. Those who wear watches just wear them either to show-off or create a fashion statement. The concept of time will never be the same again...

In an article entitled "Cell phones taking over as timepieces," it was mentioned that people are now ditching their watches in favor of cellular phones and PDAs as these devices conveniently display the time.

According to a market research study, there has been a 4.9 percent decrease in watch sales for 2005. This is due to the fact that men prefer their cellular phones and PDAs than watches.

This case may not be true for women, however, as they tend to strut their stuff more and use their watch as an accessory. In fact, out of the 69.9 million U.S adults who bought watches, 40.3 million were women.

So what's next? Watches with cellular phone functions? Not really. I did find out however that there is a bluetooth headset watch in the market....

See what I mean? In case you want to know more about this weird savvy gadget, check out Bluevoice's website... Click on this link to be redirected.

Read all about the gadget and tell me what you guys think.

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The salient feature in this case is odour. Rats, mice and voles recognise each other by smell. Christie Fowler and her colleagues at Florida State University have found that exposure to the opposite sex generates new nerve cells in the brains of prairie voles—in particular in areas important to olfactory memory. Could it be that prairie voles form an olfactory “image” of their partners—the rodent equivalent of remembering a personality—and this becomes linked with pleasure?


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It seems possible, then, that animals which form strong social bonds do so because of the location of their receptors for vasopressin and oxytocin. Evolution acts on the distribution of these receptors to generate social or non-social versions of a vole. The more receptors located in regions associated with2moons dilreward, the more rewarding social interactions become. Social groups, and society itself, rely ultimately on these receptors. But for evolution to be able to act, there must be individual variation between mice, and between men. And this has interesting implications.
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