Friday, May 29, 2009

Boyfriend Arm Pillow a sales success!!!


TOKYO - A new product on the Japanese market has been designed for the single girl in need of some manly comfort while she sleeps.

The “Boyfriend Arm’s Pillow” is shaped like a giant arm which will hold you all night without the need for the real thing.

The almost life-size boyfriend pillow is the product of the Japanese bed linen maker, Kameo Corp., located in the Japanese city of Fukuoka. The company already sold more than 1,000 pillows since its launch last year. It costs $80 dollars (8,500 yen) and is currently only sold in Japan on the Internet.

Thursday, May 07, 2009

Angels & Demons ReVieW

Just a few words about the movie "Angels&Demons"..




As a CERN user I had the chance to get a ticket for the "avant-première", thus I watched the movie on Monday. I really liked the first 5 minutes, where ATLAS appears. ATLAS is not an antimatter machine as they said, but it is a machine aimed to find the particle that gives mass to others. Another issue that is not true is that there are not offices near to the experiment, they are in the ground. In the other hand they do have very nice "software" for the detector monitoring, I think ATLAS most copy some of those animations.




Other thing that I really liked were the places, I love Italy, I love Rome. They have very good quality even if some of them are not real, as the Sixtine Chapel. I really liked the trip trough Rome streets.

The story, I prefer "The Da Vinci Code".

Sunday, March 29, 2009

CerN LaND

CeRN LanD is ready for use :D. A interface for children about high energy physics has been developed, it is in french, english and italian, unfortunately not yet in spanish :(.

El CERN ha sacado una serie de video-juegos sobre física (especialemente sobre altar energías :D) para niños en internet, CeRN LanD. Desafortunadamente no esta en español, pero es muy divertido.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Twouble with Twitters ...

Sunday, December 07, 2008

LyOn: Fête des Lumières

Every year in Lyon, France there is a festival of lights in Lyon called "Fête des Lumière". There are a lot of plays with light of different styles. The nicest one, at least for me, is the ones that projects different forms over the buildings.

Cada año, en Lyon, Francia, se lleva acabo una fiesta de luces, Y el espectáculo es muy bueno. Me impresiona que proyectan la luz sobre los edificios, y a pesar de que los edificios no tienen una forma uniforma como la de una pantaña, las imágenes no se deforman, es un espectáculo de luz con música.



Different routines are presented, and they last about 10 minutes.
Se presentan rutinas como de 10 minutos, de diferentes estilos.




They have at least 8 different principal points where they performance them, there are 2 churches at least and 2 of the principal squares that are illuminated in this way.

Al menos dos de las plazas principales y dos de las igleasias son iluminadas como esta, la iluminación no es estática, sino que varia la geometría o las figuras al ritmo de un fondo musical.




There are other types of light plays, as this with watter.
También hay otro tipo de exhibiciones como las de estos chorros iluminados.




In this picture we can se the Cathedral St-Jean (near the river La Saone), the Basilica Notre Dame de Fourviere (on top of the hill).
Desde aquí se puede ver la Catedral de San Juan iluminada (abajo) y la Basílica de Notre Dame de Fourviere (en lo alto).