Emma 'most dangerous' celebrity to search online

Harry Potter star Emma Watson is the favorite celebrity bait for cyber criminals trying to lure Internet users, a report has said.

This makes Watson the ‘most dangerous’ celebrity to search for online, said Web security company McAfee.

MacAfee said many sites use her name to trick users into downloading malicious software or to steal personal information, the Daily Express reports.

When searching for the 22-year-old actress there is a one-in-eight chance of landing on a malicious site, the security firm said.

This is the sixth time the Intel-owned security technology company has conducted the study, which was last year topped by Heidi Klum.

Others among the riskiest celebrities to search online are Jessica Biel, Eva Mendes, Selena Gomez and Halle Berry, the report said

Now, send a long-distance kiss with 'kissinger'

If you"re missing your partner and fancy a smooch , a new messaging device can help you fulfil your wish.

The device dubbed Kissenger and unveiled at the Designing Interactive Systems conference in Newcastle, UK, in June, lets users send kisses wirelessly to one another. Developed by Singapore-based Lovotics, Kissenger comprises a pair of pressure-sensitive soft plastic lips, which protrude through a smooth plastic casing the size of a large Easter egg.
The lips contain pressure sensors and actuators. When you kiss them, the shape changes you create are transmitted in real time over the net to a receiving Kissenger.
There, the actuators reproduce the mirror image of the pressure patterns you created- magically transmitting your smacker to your partner.
"People have found it a very positive way to improve intimacy in communications with their partners when they are apart," New Scientist quoted Hooman Samani of Lovotics, as saying.
The device is a prototype and Samani said it would not be commercialised until "all the ethical and technical considerations are covered".

Also he has pointed that he’s not interested in sexual uses for it.

Sports drinks do not boost energy, can cause obesity

You might want to throw out your stock of sports drinks after reading this.

According to researchers from Oxford University, claims of sports drinks to boost energy not only lack evidence, but high intake of these drinks can also cause weight gain.
The study published in the British Medical Journal assessed the evidence behind 431 performance enhancing claims in adverts for 104 different sports products including sports drinks, protein shakes and trainers. In case where evidence from adverts was not clear, researchers asked for information from various manufacturers. It found only 2.7% of the information supplied to be of high quality and at low risk of bias.
"This absence of high quality evidence is worrying," researchers said.
Also, no substantial evidence was found to suggest that liquid is any better than solid carbohydrate intake.
"As sports drinks rise in popularity among children, there is concern their consumption is contributing to obesity levels," researchers said.
"Far from sports drinks turning casual runners into Olympic athletes, if they avoided the sports drink they would get thinner and run faster," Professor Tim Noakes, Discovery health chair of exercise and sports science at Cape Town University said.
"No one single food or drink alone is responsible for people being overweight or obese. All foods and soft drinks can have a place in a sensible, balanced diet, as long as over time you do not take in more calories than you burn," a soft drink company said.

Hug machine proves to be huge hit in Singapore

The innovative Coca-Cola vending machine that dispenses free cans when people hug it, has become immensely popular in Singapore.

The drinks giant's famous logo has been replaced with the simple message: "Hug Me."

The odd Singapore stunt is a part of the company's 'Open Happiness' campaign, which is designed to encourage displays of affection in a country where hugs and kisses in public have long been discouraged.

"Happiness is contagious. The Coca Cola Hug Machine is a simple idea to spread some happiness," the Sun quoted Leonardo O'Grady, Coke's Asia Pacific director, as saying.

"Our strategy is to deliver doses of happiness in an unexpected, innovative way to engage not only the people present, but the audience at large," he said.

The machine has been so popular that the company now planned to roll them out across Asia.

"The reaction was amazing - at one point we had four to five people hugging the machine at the same time as well as each other! In fact, there was a long line of people looking to give hugs," O'Grady added.

Fizzy drinks 'as bad for health as tobacco'

Sugar-packed fizzy drinks are just as dangerous to health as cigarettes, health experts have warned.

Experts want hard-hitting public awareness campaigns to attack what they say are "manufacturers' misleading promotions that distract from the health risks".

"Emerging science on the addictiveness of sugar, especially combined with the known addictive properties of caffeine in many sugary beverages, should heighten awareness of the health threat similar to the understanding about the addictiveness of tobacco products," the Daily Express quoted public health expert Dr Lori Dorfman as saying.

Dorfman, from the University of California, and colleagues want soft drinks companies to stop "explicitly targeting young people" in an "aim to increase sales".

Drinking just two cans of fizzy pop a day has been shown to cause severe long-term liver damage, a condition normally the result of chronic alcohol abuse.

It can lead to victims needing a transplant because the liver cannot process the huge amount of sugar.

Too many soft drinks can potentially cause diabetes and heart damage as well as being a major contributor to obesity.

Diet drinks in particular have been shown to pile on the pounds because, even though they have fewer calories than regular fizzy pop, they can trigger the appetite to eat more.

Those who binge on diet soft drinks every day have been shown to have 70 percent bigger waists after a decade.

"There is no comparison to be drawn between tobacco and soft drinks," a spokesman for the British Soft Drinks Association said.

"Tobacco is harmful in any quantity and any reduction in consumption is a positive step for health.In the case of food and drink, it is the imbalance between calorie intake and calorie expenditure that is the cause of obesity and not the intake of calories as such, still less the intake of calories from any particular food or drink. These two situations are entirely different," the spokesman added.

Women can be more promiscuous than men!

A new study has suggested that when it comes to being sexually unfaithful while being away from home, women tend to rack up more lovers than men.

The UK Adultery Survey 2012 found that once women decide to play away, they are far more likely to play the field in search of love.

Research into the behaviour of 4,000 people suggested that women are more promiscuous, having an average of 2.3 secret lovers compared to a mere 1.8 for men, the Daily Mail reported.

While explaining their reasons to cheat, the men say the pursuit of sexual excitement, boredom with their marriages and the need of an ego boost are the main causes. Women say their reasons could be anything from looking for emotional fulfillment, an improvement to their self esteem to romance.

Women adulterers are also far more prone to falling in love with their illicit lovers than their male equivalents.

According to Emily Pope of Undercover Lovers, a dating site for married people seeking affairs with some 600,000 members, the survey's results challenged the general assumption that men are more adulterous than women.

"Once they have made the huge decision to have an affair, women have far more opportunity to actually find someone to cheat with and are generally in control of deciding if and when to consummate the relationship once they do," she said.

The survey also found that women are likely to be the first to get itchy feet in a marriage.

Why a man's touch makes women blush

The regions of the face that redden during sexual stimulation also slightly heat up during innocent social interactions, a new study has revealed.

For the study, Amanda Hahn and colleagues at St Andrew’s University in Fife, UK, used a heat-sensitive camera to map small changes of temperature in the faces of young heterosexual women while an experimenter touched them with an instrument they were told was measuring skin colour.

Touching the palm or elbow had no effect, but contact with the cheek or top of the breastbone raised the temperature around the eyes, mouth and nose by 0.2-to 0.5 degrees centigrade on average, and by a full degree in certain spots.

An earlier study had found this area heats up in sexually aroused men.

The female subjects reported few or no feelings of arousal or embarrassment, but their facial temperature rose more when the experimenter was a young man.

"What is surprising is the magnitude," New Scientists quoted Hahn as saying.