[GARD align=”left”] Samsung’s virtual reality headset, the Gear VR Innovator Edition, showed up on the company’s online store Today for $199.99. Samsung Gear VR is a virtual-reality headset that uses the company’s new Galaxy Note 4 as its main display. It looks a little like an Oculus Rift, and a “powered by Oculus” logo appears on the side. But it …
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will hike military spending by more than a third in the next fiscal year despite presenting a “cautious, tight” budget to parliament on Sunday in response to falling oil prices and punishing sanctions arising from the country’s disputed nuclear program. According to Tasnim News Agency, dated 07DEC14: [GARD align=”center”] Iranian President Hassan Rouhani submitted to the …
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[GARD align=”left”] Top Photo: From left to write: Maryam Sachs, Shahbanou Farah Pahlavi, Swiss photographer Georg Gerster in front of his aerial picture of Mount Damavand Photo by KA. Swiss photographer Georg Gerster undertook a dangerous mission in the 1970’s to capture the beauty of Iran from the air on film, sticking his camera out a of a plane to …
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[GARD align=”left”] Workers at the downtown federal courthouse called in a bomb squad Thursday for a suspicious device, not realizing it was an S* toy. When the bomb squad arrived, they suited up in vests and helmets and approached the object. “It was oblong, egg-shaped, you could say, I think aluminum, with a cord coming out of it leading to …
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A cute little animation is circulating the social media circles recently, it is so adorable so we thought to share it with you. We are not sure of it’s origin, whether it was created by a Persian animator from scratch or it was borrowed of the web and the audio was dubbed afterwards. You can view the clip above. [GARD …
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[GARD align=”left”] A suspect wanted for allegedly stealing a BMW sedan led police on a chase in the Los Angeles Suburb of Van Nuys, He was traveling at speeds of up to 90 mph on the 405 Freeway as he was evading police and bailed out on foot and attempted to get away on a skateboard before he was blocked by …
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[GARD align=”left”] Balochistan. The place sounds made up, like something from a terrible Borat sequel. But it’s very real, and it’s very dangerous. All of this sounded good to Irish surfer Easkey Britton. In 2010, she took time off from finishing a PhD in Marine Science (and towing into beasts at Mullaghmore) to surf this moonscape of a coastline. Britton has …
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[GARD align=”left”] Envisions a future where self-propelled elevators can travel both horizontally and vertically along skyscrapers in places like New York, for example, it’s estimated you’ll spend almost 16 years waiting for an elevator and about six years inside one. ThyssenKrupp just introducedthe “Multi” elevator — the first cable-free elevator that will use magnetic levitation and a linear motor — similar …
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[GARD align=”left”] North Korea launched a travel website on Monday that is decidedly more strange than it is inviting — particularly since the country currently has a ban on international tourists entering the country due to fears of the Ebola virus! The site, dprktoday.com, offers an animated tour through the customs and culture available in the so-called hermit kingdom. A …
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[GARD align=”left”] Radio Zamaneh – The head of Iran’s Football Federation reports that Sepp Blatter, the head of the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA), has announced that some of Iran’s money for football activities, which has been blocked due to the International sanctions, will now be released.Ali Kafashian told reporters, after his return from the meeting of the Asian …
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