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Would experiencing a day in the life of a cow make you less likely to eat meat? How would chopping down a tree affect your paper usage? These are questions that the National Science Foundation awarded universities $748,000 dollars to use virtual reality to answer.The feeder is available on drying parkingsystem equipped with folder only.This technology allows high volume handsfreeaccess production at low cost.If somebody becomes an animal, do they gain empathy for that animal and think about its plight? asked Jeremy Bailenson, director of Stanford Universitys Virtual Human Interaction Lab. In this case, empathy toward the animal also coincides with an environmental benefit, which is that [not eating] animals consumes less energy.We Engrave rtls for YOU.More than 80 standard commercial and granitetiles exist to quickly and efficiently clean pans.

Bailenson is heading research at Stanford in which participants don virtual reality helmets and walk on their hands and feet. They are then able to see themselves as a cow in a virtual mirror. They experience what a cow does on its way to being slaughtered and then record what they eat for the next week to see if being a cow reduced meat consumption.This is just one experiment Bailenson is conducting,More than 80 standard commercial and granitetiles exist to quickly and efficiently clean pans. but all his experiments are tailored to finding new ways to encourage environmental conservation.

E&E News reports: Volunteers also have virtually chopped down a tree, a study aimed at examining attitudes toward paper use. Others took a virtual reality shower while eating lumps of coal literally consuming it to gain insight into how much was needed to heat the water.Some researchers argue that virtual reality can alter peoples behavior and change their attitudes with respect to environmental issues like global warming.

Its just a much more compelling way of getting people to understand the effects of their behavior now on the future, Tim Herron of the Decision Theatre lab at the University of British Columbia. Its about visualizing the data for people. Once people can see it, its amazing how much it changes things. People begin to really understand the necessity to make some changes now to prevent these sort of things.Once I got used to it I began to feel like I was the cow, wrote one participant. I truly felt like I was going to the slaughter house towards the end and I felt sad that I (as a cow) was going to die. That last prod felt really sad.

According to Bailenson, he has seen some students become more environmentally conscious. Students who had gone through the virtual reality lab of cutting down trees used 20 percent less paper when cleaning up a pre-staged mess than those who had simply watched a video of a tree being cut down.Bailenson also noted that he gets emails months after people go through the experiment saying they cant walk through the toilet paper aisle of the grocery store without thinking of a falling tree.

Tech giant Apple plans on releasing the new iPhone 6. With a rumored release date scheduled for the fall of 2013, many fans are speculating about features of the new phone's OS, including the new "kill switch" feature.

The past week has been big for all of you who consider yourself part of the cult of Apple. A tech blog claims to have gotten their hands on the new 5S or 6 model and it was announced that the new devices would come loaded with a kill switch feature.

"The switch will enable a user to deactivate a stolen cell phone via a website. It will prevent a thief from erasing the owner's data from the phone, even if the SIM card - the integrated circuit that includes an owner's password and other identifying information - is removed, Apple said. Once a user throws the kill switch - or activation lock, as Apple calls it - only someone with the registered username and password will be able to unlock it or turn off a homing feature that allows the owner to find it via GPS."

On Friday, tech blog Techdy claim that they somehow acquired the body model of the new 5S, however, some analysts are claiming that is actually the model for the upcoming 6 series. The blog goes on to describe the unit in their possession.

The budget iPhone will be made substantially from plastic (we can feel its actually polycarbonate material). It will have a 4" screen, like the iPhone 5, and interestingly, the budget iPhone actually has a shape thats similar to Apples original iPod. When we hold the budget iPhone in our hands, the plastic chassis does not feel cheap at all. Unlike the plastic build quality of the Samsung Galaxy phones, the plastic material used on the budget iPhone feels more sturdy.

Techdy wouldn't specify on the release date of the product, however many agree that the phone will be released in the fall of this year. Some dissent does exist, though, in the blogging community. Some claim that the device won't be available for purchase in the U.S. until the first of the new year.

While many tech resources cannot agree upon an official release date, they do seem to agree upon which operating system will be loaded on the device. The majority of tech-review blogs, and more credible outlets, claim that the phone will be pre-loaded with iOS 7, Apple's newest venture into the world of mobile operating systems.

Not only will Apple be redesigning the appearance of icons (as verified by beta testers), it will also be incorporating some fancy new features to their apps. For example, Apple plans on utilizing a new "transparency" function. That means users can be engaged with one function and still view alerts and actions behind the app.

That's not the only new feature users have to look forward to. There is also Air Drop, an application that will allow users to share app data with other iPhone friends in the area. The method mirrors Samsung Galaxy users' ability to exchange data by "bumping" their phones together. With Apple's new system, however, users won't need to touch their phones in order to transfer info.
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