Christopher Bailey designed a custom cylindrical space to create a 360 immersive experience called Burberry World Live. The combination of British Heritage, fashion, music and weather was used to celebrate the opening of the Burberry Taiwan flagship store at Taipei 101. Burberry will bring the Burberry World Live experience to other cities this year, including London, Hong Kong and Chicago later this year. Take a look:
Barbie has a new online show, Barbie Life in the Dreamhouse. The series will consist of 14 three minute episodes. It can be watched on Barbie's Youtube channel or here on Barbie.com. Barbie sure has an insanely massive closet in her Dreamhouse and it is packed with clothes, shoes, accessories and much more. There is also a makeup room with a giant Barbie head for testing makeup. Here is episode one. Take a look:
Pillow Pets, such as the My Pillow Pets Miss Lady Bug pictured above, are a big hit. They are plush toys that fold out to become pillows. The Pillow Pets company were designed by Pillow Pets CEO Jennifer Telfer. CBS News reports that Telfer and her husband used their savings to have the first 8,000 pillow pets manufactured by a company in China. The toys then expanded to mall kiosks and eventually major retailers. Sales really shot up when the first Pillow Pats commercial aired in 2009. The Pillow Pets brand now includes blankets, hats and slippers. There is also a Disney product line. Take a look:
Queen Amidala, Chewbacca, C-3PO, Slave Leia, Jawas and other Star Wars characters danced to LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It," at the 2012 Dance-Off with the Star Wars Stars at Star Wars Weekends at Disney's Hollywood Studios. LMFAO's dancing robot was also present. Attractions Magazine has longer 23 minute video of all the dancing at the event here. Take a look:
Glee stars attended to Fox 2012 Programming Presentation at The Beacon Theater in New York City. Cory Monteith and Lea Michele are pictured above. Lea was wearing a Pucci dress. You can see another photo of her in the dress here. Naya Rivera and Chris Colfer are pictured in the photo below.
Ryan Murphy has confirmed that all cast members will be back in season 4, but this doesn't mean all cast members will in all 22 episodes.
Amazon.com is offering up to 50% off select Pinzon bath towels, hand towels and bath sheets. The sale includes the Pinzon 820-gram cotton towels pictured above. You can find all the items on sale here. The sale ends on June 7.
iHome has announced the iP76 LED Color Changing Speaker Tower with Bluetooth technology. Available in July 2012, the tower contains 16 multi-color LED clusters to create exciting light effects. The three-foot-high speaker can stream music from Bluetooth-enabled devices. It can also charge iPhones and iPods when docked and send video content from your device to your television via the built-in component video outputs. The iP76 will be available in July 2012 at retailers nationwide and on ihomeaudio.com for $199.99.
Evan Stein, Director of Marketing, iHome, says, "We're very excited to release our first speaker tower and believe the design and array of features will make the iP76 stand above the competition."
A new study out of Stanford University found that about 4 percent of the adult U.S population is sleepwalking, and that one third of Americans have sleepwalked at some point in their lives. The phenomenon is much more common than previously believed. People do really bizarre things while sleepwalking: binge eating, randomly emailing people and even violently assaulting a
loved one (which they had no memory of the next morning).
Sleep violence is very serious and puts other family members
at risk. Dr. Carlos Schenck
of the Minnesota Regional Sleep
Disorders Center says that
it is the fight or flight
response taking over while
asleep. They feel a threat,
so they either run away or
fight the perceived threat.
The brain tells the body to move,
and to become violent. Researchers say there is much we do not know about sleep disturbances, which need a great deal more study. ABC News takes a look at some of the strange things people do while sound asleep:
Taylor Swift has released the lyric video for "Eyes Open." The song is one of two songs Taylor Swift wrote for The Hunger Games soundtrack. The words in the lyrics are animated with the help of different types of paper and office supplies on a desk. Take a look:
A rare corpse flower has finally
bloomed at Foster
Botanical Garden in Honolulu.
Horticulturist Scot Mitamura said,
"This was
the first time it has bloomed for us.
It took 10 years."
The plant has a terrible odor which reminds most people of
rotten meat. The odor attracts a specific type of beetle the plant
needs to pollinate. KHON's Brianne Randle says the odor
hits you the minute you go in the door
of th botanical garden. This plant
was donated as a bulb and it's finally
blooming. It only blooms
every 3-5 years and is beautiful.
The plant is endangered. Take a look:
Verizon announced that it is phasing out its unlimited data plans as customers upgrade to faster 4g devices. Customers who have unlimited data plans who don't upgrade their devices will get to keep their plans, for now. But if they upgrade, they won't get unlimited data.
Naturally, customers are furious over the move. The New York Times asked Verizon to clarify the new policy and it sent this statement:
Customers will not be automatically moved to new shared data plans. If a 3G or 4G smartphone customer is on an unlimited plan now and they do not want to change their plan, they will not have to do so.
When we introduce our new shared data plans, Unlimited Data will no longer be available to customers when purchasing handsets at discounted pricing.
Customers who purchase phones at full retail price and are on an unlimited smartphone data plan will be able to keep that plan.
The same pricing and policies will be applied to all 3G and 4GLTE smartphones.
The AP reports on this news and gets some very unhappy customer reactions:
Dawn Casale and Dave
Crofton of One Girl
Cookies in Brooklyn and author of One Girl Cookies: Recipes for Cakes, Cupcakes, Whoopie Pies, and Cookies from Brooklyn's Beloved Bakery, demonstrate how to make
perfect buttercream frosting. Dave says
to use room temperature butter --
it must be soft and easily mixed.
He says the milk should also be room
temperature. He said don't be afraid to
add extra milk so the frosting is not
too dry. He says keep the speed
of the mixer low to medium -- don't
add too much air to it. The vanilla
extract should be high quality, and
vanilla beans are better. If you'd like a colored frosting, you can add food coloring, but don't add too much. It makes the frosting taste strange. Dave says he likes professional food coloring gel, available at a kitchen supply store.
Take a look:
A new study by researchers from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and AARP, has found that older adults who drank coffee -- caffeinated or decaffeinated -- had a lower risk of death overall than others who did not drink coffee.
Coffee drinkers were less likely to die from heart disease, respiratory disease, stroke, injuries and accidents, diabetes, and infections, although the association was not seen for cancer. These results from a large study of older adults were observed after adjustment for the effects of other risk factors on mortality, such as smoking and alcohol consumption. Researchers caution that they can't be sure these associations mean that drinking coffee actually makes people live longer. The results of the study were published in the May 17, 2012, edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Neal Freedman, Ph.D., Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI, and his colleagues examined the association between coffee drinking and risk of death in 400,000 U.S. men and women ages 50 to 71 who participated in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study. Information about coffee intake was collected once by questionnaire at study entry in 1995-1996. Coffee intake was assessed by self-report at a single time point and therefore might not reflect long-term patterns of intake. The participants were followed until the date they died or Dec. 31, 2008, whichever came first.
The researchers found that the association between coffee and reduction in risk of death increased with the amount of coffee consumed. Relative to men and women who did not drink coffee, those who consumed three or more cups of coffee per day had approximately a 10% lower risk of death. Coffee drinking was not associated with cancer mortality among women, but there was a slight and only marginally statistically significant association of heavier coffee intake with increased risk of cancer death among men.
Freedman says, "Coffee is one of the most widely consumed beverages in America, but the association between coffee consumption and risk of death has been unclear. We found coffee consumption to be associated with lower risk of death overall, and of death from a number of different causes. Although we cannot infer a causal relationship between coffee drinking and lower risk of death, we believe these results do provide some reassurance that coffee drinking does not adversely affect health."
Freedman also says, "The mechanism by which coffee protects against risk of death -- if indeed the finding reflects a causal relationship -- is not clear, because coffee contains more than 1,000 compounds that might potentially affect health. The most studied compound is caffeine, although our findings were similar in those who reported the majority of their coffee intake to be caffeinated or decaffeinated."
USA Todayquotes cardiologist Steve Nissen of the Cleveland Clinic who tells the public to ignore the study's findings.
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