Cue the dibbidy-dibbidy music and watch out for falling telephones. With the Manic Miner Heat Changing Mug you can relive the glory days of Spectrum gaming from the comfort of the future.


Just add hot water (or hot milk) to this goblet of gaming history. A classic scene from Manic Miner will appear in full colour from the black surroundings. Then sit back and watch as anyone under 30 pulls a face like a baby licking a grapefruit.

When your hot beverage finally cools, the heat-changing ink will slowly fade into obscurity again. Just like Matthew Smith. Kidding! Mr Smith, we salute you. Now please finish the trilogy.

This classic platformer has been transported over to the world of a drinking apparatus, and with the right amount of heat in your favorite beverage, you would not have any issues reliving the days of yore concerning Spectrum gaming right from the comfort of the future. All you need to do is add hot water (hot milk will do just fine as well), and see the classic scene from Manic Miner unfold – in full color, yo! Needless to say, once your favorite beverage starts to cool off, so too, will the heat changing ink fade away to black. I guess this is as good as any an indicator to let you know that you can now down whatever remains without worrying about scalding your tongue. This is a fully licensed Manic Miner product, so don’t worry about being accused of purchasing a knockoff.

5. Hasselblad H3DII-50

Hasselblad H3DII-50 comes to the chart of World’s most expensive and most advance camera unit in the world in 2008. This big Camera is boasted with 50 mega pixels and it is outmatch the recent record that was made by HASSELBLAD with their product hasselblad h3dII which has 39 mega pixels. With this camera user can select up to ISO800. With high facilities comes a high cost, to bring the 5th most expensive camera home, the cost is US$37,000

Those of us who live in developed countries know just how easy it is to access clean drinking water, but spare a thought for the many millions who do not have access to basic amenities. If you are still running scared of catching some sort of bug in your drinking water, then here is a suggestion for all paranoid Androids – the £32.99 Bobble Jug that will come in black, blue, pink and green shades. All you need to do is fill up the jug from a tap, and then pour out that refreshing cup of fresh water. The activated carbon filter is said to make short work of the odor as well as chlorine from the tap water, allowing you to savor each and every single drop that goes through your mouth after that.



Each carbon filter is capable of filtering through up to 150 litres of clean water, and since the Bobble Jug is made out of recycled PET, you know for sure that you are doing your bit for the environment. Bear in mind that the filtering process begins when water is being poured into the jug itself, so you can always remove the cover after that when you place the Bobble Jug on the dining table. The Bobble Jug can hold up to approximately 2 liters of life giving water.

A new study suggests that social networking services such as Facebook and Twitter are more difficult to resist than cigarettes or alcohol. A team from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business recently conducted an experiment involving 205 people in Wurtzburg, Germany to analyze the addictive properties of social media and other vices. Participants in the week-long study were polled via BlackBerry smartphones seven times per day and asked to report when they experienced a desire within the past 30 minutes, and whether or not the succumbed to that desire. They were also asked to gauge each desire on a scale from mild to “irresistible.”

In total, 10,558 responses were recorded and a total of 7,827 “desire episodes” were reported by participants. The results of the team’s study will soon be published in the Psychological Science journal, however preliminary data provided to The Guardian suggests the highest rate of “self-control failures” were tied to social media services.

Puberty is a tough time for teenage girls. Whether developing too quickly or too slowly, their changing shape can be a source of much anguish. Spare a thought then for Ellie Jaycock, who at just 17 years of age has size 34K breasts. She has been diagnosed with a rare condition that causes rapid breast development from the onset of puberty onwards.


Now Ellie, a student from East Looe, Cornwall, is desperate to have surgery to reduce the size of her breasts, saying they are causing crippling back pain. But doctors have refused to operate until she is 21 and has stopped growing. Ellie, who is 5ft 4in and weighs nine and a half stone (one stone of which is her breasts), says that her breasts haven’t changed for nine months – but doctors still refuse to operate. She is a slim size 10 but has to wear size 18 tops to accommodate her bust.


‘My boobs are ruining my life,’ she says in an interview with Closer magazine. ‘I have chronic back pain and I’ve lost all my confidence. Girls call me a slag and people scream, “Who do you think you are, Jordan?” I don’t know how I’ll cope until I’m 21.’ At first, Ellie’s breasts seemed to be developing normally and she bought her first bra, a size 34B, when she was 12 years old.


But from then on, Ellie’s bust began to increase in size dramatically.

At 13, her breasts grew from a C-cup to a DD-cup during the summer holidays. She began to suffer shooting pains in her breasts as well as crippling shoulder and backache. By the time she was 14, she needed a size 34F bra. Her stepmother Sandy, 39, a teaching assistant, and father Richard, 44, an electrician, took her daughter to see the doctor, who referred Ellie to a specialist. She was diagnosed with the condition and prescribed painkillers and hormones to slow down the growth. But the drugs failed to work. Months passed and Ellie’s bust grew to an H-cup. The back pain became excruciating. A shy girl who disliked confrontation, Ellie was devastated to find she was soon singled out by bullies.

Classmates gave her the nickname Tittie Tania, and strangers on the street shouted abuse at her, mocking her for what they assumed were grotesque implants.