Goldfish have been around for quite some time now. The jazz/house/electronica/generally casual bastards duo of Dominic Peters and David Poole are from Cape Town South Africa and they are HUGE. Outside of SA though, they have a fairly underground following. Well not for much longer I hope. Their funky compilations of mixing with live double bass, saxophone, keyboard and flute give them a sound that is simply irresistible.
If you're a newborn goldfish in Japan, expect to live a privacy-less life. Japanese scientists have officially bred see-through fishies, intended to serve as a humane alternative to dissection. (I want one for a pet myself.)
The new transparent breed of fish, whose heart, brain and other organs are visible through its scales and skin, is the first of its kind.
"You can see a live heart and other organs because the scales and skin have no pigments," Yutaka Tamaru, an associate professor at Mie University, who along with researchers at Nagoya University succeeded in making the fish, known as "ryukin."
So how'd they do it? The scientists picked pale-skinned mutant hatchery goldfish and bred them together. The fish can live up to 20 years and be as heavy as 5 pounds.
Meanwhile, another group of researchers that produced the famous see-through frog is going mass-market.
"[The frogs] are likely to be put on the market next year," said Masayuki Sumida, professor at the Institute for Amphibian Biology of Hiroshima University, adding they will likely fetch below 10,000 yen or around $140 each.
The very first iPod was released in January of 2000, nearly 10 years ago. The clunky chap included the classic game "brick" (originally designed by Steve Wozniak himself!) and held just 1 GB's worth of music. iPod usership didn't really take off until 2005, by which time the classic had 4GB of memory and a shuffle and mini were also on the market.
I remember owning my first iPod, although I'm not sure who gave it to me or where I got it from. Failures in reliability and durability are innate to these iconic mp3 players, and I'm sure we've all seen a form of iPod crash on us and abandoned in favor of a new model. I reckon that someday the original generations will be prized relics for thrift store treasure-hunters. Heck, I wouldn't mind having an oldie.
For comparison's sake, here's the "iPod Family" (Charles Manson reference, anyone?) we have now:
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