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Cell phones are one of the signs that mankind is really advancing. They make access to information very easy and ever available at the push of a button. But even with all these advances, there is always room for improvements. Below are some technologies you may soon have in your cell phone: #1 Smell and See Diseases: photo credit When diseases such as cancer is mentioned in the same sentences as cell phones, it always portrays cell phones as the bad guys stating that they can cause cancer. Scientists at NASA have decided to reduce the guilt currently being suffered by cellphones worldwide by giving phones the ability to smell diseases . They produces a tiny sensor that, once installed in your phone, detect and analyze the chemicals in your breath. The chip is about the size of a nickel and works with 32 sensors that allow it to "smell" predetermined levels of various chemicals. Said chemicals, incidentally, include chlorine, carbon monoxide, ammonia and methane...

Immortality has been one of mankind's greatest obsessions. From cryogenic freezing to searching for a mystical fountain of youth, humanity has been seeking for a way to live forever. Meanwhile some animals have been sticking around just doing what animals generally do; eating, pooping, mating, more pooping. And they still outlive us even with our brains and science and technology. Below are some animals who will probably outlive us: #1 Glass Sponges: photo credit Glass sponges are not made of glass as you may think. Neither is it advisable to wash you dishes with them. Glass sponges are animals, though you may not think of them as animals. Can you guess how old a glass sponge can live? 500 you say? 700? Wrong! Try 15,000 . They are the oldest living things on the planet. these things have been around since before the time of Jesus Christ. What's more, scientists think they evolved their current form 700 million years ago, at which point they stopped evolv...

Once in a while, we have to stop and remind ourselves that that terrifying animal who would so much want to have you as lunch may also be the key to your salvation. Nature has produced a myriad of creatures of various forms and sizes and, apart from giving them freaky claws and fangs, also bestowed special qualities upon them and which humans have discovered how to take advantage of. Some of these are listed below: #1 Cobra Venom May Stop HIV and Multiple Sclerosis:   photo credit Cobras...badasses of the animal kingdom. They are the worst things anyone wants to see and getting bitten by one of them is the second most unfortunate thing that can happen to anyone, right after getting hit by a comet (according to my list of unfortunate occurrences). Cobras are the devil. Did you know they spit venom at your eyes , the second worst place you can get snake venom? If you get enough of it in your system, get ready to enjoy pain, necrosis and maybe even paralysis, as the tox...

A lot of terrible diseases exist, including but not limited to viruses that leave you with your limbs rotting off (CAUTION! Pictures!) or pooping yourself to death in hours . You don't believe anything could be worse that getting diagnosed with one of those? How about having a doctor stand over your death bed, shrug his shoulders and say, "I dunno, witchcraft?" After all, nothing is scarier than the unknown, and science can't explain the first thing about some pretty horrific diseases, and even less about how to stop them. Below are 5 terrible diseases that science can't explain: #1 Stiff Person Syndrome:   photo credit People who are afflicted with stiff person syndrome experience increasing rigidity, kinda like a never-ending muscle cramp. This continues and the victim becomes more and more stiffer until the become paralyzed. Severe cases of this causes difficulty in breathing , problems swallowing, muscle ruptures and fucking broken bones . T...

The cost of living is an important factor when seeking for a place to live. Here in Nigeria, we believe things are very expensive but there are many cities where the cost of living is much higher. The cost of a purchasing food items, accommodation etc determines the cost of living of an area. According to Mercer Quality of Living report ( click here to view the report ), Vienna in Austria tops the list of the most expensive cities in the world to live in in 2015. See below the list of top 10 most expensive countries countries to live in: #1 Vienna, Austria: Vienna has been listed as the most expensive city in the world in 2015. An inexpensive meal in a restaurant in this city costs an average of 9€, a litre of milk costs an average of 1.08€, an apple costs 2.27€ and a packet of Marlboro cigarettes cost an average of 4.90€, basic amenities such as electricity, water, heating and garbage collection costs an average of 148.88€. More details on the cost of goods and services in thi...

Anyway, so I'm sure all of you have some WhatsApp group chats going on in your phone right now. No? Try and join one. Because even my most anti-social friend sends me screenshots of crazy WhatsApp group chats that he encounters. Some of them, like one  i'm currently in (MOSA '09 Group) don't let you sleep at night. You wake up in the morning and you see up to 800 messages and it leaves you wondering is some people sleep at night. Here are some things i noticed about the people in the group. I'm sure they apply to any other whatsapp group out there: #1 The group admin: The group admin has power. Or so I like to think. Possibly because I happen to be the group admin of a few WhatsApp group chats, and I like to think I have sole control over these groups that I started. Yes, I can wield the power of adding and deleting people from the Group Chat. I AM POWERFUL, ALL FEAR ME. #2 The Bitch: Much as I like Nicki Minaj, I'd have to disagree. The...

Do you remember the days when we watch movies of rugged-looking soldiers shooting planes out of the sky with lasers and we would laugh and term it impossible? I mean, who would forget movies such as George Lucas' Star Wars series. Sorry to tell you, but some of those technologies are already in existence. Some of them are listed below: #1 Lasers : We ain't talking about the miserly medical lasers,we're talking big big lasers that can shoot planes straight out of the sky. Let's start with planes. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is experimenting with mounting laser cannons on planes, if for no other reason than to give those awful people who shine laser pointers at airborne planes a taste of their own medicine. But then again, when you think about it, pilots are such a thing of the past. Drones are the future. We've already put bombs and machine guns on them, why not lasers? Recently U.S. Air Force captain and drone pilot Michael Byr...