When you discover you’re a new mother you can often get overwhelmed by the amount of information being thrown at you.  It’s hard to know what’s true and what is not.  One of the big things you hear about is that new mothers should be careful around items that emit radiation while they’re pregnant.  Well one company is offering a solution for that, well maybe.  That or they’re just selling an overpriced maternity shirt with a little more padding.

There are heated debates on both sides of the spectrum.  It’s still even a debate whether or not microwaves are even remotely harmful to the baby growing within.  Both sides have their very important researchers to back them up, but at the end of the day it still leaves new mothers questioning which direction to go.  If you want to give these Belly Armor shirts a shot you’re going to be paying quite a bit for all of one shirt.  These cost $59 for a t-shirt, $69 for a blanket and $109 for the Luxe blanket.  Before you go picking these up, I’d advise reading through this and drawing your own conclusions.

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When people used to talk about being entered into rehab, you used to always assume they were being treated for a drug or alcohol problem.  No longer is that really the case.  Now, it’s entirely possible that their online addictions will get addressed as well.  I had heard of places that catered solely to online addictions, well now as it turns out while you’re getting your drug problems taken care of you can also handle that Twitter addiction.  Apparently Lindsay Lohan is doing exactly that while she’s away at the Betty Ford Center.

I’m not saying that it’s unnecessary, after all, Lindsay is well known for her keeping everyone updated through her Twitter account.   It’s just interesting that now we need a support group to keep our internet addictions under control.  If you have an addictive personality already though, then it’s not surprising that you’d latch onto something as addictive as the internet.  Hopefully the group will help Lohan keep her online life a little more in control.  I’m curious to see if the groups do actually help though.

Source: ChipChick

Don’t worry, she’s not a part of some strange teenage cult that you’ve never heard about.  Instead she has a medical condition that’s causing debilitating migraines.  Her condition causes her to create far too much spinal fluid, which is why she gets the headaches.  The solution was to drain that extra fluid, but it has to go somewhere.

Melissa shockingly found out that the doctors intended to make the fluid run straight to her digestive system.  The 17-year old now has a surgically implanted tube that drains the fluid and runs it through her digestive system.  Except for getting a little bit of a dull ache when she wakes up, it seems to have solved the problem.  So far she hasn’t mentioned any cravings to digest anyone else’s brain fluids, I imagine her own fluid is weird enough for her.

Source: Gearfuse

Very few people that frequent the internet have managed to avoid someone chewing them out unnecessarily.  In real life you’d get a nasty look for the occasional round of bad grammar or having an oppinion that differs from someone else.  However, on the internet death threats over something so small are nothing out of the ordinary.  Names that would normally be kept in someone’s head to simmer over later are sent out for the world to see over something incredibly trivial.  Well one woman became fed up with the remarks of one man and decided to take off with gun in hand, ready to kill.

The 25-year-old, Breana, traveled over 200 miles from Kansas City, Missouri.  She was picked up Wednesday morning in Ottumwa, Iowa.  All of that just to chase down Forrest Jamison who made derogatory postings about her on the internet.  By now she’s probably out in the world thanks to her mother posting the $35,000 cash bond.  Of course her mother, Susan Greathouse was also arrested for calling and harassing Jamison.  It turns out some of those crazy overreactors online are just as nuts in the real world.  Sometimes those annonymous bashings cause real world problems.

Source:  Switched

Even bankrobbers can’t help but confess their daily activites to Facebook.  Try as they may that urge to broadcast to the world is clearly too much for them.  Police believe that they have nabbed the Where’s Waldo Robber all by the handy process of spying on Facebook.  The diabetic bank robber posted that he committed a bank robbery in order to pay for his medical expenses.

According to the police the robber threatened to blow up a bank.  The brother of the robber admits that his brother the bank robber has a serious drug problem, which explains a whole lot.  The 29 year old, Ryan Homsley is now a suspect in the robbery thanks to his confession and for posting a surveillance photo of himself at the bank on Facebook.  Did I mention he has a serious drug problem?

Source: Switched

Technology is truly a beautiful thing and most of us wouldn’t know quite how to live without it.  Sure, we’d live without Facebook, but you start cutting out the basic items like the washer and dryer then there will be issues.  Despite that we all love our technology, sometimes you get a little worried about how far things are being taken.  Like this new program that’s out called Kiss ME.  Go ahead and guess what it does.

This program comes straight from the National University of Singapore.  It’s a wireless digital communications media that’s meant to send out a tele-kiss.  Yes, it’s a kiss sent in real time to mobile devices.  Somehow I think I could survive to wait until the real thing.  Getting an electronic kiss just doesn’t taste the same.  They even want to create a system that has the convincing properties of a real kiss, such as using an artificial mount with life-like lips and the proper amount of pressure and temperature.  Ew.

Source: Newlaunches

I know I’m not the only one that has seen the desks that try to get people not only up and standing, but up and moving in some cases.  For the most part I really just don’t see standing desks really catching on.  Now I imagine some will convert to the standing desks, but I’m not sure it’s the right choice for everyone.  However, it’s quite obvious that sitting around all day isn’t the best for your health.  In fact the American Cancer Society links those jobs that require us to sit around to a rise in obesity, diabetes and morality.   Which might be enough to get some people to change their ways.

I’ve never minded being up on my feet all day long, in fact I prefer it.  Yet I’ve always found it uncomfortable to stand in the same place all day long, which is what a standing desk would require.  Yet that’s what some are suggesting is the solution to this predicament, since our bodies are made to be up and moving.  Personally, I read about a trick (oddly in a fashion magazine) that I’ve been trying out.  It was actually an article about losing weight without trying and one tip has helped keep me from getting that drowsy feeling you get from sitting at a computer too long.  The concept was to set an alarm on your computer for 10 till and for those ten minutes you get up and do something that requires you to stand.  It’s one of those tricks that would only be usable if your job allows it, but when I’ve remembered to do it it’s helped a great deal.

I know, another day and yet another study.  However, this one offers news that should be surprising, but in some ways really isn’t.  PC Tools released a study that revealed all sorts of unattractive things about some US internet users.  Of course PC Tools put a spin on the news that almost makes the statistics seem a little less ridiculous.

According to the study a quarter of us are perfectly ok with staying connected during sex.  Not only that but according to 29 percent it’s just fine to connect during a wedding.  That largest number was 41 percent who don’t see a problem with being online during family dinners.  Now PC Tools claims this just means that staying connected is a very serious issue and that we have to stay connected no matter what the circumstance.  Personally, I still like to shut off my gadgets in order to really enjoy what’s going on around me as I know others out there still prefer to do.  A strange twist is that people would rather get a colonoscopy, visit the dentist, change a diaper or get stuck in traffic than to clean up their computers.  Basically a lot can’t handle shutting down, but even more refuse to do the day to day maintenance that keeps computers running smoothly.

Source: Switched

At some point or another we have all been a little bit of an addict to our tech toys.  Some have it a little worse than others, but none of us are perfect.  Every so often I have a day that I feel like I have to step away from the technology.  Truthfully, I don’t have that hard of a time, but that’s just because I really enjoy hiking.  Hiking is one task that can take all day and you really can’t use your phone in the areas I tend to frequent.  Now there are others that may not remember the last time they went completely offline.  If you want to give it a try there is one site that you can head to and make a pledge.

You’ll be pledging to do 10 no device dinners between now and Thanksgiving of this year.  Then on Thanksgiving Day have a full no device day.  Originally it was set for September 18th, but they’ve changed it to Thanksgiving Day.  The goal of the founders is to help people really enjoy the people around them instead of constantly checking their phone.  You can read all about why the founders decided to start up this pledge.  Right now they have 10,729 pledges and it’s still a long way from Thanksgiving.  Head on over to their website if you think you can handle the time away from your gadgets.

Source: GadgetLab

I’m not one of the many that’s fascinated by 3-D movies and actually I truthfully avoid most movies that I hear are going to be presented in only 3-D.   Which makes the fact that I’m not even going to bother with getting 3-D TV far from surprising.  However, I was a little surprised that one study reported that I am far from being the only one that’s not thrilled over 3-D TV.  It’s not necessarily that they don’t like watching 3-D, but more because they didn’t like the technology it requires.

Nielsen did a study that focuses on the 3D TV experience and got 425 people involved.  They were all given glasses and asked to watch 30 minutes of 3-D television.  Half of them complained that the glasses themselves were just uncomfortable.  A hefty 89% complained that they make it hard to multitask, which is annoying for those of us that like to do other things while watching TV.  Then to finish it off they weren’t happy over the multiple 3D technologies.  If you take your Sony glasses over to watch your friend’s 3-D Samsung TV it won’t work.  All around it sounds like if they don’t start working out some issues people are going to get fed up and just not bother with 3D TV.  Then again more than half of the people involved with the study were impressed by the quality of 3-D images.

Source: Switched