Now, an app to make you look slimmer
A new smartphone app promises to make you slimmer and smarter and that too without any interventions in your workout schedule! Actually, the new Visualize You app is designed to encourage weight loss by processing your portrait-style photograph and generating an image of what you would look like minus 10 kg or may be more. The designers said the app uses proprietary algorithms based on “clinically verified weight change dynamics” to generate the image. As opposed to similar apps that basically stretch and pinch photos, Visualize You creates images determined by the precise amount of weight you hope to shed. It is simple to use this app: Take a portrait-style picture of yourself, or grab one from your photo library, and drop it into the app along with your height, weight and desired target weight. The app crunches the numbers and pops out an image of a slimmer you. You can also set the app to go the other way.
Is HIV cure hiding in snake venomIJ
Snake venom could provide answers for the treatment of AIDS, claimed Indian researchers at the World Homeopathy Summit last week. Research by doctors at the Hyderabad-based JSPS Government Homeopathic Medical College, and Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, on deriving a homeopathic medicine from snake venom, Crotalus Horridus, has shown that it can arrest the multiplication of HIV. Professor Dr Praveen Kumar from JSPS College said, “Crotalus Horridus has inhibited reverse transcriptase, an enzyme that is utilised by viruses like HIV to convert the viral RNA into viral DNA, so that they multiply into billions and wreck patients.”
Video games might cure autism
Non-violent video games, which capitalise on engaging storytelling, have pro-social benefits that could ultimately be helpful to clinical disorders such as autism, says a study. “The motivation to engage in and enjoy video games corresponds with principles that apply to human motivation in general,” said lead researcher Daniel Bormann from University of Freiburg, Germany. The researchers feel that long-term work on narration in video games could yield promising opportunities. “If further research could reveal how exactly in-game storytelling affects theory of mind, clinicians and software developers could utilise this knowledge to develop tools to aid the treatment of disorders characterised by social-interaction impairments, like autistic disorders,” Bormann concluded. The study was published in Social Psychological and Personality Science.