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What is the keychain charger?

The Chargerito is a tiny charger that doesn’t have any wires to tangle and folds up to fit on your keychain, so you’ll always have a charger when you need it. The Chargerito is a super tiny  charger that you can attach to your keys, you can never leave home without it. This tiny mobile device charger plugs into the wall, even though you might think you already have charger in places such as workplace, home, and car, there are unexpected scenarios where your iPhone’s battery is low and no charger anywhere. This is where Chargerito comes in handy.

Claiming to be the “world’s smallest charger” with a size of 2.1″x 1.3″ x 0.7″, it incorporates everything you need to charge any device including fold-out prongs and a flip-up Apple Lightning, Micro-USB or USB-C connector. It even serves as a built-in dock for your phone. Just plug it into a socket, and it holds your phone up as it charges.  This phone charger is also a hidden security camera.  Chargerito prides itself on being small enough that it can fit on your keychain. Plus, it has built-in connectors that fold in and out, so you never need to worry about power cables. You simply plug it into the wall and stack your device on top of it. If that balancing act makes you nervous, don’t fret – Chargerito can hold a surprising amount of weight, enough to safely charge a full-sized iPad.

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What are Google Tasks?

Create lists of to-do items and check them off once completed with Google’s new to-do app. Tasks syncs across devices and integrates into the desktop version of Gmail and Google Calendar. You can add additional information like a description, date and sub tasks to your tasks, and create separate lists that you can switch between. In the new re-designed desktop Gmail, tasks are located to the right of your screen, so you don’t have to open the app on your smartphone if you’re at your computer. Drag emails from your inbox into the Tasks panel to automatically create new tasks around them. Free for iOS and Android. Aside from its simplicity, Google Tasks’ best feature is its deep integration with Gmail. Your inbox isn’t the best to-do list—so Google Tasks gives you somewhere to list those important messages that need a reply or action on your part. Drag an email from anywhere in Gmail to the Google Tasks sidebar to instantly turn it into a task. It’ll keep the email’s subject as the task name, with a link to the email underneath. You can then archive or move the message and still open it easily from the Google Tasks link.

Much like a paper to-do list, the most direct way to use Google Tasks is to jot down basic things you need to do and check them off as they’re completed. But if you’d rather plan, rearranging your tasks into the order you should complete them, you can do that too. Just click on a task and drag it to the order you want. Move a task with subtasks? Just drag to move the whole set together. Or, if you decide a subtask should be its own task, drag it out, and it’ll turn into a standalone task.

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What is the oldest continuously running restaurant in the world?

Sobrino de Botín in Madrid, Spain, is the oldest running restaurant in the world, according to the Guinness Book of Records. Open since 1725, the restaurant has kept the flame burning in the oven continuously for 293 years, never to be extinguished. World’s oldest restaurant still in operation. At the time that the restaurant opened (in the ground floor of an inn), it was actually up to the guests to bring their own meat and ingredients, which were then cooked in the eatery’s facilities. After the original owners died childless, the restaurant passed to their nephew, which is when it got its current name, which translates to “Nephew of Botin,” of course.

Over the next 200-plus years, the trends of the city changed, but Sobrino de Botin never stopped cooking (after it was able to start cooking for for people that is). Today the restaurant covers four floors of seating, each with its own Spanish theme, from the brick cellar to the fancier Felipe IV room. Even as the tourists began to flock to the restaurant, as will happen once Guinness gets its paws on you, the cuisine has stayed remarkably true to its Spanish roots, with the whole suckling pig, which is prepared in a brick oven, being the standout dish.

The Sobrino de Botin likely saw its finest moment when it was mentioned by Ernest Hemingway in The Sun Also Rises, and it is rumored that the famous artist Francisco de Goya worked there as a young man. However, its legacy is clearly thanks to its astounding age rather than to its ties to art and literature.

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Which bird lays the smallest egg?

Weighing as little as two grams, the bee hummingbird is the smallest bird in the world and it produces the smallest-known egg weighing half a gram. The smallest egg on record, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, was less than 10 mm long and it was laid by a Vervain hummingbird native to Jamaica in 1998. Its appearance and flight style rivals that of some insects, especially bees, for which it gets its name. The Bee Hummingbird is also the bird with the smallest nest in the world, at only 1 inch in diameter and depth. Their eggs are also the smallest bird eggs in the world, measuring a mere 12.5 x 8.5 mm, the size of a coffee bean. A Bee Hummingbird egg is only half the weight of a standard paper clip!

The Bee Hummingbird is a tiny gem and a super brilliant one at that. The males are adorned with a vibrant crown and gorget of fiery reds, oranges and yellows. Its royal-blue back, wings and sides contrast nicely with its shimmering gorget. Females lack the iridescent crown and gorget, but still maintain the beautiful blue back and wings.

Like other hummingbirds, it feeds on nectar and insects. The Bee Hummingbird is a strong flier and very active, visiting up to 1500 flowers a day! It has a fast metabolism, and consumes up to half its own body weight in nectar a day! As it feeds, it picks up pollen on its long, thin bill and transfers it to other flowers, aiding in plant pollination. Endemic to Cuba, the Bee Hummingbird has a patchy distribution on the island. It is most frequently encountered on the extreme western end and in the Zapata Peninsula.

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Can peacocks predict rain?

Have you watched a peacock dance? It is a beautiful sight to behold. We have heard people say that a peacock dance is an indicator of rain. How true is this? Sadly, the reality is not as cool as it sounds. The male of the Indian peafowl species is called the peacock. (The female is called the peahen and the offspring, the peachick). The stunning pattern on their metallic blue-green covert feathers (called a train), and the eye spots are something unique to the Asiatic species. (The Congo peacocks do not have the train nor the eyespots).

A peacock opens its train and dances to attract a peahen. It is part of the courtship ritual, where the male fans his tail displaying the eyespots. Peacocks moult (shed) their train at the end of every breeding season. So, what is the link between rain and their dance? Peafowls breed during the wet or rainy season. Hence, it is only a coincidence if you watched a peacock dance and you witnessed a rain soon after.

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What is Toyota Smart Insect Concept?

AUTOMAKERS Toyota recently showed off their ultra-compact, single passenger electric vehicle dubbed the Smart INSECT at CEATEC Japan 2012

The Smart INSECT (an acronym for Information Network Social Electric City Transporter) features flashy gull-wing doors and incorporates new features like face and voice recognition. Motion sensors and cameras recognize pre-registered drivers as they approach, and will greet them with blinking lights, sounds and messages from the instrument panel. It also anticipates the driver’s intentions by tracking body movements, such as opening doors automatically when the driver reaches for them.

Its detailed GPS navigation system is connected to the cloud-based Toyota Smart Centre, which hosts a virtual agent that provides navigation instructions via voice command. As user data accumulates in the cloud, the system learns the driver’s preferences and common destinations. It also makes suggestions – from restaurants to playlists – on personal tastes, and allows owners to lock up their house or activate home’s AC on the way there. Priced at approximately US$10,000, it can achieve a top speed of 60 km/h and has a range of about 50 km. reserve of fat. The mammoth, named Zhenya after the boy’s nickname, will become the main exhibit of the Taimyr Regional Museum.

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