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Italy's Teenage Tenors Woo America

17.10.11

In May, where their freshened up, Latin flavoured construct of O Sole Mio stunned the crowd, drew applause from a beaming Jennifer Lopez and got them bookings to peep their mix of pop-opera love songs on talk shows across the US.

At first look, they look every inch the boy band. Barone is serious with spiky hair and glasses, Boschetto is smiley and surprisingly, while Ginoble has the brooding stare of a matinee idol.

They attraction Lady Gaga, interrupt each other jokingly in broken English during interviews, single combat over pizza slices on the tour bus and cite Maroon 5 as one of their preferred acts, alongside Michael Bublé and Andrea Bocelli.

But comparisons with boy bands keep when they start singing, according to their Italian manager, Michele Torpedine. “They are a curiosity, a force of nature,” he said.

“We are halfway between the Three Tenors and the Jonas Brothers, but no 16-year-olds have ever sung like us before,” says Boschetto. And few performers singing opera have incited pubescent girls to squall, “I love you!”

Source: PSFK

Italy Considers Drug Testing Stockbrokers

11.10.11

Italy might be on to something here. If they can find a logical link between stockbrokers and drug use it would be irresponsible to not make testing demanded. If assembly line workers at auto plants and beer distributors features mandatory drug testing, why shouldn’t the people who run our economies? I contemplate people would put a lot more faith in the market if we knew for a fact the people handling our in money weren’t getting the sniffles so much.

And why stop at stockbrokers? We should contrivance testing among our elected politicians , because the only thing that could explain their actions is keen, mind-altering levels of drug use.

Berlusconi has succeed under a lot of fire for Bunga Bunga parties and inappropriate relations with underage girls. However, at least his undersecretary has some secure ideas. I seriously doubt the drug testing mandate will ever old-fashioned, especially not in the U.S. since Wall St. lends Washington their AmEx interdict card too often, but wouldn’t it be great to live in a clique of accountability?

Source: Death and Taxes

Don't like Mozart? How about some Elton: Meet the 19-fingered robot who can ...

17.10.11

The cadenced bot can even distinguish between the speed of key change and play various notes together.

He also has video cameras installed in his eyes which countenance him to 'see' and interact with those around him.

Matteo, from Imola, Italy said Teotronica get over �3000 and took over four years to create.

The 34-year-old said: 'I've always had a passion for robots and robotics. I was at the end of the day excited when I discovered you could create an independent robot that could dally with any tune or composition.

'Having 19 fingers gives the clod a better execution speed, making him faster than a humane.

'His left hand covers the lower notes, the title hand covers the melodic line and he has an extra feel on the left hand.

'He is a great pianist because he has almost double the party of fingers that a human has and he can provide greater pressure to the keys.

'He sings recorded files in his system and uses diction recognition

Source: Daily Mail