World's Smartest House | Cheap and Eco-Friendly Housing

This is the Cube Two prefabricated smart home by Nestron. Here’s what it looks like from the outside. Now let’s check out the inside! Here’s what the layout of the prefab home looks like The Cube Two is ready to move in upon arrival Inside this sci-fi-looking home, you’ll find a living room, a kitchen, a bathroom, a bedroom, and bar counter The Cube Two smart home is very compact. It increases usable space over a traditional house by 15% There’s even a skylight to let in natural light and to make the inside of the home feel bigger Most of the furniture is included in the base price of the home Some of the furniture that comes with it includes a dining table, a sofa, a bed rack, a wardrobe, and a bedroom counter Even though the home is compact, it’s large enough for three or four family members to live here The smart home as a fully-integrated AI assistant that connects all the appliances together The AI assistant, Canny, learns and adapts over time Even the lights can be voice-controlled with the help of the AI The Cube Two feels like a tiny spaceship, doesn’t it? The prefab home is 263 square feet (24.4 square meters) big The Cube Two is available for preorder. The cost of the home starts at $52,000. But there are additional costs for add-on electrical appliances and shipping Nestron has a few core ideas that it works and builds by. They want to make cheap and eco-friendly housing that looks and feels modern. They also take pride in their engineering skills. For example, the insulation they use means that their prefab homes are fit for all climates—from hot to cold, to everything in between. Meanwhile, the tiny houses are made of fireproof and earthquake-resistant materials. This means that you should be safe no matter where you decide to plop down your new Cube Two. All Nestron smart houses have a fully-integrated AI assistant. You can use your voice to control most functions and the coolest part is that the AI learns your way of living over time. The company’s values of eco-friendly affordable housing have their roots in Papua New Guinea where Nestron’s founders went in 2013 to build prefab houses for the poor. However, they were met with a lot of obstacles, including problems with local subcontractors, missing materials, and delays. Fortunately, this mission solidified the founders’ ideals: they created the company four years later, in 2017 on this foundation.

World's Most Bizarre Birth Defects

1) Siamese Twins Ahmed and Mohamed Ibrahim

Anyone who watches the Discovery Health channel knows that nature likes to throw us a lot of genetic curveballs: Siamese twins, extra appendages, chimeras, hermaphrodites...you name it. But you haven't seen anything yet. The people in this article have some of the most startling, unimaginable birth defects the world has ever seen. Suddenly that annoying birthmark of yours doesn't look so bad.


2) Supatra "Nat" Sasuphan

"Wolf Girl"
She may look more like a furry animal than a little girl, but Thailand's Supatra "Nat" Sasuphan (dubbed "Wolf Girl") in fact has Ambras Syndrome (also known as congenital hypertrichosis), which causes excessive hair growth over the face and body. The Daily Mail reports that only 40 people worldwide have been diagnosed with this unusual condition.



3) Milagros Cerron: Before and After surgery

"The Little Mermaid"
Lots of little girls dream about being a mermaid just like Ariel. But for Peruvian baby Milagros Cerron, being born with fused, mermaid-style legs was a nightmare. The precious tot was born with a condition called sirenomelia, more commonly known as mermaidism. According to Channel4.com, the disorder strikes one in every 70,000-100,000 babies; those affected usually succumb to severe health defects and Milagros is only one of two known survivors. Dubbed "The Little Mermaid," she made headlines when doctors surgically separated her legs, and the San Francisco Gate reports that three-year-old Milagros took her first unaided steps earlier this year.

Tiffany Yorks
Like Milagros Cerron, Tiffany Yorks was also born with sirenomelia, fused legs that resemble a mermaid's tail. According to "Inside Edition," Tiffany is the first and oldest known survivor of the condition, though she has had her share of related ailments, including kidney and heart defects. Nineteen-year-old Tiffany has undergone more than 30 operations, and though her legs are now separate, knee ailments have left her in a wheelchair. Still, she hasn't forgotten her "mermaid" roots, telling the TV program that "When I'm under the water and I'm swimming I just feel free like there's no crutches, no wheelchair, no doctors, no needles, it's just me and the water."


4) "Cyclops Baby"

In a story straight out of Greek mythology, an Indian woman last year gave birth to a baby girl born with a single eye in the middle of the forehead-an extremely rare condition known as cyclopia. The baby was also born without a nose, and her brain was squeezed into only one hemisphere. According to Wired, doctors speculate that the severe birth defects were potentially caused by an experimental drug called Cyclopamine, which is used to fight cancer. The baby's mother had experienced fertility problems and may have been given the medicine-which gets its name from the one-eyed lambs that were born after a flock of sheep feasted on the toxin found within wild corn lily-as part of her treatment. Cyclopia can also arise when a mother has significantly low cholesterol or diabetes, Wired says.

5) Moises Chavez (center row left)

























"Lobster Baby"
Peruvian infant Moises Chavez was dubbed "Lobster Baby" when he was born with four claw-like limbs that bend around his body-a rare condition known as arthrogryposis. According to TheAge.com.au, about one in every 3,000 U.S. births features one limb suffering from this condition; that Chavez has it in all four is extremely unusual.
"Dark-haired Moises, who weighs 2.5kg and is 33cm long, cries and reacts to sound but his leg bones are bent at a 90-degree angle from his body, while his hands are distorted outward as his tiny elbows hug his chest," TheAge.com.au reports.
Surgeons were planning to operate on Moises's arms and legs to correct the problem.

6) Manar Maged

































The tale of little Manar Maged is a heartbreaking one. The Egyptian girl was born with two heads, the result of a split embryo that should have resulted in a twin; the condition is called craniopague parasiticus. Maged's second head could smile and blink, BBC News reports, but could not function on its own and it is unknown whether it had its own mental capacity. Sadly, Maged died at the age of two after contracting a brain infection.


7) The Khan Family


Birth defects are themselves extremely rare, but for multiple family members to be afflicted is almost unheard of. That makes the case of India's Khan family so bewildering. Four Khan children-including a sister who died of pneumonia at age 16-have been diagnosed with progeria, a condition which rapidly accelerates the aging process; most sufferers die by the time they reach their early twenties. According to a BBC News report from 2005, this "is the only known example where more than one family member suffers from the disease." In fact, there are only 48 cases of progeria in the entire world.
The three surviving Khan children, Ali Hussein, Rehena, and Ikramul, have skin and teeth problems, look decades older than they are, have stunted development, and are susceptible to age-related diseases. Their parents do not have the disease, and they have two healthy siblings. Doctors have concluded that both Khan parents must be carriers of the progeria gene for this anomaly to have occurred.


8) Mandy Sellars

We all deal with a little cellulite here and there...but what if your legs weighed 11 stone (154 pounds)? Englishwoman Mandy Sellars looks like your typical trim 30-something woman from the waist up, but a disfiguring condition called Proteus Syndrome has caused her legs and feet to grow at an abnormal rate. According to BBC News, Mandy's feet are 16 inches long and her legs measure 35 inches in diameter at the bottom.
Proteus Syndrome reportedly only affects 120 people in the world; "Elephant Man" John Merrick is thought to have had the condition, which triggers abnormal growth.
Mandy has been told that doctors may have to amputate her legs if they continue to grow, a possibility that doesn't seem to faze her.
"I have goals for when that does happen," she told the BBC. "Why not? It can be a different life. It could be a more adventurous life. Things I can't do now I might be able to do then. I quite fancy having a go at snowboarding actually, maybe paragliding or white water rafting would be wonderful, it really would."


9) Devendra Harne

Birth defects don't always mean compromised health or painful surgeries. In the case of India's Devendra Harne, his polydactylism condition earned him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records as the person with the most fingers and toes (25). That's 12 fingers and 13 toes, for those of you keeping track at home. According to NagpurPlus.com, "The deformity is not a handicap for Devendra who is the kid next door and attends school regularly. Devendra also attend to his daily chores without any help and is an ideal student ... Devendra says he does not feel any difficulty in using the extra fingers."


10)Sarah Morrison





Precious Sarah Morrison is not quite a year old, but she's already suffered 30 rib fractures at birth and broken two bones at home. Little Sarah suffers from brittle bone disease (also known as osteogenesis imperfecta), and her hips and back must be supported at all times. This isn't the first time her parents have dealt with the disorder; their first baby, also a girl, had the same disease and died after two weeks. Doctors advised Sarah's mother to get an abortion, and expected that the baby would die after two days. Though the little girl has proven them wrong, she is "so delicate she can break a bone just by sneezing and can never be hugged by her parents," says The Daily Mail.



11) Alamjan Nematilaev


Alamjan Nematilaev of Kazakhstan for the most part looked like any other boy his age, except for a distending stomach that made him appear pregnant. TimesOnline.co.uk reports that when doctors noticed the then seven-year-old's bulging belly, they rushed him into surgery and removed a "large, rounded mass" that was covered in blood vessels. The mass stumped Alamjan's surgeons. "They saw dark hair, arms, fingers and even nails, legs, toes, genitals, a head, an approximation of a face," The Times reports. "They had no idea what it was."
The ultimate diagnosis: This was a foetus in foetu, a "rare condition in which twins are conceived from one egg but the twinning is unequal, and at an early stage of development the incomplete twin is enveloped by the normal one, living off it as a parasite."
Post-surgery, Alamjan is now a healthy and normal young boy. Rather than risk psychological trauma, Alamjan's parents told him that he had needed surgery because he had eaten bad fruit.
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Mummified Vampire Heart

We bring you the mummified heart of the vampire Auguste Delagrange. Before his destruction in 1912 Delagrange was responsible for the deaths of over forty people during one of the worst outbreaks of vampirism in the United States. He was eventually identified and hunted down by a Roman Catholic priest and a Voodoo Hougan. The pair began systematically destroying nests and minions, forcing Delagrange to take refuge in an abandoned farmhouse on the outskirts of a small town in Louisiana. It was there that a stake was driven through his heart and his body destroyed, consigning his soul to it's inevitable end. All that remains is the heart you see before you.

The vampire's dessicated heart and the stake that destroyed him are stored in a box of finger jointed oak that measures approximately 5" high, 8" wide, and 11" long. The plaque on top of the box notes the day Delagrange was destroyed and appears to be hand lettered, consistent with the time period.

This realistic prop was constructed with the traditional techniques used for sideshow gaffs and goes quite a bit beyond what's commonly available. I've provided views from a variety of angles and lighting conditions so you can appreciate just how detailed it is. This isn't something that just looks impressive on a shelf or behind glass, but a unique item that will withstand extremely close scrutiny. When your guests inevitably ask "Can I touch it?" just imagine the look on their face when you say "Yes." When they pick it up they'll swear it's real.

The "flesh" of the heart is very firm, but slightly yielding, consistent with a human heart that's been mummified and preserved using early 20th century technology. It feels exactly like you imagine a preserved vampire heart from 1912 would- the texture of very dry beef jerky with a protective coating of wax. The large hole in the left auricle is where the oak stake that de-animated this particular vampire entered the heart. Along the top you can see the stubs of the major vessels (pulmonary artery, aorta, superior and inferior vena cava) from when the heart was cut from the creature's chest.

The stake is turned oak and measures approximately 8.5" in length. It has a sharp point and slender shaft so it can slip between the ribs of the chest cavity like a dagger with just one or two blows from a small hammer. The packing material is genuine excelsior made from wood shavings, appropriate for the period.

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Allison Rebecca Stokke | American track and field athlete | Hottest Female Athlete

Allison Rebecca Stokke is an American track and field athlete and fitness model. She broke a number of American records for high school pole vaulting. At the age of seventeen, images of her were widely shared on the internet resulting in her becoming an internet phenomenon

One day Allison Stokke was a just a pretty high school athlete and the next she was an international Internet destination, although not by her own choice. Miss Stokke's photograph was taken during a high school track meet, where she was preparing to compete in the pole vault, and someone posted it to a web site. It didn't take long for other less reputable sites to pick up the image and set off a round of Stokke-mania on the worldwide web.

Miss Stokke isn't just a pretty girl; she's a pretty girl who happens to be a tremendous athlete. She was the California pole vaulting champion and is on scholarship at the University of California. She wanted to be known for her athletic accomplishments rather than purely for her looks. In terms of athletics, she wanted to be seen as Maria Sharapova, an attractive tennis player who wins, instead of Anna Kournikova, an attractive tennis player who just shows up and looks pretty. Miss Stokke could eventually become another Natalie Gulbis, a gorgeous LPGA golfer who has been quite successful.

The problem began to surface in 2004 when she began to receive messages from her friends that her photo had been seen on the Internet. She had 1,000 new messages on her social network site and a YouTube video of her being interviewed had been viewed 15,000 times. She began to receive interview requests from around the country, including one from Brazil. She went to her coach for help and to her parents (her father is an attorney) for guidance. They soon realized there was little they could do to stem the flow of messages and photos, other than to focus on trying to stop the ones that were particularly tasteless. They were successful in getting a fake profile of Allison removed from Facebook and another taken off MySpace, which included a slideshow with a dozen photos and a chat forum. She told the Washington Post, "Even if none of it is illegal, it just all feels really demeaning."

There's no question that Miss Stokke is an amazing athlete. Born in Newport Beach, California, she made the U.S. team that competed in the 2005 World Youth Championships, but couldn't compete because of a broken leg. As a senior at Newport Harbor High School she jumped 13 feet, 7 inches, which ranked second in the nation. She held seven national records.

As a freshman at Cal, Miss Stokke set a school freshman record by vaulting 13-5¾ at the Pac-10 Championships. She also qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships and was ranked No. 20 in the country. In the outdoor season she jumped 13-9¾, the second-best performance in school history.

But because of her notoriety, Miss Stokke hasn't been able to enjoy her success. She rarely leaves her home and has grown weary of the attention she's garnered. In fact, the online media information on the Cal website does not include her mug shot, while all other student-athletes have their images on their biography pages.