Australian personal protective equipment company Ansell has started pricing its condoms using a value calculated by analysing Google search trends.
Ansell’s bread and butter is protective products for industrial and medical settings. But the company also operates “Lifestyles”, a brand that makes condoms, lubricants and “vibrating devices” that The Register gathers has some relationship to the previous two product categories.
Lifestyles has decided the way to promote its product is to create a floating price for its prophylactic products based on how often Australians search Google for info about sexually transmitted diseases.
Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) may have felt like they had discoveredhidden treasure when they succeeded recently in extracting lithium from an unusual source: thermal water.
We can bring Neanderthals back, a la Jurassic Park, with technologies we have today. So… should we? Would it explain why they died just 40,000 years ago? Join us in a German valley, at site of “Neanderthal 1,” to track the rise — and perplexing fall — of Homo sapiens neanderthalensis.
Contestants in reality TV’s “Most Australian Birds” have bowed to the inevitable and acknowledged emus win, as emus are banned from a pub In Queensland.
