Checking time is quite boring. Usually, unless you own one of these really cool watches and clock. This collection shows some of the most creative ways invented to give time.

1. Seiko Bluetooth Watch:

Seiko Bluetooth watch that communicates with your cell phone. The watch can receive text messages from your phone, capture Caller ID data so you know who’s calling, and adjust ringtones as well. It also displays the battery level and network signal strength.

Pair this with a Bluetooth headset, stick your phone in your bag, and you’ve got a complete hands-free interface that still gives you access to your phone’s main functions.

2. The Eye of the Storm:

Eye of the Storm is designed by Chinese-born,German-based Yiran Qian. With a faceless design, this interesting timepiece manages to tell the hours just the same. The Eye of the Storm timepiece looks like a simple, rather masculine accessory. However one click of the button on the right side, two lights come up, providing you with the time of day in a super futuristic way.

 3. Matrix M6001 LCD Watch:

If you’re looking for a highly distinctive wrist watch than nothing else than, the Matrix M6001 LCD Wrist Watch. It offers unashamedly retro styling fused with classic design elements set off beautifully with a far from traditional method of time telling. It uses LCD bars at the top and bottom of its display to show you the time.

The top (tall) bars are your hour indicators and the bottom (small) bars show you minutes. This supremely distinctive watch somehow manages not only to pull everything together to such great effect, but it does so in such a gloriously pompous fashion.

4. IPod Nano Watch:

Obviously dozens of companies decided to create watchbands that could be used to turn the nano into a watch.  HEX is known for its design, development, and execution of innovative accessories, created a watchband that not only turns the iPod nano into a watch.  It is a good choice to hold and protect your nano while you’re moving around or exercising. It also prevents your wrist from getting sweaty.

The HEX watchband is made of silicone.  It comes in eight opaque colors and in clear (translucent).  I asked for and received the clear band.  Other colors available are:  black, white, blue, orange, green, red, gray, and pink. It uses the clip built into your 6th-generation iPod nano to lock it securely on your wrist.

5. E Ink Watch:

This watch concept use E-ink Technology (electrophoretic ink) in both its form and function. This watch is a double-down in that it uses E-ink to for both form and function, allowing the bold and radical lines to make the watch beautiful and very readily visible. The overall watch is made out of glossy black metal with some smaller chrome parts as well.

The display can be changed with two buttons which are along the left side of the watch. The top bands of E-ink would display day and date information, while the time would be displayed on an inverted display concealed in the black at the bottom of the case. The elegant watch will benefit from the popular E-Ink technology and will display the accurate time.

6. Binary Watch:

A binary watch usually displays time in a binary format. If you want to be the absolute computer geek, then this watch can’t miss from your wrist. It showed each decimal digit of time as a binary value, but presently binary clocks also exist which display hours, minutes, and seconds as binary numbers.

Each column represents a single decimal digit, a format known as binary-coded decimal (BCD).The first two columns represent the hour, the next two represent the minute and the last two represent the second. To read each individual digit in the time, the user adds the values that each illuminated LED represents, and then reads these from left to right.

7. The ORB – Time Orbit watch:

You might wear any color dress and the matching accessories to go with it but your watch still remain the same.  Now avoid this embarrassing situation, Djordje Zivanovic have brought to you an excellent bracelet cum watch known as the Time Orbit Watch.

This concept watch designed in classic plastic bracelet style and features three different color lines rotating around the watch to display the hour, minute and second. Adjusting the clock is easy as the watch is the touch screen, all you have to do is to touch the line, click adjust icon and slide current time line to correct time. It`s simple concept, attractive and eye catching.

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Here are some facts that you will be surprise to know:

• Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair than others.

• There are more people alive today than have ever died.

• Women blink twice as many times as men do.

• People with higher number of moles tend to live longer than people with lesser number of moles.

• The brain is much more active at night than during the day.

• A human use 200 muscles to take one step.

• Your nose can remember 50,000 different odors.

• You are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening.

• A male’s computer is 21% more likely to be affected by a virus compare to a female’s computer.

• Women have a 78% greater chance of becoming blind than men.

•  Women have a slightly higher average IQ than men.

• The average human dream lasts 2-3 seconds.

• Women are much more talkative than men!

• While awake, your brain generates between 10 and 23 watts of energy to power a light bulb.

• The average number of thoughts that humans are believed to experience each day is 70,000.

• Men are approximately 3 times more likely to commit suicide then women

• After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp than normal.

• Our brain is more complex than the most powerful computer of today and has over 100 billion nerve cells.

• In a single cup of coffee, there are more than 1,000 chemicals, of these only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.

• Average 20% of people die of a heart attack on Monday’s compare to any other day of the week. The study suggests that the ‘Monday peak’ could be a result of massive drinking during the weekend and work related stress.

• Women are more fearful and anxious than men.

• Your thumb could be the same length of your nose.

• It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.

 A brand serves to create associations and expectations among products made by a producer. A brand often includes an explicit logo, fonts and symbols, which are developed to represent implicit values, ideas, and even personality. It affects the personality of a product, company or service.

The objectives that a good brand will achieve include:

•             Delivers the message clearly

•             Confirms your credibility

•             Connects your target prospects emotionally

•             Motivates the buyer

•             Concretes User Loyalty

It is a critical question how to decide on a brand name for a business or a product. The typical question usually is: “Is it useful to pick a descriptive name, or is it more beneficial to cook up a unique one that did not exist before?”

Regardless of it either you choose descriptive name or a unique one, but Keep in mind that the selection of fonts, colors and graphical ingredients used with the words can cleverly transform the concept you express with a logo.

Below is a list of really creative brand names:

1. Adidas

Adidas AG is a German sports manufacturer and parent company of the Adidas Group. Adidas was founded in 1948 by Adolf “Adi” Dassler, which consists of the Reebok sportswear company, golf company and Rockport. Besides sports footwear, the company also produces other products such as bags, shirts, watches, eyewear, and other sports- and clothing-related goods.The company is the largest sportswear manufacturer in Europe .

2. McDonald’s

McDonald’s Corporation is the world’s largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 64 million customers daily. The business began in 1940, with a restaurant opened by brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald in San Bernardino, California.

McDonald’s primarily sells hamburgers, cheeseburgers, chicken, french fries, breakfast items, soft drinks, shakes and desserts. In response to changing consumer tastes, the company has expanded its menu to include salads, wraps and fruit.

 3. Hollywood.

Hollywood is a famous district in Los Angeles, California, United States. Because of its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word “Hollywood” is often used as a metonym of American cinema.

4. Walt Disney.

The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. It was founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio. It was reincorporated as Walt Disney Productions, Ltd.

The company is best known for the products of its film studio, the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, and today one of the largest and best-known studios in Hollywood. A well Known cartoon creation of the company is Mickey Mouse.

5. Pepsi

Pepsi is a carbonated soft drink that is produced and manufactured by Pepsi Co. Created and developed in 1898 in United States. Pepsi was first introduced as “Brad’s Drink” in New Bern, North Carolina, United States, in 1898 by Caleb Brad ham, who made it at his home where the drink was sold. Brad ham sought to create a fountain drink that was delicious and would aid in digestion and boost energy.

6. Coca Cola

Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink; it is produced by The Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, and is often referred to simply as Coke. Coke is registered trademark of The Coca-Cola Company in the United States since March 27, 1944.

The prototype Coca-Cola recipe was formulated at the Eagle Drug and Chemical Company, a drugstore in Columbus, Georgia by John Pemberton, originally as a coca wine called Pemberton’s French Wine Coca.

7. Pizza Hut:

 Pizza Hut is also known as Pizza Hut, Inc. It is an American restaurant chain and international franchise that offers different styles of pizza along with side dishes including pasta,buffalo wings, breadsticks, and garlic bread.

Pizza Hut was founded in 1958 by brothers Dan and Frank Carney in their hometown of Wichita, Kansas. They chose the name “Pizza Hut” since the sign they purchased only had enough space for nine characters and spaces.

8.  DoCoMo

TATA DoCoMo, commonly known  as DoCoMo is a Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL) owned cellular service provider on the GSM platform-arising out of the Tata Group’s strategic joint venture with Japanese telecom giant NTT Docomo. “. Tata Docomo launched GSM services on 24 June 2009. Tata Teleservices received a license to operate GSM telecom services in 19 telecom Circles and has been allotted spectrum in 18 of these circles, under the brand “TATA DoCoMo”.

9. Blue Nile

Blue Nile Inc Seattle, Washington. It is an online retailer of jewelry, including diamonds. Blue Nile was founded in 1999 and today is the largest online retailer of certified diamonds. Internet Retailer magazine listed Blue Nile as the web leader in the Jewelry category for 2007, and Forbes magazine has listed Blue Nile as its favorite online jeweler.

]]> http://votebits.com/9-most-creative-and-catchy-brand-name/feed/ 1 http://votebits.com/bikes-you-will-sell-your-soul-for/ http://votebits.com/bikes-you-will-sell-your-soul-for/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2011 06:44:58 +0000 Adeel http://votebits.com/?p=7246 Motorcycles have been one of the most favorite and commonly used modes of transport for the general public for roughly a century and a half. An American named Sylvester Howard Roper designed one of the first motorcycles in the 1860s. During the World Wars, motorcycles functioned as a quick means of transportation.

As the motorcycle progressed, the engines became bigger, faster and more powerful, resulting in the high-tech and expensive motorcycles of today. Of all the bikes out there today, there are some that are considered the most elite. Here, I present you with a list of world’s most expensive bikes.  Just have a look.

1. Dodge Tomahawk V10 Super bike

Cost – $555,000

This reproduction of Dodge’s concept bike is considered an “automotive sculpture,” which has four wheels. But this bike is yet street illegal in the United States. Ten of these bikes were offered by Neiman Marcus in their 2003. A superbike in the real sense, the bike has 8.3 liter engine, which is equivalent to 505 cubic inch. The bike is equipped with as many as 10 cylinders, which can bring the bike to a maximum speed of almost 400 mph. It is quite amazing to know, that it takes just around 2.5 seconds to reach the 60 mph mark.

2. Ecosse Titanium Series RR Limited Edition

Cost - $275,000

This limited edition luxury motorbike features a titanium chassis with clear coated carbon fiber bodywork and wheels. It features a fuel injected, intercooled, supercharged 2,150cc billet motor and is capable of over 200 hp. The bike also comes with a timepiece, designed by French watchmakers BRM, which is made to match the bike and is engraved with the same serial number as the handlebar clamp and VIN plate.

3. Macchia Nera Concept Bike

Cost – $201,000

The Macchia Nera concept bike happens to be one of the best bikes in this segment. This motorcycle’s Italian designers and engineers set out to create an extremely high tech and expensive motorcycle that would be thought of as “the ultimate track bike”. The bike sports an engine that is loosely built around the Ducati 998RS engine. The engine is visible along with the detailed molding and the engine components.

However, the unique thing about the bike is that in spite of such a heavy built, it is extremely light – as far as the category in which it is built is concerned. This bike is a one of a kind and not in produced for retail, but if you have an extra 150,000 Euros (US $201,000), your dream might come true.

4. Icon Sheene

Cost – $160,000

Icon Sheene was produced exclusively in the memory of Andrew Morris, who was one of the most successful British Grand Prix motorcycle champion. He died in 2003 at the age of 52. That is why only 52 of such bikes were produced. The bike has a 250 hp engine and has a whopping 1400 cc. 250bhp with 133lb/ft is claimed at the rear wheel, even in lowest (0.4bar) boost mode. Each emblazoned with a playing card hand-painted by the same artist who painted Sheene’s helmets engine – nothing more than a flying experience.

The thing worth mentioning about this bike is that, in spite of being such a heavy bike, the Icon Sheene has only a couple of spokes in the wheels. Sounds strange and happening, but that is the fact. Each of these bikes will be bespoke, tailored to fit the purchaser’s unique requirements.

5. MTT Turbine Super Bike

Cost – $150,000

Not only is this motorcycle expensive, it’s also extremely fast.  MTT Turbine Super Bike aka Y2K Turbine Super Bike is a combination of both most expensive and super fast bike. The bike also holds the Guinness World Record for being the most powerful motorcycle which has entered a series of production.

The turbine engine in this one is made by Rolls Royce, producing 238 kW (320 hp), the motorcycle has a recorded top speed of 227 mph (370 km/h). The unique thing about this bike is that it is loaded with various gadgets, such as Carbon fiber fairings, a rear mounted camera with LCD color display, forward-and rear-looking radar detector with laser scrambler, one touch “Smart Start” ignition, and many other. This bike seams to be pretty popular in Hollywood. It starred in the movie “Torque”.

While some of these agencies have agreements to share information with others for greater impact, others are very secretive and make it a point to share with no one. It is widely known that many countries have spies in other areas of the world for the purpose of gathering intelligence data. Who these spies are and exactly how they operate is more secretive in nature.

These agencies normally work without the knowledge of public even their successes are not remembered by the people but their failure is always the highlighted news of the press. Here we have the list of top 10 best intelligence agencies in the world and the ranking is based on their rate of success and taking care of the situations efficiently.

10. Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), Canada.

Agency overview:

Formed                                June 21, 1984, by Act of Parliament (Bill C-9)

Preceding agency            RCMP Security Service

Headquarters                    Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Employees                          2449

Annual budget                  $506,573,000

Agency executive            Richard Fadden, Director

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service CSIS is Canada’s national intelligence service and connected to the military and police. It is responsible for collecting, analyzing, reporting and disseminating intelligence on threats to Canada’s national security, and conducting operations, covert and overt, within Canada and abroad. CSIS ranked at position 10 in the list.

9. Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS), Australia.

Agency overview:

Formed                                13 May 1952

Headquarters                   Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Annual budget                  a$263.3 million (2009)

Agency executive            Nick Warner, Director-General

Australian Secret Intelligence Service is the Australian government intelligence agency responsible for collecting foreign intelligence, undertaking counter-intelligence activities and cooperation with other intelligence agencies overseas. It Protect and promote Australia’s vital interests through the provision of unique foreign intelligence services as directed by Government.

For more than twenty years, the existence of the agency was a secret even from its own government. Its primary responsibility is gathering intelligence from mainly Asian and Pacific interests using agents stationed in a wide variety of areas. ASIS’s primary goal is to obtain and distribute secret intelligence about the capabilities, intentions and activities of individuals or organizations outside Australia, which may impact on Australia’s interests and the well-being of its citizens. ASIS occupied 9th position in the list.

8. Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) India.

Agency overview:

Formed                                21 September 1968

Headquarters                    New Delhi, India

Agency executive            Sanjeev Tripathi, Secretary (R)

Research and Analysis Wing is India’s external intelligence agency. RAW was formed in September 1968, after the newly independent Republic of India was faced with 2 consecutive wars, the Sino-Indian war and the India-Pakistani war of 1965, as it was evident that a credible intelligence gathering setup was lacking.

Its primary function is collection of external intelligence, counter-terrorism and covert operations. Further it is responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and persons, in order to advise Indian foreign policymakers.

Numerous missions were assigned to RAW upon its creation. These included monitoring political and military developments in neighboring countries. Consequently, considerable attention is paid by RAW to Pakistan and China, thinking as the traditional rivals of India. RAW also provided training and arms to the Bangladeshi freedom fighters known as Mukti Bahini. RAW’s aid was instrumental in Bangladesh’s gaining independence from Pakistan in 1971. It ranked at 8th position in the list.

7. MOS-SAD, Israel.

Agency overview:

Formed                                 December 13, 1949 as the Central Institute for Coordination

Headquarters                    Classified

Employees                          1,200 (est)

Agency executive            Tamir Pardo, Director

The Mossad is the national intelligence agency of Israel. The Mossad is responsible for intelligence collection and covert operations which are suspected to include targeted killings and paramilitary activities beyond Israel’s borders, bringing Jews to Israel from countries where official Aliyah agencies are forbidden, and protecting Jewish communities worldwide.

It is one of the main entities in the Israeli Intelligence Community, along with Aman (military intelligence) and Shin Bet (internal security), but its director reports directly to the Prime Minister. The list of its successes is long. Israel’s intelligence agency is most famous for having taken out a number of PLO operatives in retaliation for the attack that killed eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic games in Munich. Mossad also assisted the United States in supporting Solidarity in Poland during the 1980s. Mossad has 7^th position in the list.

6. BND, Germany

Agency overview:

Formed                                  1 April 1956

Preceding agency               Gehlen Organization

Jurisdiction                          Government of Germany

Headquarters                       Pullach and Berlin

Employees                             6,050 (2005)

Agency executives              Ernst Uhrlau, President

The Bundesnachrichtendienst is the foreign intelligence agency of the German government, under the control of the Chancellor’s Office. The BND acts as an early warning system to alert the German government to threats to German interests from abroad. It depends heavily on wiretapping and electronic surveillance of international communications.

BND collects and evaluates information on a variety of areas such as international terrorism, WMD proliferation and illegal transfer of technology, organized crime, weapons and drug trafficking, money laundering, illegal migration and information warfare. As Germany’s only overseas intelligence service, the BND gathers both military and civil intelligence. BND ranked at 6th position in the list.

5. Directorate General for External Security (DGSE) France.

Agency overview:

Formed                                   April 2, 1982

Preceding agency                External Documentation and Counter-Espionage Service

Jurisdiction                          Government of France

Headquarters                       141 Boulevard Mortier, 20th arrondissement, Paris, France

Agency executive                Erard Corbin de Mangoux, Director

The General Directorate for External Security or DGSE is France’s external intelligence agency. Operating under the direction of the French ministry of defense, the agency works alongside the DCRI (the Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence) in providing intelligence and national security, notably by performing paramilitary and counterintelligence operations abroad.

 It was officially founded in 1982 from a multitude of prior intelligence agencies in the country. Its primary focus is to gather intelligence from foreign sources to assist in military and strategic decisions for the country. The agency employs more than five thousand people. DGSE occupied 5th position in the list.

4.  Federal Security Service (FSB) Russia.

Agency overview:

Formed                                  3 April, 1995

Preceding agency               KGB

Employees                           around 200,000–300,000

Director                                Aleksandr Bortnikov.

Headquarters                      Lubyanka Square

The Federal Security Service of Russian Federation (FSD) is the main domestic security agency of the Russian Federation and the main successor agency of the Soviet-era Cheka, NKVD and KGB. The FSB is involved in counter-intelligence, internal and border security, counter-terrorism, and surveillance.

All law enforcement and intelligence agencies in Russia work under the guidance of FSB. The FSB is responsible for internal security of the Russian state, counterespionage, and the fight against organized crime, terrorism, and drug smuggling. The number of FSB personnel and its budget remain state secrets, although the budget was reported to jump nearly 40% in 2006. FSB has 4^th position in the list.

3. MI6, United Kingdom.

Agency overview:

Formed                                  1909 (as the Secret Service Bureau)

Jurisdiction                           Government of the United Kingdom

Headquarters                       Vauxhall Cross, London

Agency executive                Sir John Sawers KCMG, The Chief of SIS[1]

This was formed in 1909 and their headquarters are in Vauxhall Cross, London. These are the British equivalent to the CIA and they are really effective.

 In the Cold War, MI6 recruited Oleg Penkovsky, who played a key part in the favorable resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Oleg Gordievski, who operated for a decade before MI6 extracted him via Finland. The British were even aware of Norwood’s activities, but made the decision not to tip their hand. MI6 also is rumored to have sabotaged the Tu-144 supersonic airliner program by altering documents and making sure they fell into the hands of the KGB.

It is frequently referred to in the mass media and popular parlance by the name MI6, a name used as a flag of convenience during the Second World War when it was known by many names. The existence of MI6 was not officially acknowledged in public until 1994. MI6 is the 3^rd best Intelligence Agency of the World.

2. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) United States.

Agency overview:

Formed                                   September 18, 1947; 63 years ago

Preceding agency               Office of Strategic Services

Headquarters                       George Bush Center for Intelligence McLean, Virginia United States

Employees                             20,000 estimated

Agency executives              Michael J. Morell, Acting Director, Deputy Director, David Petraeus

The (CIA) is a Central Intelligence Agency of the United States government, was formed in 18th September, 1947 and their employees are around 20,000. The primary function of the CIA is to collect information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and to advise public policymakers. The CIA also engages in covert activities at the request of the President of the United States.

The National Security Act of 1947 established the CIA, affording it no police or law enforcement functions, either at home or abroad. One year later, this mandate was expanded to include “sabotage, anti-sabotage, demolition and evacuation measures, assistance to underground resistance movements, guerrillas and refugee liberation movements, and support of indigenous anti-communist elements in threatened countries of the free world. The agency conducts covert operations and paramilitary actions, and exerts foreign political influence through its Special Activities Division. CIA is considered as the 2^nd best Intelligence Agency of the World.

1. Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Pakistan.

Agency overview:

Formed                                   1948

Jurisdiction                           Government of Pakistan

Headquarters                       Islamabad, Pakistan

Agency executive                Lieutenant-General Ahmad Shuja Pasha, Director General

Department                           Intelligence

The Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence or simply by its initials ISI is Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency. This was formed in 1948 and their headquarters are in Islamabad, Pakistan. It is responsible for providing critical national security intelligence assessment to the Government of Pakistan. The ISI is the larger of the other two intelligence service agencies of Pakistan, Intelligence Bureau (IB) and Military Intelligence (MI).

With the lengthiest track record of success, the best know Intelligence so far on the scale of records is ISI. The Inter-Services Intelligence was created as an independent unit in 1948 in order to strengthen the performance of Pakistan’s Military Intelligence during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. Its success in achieving its goal without leading to a full scale invasion of Pakistan by the Soviets is a feat unmatched by any other through out the intelligence world. KGB, The best of its time, failed to counter ISI and protect Soviet interests in Central Asia.

ISI have won more GOLD MEDALS than any other intelligence agency This GOLD MEDAL makes it rank higher than CIA. Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha, PA Director General is leading this intelligence agency. They have the highest number of agents all over the world, almost 10,000, ISI is one of the strongest intelligence agencies of the world, and ranked as top in the list . Pakistan is really proud of it!

So, ISI is to be considered as the World’s best Intelligence Agency.