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It would be nice to never have to age into a decrepit sack of sagging flesh, but alas, that is the fate of every one of us. However, it doesn’t have to be. Science is always real reliable when it comes to doing the impossible and what’s more impossible than prolonging death? Scientists recently working with a potential longevity-enhancing drug have had great success while testing it on mice. Having passed its final animal testing challenge, we’re ready to start testing this on humans, Tuck Everlasting-style!

The mice whom had been given the new drug dieted on fatty foods for four months without gaining weight or developing diabetes. They also ran twice as far on a treadmill as their drug-free brethren. Talk about progress. Those mice might live long healthy lives, but there isn’t anything preventing them from getting caught in a Victor.

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Despite the coolness of owning a projector for its ability to maintain decent picture quality over a huge amount of space, most of you probably decided against a projector after reading up about low lamp life and expensive replacements. LG’s HS101 LED projector, displayed at CES 2007, struts ahead of the competition by showing off it’s extremely long lamp life of 20,000 hours (just long enough to show The Lord of The Rings trilogy in succession).

The unit measures 154×117mm and weighs 750g, about the average size for a run of the mill projector on the market. While it’s not as sleek as some of the others, it makes up for it with brute longevity. The extra-long lamp light of the HS101 is sure to attract the attention of big companies who tend to use projectors more often for their presentations. Imagine playing the Wii on this thing. That’s some big time table tennis.

Would it even be possible to host a 20,000 hour TV marathon? Of course hosts would have to take shifts sleeping, but damn, that’d be some intense marathon madness.

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