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Mercedes-Benz revealed its sleek new yacht-inspired interior for its forthcoming 2021 S-Class today, complete ambient LED lighting that can respond to your climate control settings and alert you to dangers in your blind spots. Mercedes even claims that its new interior features can help you relax or stay awake-and may already know what you need on that front.
This pleasingly minimalist interior doesn't just look cool-it packs some genuinely interesting tech. The dashboard, center console, doors, front seat backs and the overhead control panel all feature ambient LED lighting. AD: launch code reader. Mercedes spaced its LEDs just 0.6 inches apart in its fiber optics system, meaning that this interior has enough accessory lighting to make a Vegas casino blush.
There's a total of about 250 LEDs spread across the car's interior, and Mercedes says that they're ten times brighter than the LEDs they've used in the past and should be bright enough to be noticeable during the day. They're capable of chasing effects and color progressions, and will adjust their brightness based on the amount of ambient light.
Better yet, those LEDs work hand-in-hand with the car's other systems, including its safety and climate control systems. For example, Active Blind Spot Assist activates a red light animation if it senses an impending collision. The lights will also react to the "Hey, Mercedes" voice assistant, proving once and for all that Siri really needs to come up with some cooler tricks. Speaking of the voice assistant, you can either use that or the MBUX infotainment system to adjust the ambient lighting's 20 levels of color and brightness.
An optional Warmth & Comfort package allows you to use the ambient lighting and other comfort-related features to set a certain mood in the car-complete with a corresponding "soundscape." Mercedes claims that its "invigorating" setting can even help you stay focused on longer drives, and "relaxing" setting can help you de-stress.
An Energizing Coach available in the Warmth & Comfort package takes these stay-awake features to the next level, suggesting fitness and wellness programs based on your vehicle and trip data, and it can even factor sleep quality and stress levels into its algorithms using data from a compatible fitness tracker or smartphone.
Doing something as simple as saying "I am stressed" to the voice assistant can trigger the car's "Joy" setting that's meant to reinvigorate the driver. A "Vitality" program even includes a special massage. Those massage features should be easier to feel now as the seats' six air bladders sit closer to the surface.
The lights aren't the only safety and comfort feature stealing the show, however. Mercedes' ADAPT system automatically calculates where a driver's seat, mirrors and steering wheel should be positioned based on their height and adjusts them accordingly. Mercedes also touts its "Energizing" seat kinetics, which use tiny changes of only a few millimeters each in the seat cushions and backrest to improve the driver's posture. You can optimize these Energizing seat adjustments based on the length of your trip, too. There are also speakers built into the seats' headrests, which allows the car to direct infotainment information and other directions more directly to the driver.
Back to the obvious part, though: this interior genuinely looks looks like it's from the future. The center infotainment touchscreen seems to float above the rest of the dashboard, but in a clean, integrated way-no aftermarket dashboard tombstone in sight. There's one line of sleek buttons, but the rest of it is all controlled by the touchscreen.
But why should the front passengers have all the fun? Mercedes says that the S-Class can be optioned with up to five different screens in the interior if you so desire. The rear seats can also have integrated neck warmers built into their pillows.
One of the coolest options appearance-wise is the use of open-pore wood veneer in between aluminum overlays on the dashboard. Mercedes says that the S-Class' interior design was inspired by luxury yachts, and they absolutely nailed it. .

In 2012 Colin Purrington, an ex biology professor, went out for groceries and a few too many Twinkies. This was in part due to Hostess Brands filing bankruptcy at the time and partly because Colin, like many, had heard that urban legend claiming Twinkies are forever - that is, they never spoil.
So one day, Collin remembered he had these stashed Twinkies in his basement. On a whim, he went there to get them out of their sarcophagus.
As any person would do, Colin decided to take a bite out of one. He describes his experience with the words: "The one I bit into was chewy, unsweet, See: Autel Diagnostic Tool. and smelled like rotting ginkgo fruit. I gagged. I have nobody to blame but myself - the box clearly warned, "Best Used by Nov 26th" (2012)."
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So yeah, this was an unfavorable move probably, but any microorganism that laid below there would be dead after they have exhausted the resources this creamy cake offered. But in all seriousness, you shouldn't eat such things as byproducts from microorganisms' digestion process can contain toxic substances. That's exactly the reason why we can't hypercook rotten meat and call it a day. The 'poop' from microorganisms would simply make us sick.
5. I promised there was a surprise and this is it: one of the Twinkies had shriveled into a small log, sucking in the plastic like it was vacuum-packed. Is that something a fungus or bacteria does, or is there some abiotic chain-reaction taking place? pic.twitter.com/BuJZb8hFng
Enter Matt Kasson, a plant pathologist and mycologist who tested what kind of fungi grows on marshmallow last year. He reached out to Collin immediately.
Once they got in contact, Collin mailed Matt a few Twinkies. Kasson and his team got to work. Getting an intact and viable sample was hard, so they utilized a bone-marrow biopsy method. This way, they got themselves some neat cross-sections of the forbidden Twinkie. Then they put it on a petri dish to culture it and determine once and for all, what organism has invaded these innocent Twinkies.
The severely colonized cake was quite challenging to sample. Thanks to a bone marrow biopsy tool, we made quick work of it! pic.twitter.com/IYik3iWPvb
Thus far, they have determined that one of them was colonized by something from cladosporium genus. This genus of fungi are a common kitchen mold in households. Unfortunately, the wrinkly "mummified" Twinkie yielded no answers as it had dried up all and nutrition (it was roughly 1 oz, or 28 gr lighter than the other ones) it could find a long time ago and died.

Seals are fun animals; they look and act cute, but they are perfectly capable of ripping their game or curious humans to shreds in a matter of mere seconds.
Seals might be awkward looking, they almost look like they shouldn't be able to thrive in the fierce and competitive antarctic meta, or anywhere for that matter, but lest we forget, they are capable of diving 2,000 ft (600 mt) below the surface and staying there for up to 80 minutes.
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Above the surface, AD: Bluetooth obd2 scanner. they sound like flatulent Chewbaccas, and underwater, they use a completely different mode of communication: High pitched shrieks inaudible to human ears. Now, a recent study published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America revealed that there's more to their calls.
Paul Cziko, the lead author of the study and a visiting professor at the University of Oregon, told in a press release that "The Weddell seals' calls create an almost unbelievable, otherworldly soundscape under the ice," and noted that they would often fall asleep listening to otherworldly pew-pews. "It really sounds like you're in the middle of a space battle in 'Star Wars,' laser beams and all," he said.
After installing a new hydrophone (a microphone for underwater) in 2017, they began picking up on even more higher-pitched vocalizations coming from these sea animals. Previously, we knew of 34 distinct calls. All of these fall inside the human hearing range - which is roughly 20 hertz to 20 kilohertz (kHz). And the new study details 9 more with whistles, trills, and alienesque chirps - some of their vocalizations even utilize overtones, creating polyphonic sounds. And all these newfound sounds fall outside our hearing range.
Some of these new sounds had a fundamental frequency that consistently hit around 30 kHz and there was one among them that hit a staggering 49.8 kHz - he or she was possibly the Ariana Grande or Mariah Carey equivalent of a Weddell seal perhaps, but who knows. When they stacked overtones, the team noted that they could reach above 200 kHz. This is well above what doggies and cats can hear, even some bats don't hear that high.
It's cool and all that, but what function these calls serve? The team behind the study is not sure. It's the first time we're detecting ultrasonic vocalizations in fin-footed animals (like walruses, seals, or sea lions). Cziko speculates that it could just be a different register to make what you say stand out above usual chatter.
It's a theoretical possibility that these may be for echolocation purposes (think bats or dolphins), but we can't be sure at this point. Still, it makes it a viable explanation since in Antarctic winter, 2,000 ft (600 mt) below the ice sheet, you wouldn't have much use for your sense of vision.
You can listen to the recordings brought down to a perceptible frequency from the supplementary materials section of the publication. The filename for the demonstration paired with a video is: supppubmm3.mp4