When you look at Angelina Jolie, you see legs. Women see shoes brands. You might, however, look directly at Brad Pitt’s shoes — or his three-piece from Tom Ford. (Or wonder which brand of razor he used to shave that beard.) Turns out men’s brains aren’t that different from women’s after all….

Dutch neuroscientists recently released a study that more or less confirmed the obvious: Not only do women love examining celebrity fashion, their brains actually light up when Julia Roberts is wearing a pair of Louboutins as opposed to, say, a single mother on a check-out line. Clothes officially don’t make the woman; the woman makes the clothes. But when The Style Blog asked the researchers on Monday whether men transfer the same kind of “positive emotions” toward famous people’s clothes, we got a surprising answer.

“There’s no reason to think it would be different for men, and it’s not gender-related in the sense that only male celebrities appeal to men or vice versa,” said lead scientist Mirre Stallen, a doctoral student at Erasmus University.

LeBron James playing in Nikes has the same effect on our side of the species, she insisted, as Sarah Jessica hawking a pair of heels — “but it would make no sense for her to sell cars” because of the mental connection. Same goes for Tiger Woods these days, since his “image is negative — so he wouldn’t be a good endorser for anything.”

But don’t feel too bad for yourself. Just because you’d never flip on Inside Edition doesn’t mean you can hold back memories that are “activated automatically.” Brad Pitt is, after all, a handsome man, and we don’t blame you for liking those shoes, either. “It’s unconscious, not a choice,” Stallen said. “We already knew that celebrity works in advertising — now we just know why. And it affects everyone the same way.”

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Sterling hit a one-year low against the dollar and tumbled against the euro after incomplete results of a UK general election suggested no party had emerged as a clear winner, raising the risk of a political stalemate that could hamper efforts to reduce the country’s huge public debt.

U.S. stocks fell as much as 9 percent in the last two hours of trading on Thursday before recovering slightly and the Dow suffered its biggest ever intraday point drop as a suspected trading glitch and euro debt fears threw markets into disarray.

Concerns Greece’s debt woes would spread into other parts of Europe are fanning risk aversion, with a lack of new anti-crisis measures from the European Central Bank on Thursday triggering a new wave of flight to safety. World stocks have erased all of this year’s gains to stand down 4 percent on the year.

“It is clear that the euro zone is in a very difficult situation and there is no quick fix,” said Tammo Greetfeld, equity strategist at UniCredit.

“It looks like foreign investors, particularly U.S. investors, yesterday for the first time significantly acknowledged that there are some risks emanating from the euro zone that could be severe.”

The MSCI world equity index .MIWD00000PUS fell 1.3 percent, having hit its lowest level since February. The index is on track to post its biggest weekly loss since November 2008.

The FTSEurofirst 300 index .FTEU3 fell 2.7 percent, also hitting levels not seen since early February.

Fund tracker EPFR Global said Europe equity funds saw more than $2 billion in net outflows in the week to May 5, the most in a year.

The pound fell as low as $1.4596, its weakest since late April 2009, as vote tallies so far showed the opposition Conservatives were on course to become the largest party in parliament but lacked a clear majority.

Many believe political uncertainty could derail any quick plans to put UK public finances in order and could prompt credit agencies to downgrade Britain from its AAA status.

U.S. crude oil briefly fell below $77 a barrel, losing $10 in the past week as concerns grew that the growing debt crisis would hit global economic growth.

Bund futures rose 22 ticks while Japanese government futures hit a 2-month high of 140.10.

A team of 30 Spanish doctors say they have successfully performed the world’s first full face transplant.

A man injured in a shooting accident received the entire facial skin and muscles – including cheekbones, nose, lips and teeth – of a donor.

The man is recovering well after the 22-hour operation, said a spokesperson from Vall d’Hebron University Hospital.

Another 10 face transplants have been carried out around the world, but this is believed to be the most complex.

Hospital spokesperson Bianca Bont told the BBC: “This is the first total face transplant.

“There have been 10 operations of this kind in the world – this is the first to transplant all of the face and some bones of the face.”

The man was operated on in March, but details of the operation have only just been revealed.

He had been left unable to breathe, swallow, or talk properly after an accident five years ago.

He was considered for a full face transplant after nine previous operations failed.

A team of 30 experts carried out the operation on 20 March at the hospital in Barcelona.

The man has since seen himself in the mirror and was calm and satisfied, the leader of the medical team, Joan Pere Barret, told a news conference.

1. Patient lost jaw, nose and other parts of his face in shooting accident.

2. Donor’s facial skin, muscles, nose, cheekbones, teeth and jawbone used to rebuild patient’s face. Metal plates used to support new facial structure, which included reconstructing the roof of the mouth.

3. Donor’s nerves, blood vessels and skin connected to patient. Patient will have to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of his life.

In the real world, you’re worth more than everyone on Forbes’ latest list of the richest people in the world.

The venerable magazine has put together a roster of the world’s wealthiest fictional characters, with imaginary magnates like Thurston Howell III, Scrooge McDuck, Richie Rich and “Twilight’s” Carlisle Cullen boasting bogus bankrolls. Topping the list: Cullen, the 370-year-old vampire who has built a $34.1 billion fortune thanks to stock-picking by his adopted daughter Alice, who can see the future.

Cartoon miser McDuck is worth an estimated $33.5 billion, Rich’s fortune is up to $11.5 billion and Beverly Hillbilly Jed Clampett’s oil holdings are now worth $7.2 billion. Sir  Topham Hatt, the schedule-obsessed railroad tycoon from Thomas the Tank Engine is worth $2 billion, some $100 million less than Howell. Lucille Bluth, the matriarch of the “Arrested Development” family’s real estate empire, is $950 million.

Perhaps most disturbing about the list is that the Tooth Fairy can now afford to buy Uncle Sam. The man who wants you went from infinite wealth to being worth less than a billion today, according to the magazine’s calculations. The Tooth Fairy’s dental investments are now worth $3.9 billion.

The magazine put together its list based on an analysis of each fictional character’s source material, and valued against known real-world commodity and share price fluctuations. In the case of privately held fictional companies, such as Rich Industries, analysts sought to identify comparable fictional public companies.

Source: Jason Chen from Gizmodo

You are looking at Apple’s next iPhone. It was found lost in a bar in Redwood City, camouflaged to look like an iPhone 3GS. We got it. We disassembled it. It’s the real thing, and here are all the details.

While Apple may tinker with the final packaging and design of the final phone, it’s clear that the features in this lost-and-found next-generation iPhone are drastically new and drastically different from what came before. Here’s the detailed list of our findings:

What’s new

• Front-facing video chat camera
• Improved regular back-camera (the lens is quite noticeably larger than the iPhone 3GS)
• Camera flash
• Micro-SIM instead of standard SIM (like the iPad)
• Improved display. It’s unclear if it’s the 960×640 display thrown around before—it certainly looks like it, with the “Connect to iTunes” screen displaying much higher resolution than on a 3GS.
• What looks to be a secondary mic for noise cancellation, at the top, next to the headphone jack
• Split buttons for volume
• Power, mute, and volume buttons are all metallic

What’s changed

• The back is entirely flat, made of either glass (more likely) or ceramic or shiny plastic in order for the cell signal to poke through. Tapping on the back makes a more hollow and higher pitched sound compared to tapping on the glass on the front/screen, but that could just be the orientation of components inside making for a different sound
• An aluminum border going completely around the outside
• Slightly smaller screen than the 3GS (but seemingly higher resolution)
• Everything is more squared off
• 3 grams heavier
• 16% Larger battery
• Internals components are shrunken, miniaturized and reduced to make room for the larger battery

How it was lost

Here is a detailed account of how the phone was lost.

Why we think it’s definitely real

We’re as skeptical—if not more—than all of you. We get false tips all the time. But after playing with it for about a week—the overall quality feels exactly like a finished final Apple phone—and disassembling this unit, there is so much evidence stacked in its favor, that there’s very little possibility that it’s a fake. In fact, the possibility is almost none. Imagine someone having to use Apple components to design a functioning phone, from scratch, and then disseminating it to people around the world. Pretty much impossible. Here are the reasons, one by one.

It has been reported lost
Apple-connected John Gruber—from Daring Fireball—says that Apple has indeed lost a prototype iPhone and they want it back:

So I called around, and I now believe this is an actual unit from Apple — a unit Apple is very interested in getting back.

Obviously someone found it, and here it is.

The screen
While we couldn’t get it past the connect to iTunes screen for the reasons listed earlier, the USB cable on that screen was so high quality that it was impossible to discern individual pixels. We can’t tell you the exact resolution of this next-generation iPhone, but it’s much higher than the current iPhone 3GS.

The operating system
According to the person who found it, this iPhone was running iPhone OS 4.0 before the iPhone 4.0 announcement. The person was able to play with it and see the iPhone 4.0 features. Then, Apple remotely killed the phone before we got access to it. We were unable to restore because each firmware is device specific—3GS firmware only loads on 3GS devices—and the there are no firmwares available for this unreleased phone. Which is another clue to its authenticity.

It is recognized as an iPhone
This iPhone behaves exactly like an iPhone does when connected to a computer, with the proper boot sequence and “connect to iTunes” restore functionality. Xcode and iTunes both see this as an iPhone. Mac OS X’s System Profiler also reports this as an iPhone in restore mode, which is a natural consequence of remotely wiping the phone, but report different product identifiers (both CPID and CPRV) than either the 3G or the 3GS.

It uses micro-sim
The fact that it uses a micro-sim is a clear indicator that this is a next-generation iPhone. No other cellphone uses this standard at this point in the US.

The camouflage case
The case it came inside was a fully developed plastic case to house this phone to disguise it like a 3GS. This wasn’t just a normal case; it had all the proper new holes cut out for the new switches and ports and camera holes and camera flash. But it looks like something from Belkin or Case-Mate. It’s a perfect disguise.

The fact that it’s in the wild right now
Logic can also narrow down why this phone is this year’s iPhone, rather than next year’s model or one from the previous year’s, just because it was found in the wild right now. It makes no sense for Apple to be testing 2011’s model right now, in super finished form—they wouldn’t be nearly finished with it. The phone also can’t be last year’s test model, because last year’s model (based on the iPhone 3GS teardowns) components were way different. No micro-sim, much bigger logic board, no flash, no front camera, smaller battery and an inferior camera. That only leaves the 2010 model.

The guts, the definitive proof
And finally, when we opened it up, we saw multiple components that were clearly labeled APPLE. And, because the components were fit extremely well and extremely conformed inside the case (obvious that it was designed FOR this case), it was evident that it was not just a 3G or a 3GS transplanted into another body. That probably wouldn’t even be possible, with the size constraints of the thinner device and larger battery.

The New Industrial Design

At first sight, this new iPhone’s industrial design seems so different from the previous two generations that it could be discarded as just a provisional case. Even while the finish is so perfect that it feels right out of the factory, some of the design language elements that are common to all Apple products are not there. Gone is the flushed screen glass against the metal rim. Gone is the single volume button, replaced by two separate ones. Gone is the seamless rim, and gone are the tapered, curved surfaces.

Despite that, however, this design is not a departure. Not when you frame it with the rest of the Apple product line. It’s all the contrary: This new iPhone gets back to the simplicity of the iMac and the iPad. In fact, you can argue that the current iPhone 3GS—with its shiny chrome rim and excessively curved back—is out of place compared to the hard edges and Dieter-Ramish utilitarianism of the iMac and the iPad. Next to the iPad, for example, the new iPhone makes sense. It has the same feeling, the same functional simplicity.

But why the black plastic back, instead of going with an unibody aluminum design? Why the two audio volume buttons? Why the seams? And why doesn’t the back have any curvature at all?

Why the plastic back?
The plastic back is the most obvious of the design choices. The iPad, with its all aluminum back, has seen its Wi-Fi reception radius reduced. The 3G version comes with a large patch on the top, probably big enough to provide with good reception. But the new tiny iPhone doesn’t have the luxury of space: It needs to provide as much signal as possible using a very small surface. I’m sure Jon Ive is dying to get rid of the plastic back, and go iPad-style all the way, but the wireless reception is the most important thing in a cellphone. A necessary aesthetical-functional trade-off.

Why separate volume buttons?
This new iPhone uses separate buttons for the volume instead of the single button that you can find in the iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. It’s one of the factors that may indicate that this is a provisional case, until you think about one of the most requested features for Apple’s phone: A physical button for the camera. The new iPhone has a bigger sensor and a flash, which means that the camera function keeps gaining more weight. It’s only logical to think that Apple may have implemented this two-button approach to provide with a physical shutter button. It makes sense.

Why the seams?
The seams are perhaps the most surprising aspect of the new design. They don’t seem to respond to any aesthetic criteria and, in terms of function, we can’t adventure any explanation. But they don’t look bad. In fact, the whole effect seems good, like something you will find in a Braun product from the 70s.

It’s doubtful that the seams are arbitrary, however. Either they will disappear from the final product, or they have a function we can’t foresee at this time.

Why no tapering or curves?
As you will see in a future article, the new iPhone is so miniaturized and packed that there’s no room for the tapered, curved surfaces. Everything is as tight as it could get, with no space for anything but electronics.

The hardware specs

The phone measures 4.50 by 2.31 by 0.37 inches. It weighs 140 grams. The 3GS weighs 137 grams on a postal scale (and 135 on Apple’s official measurements). So, in comparison, it’s 3 grams heavier. The battery is 5.25 WHr at 3.7V, compared to the 3GS battery, which is 4.51 WHr at 3.7V. On the back of the phone, it said it was XX GB, but since we were unable to get the phone to a running state, we couldn’t see exactly how large it was.

How it feels

Freaking amazing. As a person who never really liked the round mound of a back in the 3GS, the sleeker, flatter, squarer design is super welcome. It feels sturdier than the 3GS, and much less plasticky. The metal buttons give it a heftier feel—less of a toy—than all previous generations. The closest analog to it would be the original iPhone, which is more square and heavy than its newer brothers.

It feels completely natural up to your face, and the fact that both the front and the back are glossy makes no difference on how well you can hold it without the phone slipping. And because it’s thinner, it feels even nicer in your pants.

What all this means

Apple has updated the exterior drastically different from the 3G and 3GS. That design is old, it felt out of place compared to the rest of their products and needed desperately to be killed. Now you have a thinner body, a much more pleasant form factor with no wasted space and lots of hard lines. But the design isn’t the most important part that’s changed.

They’ve delivered many of the features people have been waiting for—that damn front camera!—while at the same time upgrading everything else. Flash, better back camera, better battery life and another microphone for better voice clarity. People who bought the 3G two years ago and are now in the perfect position to upgrade and get a dramatically different, and better, phone. If confirmed this summer, and if it performs as we expect, this next-generation iPhone looks like a winner.

A talented law student who led a double life as an escort died after taking a cocktail of alcohol and drugs including meow meow, an inquest heard.

Laura Main, 28, was training to be a solicitor but also worked for an escort agency called Bunnies of London under the name Eve.

The popular student, who was earmarked for a high-flying career when she graduated from Aberdeen University in 2006, was also a successful DJ, performing under the name Lady Asbo.

But she was found dead on the floor of her flat in an exclusive part of Kensington, West London, after taking a cocktail of drugs.

Her body was discovered by an estate agent who had visited the flat to show a wealthy client around the property.

A post-mortem examination revealed that Miss Main, who had a history of depression, was two and half times over the drink-drive limit, and had taken meow meow, as well as party drug GHB, known as liquid ecstasy, and Valium.

Meow meow, or mephedrone, a so- called ‘legal high’, has become one of the most widely used recreational drugs.

But it has been linked to a string of deaths and harmful side effects, and from today is banned and reclassified as a Class B drug. ‘Date rape’ drug GHB was banned in 2003 following a similar outcry.

Miss Main was found on December 14, two days after she had last been seen at a Christmas party thrown by her escort agency.

Coroner Paul Knapman said that Miss Main, originally from Lossiemouth in Scotland, had a history of depression and suicide attempts but had seemed to be improving before her death.

‘She was studying law and training to be a solicitor but she was also a DJ under the name Lady Asbo on the club scene,’ he said.

‘She was also working for an escort agency at the time of her death. She had been depressed and had seen her doctor.

‘She had taken some overdoses in the past but it appears she was not a desperately depressed person in recent times.’

Estate agent Phillippe Chuzel told the inquest: ‘I had tried to call her but the number never connected,’ he said.

‘I had a set of keys to open the door and I saw a woman lying on her stomach on the floor.’ He described how his client checked for a pulse and they waited for police to arrive.

The inquest heard that although meow meow and Valium were found in Miss Main’s blood, it was a combination of alcohol and GHB which killed her.

Recording a verdict of death by misadventure, Dr Knapman said: ‘It’s likely she collapsed on her floor and went to sleep, probably in the early hours of Sunday, and was not discovered until Monday.

‘It’s a tragic death and another example of a young woman of only 28 dying from a mixture of alcohol and drugs.’