Ijeomah Chinonso

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In the classic "Wizard of Oz " scene, Dorothy clicks the heels of her ruby slippers together saying, "There's no place like home. There's no place like home." This was the inspiration for British designer Dominic Wilcox's new GPS shoes that will actually help you find your way back home. The shoes are currently in the prototype stage, thanks to a commission by the Global Footprint project and some help from his friends at Stamp Shoes . Each shoe works wirelessly with the other to indicate GPS direction and proximity to the final destination. Programming your home location is as easy as plotting a point in the included software, then sending the info — via USB cable — to the shoes themselves. And yes, you do have to click the heels together to fire up the GPS. The shoes are currently on display at Wilcox's solo exhibit at London's KK Outlet until September 26.

PARIS (Reuters) - A French magazine ridiculed the Prophet Mohammad on Wednesday by portraying him naked in cartoons, threatening to fuel the anger of Muslims around the world who are already incensed by a California-made video depicting him as a lecherous fool. The drawings in the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo risked exacerbating a crisis that has seen the storming of U.S. and other Western embassies, the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and a deadly suicide bombing in Afghanistan. Riot police were deployed to protect the paper's Paris offices after the issue hit news stands. It featured several caricatures of the Prophet showing him naked in what the publishers said was an attempt to poke fun at the furor over the film. One, entitled "Mohammad: a star is born", depicted a bearded figure crouching over to display his buttocks and genitals. The French government, which had urged the weekly not to print the cartoons, said it was shutting embassies and schools in 20 ...

i apologise for my long absense from blogging....just that i have got something nice up my sleeve and it'll take a while to come up because of other things at hand....but for the main time i'll be regular with updates.