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Las Vegas, Jan 7 (Ians) Citizen has launched new Cz Smartwatch which uses artificial intelligence (AI) and space agency NASA research to measure wearers’ fatigue and alertness at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2023.

The power of the new watch resides in the Cz Smart YouQ application, which allows users to understand and predict their own fatigue patterns as well as receive recommendations on how to improve them for a healthier, more alert and rested lifestyle, reports Zdnet.

The application also allows users to take a customised ‘Alert Monitor’ test daily to determine their awareness.

The test itself is a consumer version of NASA’s Psychomotor Vigilance Task Test (Pvt+), which gauges astronauts’ mental acuity.

“The latest Cz Smartwatch is a game-changing product that brings Citizen’s legacy of watchmaking together with best-in-class research and technology of NASA and Ibm, directly to wearers’ wrists,” said Jeffrey Cohen, president, Citizen Watch America.

The more wearers use the watch,...

I was gutted by the news shared by playwright/producer Jeff Cohen as he and I walked our dogs in Riverside Park early this morning. The Thin White Duke was no more. I struggled to understand the implications of losing a music hero. Rushing home, resigned to reality, I watched his two new videos, the one above and the ablum's title track which I featured on this website last week, both from his 28th studio album, ★(Blackstar), released this past week on January 8th, 2016, the date of Bowie's 69th birthday. As I watched "Lazarus" again, it all made sense.

"Lazarus" is clearly Bowie's epitaph, his final prophetic performance on this mortal coil...

Look up here / I'm in heaven I've got scars that can't be seen I've got drama that can't be stolen Everybody knows me now...

The coins on his eyes, the pallor of his skin, his frail body wrapped in a fashionalbe shroud.

One of the most daring and courageous escapes through a tunnel, which would have scored highly in Stephen Moss's rating of great escapes (Lucky breaks, G2, 26 April), was that of about 250 Jews escaping almost certain death in the Novogrudok ghetto, Belarus, in September 1943.

The tunnel was 250 metres long and 1 metre deep and took three months to dig. An electrician among the resistance group managed to divert electrical power from a cable serving the Nazi searchlights to provide lighting in the tunnel. Joiners built a railway line and trolley to carry out the earth, which was hidden in a loft.

Each escaper was given the name of the person they should follow in the tunnel. Once underground, in a confined space just large enough for a person to crawl through, there could be no turning back. The escape took 45 minutes. About 80 people were caught and killed. The rest joined the...