| Goldeneye retreat to get facelift
Goldeneye, the scenic rural retreat in eastern Jamaica where British author Ian Fleming created the James Bond character that spawned dozens of novels and films, is getting a facelift. Work begins in June on 82 villas, cottages and suites at the 40-hectare property overlooking a harbour in St Mary parish, Jason Henzell, president of luxury hotelier Island Outpost, said. Henzell said Goldeneye's current owner, media mogul Chris Blackwell - who is also the owner of Island Outpost - wanted to use the property for tourism. "He wants to develop a new niche in Jamaica called residential tourism, where people buy land, visit and ultimately promote the island," he said. He declined to comment on the project's cost. Fleming bought Goldeneye in the mid-1940s when it spanned just 16 hectares, and wrote several books there.
Disney characters get robotic facelift for Magic Kingdom performance
We're hearing January is a fairly good time to hit up Disney World, and if you've got an itch to see giant rodents (and similar) perform on stage with near perfect mouth movements, we'd recommend heading on down. Apparently the engineers behind the relatively new Cinderella Castle stage show at the Magic Kingdom have spruced the characters up quite a bit, and most noticeable is the robotic facelift that the main characters received. Instead of just moving about while music loops in the background, the critters can now sing right along, as their mouths move almost in unison with the audio clips in the show. While we're sure your average six year old girl wouldn't notice such petty details, it's good to see Disney upping the ante on the mechanics to keep us geeks from zoning out while experiencing all that magic, so be sure to hit the read link for a video demonstration of the upgraded jawbones (and don't hum along too loudly).[Via BoingBoing] .
Britain’s latest cosmetic surgery is the new jawline
Now Britains seemingly insatiable appetite for cosmetic curves has seized upon yet another part of the body: the chin. Plastic surgeons are reporting a sharp increase in the number of patients signing up for the latest must-have procedure, The Independent reported on Sunday.
Disillusioned with weak jawlines or unbecoming jowls, and enamoured with the strong, confident profiles of celebrities such as Claudia Schiffer and Sarah Jessica Parker, or Brad Pitt and Daniel Craig, growing numbers of Britons are deciding to part with thousands of pounds in order to augment their chins.
Britains leading surgeons are reporting an increase of up to a 35 percent in the number of patients, both male and female, booking in for surgical chin enhancement. Across Europe, the rise is even higher, with Dr Javier de Benito, a leading Spanish surgeon and president elect of the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (Isaps), estimating it to be nearer 50 percent.
Silicone approval a huge blow for saline
The factory looks like an especially clean industrial kitchen. Workers are covered from head to toe in surgical scrubs. Stacked on stainless steel rolling trays are mounds of various sizes and shapes, all resembling risen pizza dough. Mentor Corp has its global manufacturing operations at this 13 050m2 factory that is home to the US's only breast implant manufacturing facility. The recent Federal Drug Administration approval of silicone-gel implants - ending a 14-year virtual ban - has far-reaching ramifications here. This the starting point for nearly a quarter of a million breast augmentation surgeries a year. The daily grind of making implants might not change much, but what workers are doing here will affect hundreds of thousands of women a year. Factory workers, machines and robots produce about 2 100 saline implants a day in a process that Mentor protects as if it were nuclear missile launch codes.
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