For sale: used sports car, one debonair but dangerous owner.
The Aston Martin V12 DBS coupe which featured in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace is the top attraction at a charity auction marking the 50th anniversary of the first 007 film, Dr No.
Christie’s auctioneers said on Thursday that the car, a 2008 model, is expected to sell for at least $160,000 at an invitation-only auction on October 5.
Proceeds will benefit Barnardo’s, a British children’s charity.
Nine other items, including sunglasses worn by Daniel Craig in Quantum of Solace, will also be offered October 5 in support of other charities.
Christie’s said 40 items will be offered through an online auction from September 28 to October 8 to benefit UNICEF.
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Glasses that let deaf people ‘see’ sounds
London: Scientists have developed glasses that allow a deaf person to “see” when a loud sound such as the honk of a car is made and give an indication of where it came from.
Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon in South Korea made a pair of glasses for deaf people who lack access to such potentially life-saving cues.
An array of seven microphones, mounted on the frame of the glasses, pinpoints the location of such sounds and relays that directional information to the wearer through a set of LEDs embedded inside the frame, the New Scientist reported.
The glasses will only flash alerts on sounds louder than a threshold level, which is defined by the wearer. The prototype requires a user to carry a laptop around in a backpack to process the signal.
— PTI