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Courtesy of Rhyme Lou Wearing the Vigo on the road could help keep drivers from dozing off, its makers suggest. A new wearable device claims to be able to put an end to untimely sleepiness by measuring alertness and nudging the user awake if necessary. Vigo is a headset which uses an infrared sensor to track blinking patterns and eye ...

Andrew Theodorakis/New York Daily News Rosanna de la Cuada’s 7-year-old daughter has asthma, and mold in their apartment keeps coming back after faulty New York City Housing Authority fixes. For public housing tenants like Rosanna de la Cuada, help is on the way. The New York City Housing Authority signed off Tuesday on an unprecedented settlement agreeing to judicial oversight ...

dfw.cbslocal.com Mohamed Abdulle still has the fang marks from the snake attack on his face, but he can now close his mouth again and give a genuine grin. A Somalian refugee can truly smile again thanks to doctors in Texas. Mohamed Abdulle was bitten by a 12-foot snake at a camp near Somalia’s border with Kenya when he was just ...

Courtesy Douglas Elliman A massive, walk-in closet in the loft in Williamsburg’s Gretsch Building that is selling for a potential Brooklyn record $ 6.5 million Locals have been complaining about the Manhattanization of Williamsburg for years, and now the hip neighborhood even has the real estate prices to match. A massive loft at the Gretsch Building along Broadway has just ...

Caters News Agency David George Gordan poses with a tarantula, one of his protein-packed, nutritious ingredients. The insect-loving chef just released a new cookbook called Eat-a-Bug. A real life PEST-on Blumenthal is cooking up a SWARM in the kitchen – by using creepy crawlies to create bizarre meals. David George Gordon, 63, has been cooking with bugs since 1997 after ...

Han Myung-Gu/WireImage The Midtown penthouse that Leonardo DiCaprio’s character in ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ calls home is now on the market for $ 6.5 million. Welcome to the wolf’s lair. The Midtown penthouse Leonardo DiCaprio calls home in the new Scorsese flick “The Wolf of Wall Street” is now on the market. And at $ 6.5 million for the ...

Julia Xanthos/New York Daily News Brooklyn’s first Whole Foods, on 3rd Ave. and 3rd St., is under preparations for their grand opening on Dec. 17. Brooklyn’s first Whole Foods has finally arrived — and there’s a whole lot to love even though it’s adjacent to one of the filthiest waterways in the nation. The gourmet grocery chain’s long-awaited — and ...

DANISH SIDDIQUI/REUTERS Matteo Boglione, executive chef of Le Cirque Signature restaurant, prepares a dish inside the kitchen in Mumbai last week. The branch of New York’s venerable Le Cirque, at the Leela Mumbai hotel, is the latest in a wave of overseas-based high-end eateries to enter a country that has been slow to embrace the global-restaurant trend that has taken ...

michele piacquadio/Getty Images/iStockphoto The study authors said people who ordered pizza online spent more money and asked for higher-calorie items. The ordering habits of the masses have changed thanks to apps like Seamless. For some, the main selling point for these services, other than convenience, is that they save them from talking to another human being while placing their food ...

Bronx entrepreneur Eric Glisson, 38, inside his new business, ‘Fresh Take,’ at the store’s grand opening. He’s gone from the big house to being the Bronx’s latest business owner, and he’s done it in less than a year. Eric Glisson — who served nearly 18 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit — has opened a juice and ...