Gorman Progress

9th Grade

Demi Skipper of San Francisco has remarkable trading skills – remarkable enough to trade a bobby pin for a house, says the Association of Mature American Citizens [AMAC]. How did she do it? She used social media, including Facebook and Craigslist. It took a while, but someone finally offered to trade her for a pair of earrings. She then traded the earrings for a set of glasses, which she traded for a vacuum cleaner. A year and a half and 28 trades later she was the owner of a solar powered trailer worth about $40,000, which she traded for a home in Clarksville, TN. But that’s not the end of the story. Demi and her husband are going to fix the place up, give it to a needy recipient and then break out another bobby pin and start all over again.

Do you crave a taste of the dishes Chef Gordon Ramsay cooks up on his TV shows? If so, you may someday be able not only to watch how Ramsay, or any other of your favorite television cooks, put together their savory entrees, you’ll be able to actually taste them as you watch, according to the Association of Mature American Citizens [AMAC]. AMAC reports that Homei Miyashita, a professor at Japan’s School of Science, claims to have invented a TV with a screen that lets you actually taste the yummy concoctions TV chefs cook up on their shows. “It works by mixing a combination of 10 flavors to create the taste of whatever food item is on the screen. Then it dispenses the flavor onto a film that slides onto the screen, where users can lick it off,” explains ABC-TV News.