New golf shoes with a coating of ‘grass’

Nike has unveiled a new version of its Air Mac 1 golf sneakers featuring a grass-like turf material to make the shoes blend in with the course.

The Nike Air Max1 Golf ‘Grass’ shoes, first unveiled by website Sole Collector., feature a covering of grass-like turf material on the top and sides of the shoes.

The website said the shoes feature the same Zoom Air midsole and gum rubber outsole as other Air Max 1 models.

Nike has not yet announced a release date for the shoes, but they are expected to retail for $140.

Anti-snore pillows anyone?

There’s nothing quite as frustrating as settling down for a good night’s sleep only to be rudely awoken by someone’s snores.

The noise can drive you insane and it’s also pretty embarrassing for those who suffer. But there might be an easy solution to this problem with Silentnight’s anti-snore pillow.

According to the product description, the pillow is “ergonomically designed” to support the head and neck to encourage snore-free sleep.

The full description reads: “Now you can sleep on your back without snoring. This ergonomically designed pillow gently supports and positions the head and neck to encourage better body alignment and snore-free sleep.

Well, we don’t actually know if it actually works, but for the snoring people this might be good news.

Large ice disc rotates in Maine River

A rotating disc of ice is mesmerising onlookers in a Maine river, where it formed as a result of cold weather and water currents.

Tina Radel, marketing and communications director for the city of Westbrook, shared photos and video of the disc on social media. Radel said the disc is slowly rotating counter-clockwise and birds have been seen riding on the rotating circle.

Researchers have said ice discs, which have been documented in the United States before, occur when cold air comes in contact with an eddy in the river and the ice forms into a circle, which rotates due to the current it creates by slowly melting.

Knitters assemble world’s largest blanket

An international group of knitters broke a Guinness World Record by assembling a blanket in Ireland measuring 21,471.95 square feet.

Attempt organiser Valery Larkin said she created a Knitters of the World group on Facebook to seek donations of segments to be assembled into the world’s largest hand-knitted blanket (non-crochet).

Larkin said donations came in from 32 countries including Britain, the United States, Turkey, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, Portugal, South Africa, Singapore, Japan, New Zealand, Greece and Australia.

The blanket was assembled at Ireland’s Ennis Showgrounds, where volunteers discovered the floor was not large enough for the entire blanket to be unfurled without rolling up the walls and being attached to roof girders.

Larkin said, the blanket was measured by Guinness before being cut into smaller sections to be donated to the Red Cross.

Published in Dawn, Young World, January 26th, 2019