8

Most spiders have 8 eyes.  The arrangement of the eyes varies by species.

Spider eyes.of a house spider, Tegeneria domestica.

zebra spider

The photographer thinks this is a huntsman spider.

 Eyes of Ground wolf-spider (Trochosa terricola)

21

100 men were asked "On a scale from 1 to 10, how good would you look in a thong?"  21 answered "10", the most common answer.  Which is proof that men are dreamers.

866,833,152,075.00

A number no one knows for sure, but is estimated to be around 6,000,000

63

The April 18, 1983 United States embassy bombing was a suicide bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed 63 people, mostly embassy and CIA staff members, several soldiers and one Marine. It was the deadliest attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission up to that time, and is thought of as marking the beginning of anti-U.S. attacks by Islamist groups.

13

13% of people would rather babysit for 5 children under age 5 than take their car to a service station.  (source:  USA Today)

12

I do not pass, since danger expands anywhere unmindful speedsters proliferate unmanageably.
The longest sentence I've seen (or that I remember seeing) that begins witha 1 letter word and each word is a letter longer than the previous word. By John Allen Paulos

1

A 4-sided die is a pyramid. A 2-sided die is a coin. What's a 1-sided die? It's a Möbius strip. No matter how you throw it, the die will always land on its only side. Awesome Dice developed it for role-playing games, such as Dungeons & Dragons.

Now to the obvious question: why would you ever need a 1-sided die?

It's a way of resolving conflicts that come up in gaming sessions. Sometimes there are argumentative players who press a game master to randomly roll outcomes rather than verbally lead the players along a storyline. When you have such a player in your group, get out your 1-sided die.

18,713

Arguably the world’s most expensive cupcake, this Bloomsbury Café creation is made with Italian chocolate, vanilla beans from Uganda, and strawberries dipped in edible gold. It’s also apparently whipped with 24-carat gold sheets.

Price: USD  18,713

5446

5446 is the number of ways to arrange the numbers 1 to 10 around a circle so that the sums of adjacent numbers are distinct.

79

At Kennedy Elementary School in Dubuque, Iowa, the oldest member of the band is 79.

Tony Boland asked about joining the fifth-graders in the band after volunteering at the school, which his grandchildren attended, for more than a decade. He helps children with their reading, noting he recalls struggling with his reading as a child. 

 

789

For men, the taller you are, the more you are likely to be paid.  Statistics have found that each inch in height increases a man's salary by $789 per year.

6

Judaism considers the Jewish people to have 4 foremothers:  Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, Leah.  I think it is time to go with 6.  Bilhah and Zilpah should be added.  They gave birth to 4 of Jacob's sons, so we contain their genetic material.  They raised their sons and probably helped with Leah's and Rachel's.  The fact that Jacob either didn't love them or loved them less should not be relevant.  Neither should the fact that they were slaves, if they were.

41614

The date for today 4/16/14 is a palindrome, if you take out the slashes.  This is true this whole week.

16

The Supreme Court originally said income tax was unconstitutional, so Congress passed the 16th amendment allowing it.

7,500,000

Sometimes I like to try to find the most expensive item on ebay that I can. Today I found a farm in the Amazon rain forest in Brazil for $7,500,000. Size is 394.5 hectares (973.6 acres).

Bleen

"The Nobel prize in mathematics was awarded to a California professor who has discovered a new number! The number is bleen, which he says belongs between 6 and 7." —George Carlin

So, what is bleen plus three? Bleen plus bleen? Ten times bleen? Bleen times bleen?

248

A caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.

2

According to Yahoo!, Kate Middleton wore TWO dresses yesterday.  (Not at the same time.)  This was on their list of recommended articles.  Do you realize that, had they not recommended this article to me, I would have had to live without this knowledge?

It looks like her husband, what's-his-name also changed clothes.

100

101

Return to Sender: 101-Year-Old Message in a Bottle Finally Arrives

A message in a bottle that was thrown into the ocean in 1913 and recently found by a fisherman off the coast of Germany was returned to the sender's granddaughter.

"It was very surprising," said Angela Erdmann, 62. "A man stood in front of my door and told me he had post from my grandfather. He then told me that a message in a bottle was found and that the name that was on the card was that of my grandfather."

The message, found last month by fisherman Konrad Fischer, is largely indecipherable. However, the name and address of the sender - Richard Platz - is still legible, as is his request that the message be forwarded back to him.

Platz wrote the postcard, thought to be the oldest message in a bottle in the world, when he was just 20 years old.

Erdmann never knew Platz, who died at age 54. But she had heard plenty of stories about the man from her mother, his daughter.

The postcard will be on display in a German museum.

 

 

919

Pornographic actress Lisa Sparxx holds the record for having sex with the most men (919) in a single day, on October 16, 2004 in Warsaw, Poland, as part of the Third Annual World Gangbang Championship and Eroticon 2004.

52

Parker Brothers originally rejected Monopoly, saying there were "52 fundamental errors".  (I hate the game.)

7

100 people were asked "On a scale from 1 - 10, how well do you feel you have lived up to your potential?" The most common answer was 7.  23 people said 7.

25

I needed a number, so I asked my roommate.  He says 25, for the number of minutes he has been trying to get something (I didn't catch what) to work.

8

1 x 8 + 1 = 9

12 x 8 + 2 = 98

123 x 8 + 3 = 987

1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876

12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765

123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654

1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543

12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432

123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321

(listed under 8 since that is the consistent part)

0.99999999999999999999....

 

*****

*****

*****

0

March 2014 had 0 US combat deaths.  This was the first month in over a decade for that to be true.

204

There are 204 squares (of any size) on a checkerboard.

4734

If you take all of the proper factors of 4734 that have a 7 in them, they add up to 4734.

47

A mosquito has 47 teeth.

9.2

This is the 50th anniversary of the "Good Friday Earthquake" in Alaska. At 9.2 on the richter scale, this is the 2nd largest earthquake recorded.


The 1964 Alaskan earthquake, also known as the Great Alaskan Earthquake, the Portage Earthquake and the Good Friday Earthquake, was a megathrust earthquake that began at 5:36 P.M. AST on Good Friday, March 27, 1964. Across south-central Alaska, ground fissures, collapsing structures, and tsunamis resulting from the earthquake caused about 139 deaths.

Lasting nearly three minutes, it was the most powerful recorded earthquake in U.S. and North American history, and the second most powerful ever measured by seismograph. It had a moment magnitude of 9.2, making it the second largest earthquake in recorded history —the largest being the 1960 Valdivia earthquake in Chile.

The powerful earthquake produced earthquake liquefaction in the region. Ground fissures and failures caused major structural damage in several communities, much damage to property and several landslides. Anchorage sustained great destruction or damage to many inadequately earthquake engineered houses, buildings, and infrastructure (paved streets, sidewalks, water and sewer mains, electrical systems, and other man-made equipment), particularly in the several landslide zones along Knik Arm. Two hundred miles southwest, some areas near Kodiak were permanently raised by 30 feet (9.1 m). Southeast of Anchorage, areas around the head of Turnagain Arm near Girdwood and Portage dropped as much as 8 feet (2.4 m), requiring reconstruction and fill to raise the Seward Highway above the new high tide mark.

In Prince William Sound, Port Valdez suffered a massive underwater landslide, resulting in the deaths of 30 people between the collapse of the Valdez city harbor and docks, and inside the ship that was docked there at the time. Nearby, a 27-foot (8.2 m) tsunami destroyed the village of Chenega, killing 23 of the 68 people who lived there; survivors out-ran the wave, climbing to high ground. Post-quake tsunamis severely affected Whittier, Seward, Kodiak, and other Alaskan communities, as well as people and property in British Columbia, Oregon, and California. Tsunamis also caused damage in Hawaii and Japan. Evidence of motion directly related to the earthquake was reported from all over the earth.

There were thousands of aftershocks for three weeks, following the main shock. In the first day alone, eleven major aftershocks were recorded with a magnitude greater than 6.2. Nine more occurred over the next three weeks. It was not until more than a year later that the aftershocks were no longer noticed.

for more information:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Alaska_earthquake

56

I read a book many years ago called Ready Made Family.  The main character, Hedwig, had trouble remembering the product of 7x8.  The teacher noticed this, and confided to Hedwig that she (the teacher) was 56 years old, so now Hedwig could remember this.  Since then, I have also remembered that 7 x 8 = 56 this way.

218

My friend Kevin weighed himself this morning, and weighed 218 lbs.  This is the first time in many years that he has weighed less than 220.

800

There was a third Apple founder. Ronald Wayne (pictured at home in 2010) sold his 10% stake for $800 in 1976.

1981

1981 was the year of the first known computer crime.

Ian Murphy is the king of the old-school computer hackers. In 1981, he and three accomplices broke into the AT&T phone system and changed its internal clocks so that customers would get midnight discounts in midday, while late-night callers got stuck with outrageous bills. For the incident, Murphy became the first hacker to be charged with a computer crime.

12.52

In 1913 it was legal to mail children. With stamps attached to their clothing, children rode trains to their destinations, accompanied by letter carriers. One newspaper reported it cost fifty-three cents for parents to mail their daughter to her grandparents for a family visit. As news stories and photos popped up around the country, it didn't take long to get a law on the books making it illegal to send children through the mail.

On February 19, 1914, May Pierstorff, just short of her 6th birthday, was “mailed” from her parents’ home in Grangeville, Idaho to her grandparents’ house about 73 miles away for just 53-cents worth of stamps. May’s parents were taking advantage of parcel post service, which began just the year before.

53¢ in 1913 is worth $12.52 today.

The first child “mailed” in the U.S. was an unnamed boy in Batavia, Ohio in mid January 1913. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Beauge of Glen Este, Ohio was carried by Rural Free Delivery carrier Vernon Little to its grandmother, Mrs. Louis Beague about a mile away. The boy’s parents paid 15-cents for the stamps and even insured their son for $50. 

link from the postal museum blog:  http://postalmuseumblog.si.edu/2013/02/very-special-deliveries.html

8

What color is the number 8?  My friend Jen thinks it is dark green.  I think it is red.

3000

In 2006, an Australian man tried to sell New Zealand on eBay. The price rose to $3,000 before eBay shut it down.

0 (which is even)

To deal with fuel shortages after Hurricane Sandy, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg introduced rationing on 8 November 2012.

"Drivers in New York City who have license plates that end in an odd number or end in a letter or other character will be able to gas or diesel only on odd-numbered days such as tomorrow which happens to be the 9th," he said.  "Those with licence plates ending in an even number, or the number zero, will be able to buy gas or diesel only on even number days such as Saturday November 10th."

Saying " license plates ending in an even number, or the number zero..." makes it sound like zero is not even.  It is.

3,628,800

6! = 720  and  7! = 5040.

720 x 5040 = 3,628,800

10! = 3,628,800

This is the only case where the product of the factorials of two consecutive integers is equal to the factorial of another integer.

11

There have been 11 lost airplanes since 2005, defining an airplane as a craft large enough to hold 14 people.  (source: Mental Floss)

699

Sir Nicholas George Winton, (born Nicholas Wertheim; 19 May 1909) is a British humanitarian who organized the rescue of 669 mostly Jewish children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War, in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport. Winton found homes for the children and arranged for their safe passage to Britain. The UK press has dubbed him the "British Schindler".

for more information:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Winton

93

Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima for work when the first A-bomb hit, made it home to Nagasaki for the second, and lived to be 93.

pi

to the tune of "Oh Christmas Tree"

Oh, number Pi, Oh, number Pi
You’re truly transcendental.
Oh, number Pi, Oh, number Pi
You’re physical and mental.
You stretch the bounds…of all we know,
And tell our circles where to go
Oh, number Pi, Oh, number Pi
Your digits are so gentle.

Oh, number Pi, Oh, number Pi
Why can’t I learn you faster?
Oh, number Pi, Oh, number Pi
You’re really hard to master.
Just when I think…I’ve got you down
I flip a 6 and 5 around
Oh, number Pi, Oh, number Pi
Numerical disaster!

Oh, number Pi, Oh, number Pi
Why are you so specific?
Oh, number Pi, Oh, number Pi
Your digit growth’s terrific.
Ten years ago, you had a Mill
And now you’re at a couple Trill
Oh, number Pi, Oh, number Pi
You stretch to the Pacific!

13

12+1 = 11+2, and "twelve plus one" is an anagram of "eleven plus two."

364

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?  On average, a Licking Machine made at Purdue needed 364.

2500

Janis Joplin left $2,500 in her will for her friends to "have a ball after I’m gone."

42

433,982,548

Springing forward each year doesn't just cost you sleep. It also leads to more workplace injuries, lower productivity, and even an increase in heart attacks. Chmura Economics & Analytics says it all adds up to about $433,982,548.

1.12 million

It would take about 1.12 million mosquitoes simultaneously biting to drain your complete blood supply.

5

Rick Swenson holds the record for having won the most Iditarods, 5: 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1991

482

116

The world’s oldest person has revealed the secret behind her long and healthy life, but if you think it’s all down to diet and lots of exercise then think again.

As it turns out Misao Okawa, who turns 116 years old today, reckons it’s down to two simple things: sushi and sleep.

The Japanese woman, whose life has spanned across three centuries, eats three meals a day and ensures she always gets eight hours rest a night.

Mrs. Okawa, who has four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren, also credits oily fish such as mackerel for her longevity and only went into a care home 18 years ago at the age of 98.

“She insists that her favourite meal is sushi, particularly mackerel on vinegar-steamed rice, and she has it at least once every month," Tomohito Okada, the head of the Kurenai retirement home where she lives, told The Telegraph.

The mother-of-three has been a widow since her husband Yukio passed away in 1931 and has an elderly son, 94, and daughter, 92 as well as four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Mrs Okawa became the world’s oldest person following the death of 116-year-old Japanese man Jiroemon Kimura on June 12, 2013.

-3

-3:  The amount of time, in minutes. between the time the carpet shampooer left and the time we got dirty pawprints on the stairs.

80,000

The goody bags given out to every attendee at today’s Academy Awards ceremony have an individual value of $80,000.  If Oscars’ goody bags were a prime indicator of economic progress, it would be safe to assume that things were on the up and up, as this is twice as much as last year’s.


The funny thing about the goody bags is that they are handed out to very rich people who can already afford the stuff that’s in them several times over. Any folically-challenged actor may well be thrilled by the most expensive item in the bag, a $16,000 voucher for a robotic hair restoration, but truth be told, their personal hair stylist will soon discourage them from straying off to some rival salon. If they did try it out, they may come to appreciate the cheapest item in the bag, the $6.49 Drain Wig, which prevents loose hair from clogging up the shower. Same goes for another of the least expensive items, a Mace pepper gun, worth $120. Do they need that when they have their own security detail?  What does a Hollywood superstar do with it?  The answer – give it to an assistant.  Whether so many “O-shot procedures” will be re-gifted is another question altogether. This $2,700 treatment is a vaginal stimulation intended to reawaken sex drive. Then there’s a $4,900 system to purify home water supplies, or a $2,560 home spa installation in the unlikely event star’s homes are lacking in such basic necessities already. Further afield a $6,850 train trip through the Rockies, or a $15,000 walking tour through Japan may appeal, depending on shooting schedules and outstanding invitations for vacations on yachts and private islands.

715

NASA announced Feb. 26, the discovery of 715 exoplanets (planets outside the Solar System) using data from the Kepler telescope.

The 715 exoplanets were discovered in 305 planetary systems. Four of the planets, each twice the size of the Earth, are in a "habitable zone" where surface temperatures would allow for liquid water. 

The addition of 715 exoplanets brings the known total to around 1,700. The first exoplanet was discovered in 1996.

134 million

The state of Colorado got  $134 million in tax revenue from legal pot in the first year they legalized it.

4 (or not)

The NBA says they are NOT planning to add a 4 point shot to the rules of basketball.

1944.444444...

A man spent $35,000 to have his house set up for his 18 cats.  This comes to 1944.444444... per cat.  See pics.

50

Facebook has added 50 new choices for gender, beyond the previous choices of "female" and "male".  I don't know what they are, however, because they are not showing up as options for me.

117

What's cooler than a Girl Scout selling cookies?

A business-savvy Girl Scout who sets up shop outside a cannabis clinic to rev up her sales skills.

Thirteen-year-old Girl Scout Danielle Lei did brisk business last Monday selling Dulce de Leches and other flavors outside The Green Cross medical marijuana clinic in San Francisco.

Danielle was able to sell 117 boxes within two hours outside the cannabis clinic -- 37 more than what she sold within the same time frame at a local Safeway the next day.

"It's no secret that cannabis is an appetite stimulant -- so it's not shocking that a lot of our patients came and purchased cannabis, and then saw the cookies and purchased them," said Holli Bert, a spokesperson for The Green Cross. "But it wasn't just patients, staff members and neighbors also bought the cookies. I personally bought five boxes. It turned out to be a big success."

Bert said that Danielle's mother had contacted The Green Cross to set up the sale outside the store.

"We were happy to have her (Danielle) come -- she is extremely business savvy," Bert said.

110

The world's oldest known Holocaust survivor has died at age 110, her grandson told CNN Sunday.


Alice Herz-Sommer and her son were sent to a concentration camp during WWII, A talented pianist, she survived by playing for the Nazis at the camp.  "My world is music," she said in a 2014 Oscar-nominated documentary about her life, "The Lady in Number 6".

for more information:  http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/23/world/europe/holocaust-survivor-death/

for more more information:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Herz-Sommer

22

The star-nosed mole rat has 22 fingerry appendages on his nose.

The star-nosed mole is a small mole found in wet low areas of eastern Canada and the northeastern United States. It is easily identified by the 11 pairs of pink fleshy appendages ringing its snout, which is used as a touch organ with more than 25,000 minute sensory receptors, known as Eimer’s organs, with which this hamster-sized mole feels its way around.

3

Alexis Martin, a three-year-old who's become the youngest person in Arizona to be accepted into Mensa.


Alexis was found to have an IQ of above 160, and has even taught herself Spanish!
Her mom and dad started to realize she was something special when she began to recite bedtime stories at 12-18 months old.


"We'd be driving around in the car and she would recite her bedtime story from the night before,” said her dad. “She didn’t just recite them, she recited them exactly.”


The parents say Alexis' use of adult apps on their iPad has helped her learn and she began reading at age two.

The parents are now debating whether Alexis should start kindergarten early.

695

The "Epicurious Gourmand" experience at the Oregon Truffle Festival costs $695 per person and includes truffle tasting and truffle hunting with dogs.

4

While the number 4 does not strike fear to many in the West, the Chinese and Japanese have a superstitious fear of the number 4. The reason is fairly simple: the word for death, shi, sounds just like the number for 4. In China and Japan, buildings do not have a 4^th floor or any floor whose number contains the digit 4.  Cartoon characters that have only four fingers are considered bad luck. The superstition runs so deep in these cultures that cardiac deaths for Chinese and Japanese Americans are said to increase by 7 percent on the fourth of each month.

880

Exit 880 in I-10 in Orange, Texas, is the highest interstate exit number.

15

In the past week, this blog has been viewed 15 times in Germany.  No one left any comments.

22

If there were such a thing, it would probably be rule No. 1 in the teaching manual for instructors of aspiring suicide bombers: Don’t give lessons with live explosives.

In what represented a cautionary tale for terrorist teachers, and a cause of dark humor for ordinary Iraqis, a commander at a secluded terrorist training camp north of Baghdad unwittingly used a belt packed with explosives while conducting a demonstration early Monday for a group of militants, killing himself and 21 other members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, army and police officials said.

12

12 is a sublime number. 


A sublime number is a number with a perfect number of factors whose factors add up to a perfect number.


12 has 6 factors:  1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12.


The factors of 12 add up to 28.


6 and 28 are both perfect numbers because they are equal to the sum of their proper factors.

43 ( 7 + 13 + 23 )

I asked my friend Cheryl what her favorite number is.  She said it is a tie between 7 ("I had seven children"),  13 (" I was born on the 13th.  I've always liked that number, maybe because most people don't."), and 23 ("When I was a child I always wanted to be 23.  Not 16.  Not 18.  Always 23.")

128

I'm suffering from a lack of imagination today.  So 128 is today's number.  Just because.

56

Shirley Temple always had 56 ringlets.

17

A sudoku puzzle must have at least 17 numbers to be filled in to be solvable.

2

45

The longest word to appear in an English language dictionary is

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis 

which is a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, causing inflammation in the lungs.  It has 45 letters.

512.73

512.73 is the Dewey Decimal system classification for analytical number theory.

What is the significance of 512.73?

According to "The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers":

First I subtract it from 666, the Number of the Beast in the Book of Revelation:
666 - 512.73 = 153.27
Behold!
The same digits appear, but rearranged, signifying the effect of removing evil from the world.

The whole number part is now 153, the number of fishes hauled from the river by Peter.
The decimal part is the sacred number 3, raised to its own power.

Divide the Number of the Beast by 3, and you obtain 222,
the Dewey Decimal system classification for the Old Testament.
Add 3 and you obtain 225, the classification for the New Testament.
Add 3 again, and you obtain 228, the classification of the Book of Revelation.

5939.74

I couldn't think of anything, so I went to Yahoo, and typed in "How many" to see what they came up with.

There are:

• 105 calories in a banana (on average)
• 128 ounces in a gallon (fluid ounces)
• 16 ounces in a pound (non-fluid ounces)
• 4 cups in a quart
• 5280 feet in a mile
• 8 ounces in a cup (fluid ounces)
• 28.35 grams in an ounce (approximately)
• 365.39 weeks in a year (approximately)
• 3 teaspoons in a tablespoon
• 2 pints in a quart

total:  5939.74

0.01

My friend's credit card company messed up her account an overcharged her 1¢ so they sent her a check.

I whited out her name and address  on the picture.

1

100 women were asked "On a scale from 1 to 10, how sexy are men with hairy chests?" The most common answer was 1. 



(source: Family Feud)

3

Preston, Socrates, and Buddy are hogging my bed. (Buddy likes to hide under the covers.)

20,860

The Gregorian calendar is set up so that a year is equal to one revolution of the earth around the sun.  The months don't correspond to anything.

A month in the Muslim calendar is equal to one cycle of the moon, between 29 and 30 days.  A year is 12 months.  This means that a year in the Muslim calendar is about 11 days shorter than a Gregorian year.  This is why the Muslim holidays are not connected to any seasons.

(The Jewish calendar has the same months as the Muslim calendar, but some years have 12 months and some have 13 months.  So the year is roughly the same as a year in the Gregorian calendar.)

So at some point, the year number of the Muslim year will catch up to the year number of the Gregorian year.  This will happen in the year 20860.

50

There are 50 states in the United States. 

(I couldn't think of anything.  So I decided to go to Google and type "How many" and go with the first way Google finished the sentence. 

2

Sean :: Is there any special term for a prime p, such that the prime squared plus one is also a prime?

Kevin :: Yes. 2. If you can think of any other example, you should alert the media.

C

Here is a proof that the amount of real numbers is larger than the amount of integers:  diagonal_argument

I know a proof that 2 to the power of the number of integers gives you the number of real numbers, but can not find it on line.

39,997.99

For only $39,997.99 you can get this 85 inch TV from Amazon.

• 4K Ultra HD with Micro Dimming: Best picture quality
• 120Hz Refresh Rate: Better for general viewing, video games, action movies, and sports
• Smart TV with Voice Control: Interact with streaming content and the web
• LED Design: TV without stand (Width x Height x Depth): 78.9" x 64.4" x 2.8", TV with stand (Width x Height x Depth): 78.9" x 64.4" x 22.9"

You save from the list price of $44,999.99.

You can get a used one for $30,999.99.

Whether it's your voice or a simple hand gesture, with the new Ultra-Slim Samsung Smart TV S9, controlling your TV is easier than ever before. You can talk to your TV in more natural ways such as asking, "What action movies are on", or you can perform all the basic commands such as "record", "last channel" and "turn on". You can also use hand gestures to browse the new intuitive Smart Hub, a central, easy-to-navigate hub of all your favorite content. You can even use gestures to use apps, play games and more. Samsung has also made it easier to keep up with the latest technology. The new Smart Evolution Kit updates your TV with new software, so you can keep enjoying new features without having to get a new TV. Discover how the new S9 can keep up with both you, and the ever-changing world of technology.