Invisible Boyfriend app does everything that a human boyfriend can do

We have long accepted the fact, even if reluctantly, that we live in an age where we are in love with our machines. I am not talking about the happy romantic love where star-crossed lovers meet and dance around trees and fight against a society that doesn’t understand them. But the kind of love that opens ourselves up in the most perverse ways, exposing our fears and all our flaws, to the other person, in an intimacy that binds us together in aversion and eroticism.

Our machines love us. We confess to them, the darkest deepest desires of our hearts. So that you can be sure, that even if nobody shares your tweet or likes your status update, there is an algorithm, residing at the core of a server, capturing that information and listening to you. Our machines have penetrated the very essence of our being, so that they don’t even have to wait for us to actually perform actions. Predictive algorithms which crunch the voluminous data about you are already generating things based on the probability of what you will do rather than what you actually will.

And conversely, we love our machines. They are alive, vibrating in our pockets, sliding in between our fingers, sleeping next to us in beds, even analysing our sleep patterns, if we want. They require care and attention and we give it to them. It is now normal for a group of friends hanging out to look at their phones more than they will look at each other’s faces. They hang on us, they die and run out of battery, they crash, parts need replacement, and we do all of this, not as a mechanical chore but with a sense of duty and joy. Who among us, hasn’t been faced with the dilemma of having a device that constantly crashes, and not replacing it even when it is easy to do it, both in terms of costs and convenience? Who among us, when replacing an older machine, hasn’t experienced the pangs of a break-up and the anxiety of separation that makes us reach for that tub of chocolate ice cream at 3 am on a Thursday night?

This love that shall not be named has slowly and surreptitiously been creating cyborg love stories for the digital times. This year we saw a new love story that embodies our distant, distributed, disconnected, circulating lives in a way that we had always suspected but were but not quite sure. This is the launch of a new app called “The Invisible Boyfriend”, where, for a monthly subscription that definitely costs less than weekly dates, you have a boyfriend on your phone.

The Invisible Boyfriend does everything that your human boyfriend does to you through the phone — hesends you thoughtful messages, lovely snippets of poetry and announcements of love, he likes your status messages on social media, he keeps a track of your appointments and social schedules, he recommends new movies and books, and late in the night, when you are in bed, softly basking in the glow of the pearl white digital screen, he chats with you on Whatsapp, keeping you company, singing you digital lullabies. In many ways, it is exactly like having a long-distance relationship, mediated by the digital web, with the additional advantage of imagining what your boyfriend looks like rather than having to face with the reality of things.

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How to make office your mini-gym

Be it the Metro, car, bike or workplace, most office-goers tend to sit at one spot at a stretch every day at the cost of their health. So how about taking a little time out to exercise at your workplace every now and then?

A survey done by Qi Spine Clinic in 2014 shows that 57 per cent of professionals in office jobs are affected by visible symptoms of sedentary workplace behaviour. Experts agree and suggest that by taking breaks to stretch or to run on the spot, people can work towards a healthier lifestyle.
“Desk work puts a huge mental and physical stress on our bodies, especially on our lower back, leading to low back pain,” Garima Anandani, chief spine specialist at Qi Spine Clinic, told IANS.

“The combination of high stress at jobs (which puts people at greater risk for habits such as smoking), sitting for long periods (sitting for over two hours at a stretch is considered a long period) at the desk in poor posture, and lack of physical activity, puts us at greater risk for low back pain,” she added.
Stressing the importance of an active lifestyle, Ibrahim Khan, master trainer at Talwalkars gym, said: “A sitting job would lead to lower back pain and spondylosis. A side effect of not working out would be slowing down of Basal Metabolic Rate (the rate at which we burn our calories), and weight gain.”
Leading holistic health guru Mickey Mehta has some easy-to-follow solutions.

“Use the staircase at least three times a day. Walk from your house or office to the bus stand. After every two hours, get up from the chair and take a deep breath and stretch backwards. Then breathe out and come and touch your toes,” he said.

“Twisting will also help. Hip rotation clockwise and anticlockwise is good too,” he added.

Another simple way to workout in office is to run on the spot, suggests Neeraj Mehta, director of Growth For Fitness Instructors Fitness Academy.
“You can do that for 30 seconds or a minute. Then do a little bit of stretching,” he said.
Anandani is also in favour of stretching.

“For the benefit of the back and neck, stretch from head to toe, beginning with the neck. Slowly tilt your head towards your shoulder. Hold for 10 seconds. Do alternate sides. Next loosen up your shoulders. Roll both shoulders forward in a circular motion then backward. Repeat 10 times,” she said.
Tightening stomach muscles at work is also possible!

“To work your abdominal muscles, hold your stomach for a few seconds when breathing in, then release when breathing out.
“If possible, get some fresh air in your lungs by taking a walk outside,” master trainer Aminder Singh at Anytime Fitness, told IANS.
For your hips, try kicking…in the air!

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Hairstyle that Makes You Look Gorgeous....

Everybody dreams of long hair, and when it comes to hairstyle we feel like how to manage long hair, here are some beautiful hairstyle that makes you look gorgeous in long hair.

 In every party you feel like what to do with your long hair, here are some simple and easily manageable hair styles that you can make own your own in less time.

   1. you can have simple half curls in your long beautiful hair that will make you look simple awesome and you will rock by this new look in the party


2. you can also have a side loosely tie up hair like in image second, that will also change your look.

3. you can have a back puff  type of half clutch like shown in image three with little half curls that will make you look damn sexy.

4.A side french with half curls can make you look different from others like shown in image four,

  There is lot other hair style can be made in long hair, like you can try straightening in your  hair like shown in this image

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