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Nissan has unveiled a prototype sweat-sensing car seat which it says could help prevent road accidents.

The new technology, called Soak, changes color if perspiration is high in salt, suggesting dehydration.

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Previous research by the European Hydration Institute and Loughborough University found that dehydrated drivers were as error-prone as those who had drunk alcohol.

There are currently no plans to bring Soak into production.

The sweat-sensitive coating, which was developed with Dutch design company Droog, is also applied to the steering wheel and changes it and the front seats from blue to yellow to signal dehydration.

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BB King has canceled the remaining eight performances of his current US tour after being diagnosed with dehydration and exhaustion.

According to his website, BB King, 89, was taken ill during a performance in Chicago on October 3.

The tour was to have included two shows at BB King’s own blues club in New York.

BB King has canceled the remaining eight performances of his current US tour after being diagnosed with dehydration and exhaustion

BB King has canceled the remaining eight performances of his current US tour after being diagnosed with dehydration and exhaustion

The veteran bluesman has diabetes and was briefly in hospital in 2007.

Earlier this year, BB King issued a public apology to fans after a performance in St Louis that led to audience catcalls and walkouts.

BB King’s publicists called it “a bad night for one of America’s living blues legends” that had fallen short of King’s “usual standard of excellence”.

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A patient has been diagnosed with cholera in the Cuban capital, Havana, days after three people died in a rare outbreak in the south-eastern town of Manzanillo.

More than 50 people were infected and about 1,000 have received medical attention.

The authorities say the outbreak is under control but four hospitals are prepared to isolate patients.

They say people became ill after drinking water from contaminated wells.

A patient has been diagnosed in Havana, days after three people died in a rare outbreak in the south-eastern town of Manzanillo

A patient has been diagnosed in Havana, days after three people died in a rare outbreak in the south-eastern town of Manzanillo

But it is not clear what the source of the cholera is.

Most of the cases were in Cuba’s south-eastern Granma province, more than 750 km (470 miles) from Havana.

Hundreds of medical professionals from that area, including nurses, have worked and continue to work with patients in Haiti, where tens of thousands of people were infected after a devastating earthquake in 2010.

For over a week doctors in Havana have been doing the rounds of their patients, checking for symptoms of cholera.

The infirm, elderly and pregnant have been prioritized.

Now tests on a 60-year-old woman, admitted to hospital on Wednesday, have confirmed that she has the disease.

As she was diagnosed early, doctors say she is in a stable condition.

Health officials said they had “all the necessary resources to provide adequate attention to patients.”

They said they had taken a series of measures, including taking samples of water and adding chlorine to purify it, to combat the outbreak.

Cholera is a bacterial infection that can cause severe diarrhea and dehydration.

The Health Ministry said the last reported cholera outbreak on the island was soon after the 1959 Revolution.

 

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Rihanna was reportedly rushed to hospital with dehydration after partying at the Met Gala in New York on Monday night.

Rihanna, 24, tweeted a picture of herself attached to an IV drip in a hospital.

The singer was suffering from “exhaustion and dehydration”, according to MediaTakeOut.

However, after a brief stay in the undisclosed medical center, Rihanna was discharged and allowed to fly back to her home in Los Angeles, arriving in California earlier this morning.

After a brief stay in the undisclosed medical center, Rihanna was discharged and allowed to fly back to her home in Los Angeles

After a brief stay in the undisclosed medical center, Rihanna was discharged and allowed to fly back to her home in Los Angeles

It comes just days after she pulled out of a Saturday Night Live rehearsal due to her tiredness.

Rihanna has certainly been burning the candle at both ends in recent months and the new issue of America’s Star magazine claims she is “spiraling out of control”.

“Rihanna loves to party but this past month she’s gotten really out of control,” an insider tells the publication.

“She’s been drinking almost everyday and talking about smoking weed a lot too.”

Rihanna’s wild nights out have included a late visit to a strip club in Queens, New York, on May 2 where she was seen throwing money at female performers.

“Everyone is telling her to slow down and think about therapy, or even rehab,” the source continues.

But Rihanna has always been proud of her Good Girl Gone Bad reputation.

She has said: “I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.”