One potential solution to the massive plastic pollution problem could come from Evoware, which makes seaweed-based packaging that is not only 100% biodegradable, but is edible as well.
Source: TreeHugger – This Indonesian company turns seaweed into edible & biodegradable packaging
Monthly Archives: December 2017
Mini will 3D Print You Custom Trim Pieces
This is actually a pretty cool way of dressing up your Mini, and we all know it will be just a short while till we see those of you with a 3D printer at home start abusing your friends for driving a Mini. I got $20 for the first one of you that sends in a video of you printing out and attaching anything with a “mini-peen” on it in your buddy’s ride.
Want your family name in the door sill plate? Done. Want the skyline of your home city engraved in the dash trim? No problem. And it can all be done exactly as the customer likes, so any writing can be done in any font, including the customer’s own handwriting.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Mini will 3D Print You Custom Trim Pieces
Amazon Year End Deals
Amazon Year End Deals is working hard to get the inventory out of the warehouses!
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Amazon Year End Deals
Apple's Legendary Lisa Operating System Is Coming to Your Desktop for Free
Apple’s Lisa project might be the most loaded chapter in the company’s lore, and thanks to the Computer History Museum, you’ll soon be able to play around with one of the first graphical user interfaces in history right there on your shiny state of the art screen. And you won’t have to pay $10,000 that the original…
Source: Gizmodo – Apple’s Legendary Lisa Operating System Is Coming to Your Desktop for Free
{Noobs Tutorial} PS4 4.05 JailbreakME Jailbreak
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So at last after many years off waiting for a new exploit to come out since the last jailbreak came out…
{Noobs Tutorial} PS4 4.05 JailbreakME Jailbreak
Source: PS4 News – {Noobs Tutorial} PS4 4.05 JailbreakME Jailbreak
Teenage Bullies Want Us to Believe They Have Lots of Sex
Teenage bullies have more sex than non-bullies, according to reports of a new study. With sexually harassing bullies all over the news and in many of our workplaces, it seems both sad and true that people who abuse and manipulate others would have more sex. But this study tells us more about how Canadian teens respond…
Source: LifeHacker – Teenage Bullies Want Us to Believe They Have Lots of Sex
Please, Elon Musk, give us an electric El Camino
If you are going to build a pickup, make it more like a car: lower, lighter, safer, more pedestrian friendly
Source: TreeHugger – Please, Elon Musk, give us an electric El Camino
The Worst Life Hacks of 2017
Updating your software is one of the most basic elements of maintaining your devices. Updates fix bugs and security flaws, introduce new features, and take advantage of new hardware capabilities. Every major update includes a few new bugs or annoyances, maybe even a controversial new design that takes some getting…
Source: LifeHacker – The Worst Life Hacks of 2017
Living in North Korea, It Seems, May Be Bad for Your Health
At least four defectors from North Korea’s Kilju County, the location of the pariah government’s notorious Punggye-ri nuclear test site, have tested positive for symptoms of radiation exposure, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
Source: Gizmodo – Living in North Korea, It Seems, May Be Bad for Your Health
Laughing Kookaburra Bird's Call Slowed Down Sounds Like Supervillain Laugh
Because the internet knows what you want and need to see even better than you do yourself, this is a video of Dacelo the laughing kookaburra calling, which owner Connor Margetts then slowed down and discovered it sounds like a supervillain laugh, which it absolutely does. Good to know. This is valuable information that my brain will undoubtedly file away in the spot where my ATM PIN used to reside.
Keep going for the video.
Source: Geekologie – Laughing Kookaburra Bird’s Call Slowed Down Sounds Like Supervillain Laugh
In 2018, We Will CRISPR Human Beings
Ever since 2012, when researchers first discovered that bacterial immune systems could be hijacked to edit DNA in living creatures, CRISPR has been hailed as a maker of revolutions. This was the year that prediction felt like it was starting to come true. U.S. scientists used the CRISPR gene editing technique to treat…
Source: Gizmodo – In 2018, We Will CRISPR Human Beings
Human Go champion backtracks on vow to never face an AI opponent again
Back in May, AlphaGo from Google, an AI algorithm that is part of DeepMind, defeated the human world champion Ke Jie in a three-part match. After it was over, Jie vowed never to play a computer again. But apparently something has changed his mind bec…
Source: Engadget – Human Go champion backtracks on vow to never face an AI opponent again
What Would Make You Actually Go to the Movies?
People are going to the movies less and less. Revenues are up, but attendance is down, and theaters are feeling the squeeze. The summer 2017 box office was the worst the industry has experienced ticket sales-wise in a decade, Variety reports, with sales dropping 14.6% from summer 2016.
Source: LifeHacker – What Would Make You Actually Go to the Movies?
Dropping a GoPro Camera Into a Well Looks Like a Soothing Never-Ending Trip to the Center of the Earth
How do you relax? Maybe with a delicious meal, a trip to the theater, or a good book? If you’re looking for another way to escape your stresses, you’ll be surprised at just how soothing it is to watch a five-minute video of a GoPro camera being lowered deep into a limestone well.
Source: Gizmodo – Dropping a GoPro Camera Into a Well Looks Like a Soothing Never-Ending Trip to the Center of the Earth
Hello Neighbor review: An all-around bad time in surreal suburbia
Enlarge / There isn’t much obvious rhyme or reason to the game’s puzzles, which turn a 10-minute level into an hour-long affair.
Hello Neighbor won’t be the very last game I review this year. I can only pray that it will be the worst. As of now, the first-person stealth puzzler is the worst game I can remember covering in a long time.
That’s a shame, because the premise is promising enough. It’s like a suburban take on Rear Window set in the world of Psychonauts’ Milkman Conspiracy. Empty, twisted cookie-cutter houses embody a cartoonish paranoia. The player character, a young boy presumably native to the breezy street where the game takes place, sees something he shouldn’t. His titular neighbor has shoved a shrieking somebody (or something) into his basement. It’s your job to learn who or what.
All of this is implied through imagery. It has to be, since there isn’t really any dialogue in Hello Neighbor. There’s also no tutorial or anything like a basic breakdown of the controls, either. That quickly becomes a problem as you realize nothing works as it should, from avoiding your pursuer to stacking crates to sneak in through windows.
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Source: Ars Technica – Hello Neighbor review: An all-around bad time in surreal suburbia
The Gamers Of The Year, 2017
People who play video games don’t just sit in the audience and watch, clap or boo. They interact and sometimes even help shape the trajectory of an artform. They do this as pro players and amateur critics, as speedrunners and community organizers, and more. Each year we highlight those who have made an impact that was…
Source: Gizmodo – The Gamers Of The Year, 2017
That '70s Show: the Conference That Predicted the Future of Work
theodp writes: Over at Wired, Leslie Berlin writes about Futures Day at the 1977 Xerox World Conference, an invitation-only demonstration of the Alto personal computer system developed at Xerox PARC. It’s an excerpt from Troublemakers: How a Generation of Silicon Valley Upstarts Invented the Future. Both Berlin’s book and Brian Dear’s recent The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture are shedding light on groundbreaking systems of the ’70s that were ultimately done in by the less-featured but low-cost Apple II (yes, $2,638 for a system with 48 kB of RAM was ‘low cost’!) and other personal computers. Interestingly, Dear notes that the Xerox Parc and PLATO teams sent people out to see and learn and exchange ideas with each other over the years. Their interactions included ‘tremendous battles’ over the advantages and disadvantages of mouse interfaces [Xerox] vs. touch screens [PLATO], as well as plasma displays [PLATO] vs. other, cheaper display solutions [Xerox]. As is the case with many debates, both teams proved to be “right.” Apple wouldn’t introduce the masses to a mouse interface until 1984 [Macintosh] and a touch screen interface until 2007 [iPhone].
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – That ’70s Show: the Conference That Predicted the Future of Work
Sony's A7R III mirrorless can take anything you throw at it
On paper, Sony’s $3,200 full-frame mirrorless Alpha A7R III is a beast. With an ultra-high-res 42.4-megapixel sensor that can shoot bursts at 10 fps, you can capture landscape photos one day and sports the next. It also handles video like a boss, rec…
Source: Engadget – Sony’s A7R III mirrorless can take anything you throw at it
How to Make Superior Hot Chocolate Without a Mix
I have good news and I have bad news. The bad news is that you’ve been buying hot chocolate mixes unnecessarily, but the good news is that you’re going to learn two different methods for making rich, drinkable chocolate for cozy cold days, and you’re going to do it with stuff you probably already have in your kitchen.
Source: LifeHacker – How to Make Superior Hot Chocolate Without a Mix
Huawei's Mate 10 flagship may launch on AT&T in February
Chinese phone makers rarely get top billing in the US, but that might change in a matter of weeks. Sources speaking to The information have claimed that Huawei has scored a previously rumored deal to offer its Mate 10 flagship through AT&T in Fe…
Source: Engadget – Huawei’s Mate 10 flagship may launch on AT&T in February