Green Guilt: Most Hybrid Owners Don't Buy One Again. NEW YORK (MainStreet) -- Auto owners looking to go green may want to take notice of a new report out by Edmunds.com noting hybrid owners don't repeat that purchase when looking for a new set of wheels.
That's not stopping brand new buyers from grabbing a fuel-efficient vehicle. According to Wards Auto, U.S. vehicles that averaged more than 30 miles per gallon accounted for 11.8% of all new car sales in the U.S. in March. Bright Is The New Black: New York Roofs Go Cool. Bright Is The New Black: New York Roofs Go Cool On the hottest day of the New York City summer in 2011, a white roof covering was measured at 42 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than the traditional black roof it was being compared to, according to a study including NASA scientists that details the first scientific results from the city's unprecedented effort to brighten rooftops and reduce its "urban heat island" effect. › Larger imageA new study of how different white roofing materials performed “in the field” in New York City over multiple years found that even the least expensive white roof coating reduced peak rooftop temperatures in summer by an average of 43 degrees Fahrenheit.
If white roofs were implemented on a wide scale, as the city plans to do, this reduction could cut into the “urban heat island” effect that pumps up nighttime temperatures in the city by as much as 5 to 7 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer, said the study’s lead scientist, Stuart Gaffin of Columbia University. 13 Lytro Photos That Will Make You Look Twice.
Now the Lytro camera is here, you no longer have to worry about taking out-of-focus pictures — you can shoot first, and then pick what to focus on later.
That signature feature is much more than just a convenience. It allows you to tell stories in a completely different way with your photos. Changing the subject in focus, by its nature, almost always alters the meaning of the image. Focus on the happy woman in the foreground, for example, and it's a light moment. Zero in on the stern man in the background looking at her, and you've got creepy. What Men and Women Really Want, According to Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC] Geotagging poses security risks. <div id="others"><ul><li><a href="/media/237825/"><img src=" width="150" alt="Be careful before geotagging photos" /></a><div class="title" style = "font-weight:bold;"></div><div class="caption">Photos from smartphones are geotagged even when the user is unaware.
Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi is a series of credit card-sized single-board computers developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of promoting the teaching of basic computer science in schools.[3][4][5] The original Raspberry Pi and Raspberry Pi 2 are manufactured in several board configurations through licensed manufacturing agreements with Newark element14 (Premier Farnell), RS Components and Egoman.
These companies sell the Raspberry Pi online.[6] Egoman produces a version for distribution solely in China and Taiwan, which can be distinguished from other Pis by their red colouring and lack of FCC/CE marks. The hardware is the same across all manufacturers. In 2014, the Raspberry Pi Foundation launched the Compute Module, which packages a BCM2835 with 512 MB RAM and an eMMC flash chip into a module for use as a part of embedded systems.[10] Hardware[edit] Processor[edit] Performance of first generation models[edit] Overclocking[edit] RAM[edit] How To Become An App Millionaire - Development - Mobility. Fire Maple Games owner Joe Kauffman says his secret is great entertainment.
But his success story also includes Corona SDK, a programming tool that fuels iOS, Android, and soon OS X apps from one code base. Joe Kauffman is living the mobile app developer dream. His company's two mobile games, The Secret of Grisly Manor and The Lost City, have been downloaded over 3.5 million times to date, and have generated more than $1 million in revenue. His company, Fire Maple Games, has one employee, if you ignore the photographic work done by a friend and the contracted music. 4 Ways that NASA Technology Makes Earth-Life Better.
If you spend much time watching television or wandering through the bedding section of a local home store you may have seen memory foam, a type of comfortable mattress padding, touted as being created for the space shuttle.
If you wondered how true this was the real fact is that it is – totally true. In fact, you may be surprised at how many space aged, NASA developed technologies have made it into our modern daily living. Here is a brief over of four such products, which NASA itself calls “spin off” products. Memory Foam Yes, memory foam was originally designed so that astronauts could sit comfortably, particularly upon blast off and landing. Often called “Tempur Foam” for the company that holds the sales rights, this foam has the ability to perfectly contour to human, or inhuman, shapes, but then retains the “memory” of its original form and bounces back. Homeless Hotspots: Not a Terrible Idea. A couple of days into my first-ever SXSW experience, I remarked on Twitter how awesome the Wi-Fi connectivity was at the convention center.
Tweet-A-Beer Lets You Buy Drinks for Twitter Pals. Buying someone a drink in person is a nice gesture, but buying someone a drink via Twitter is, well, not something you do often.
Online networking app Tweet-A-Beer hopes to change that and make paying for other Twitter users' drinks more of a habit. The web tool officially rolls out at South by Southwest.