Kirkaldy Testing Museum. Spectacular stair dominates house, serves many functions. There is an appalling trend in house design lately where home elevators are, if not standard, certainly are becoming common. The Globe and Mail writes about a 41 year old homebuilder in Calgary who installed one from his basement garage to the main level because "Hauling groceries up a flight of stairs with two young sons in tow wasn’t going to work. " Much of the justification for putting in elevators is that " demand is partly driven by baby boomers who want to “age in place.” In fact, the opposite is true; there are elderly New Yorkers living in walkup apartments that swear that the stairs are what keeps them fit and mobile. Dr. Harvey Simon told the New York Times: Walking up stairs is one of the best-kept secrets in preventive medicine...Today, cardiologists tell heart patients they are fit enough to have sex if they can walk up two or three flights comfortably, and surgeons may clear patients for lung operations if they can manage five or six flights.
. © Moon Hoon. End robocaller, solicitation, and hangup calls with Asterisk & Raspberry Pi | Technical Intercession. Do you have a land-line that is constantly barraged with unwanted robo, solicitation, and “hangup” calls, even though you’re on the do not call registries? This project uses a Raspberry Pi and an OBi110 voice-bridge to create an Automated Attendant (AA) to screen calls for you! The annoyance calls on my line have dropped from five or six/day (with many more during political “seasons”) to zero. This is a low-power, low-cost solution with extreme expansion possibilities, and it’s a fun way to gain experience with the Pi & the Asterisk PBX software. As an added bonus, my wife “really loves it; our home is more peaceful”. Raspberry Pi and OBi110 You won’t need to dive deeply into Asterisk to create this project.
Basic Analog Phone with answering machine Secretly, what we’re doing is turning your old analogue phone into a VoIP phone using the OBi110 (a voice bridge), so that calls can be handled digitally by the Raspberry Pi. The basic steps for this project are: dpkg-reconfigure tzdata. Is Antibacterial Soap Bad For You? It seems like everything is antibacterial these days, from soaps and lotions to mattress pads and pizza cutters, which really makes you wonder how the world got along before the discovery of Triclosan.
Ah, Triclosan, the miracle-working active ingredient in antibacterial soaps, toothpastes, and a galaxy of other consumer products: this unassuming antibacterial compound has infiltrated nearly every aspect of our lives. In my posts for this week and the next I’ll be exploring the profound effects Triclosan has on human health, the environment, and antibiotic resistance, all to answer the (deceptively) simple question: is antibacterial soap bad for you? (The short answer is yes - but not for the reasons you might suspect!) Bacteria are attacking our pizza? IS NOTHING SACRED What is Triclosan, and why is it in Pizza cutters? “Out, damn’d spot! On the importance of hand washing Heck, just wash your hands with the garden hose and dry ‘em off on a grizzly bear, it’s all the same.
Human toxicity? The shape of things to come: A consumer's guide to 3D printers. CES 2013 proved to be something of a coming out party for consumer-facing 3D printers. Sure MakerBot earned a fair amount of attention at last year's show with the announcement of the Replicator, which snagged its share of awards from various press outlets. This year, however, saw a relative deluge in 3D-printing representation, with strong showings from 3D Systems, FormLabs, MakerBot and the cloud-based 3D printer, Sculpteo. Even with so many companies rising to prominence, the dream of truly mainstream 3D printing still feels a ways off -- if that is indeed where we're inevitably heading.
These nascent days are an exciting time, with a diverse array of companies and organizations vying to be the first to bring the technology to our homes. In a sense, many roads lead back to RepRap, the open-source, community-fueled project aimed at creating a self-replicating machine. 3D Systems 3D Systems has been in the 3D-printing game since before the term was coined. Bits from Bytes Eventorbot Pwdr. Aerogel.org. Apple, Samsung, Google and the smartphone patent wars - everything you need to know | Technology. Following Eric Schmidt's remark to Kara Swisher in October that he wouldn't comment on the smartphone patent wars because he "doesn't understand all the details", we'd like to be of service.
Yes, Eric Schmidt is far smarter than me, and probably than anyone reading this piece (unless your name is Larry or Sergey and your surname is Page or Brin), but we find that if you break these things down into small pieces, it's easy enough. So here is your comprehensive guide to understanding what's behind the smartphone patent wars. (Note: contains pictures of kittens. Well, one picture.) The legal details in this article were checked by Darren Smyth, patent and design attorney and partner at IP law firm EIP. What is a patent? What is a patent? Yes, let's start here. Let's unpack that. A) novel - so a patent application can be disqualified by "prior art" showing the same concept portrayed elsewhere at or before the application Are all patents the same? Nope. What's a "trade dress" patent? What's FRAND? Security Flaws in the TSA Pre-Check System and the Boarding Pass Check System. « Puckinflight.
I’m publishing this because I am seriously concerned with boarding pass security in the United States. The way TSA Pre-Check works is the organizations that participate transmit travel information for passengers who opt-in to the program to the TSA. Then the TSA in a way that randomizes security determines if the passenger is or is not eligible for Pre-Check and sends that information back to the Airline. The Airline then encodes that information in a barcode that is on the boarding pass it issues. The problem is, the passenger and flight information encoded in barcode is not encrypted in any way. So, here you see my flight information for my United flight from PHX to EWR. What terrorists or really anyone can do is use a website to decode the barcode and get the flight information, put it into a text file, change the 1 to a 3, then use another website to re-encode it into a barcode.
Pre-Check balances the need to expedite security, and keep it thorough. So, there are two problems here. Lasers, 3-D Printers, And Robots: The New Shop Class. Coursera.org. The Instant Art Critique Phrase Generator. There Goes the Neighborhood: Mobile Victorian House Sets Sail for Desert. Burning Man is flipping weird. The annual pilgrimage draws tens of thousands of attendees to the middle of an inhospitable desert where they enjoy a week of delusional mayhem, often in a haze of physical and spiritual intoxication (not to mention the dust clouds that frequently cover the sky). In this wild dimension where fantasy and reality collide, it’s not uncommon to see giant moving sculptures and “art-cars,” often spouting flames and exhibiting all kinds of mechanical wizardry.
To compound the madness, contraptions featuring mechanical devices from bygone eras are also added to the mix, none of which are quite so magical as a nomadic 19th-century structure called the Neverwas Haul. Equal parts locomotive engine, steamship, and Victorian house, the Neverwas Haul is home to the “Travelling Academy of UnNatural Science.” “Even though we have ray guns and amazing flying machines, we wear top hats and wool jackets.”
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My sister calls me an "interest driven learner. " I think that's code for "short attention span" or "not a good long term planner" or something like that. I can't imagine being able to read the dictionary from cover to cover. Although reading the dictionary and the encyclopedia from cover to cover may seem a bit extreme, it often feels like that's what we're asking kids to do who go through formal education. Courses are organized, sequenced in a very structured way as student scurry from class to class sitting through lectures and expected to pay attention as instructors go on and on about calculus, history and grammar. Students with the ability to focus and motivate themselves either through the need to achieve good grades or through understanding the long term benefits of a good education are able to succeed. TV: The Thorium Dream. Chances are you are reading this and watching the video above on Mac or a Windows computer, or maybe on an Android or iOS device, or maybe even Linux or BSD.
Those obvious possibilities represent only the tail end of many not-so-obvious choices, the ones that determine, for better or worse, the direction that technology takes. Some things win and other things lose; some operating systems succeed, building on previous ideas, and others end up in the trash can of history. Or, in the case of Windows (which Apple once claimed “stole” the idea from Mac OS), the Recycle Bin. The trash is where Xerox’s Alto operating system ended up after inspiring both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates to develop their own graphical user interface, the front-end of computers that we now take for granted.
There’s much to take for granted in the evolution of technology, or at least in the way that technology appears to us today – refined, perfected, ever cutting-edge. How to Find Old Newspaper Articles and Magazines. In the past, the only way to get hold of an old newspaper or past magazine issues was your local library but with Internet, you can find old newspaper articles and magazine in the browser.. Old newspapers and magazines offer a wealth of insight into history and critical events as they were unfolding at that time. In the past, the only way to get hold of this treasure trove of information was your local library where the back issues of certain newspapers and magazines may have been preserved. Fortunately, the Internet and digitization of content has made everything just a click away and now you can access previous issues of old newspapers almost as easily as today’s newspaper that’s lying on your coffee table.
Here are some of the best places on the web where you can find and read old newspapers and magazines online. 1. Google News – Google News indexes thousands of newspaper websites from around the world and organizes news in clusters for easy reading. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 1. 2. IFTF_SR-1454A_FutureofScience_Map_lg.jpg (JPEG Image, 1998x1332 pixels) A Before-Its-Time Machine - Interactive Feature. Twitter. Sachal Studios' Take Five Official Video.
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Password-protect your phone - and consider encryption options. Rendering Synthetic Objects into Legacy Photographs. Unicorn Museum - Unicorns, Evolution, Science, Dinosaurs, Family, Christian Worldview - Unicorn Museum. Ventile, the Magical Waterproof Fabric That Time Forgot. If you were to poke your nose around the door of some fashionable London boutiques -- Howies, Albam, Fred Perry - you might encounter a jacket made with a mysterious material called “Ventile”. First developed for the World War II, this stuff is waterproof, windproof and 100 per cent breathable, which makes it perfect for the unpredictable British weather. The secret of Ventile is the super-dense weave of the natural cotton fabric, which expands when it comes into contact with water.
When dry, it has all the feel and weight of normal cotton. But the minute those rainclouds appear to unleash their fury, Ventile is transformed into a performance fabric, where the individual fibres swell up and lock out any further moisture from seeping through. It’s impressive technology, doubly so because the effect is achieved without laminating or coating the cotton with any artificial chemicals. Saving Lives Fading into Obscurity So what happened? Celebrity Fans So there you have it, folks. Digital Dead Sea Scrolls.
Hotel & Igloo Village Kakslauttanen: Accommodation. iOnRoad. New material: Glazed Ceramic for 3D printing YEAH! 3D printing with your Personal Factory just got food safe We are psyched to announce our 8th material available for 3D printing — Glazed Ceramic! Glazed Ceramic lets you create 3D printed ceramic objects which go through a fire and glazing process just like traditional ceramics. The finish is a lovely smooth gloss, and objects made with Glazed Ceramic are food safe and heat resistant.
Samples for this material are still in the kiln, so to speak, but we’ll let you know as soon as they’re are available for $13.50 each! And in October, the guys of FabBlab are doing a special Halloween themed Glazed Ceramic project. So you’ll be able to download their free file and make a 3D printed ceramic object even if you don’t have the skills to design in 3D just yet. Speaking of designing in 3D, designing for Glazed Ceramic does take some special considerations. Ceramics go through a lot — 3 rounds of firing and a glazing stage. Detail Detail is another thing to carefully consider.
The OggBoard by Sam and Brock. Thanks for all of those who have supported this project! Even though we probably won't reach our goal, this has definitely been a success because of all of the buzz and interest we have seen in the OggBoard. We have decided that this Kickstarter project wasn't more successful for a few reasons: -The concept was difficult to understand or unclear without a working prototype-Non iPhone users were hesitant to support a project that they may never use-One game wasn’t enough to justify a $30 pledge The good news, though, is that we have several individuals interested in the full investment, development and manufacture of not just the OggBoard but the OggBoard System (multiple games for multiple platforms).
We are confident that when people see the real OggBoard in action with some amazing games, it will become a quick selling product and begin the board game revolution we have talked about all along. -Sam Lytle "This has the potential to ramp up the excitement level of games like chess. " Pamper your tools in a cosy drawer space!
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