Beckley Online | Elevation Sports Mark Hitchcock’s family has always been involved in extreme sports. From the time his four sons were old enough to walk, they have been active in skiing, skateboarding, and just about every sport one could associate with the word ‘extreme’. Over the years, Hitchcock and sons racked up quite a bit of knowledge about the products and accessories associated with these activities, so when Jimmy Holt, owner of Extreme Sports, decided to relinquish his post, Hitchcock jumped on the chance to continue to provide Beckley with a quality retail outlet for extreme sports gear. “I don’t know if I have a management style… my concept has always been to be fair, honest, and reasonable priced,” said Hitchcock on how his business practices have helped lead Elevation to an ever-increasing level of success. In the three and a half years since opening, Elevation Sports has expanded the original inventory of Extreme Sports to include more apparel, kayaks, and RC equipment. Skateboards on the upper level.
SWITL scoops oozy goop with amazing robotic precision (video) Look, sometimes, not often, but sometimes we'll miss a truly spectacular and mind bending story that requires a double-back. The SWITL robotic hand is just such a case. The patent-pending technology looks to have been revealed on video back in late October showing the Furukawa Kikou robot deftly lifting a ketchup and mayonnaise mess from a table and then replacing it unchanged from its original shape. The tech was developed for bakeries with the intention of automating the handling of soft substances that were either too malleable or too icky for human hands. Unfortunately, Furukawa Kikou isn't providing any details about the science behind SWITL so we'll just assume that it's Satan's work until otherwise informed. See what we mean in the video after the break. Comments
HOW TO: Stay Safe When Engaging in Political Activism on Facebook Susannah Vila directs content and outreach at Movements.org, an organization dedicated to identifying, connecting and supporting activists using technology to organize for social change. Connect with her on Twitter @susannahvila. Protests this year in Tunisia, Egypt and elsewhere have highlighted Facebook's potential for activism. After all, if the social network were a country, it would the world's third largest. Using the platform effectively, however, means using it cautiously. 1. Your content and your contacts are on Facebook's servers; not yours. Under Account Settings go to: "Download your information," then "Learn more," and then click on the download button. These apps, however, will not download your contacts, so save those somewhere else manually. 2. Regular old HTTP (what you likely see right now in the address bar at the top left of your web browser) is unsecured and subject to interception, eavesdropping and surveillance. 3. So what's in the ToS, anyway? 4. 5. 6.
On the other hand... what might you be missing... Blog Physica Improv Everywhere | We Cause Scenes Awe & Rapture Japanese Museum Unveils A Giant Globe Made of 10,000 Live-Updating OLED Panels Geo-Cosmos If you want to see what Earth looks like from space, become an astronaut (or, barring that, a space tourist). For the next best view, pay a visit to Tokyo’s National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation where a massive, nearly 20-foot spherical OLED orb--the world’s first large scale spherical OLED --offers a satellite’s-eye view of the planet in super high resolution. “Geo-Cosmos” is made up of 10,362 OLED panels that display continuously-updating satellite footage of our tiny blue marble, representing what our planet looks like from space in something close to realtime. And like any good museum exhibit, Geo-Cosmos is interactive. [ Tokyo Tek ]