Green Guilt: Most Hybrid Owners Don't Buy One Again | Business News. 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. That's up from 4.3% from the same time last year. It's what happens when hybrid owners want to buy a new car that makes the Edmunds report so interesting. 9 Stocks That Prove Dividends Make All the Difference >> The online auto trading site surveyed drivers in Boston and found that only 38.4% of Beantown drivers who owned a hybrid would buy another one.
The automotive market research firm R.L. The fact that only about one-third of hybrid owners would repeat the hybrid experience is surprising, given the positive press coverage "green" vehicles enjoy. 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. We've been playing with the Lytro camera for a little while (check out our full review here), and we've had the chance to use it with some great subjects and interesting locations.
Him vs. Window ValentineOnce you focus on the background in this picture, you can see the Cupid decal is overlooking a junkyard. Plane RidgesThe hull of a plane on display at New York's Intrepid Museum reveals the ridge detail throughout this perspective shot. Dalek vs. What Men and Women Really Want, According to Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC] As a fully-licensed and accredited man, I am wholly unqualified to discuss what women want or care about. That's what social data is for. Social media monitoring company NetBase analyzed a year's worth of online conversations — 27 billion, to be exact.
Using natural language processing, they parsed English grammar and gender voice in search of phrases like "I want X. " The data was then analyzed for sentiment, and condensed into a top 10 list for each sex. The fascinating results have been compiled in the punchy inforgraphic below. SEE ALSO: 10 Reasons Twitter Is Sexier Than Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC] We won't spoil the fun up front — you'll have to scroll down to see the winners. Here we are, the most interconnected civilization the world has ever known, and humanity's greatest collective aspiration can be boiled down to, "Me likey pizza. " Same as it ever was. Infographic courtesy of NetBase.
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. Smartphone users can adjust their privacy settings to limit who can view their geotagged locations. </div></li></ul></div> FORT BENNING, Ga. (March 7, 2012) -- "Is a badge on Foursquare worth your life?
" The question was posed by Brittany Brown, social media manager of the Online and Social Media Division at the Office of the Chief of Public Affairs. There are a number of location-based social media applications and platforms, including Foursquare, Gowalla, SCVNGR, Shopkick, Loopt and Whrrl, currently on the market. Security risks for the military: A deployed service member's situational awareness includes the world of social media.
Staff Sgt. Ways to stay safe: 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] Networking[edit] Peripherals[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.
"Because I do the art and the programming, there are no arguments," Kauffman quipped in a phone interview. Without doubt, Kauffman is an exception in an industry where the average developer earns less than $10,000 per year. [ Read 10 Android App Hidden Gems. ] San Francisco, incidentally, is where the Game Developer's Conference is being held this week. Icaza says that Kauffman's success reflects well upon Ansca Mobile. 4 Ways that NASA Technology Makes Earth-Life Better | Green Business Bureau. 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. This foam was created to be a shock absorber and is used in the space program on seats, beds and even walls.
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. Perhaps that’s why I never saw the Homeless Hotspots; I was never desperately searching for connectivity. I did see homeless people—much as you would in any major metropolitan city—but none of them were carrying a 4G MiFi. Had I seen any of them, I don’t think I would have been upset or offended. I might, though, have wanted to ask one of them how they ended up becoming human infrastructure. At one time or another most of us who spend our days online have likely served as digital infrastructure ourselves. For most of us, that’s enough. Some people think this is a terrible idea and that it nothing more than a craven marketing scheme and that it somehow dehumanizes the homeless. It’s no secret that the Homeless Hotspot idea is the 21st-century update to Street News.
SEE ALSO: SXSW 2012: The Year of Infectious Optimism So, what is so bad about this? 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. Here's how it works (flip through the gallery below for a visual tour): Tweet-A-Beer uses Chirpify — an ecommerce platform that lets you buy, sell and donate money — to sync your Twitter account to your PayPal account. You can safely send beer money in $5 allotments.
Oregon-based agencies Waggener Edstrom Worldwide and tenfour brewed the app for public consumption in six weeks, just in time for SXSW where networking is known to stem from quaffing alcoholic beverages. Users have already bought more than 500 beers to incite in-person meetups or wish SXSW attendees good luck. Pay @sarahfkessler $5 for a beer on me - Enjoy SXSWi! Another Twitter user shows some love for a SXSW-goer: