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This is the Modem World: Digital junk food
Author: Jack Schmidt
Each week Joshua Fruhlinger contributes This is the Modem World, a column dedicated to exploring the culture of consumer technology.
I’m hanging out in Atlanta right now, getting ready to speak at Digital Summit 2013 about things you’re probably not terribly interested in. Most importantly, I’m sitting at a bar and just ordered what looks to be a monster of a burger called the “Hot Mess” at a place called Park Bar near my hotel. Despite my disdain for online review sites, it was either this via Yelp or the hotel bar and, well, I find hotel bars depressing.
It’s also pretty clear that the only reason I ordered the Hot Mess is because my wife isn’t here to give me a hard time about it. No, I’m not a kept man, but I respect her knowledge of health and try to let her guide me most of the time. But when I’m on the road, I sometimes let all bets fall to the floor so that daddy can dig into a burger uninterrupted.
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Firstep Summer Camp – Junk Yard Wars – Egg Car Crash
Author: Rod Sutherland
Junk Yard Wars – Car Crash The Challenge: Students were given a challenge to protect an egg in a simulated car crash given limited supplies. Supplies: 2 Sheets of Cardstock 5 Sheets of printer paper 3 paper cups 15 Popsicle sticks 5 Cotton Balls 1 Foot of tape 1 Item from home George Giltner FIRSTEP Summer Robotics Camp — Firstepcamp.com Hosted at Developer Town
Video Rating: 5 / 5
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Swedes Plan ‘Janitor’ Satellite To Clean Up Space Junk
Author: James Cliff
The Swedes, best known for IKEA and meatballs, plan to launch a series of “janitor” satellites into orbit to clean up some of the space junk left behind from humanity’s short-sightedness. *kicking beer cans off coffee table* “You do know you’re gonna have to pick those up later, right?” Am I?
The proliferation of debris orbiting the Earth – primarily jettisoned rocket and satellite components – is an increasingly pressing problem for spacecraft, and it can generate huge costs. To combat this scourge, the Swiss Space Center at EPFL is announcing today the launch of CleanSpace One, a project to develop and build the first installment of a family of satellites specially designed to clean up space debris.
Based on the graphic, it looks like each janitor satellite is basically on a suicide mission. They just grab a piece of space-junk, then throw themselves into the atmosphere to burn up. But what about those 16,000 smaller pieces? You know what we need to collect those? Magnets. Do magnets work in space? SPOILER: Yes. Consider this your science lesson for the day. “I can see your penis.” Ha, that’s your anatomy lesson. “And the rash?” *bell ringing* Welcome to health class!
Hit the jump for another conceptualization of the satellite that looks suspiciously like something you’d see a roadie pushing around backstage and a video about the project.
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Power Balance Peddles New Sports Junk After Filing For Bankruptcy
Author: Mark Jeffries
They say that fools and their money are soon parted, and no one knows that better than the sports junk hucksters at Power Balance. Despite filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in federal court on Friday, the company has high hopes for their new product, something called Performance Mouth Gear.
Let’s clear up one thing first: it’s a mouth guard. That’s it. Of course, the marketing wizards at Power Balance aren’t content to leave it at that; oh no, it’s supposedly much more. According to the company, Performance Mouth Gear incorporates “innovative technology to properly align the jaw and the spine through optimal positioning of the bite.” They even go as far as citing a a handful reputable journal articles to make their case.
Sounds great, no? They’re fighting for all the credibility they can get, considering they have a history of just making things up. Case in point: their Power Balance bracelets claimed to endow users with “up to a 500% increase in strength, power and flexibility.” The bracelet’s key ingredient? A holographic sticker.
Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission called them out on the obvious BS, and among other things, made publicly retract their claims. Here’s a gem from one of their corrective ads:
We admit that there is no credible scientific evidence that supports our claims and therefore we engaged in misleading conduct in breach of s52 of the Trade Practices Act 1974.
So, they lied. I’m sure that’s going to inspire tons of people to buy their new mouth guards! Credit where credit is due though, this new pitch is just a hair more believable than saying their holographic bracelets can affect the user’s “natural energy.” They’re learning!
It’s always a shame when a company falls on hard times, but I can’t help but look at this situation with a little bit of schadenfreude. Power Balance is swimming in both debt and bad feelings, but it’s their own fault, and I’m looking forward to seeing how their new plan pans out.
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Robotic Junk Episode 2
Author: Buck Howard
A stop-motion animation movie with Family Guy, Simpsons, Futurama, and other cartoon and movie action figures. If you like Robot Chicken, this is just like it! Well the animation isn’t as good as my newer stuff, so please watch my newer videos if you want better animation. Enjoy!
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Ford Focus Electric pops a hatch and shows all that battery junk in its trunk
Author: Melissa Shroeder
The five-door Ford Focus is an eminently practical vehicle, and the Electric version will be as well. However, we’re now learning that it won’t be quite as practical as we’d hoped. We didn’t get the chance to pop the rear hatch on the thing when we were exploring it at CES. Here in Detroit we did and you can see what we found above. That’s definitely a big ‘ol box, putting a hurting on cargo space, but ultimately a small price to pay for rolling totally fuel- and emissions-free.
Ford Focus Electric pops a hatch and shows all that battery junk in its trunk originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Ford Focus Electric pops a hatch and shows all that battery junk in its trunk
Author: Christen Arquette
The five-door Ford Focus is an eminently practical vehicle, and the Electric version will be as well. However, we’re now learning that it won’t be quite as practical as we’d hoped. We didn’t get the chance to pop the rear hatch on the thing when we were exploring it at CES. Here in Detroit we did and you can see what we found above. That’s definitely a big ‘ol box, putting a hurting on cargo space, but ultimately a small price to pay for rolling totally fuel- and emissions-free.
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This Guy’s Gaming Collection Shames Yours Into Nothing But Junk
Author: Tech Blogger
Proud of your gaming collection? Been carefully storing and display retail boxes since Kings Quest VI, have you? Got shelves and bookcases completely full? Yeah, this guys collection is a bit more impressive. Click over to The Cover Project’s forums for a pictorial look that make you no doubt make you a bit envious that this guy clearly cares more than you. [via Reddit]
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Did Junk Science Motivate Nasa’s ‘New Life’ Announcement?
Author: Trixi Anderson
Oh, Nasa. If only you could invent a time machine and go back to when you actually had a budget. The agency’s claim last week that it had found a new type of life in a lake in California is now under fire from all sides. Encirclement! One Slate article quotes several skeptical scientists who question the veracity of Nasa’s claims. One even said perhaps the most damming thing one scientist can say to another: your paper should not be published. What gives?
You’ll recall that Nasa announced last week it had found a microbe in Mono Lake, in California, that’s able to use arsenic rather than phosphorus when putting together its DNA. It’s big because, well, we’ve never before found any bit of life that’s been able to do that. This changes everything, etc.
And then the knives came out.
“They carried out science by press release and press conference. Whether they were right or not in their claims, they are now hypocritical if they say that the only response should be in the scientific literature,†said Jonathan Eisen, of the University of California, Davis, to the Nasa’s scientists refusal to engage in debate via the media.
Scientific debate, argues the Nasa scientists, is best done through the proper channels. That means academic journals like Science or Nature.
Many of the skeptics say that Nasa basically engaged in bad science. Whether that was motivated by the need for good news (says one scientist, “I suspect that NASA may be so desperate for a positive story that they didn’t look for any serious advice from DNA or even microbiology peopleâ€) or anything else, who knows?
Other sources of error may include not properly cleaning the slides containing the microbe, or not even realizing that arsenic pretty much falls apart in water—how were the microbes able to survive in the lab, to say nothing of Mono Lake, when a main component of their DNA is essentially allergic to water?
In other words, it would look like Nasa has some explaining to do.
But at the very least we’re arguing over science and not, say, what “rules harder,†Xbox Live or PSN. (They’re both neat is the answer! Everyone be nice to each other!)
Well met, traveller. From Parts Unknown, Nicholas Deleon managed to get his Worgen Priest up to level 11 last night. Not bad. Maybe he’ll tweet every time he dings a level?
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[big debate] The Drobo is a piece of junk. Sounds like a great idea, but…
Author: Stefanie Jenkins
…even over FW800 the transfer speeds are sub par. The worst thing though is how unreliable it is. I saw the horror stories after I had ordered mine. Sure enough mine started to fail just before my warranty was up. I went through the troubleshooting steps on the site which seemed to work temporarily but it soon began disconnecting again.
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