Oct 25
This week in our time capsule news round-up we have questions about the World Series of 2213, the retro-futuristic death of a monorail in Australia, and a bunch of 1988 music that’s scheduled to be unearthed 75 years from today.
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Oct 25
Acer Chromebook C720 Review
Posted in: Today's ChiliGoogle’s segment of portable computers loaded with Chrome OS is growing, and among recently announced new models is Acer’s latest offering — the Acer C720, an inexpensive laptop that utilizes Intel Haswell. Like other Chromebooks, the C720 is aimed at those who need a computer for school, for working on the go, or for fun […]
Oct 25
If you’ve been watching C-SPAN—and who hasn’t?—you’ll know the House Energy and Commerce Committee started hearings yesterday with the government contractors for HealthCare.gov, the maybe-not-quite-ready-for-prime-time website for the Affordable Care Act.
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Oct 25
We’ve seen earphones that double as health sensors, but they frequently require integrated (and sometimes bulky) equipment to get the job done. Bifrostec and the Kaiteki Institute have just solved that problem with processing technology that turns any pair of in-ears into a pulse wave sensor. The …
Oct 25
Samsung’s Galaxy Gear is seeing return rates above 30-percent, leaked internal documentation suggests, with claims the South Korean company is surveying Best Buy Samsung Experience staff to try to figure out how the smartwatch is falling short. “The Galaxy Gear attachment rate within Best Buy is the highest among all channels” according to documents leaked […]
Oct 25
A Brief History Of The Sports Bra
Posted in: Today's Chili
Welcome to Patentspin. I’ll use this space to take a look at some strange or interesting patents related to the world of sports. I will then, probably, make fun of them.
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Oct 25
Imagine a future without batteries. But in the same future, your cell phone charges in minutes and stays charged for weeks. Thanks to the world’s first silicon power cell, this future might not be so far away—and graphene is helping us get there.
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Oct 25
This afternoon the folks responsible for taking care of repairs on the US Government Affordable Care Act website suggested that they’d have it up and running by the end of November. This comes after a bit of a breakdown in the workings of the site earlier this month, with QSSI at the center of the […]
Oct 25
… Dedicated to all those things your dog ate and to
all the dogs who ate them, or would like to have eaten them, comes "My Dog Ate It" dog treats, inspired by… who else?
Oct 25
Yurick calls this arm panel "Freelancing." (Click to enlarge.)
(Credit: Patrick Yurick)
How do you prefer your comics? On paper? Online? On a limb perhaps?
If you like your comics on skin, have a look at the inside of artist Patrick Yurick‘s left forearm. There you’ll find a rotating series of comic art that sometimes changes as frequently as twice a day.
Patrick Yurick
Yurick, a lifelong comics enthusiast, had a tattoo of four blank comic panels inked on his arm. In them, he draws new panels with his right hand, a process that typically takes 10-15 minutes. Then he posts pictures on his Tumblr My Arm the Comic.
“I decided on a four-panel format as an homage to [‘Calvin and Hobbes’ author] Bill Watterson,” Yurick tells CNET. “Prior to this project I had worked on a Web comic called ‘Hipster Picnic‘ and I had struggled with page consistency, but with the arm comic tattoo I had to be married to consistency inherently. With that consistency of the tattoo as a framework I knew that the comic would be even more stable as a Web comic than my previous works. ”
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