SYDNEY — SYDNEY (AP) — A diver bitten by a shark off Australia’s southwest coast was recovering in a hospital on Wednesday after surviving his second shark attack in nine years.
Greg Pickering, 55, was diving for abalone off an area called Poison Creek near the Western Australia city of Esperance on Tuesday when he was attacked by what officials suspect was a great white. He underwent surgery and was in stable condition Wednesday, Royal Perth Hospital spokesman Matt Avery said.
Fall weather is here and our pooches may need a little help keeping warm
in the great outdoors. These Native American styled dog ponchos look so
smart and are just perfect for the cooler, windy weather of the season.
What happens when you take Toyota’s money, a team of game developers, an Oculus Rift, an aging driving game arcade machine setup, and throw them all together? You get “CorollaCade,” the embarrassingly named / extremely cool advergame that Ogeeku (the aforementioned dev team) created for Toyota using …
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House Speaker John Boehner exaggerated when he said the 2.3 percent medical device excise tax in the Affordable Care Act “is costing us tens of thousands of jobs that are being shipped overseas.” It’s true that companies have announced the elimination of several thousand positions — worldwide, not just in the U.S. — but there is no evidence that the number has reached the “tens of thousands” or that all those jobs are going overseas.
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The world anxiously waits for Apple to finally unveil its new tablets. It is expected that Apple will unveil two new iPads later this month, if that is not the case, it is probably going to launch the iPad 5 alone any way. There has been a lot of speculation about this tablet, particularly about its looks. Big changes are expected from the iPad 5 in the design department, this would be the first time that the iPad would receive a major design change after the iPad 2, which was launched back in 2011. A number of high quality pictures of a purported iPad 5 casing in space gray color have appeared online.
This is actually the first time that such high quality pictures of this purported part have been seen, we’ve previously seen the same component in the same color in a rather low quality video. The part is identical to the plethora of iPad 5 casings we’ve seen up till now, no surprises there. It bears resemblance to the iPad mini, which it is expected to have. The space gray color was introduced with the iPhone 5s last month, it replaces the traditional black color that Apple has previously offered. Yesterday it was rumored that Apple is going to hold its iPad event on October 22nd, the company hasn’t officially confirmed it as yet.
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How do you get rid of your most reliable “lifelong friend”?
Craigslist. For $50.
Of course, this seems a little less monstrous when the bestest buddy in question is a couch.
Baby Ethan is only 2 months old, but thanks to his mom’s whimsy, he’s already out there fighting crime, riding a bike, playing guitar and traveling to space. Talk about a busy infant.
Take a look at Amber Wheeler’s adorable creations below and visit her Etsy shop for more.
WASHINGTON — A Texas food bank howled Monday that the federal government shutdown had forced the U.S. Department of Agriculture to withhold 10 truckloads of food from hungry people. The claim received a good deal of press attention.
But the USDA says the truck cancellations had nothing to do with the shutdown, and that the food they would have carried will come in other trucks.
“Those orders were initially adjusted during the summer,” USDA spokesman Bruce Alexander told HuffPost. “This happens all the time with states whenever we find good deals or a better price or food.”
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Benedict Cumberbatch plays Julian Assange in “The Fifth Estate,” a forthcoming movie that tracks the WikiLeaks founder’s rise. The film hasn’t exactly been getting amazing reviews, and Assange himself has added his voice to the choir of naysayers.
In a revealing letter, Assange tells Cumberbatch that while he respects the actor, “I do not believe that this film is a good film.”
“I do not believe it is going to be positive for me or the people I care about,” Assange continued. “I believe that it is going to be overwhelmingly negative for me and the people I care about. It is based on a deceitful book by someone who has a vendetta against me and my organization.”
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A couple of months ago we saw a 3D printer that prints in full color by breaking a 3D model into very thin slices, printing each slice on separate sheets of paper then cutting the slices out of the paper and gluing them together. Haddock Inventions’ Looking Glass prints are made using a similar process, but the company chooses to keep the slices stuck to the surface they were printed on. The resulting product appears frozen in mid-air.
As with many 3D printed objects, a Looking Glass print starts its life as a 3D file, a model. But instead of being printed layer by layer, the model is printed slice per slice on 0.3mm thick lucite sheets using an inkjet printer. But simply stacking those sheets wouldn’t give you a Looking Glass print. Light will refract as it passes through the air between the sheets and as you stack more slices the image only becomes blurred. To counteract this, Haddock Inventions pump silicon oil to the stack of slices to reduce the refraction.
The main advantage of Looking Glass over 3D printing is that it takes less than an hour to make a print, whereas it would take considerably longer with a 3D printer. Another perk of Looking Glass that 3D printed objects don’t have is the one I mentioned earlier: regardless of the size and height of the object you’re printing, it will remain frozen and fixed. In contrast, certain objects – whether because they’re too large or have a high center of mass – need to be 3D printed as separate parts then assembled afterwards.
You can order a Looking Glass print right now for $100 (USD), but why would you want one? Speaking with Fast Co. Design, Shawn Frayne of Haddock Inventions claims that “Purely visually, I think Looking Glass sort of crushes–it will crush–3-D object printing.” That’s debatable, to say the least.
If they can make it so you can remove and replace slices at will, Looking Glass prints may be helpful to people who need its form factor. Perhaps then it can be used to make really useful things like a 3D CT scan, a tangible multilevel architectural blueprint, a 3D exploded diagram of the parts of an object and other things that people would want to zoom in and zoom out of. As it is, Looking Glass is an interesting medium of expression and preservation – a hybrid of a picture and a figurine.
[via Looking Glass Factory via Fast Co. Design]
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