Aug 29
Here’s An Affordable Mid-Range Electric Bike Conversion Kit To Speed Up Your Commute
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Micah Toll’s Barak Electric Bike Conversion Kit turns ordinary bikes into electric ones. Read More
Aug 29
In the new TV show drama, “MANH(A)TTAN (a fictional accounting of the Manhattan Project’s lead-up to the Atom Bomb), Liza Winter, one of the scientist’s wives notes that in 1943, out of “75 sovereign states in existence in the world (at the time), 61 of them were at war.”
Aug 29
It has been nearly 50 years since The Great Bird of the Galaxy Gene Rodenberry, had his view of where no man has gone before head out into the minds of the American people. His “wagon train to the stars” television series has spawned a movement of people called Trekkies, several spin-offs and movies, and billions in merchandising. Now a new independent Star Trek film is heading into production thanks to the success of a couple of Kickstarter campaigns — Star Trek: Axanar.
Aug 29
It’s called the New Nintendo 3DS. It’s faster with bigger screens and better battery life. It also has a new analog pad called the “C-stick.” Wow! This sounds great.
Aug 29
Every Ikea Catalog Cover Since 1951
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It’s that time of year: If you’re one of the hundreds of millions people on Ikea’s mailing list, you probably recently received a thick square of super-thin paper filled with (mostly rendered ) products. Ikea has been sending these babies out for more than six decades—and you can follow the evolution of popular design just by looking at them.
Aug 29
If that cushy, three-ply toilet paper seems too luxurious and pricey for you, but the cheaper stuff is an unpleasant experience, here’s a cheap and easy upgrade from Kohler that turns your regular toilet into one of those fancy derriere-hosing bidets.
Aug 29
Microsoft’s 15-year-old MSN Messaging service will soon be a part of computer lore. It has been shut down in most places for over a year, but Microsoft kept it running in China where it was still quite popular. However, with the advent of Tencent’s…
Aug 29
Today Mikael Hed announced he would be stepping down as CEO of Rovio and that former Nokia exec Pekka Rantala would be taking his place in 2015. The developer has quickly gone from being a company that no one had ever heard of to one of the biggest…
Aug 29
There aren’t more electric cars because there’s no infrastructure, but there’s no infrastructure because there’s no demand. It’s this chicken-and-egg problem that Elon Musk is hoping to end, at least in China, after a signing a deal that’ll see Tesla…
Aug 29
Looks like HERE Maps isn’t the only company Samsung is cozying up to with the launch of the Gear S smartwatch, with a new deal with Nike bringing a custom Tizen version of the Nike+ Running App to the wearable. Preloaded on the watch, the app will support standalone run tracking as well as music playback, thanks to the Gear … Continue reading
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