When you learn that a friend or family member has to receive
chemotherapy, your natural reaction is to want to know how you can make
their lives easier during this period. You may offer rides to their
therapy sessions, baby sit their kids or walk their pets, or bring over
supper once a week. For those of you looking for items that can be used to prepare for chemotherapy sessions or to be used during chemo, here are 9 ideas that will be appreciated….
This week a tip has come in from Korea that Apple may well have made up and shaken hands with Samsung for future chip production. This would be a multi-billion-dollar deal as it would remove TSMC from the equation, pushing Samsung back into the limelight for Apple device innards. Samsung has been a chipmaker for Apple before, but they had … Continue reading
If you can’t resist the urge to get on Facebook while at work, the company’s new rumored work-in-progress will either alleviate your guilt or feed your addiction. It’s called Facebook at Work, and according to sources that spoke to the Financial Times it’ll be targeting the likes of Google, LinkedIn, and more by providing a platform specifically for business users. … Continue reading
In a leaked paper insert for GameStop’s Black Friday it’s been revealed that the Assassin’s Creed Unity / Assassin’s Creed Black Flag combo box will be even less expensive than the already-cut prices from Microsoft. On the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving, you’ll be able to pick up the Xbox One “Holiday Value Bundle” for $329.99 USD. That’s $70 less … Continue reading
Cremation Solutions offers personalized 3D printed urns. The idea is that a container bearing the likeness of the deceased would make it easier to guess or remember that it holds that person’s ashes. No more asking what that odd vase is for. Instead, people will ask, “What have you done?”
Seriously though, I wouldn’t mind having my ashes placed in a funny urn. At least that way I can still make people smile. Cremation Solutions’ custom urns come in two types. The first one is a bust, which comes in two sizes. Apparently, it also comes in the likeness of President Obama. The full-sized bust is 11″ tall and can hold all of an adult’s ashes, while the 6″ bust can hold only a portion of the ashes.
The second type of Cremation Solutions’ 3D printed urn is a 12″ action figure that holds only a teaspoon of the deceased’s ashes. The figures have several costumes to choose from. Clearly this will not end in a kid accidentally playing with his dead relative’s remains and being scarred for life when all is revealed (or scattered). Nope. That’s never going to happen.
If you’re ready to venture where no ash has gone before, submit a frontal photo and a profile photo of the deceased to Cremation Solutions, and they’ll turn into a personalized urn. The service will cost anywhere between $100 (USD) to $2,600 depending on the size and any added accessories. For some reason, the company refuses to make 3D printed urns for pets. It’s like it doesn’t want to make billions.
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Science fiction has promised us robots smart enough to walk, talk, and even occasionally save the day. But in reality, dabbling in robotics still requires a great deal of engineering and programming know-how. That’s not the case with the Ozobot, though. It can’t fetch your groceries, but programming where it roams and how it behaves is as easy as doodling using colored markers.
New York‘s cover story this week proclaims, “Smile, You’re Speaking Emoji.” But are you? Do you understand the difference between the tongue-out emoji and the winking tongue-out emoji? Today’s children communicate almost exclusively in these little smileys , and soon the weak emoji-illiterates in our society will be left behind.
Inside Building 32 at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas sits Chamber A, a marvel of engineering, cleanliness, and design. It’s also the closest you can come to being in space without strapping into a rocket.
Tom Wheeler, the FCC Chairman who’s been a bit of an internet villain lately, is expected to announce a pretty good idea later today. He reportedly wants to raise federal funding for in-school Wi-Fi by a whopping $1.5 billion. That brings the annual cap on helping kids learn via Wi-Fi up from $2.4 billion to $3.9 billion. Good idea!
Today in rumors we hope are true, Spotify might be getting podcasts. This could be a great thing to loosen Apple’s stranglehold on the medium.
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