A new type of consumer-tier robot has launched, and it is called Q.bo One. This model, unlike ones before it, is open source and designed for anyone to build. The robot utilizes a simple programming language called Scratch, while the hardware itself is based around Raspberry Pi and Arduino. Multiple cameras, microphones, lights and speakers, among other things, makes Q.bo … Continue reading
Pizza is more than a food, it’s a lifestyle. And quite frankly, it’s about time the beauty industry acknowledged that cheesy morsel of truth.
A California-based bath bomb shop on Etsy is doing its part for pizza lovers with a new hand-painted pizza bath bomb. Bathesda Boutique’s slice-shaped bomb is surprisingly realistic looking, and, according to Bathesda’s Instagram, it actually smells like pizza, too.
Just look at this beautiful slice of heaven in action:
If you’re more into the idea of pizza in the bath than actually smelling like pizza in the bath, don’t fret. You can custom order the $7 shape in one of Bathesda’s “many other scents.”
Anyone else having fantasies of eating pizza in a bath filled with pizza bath bomb? Yeah, we are, too. Head to Etsy to shop.
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Looks like the big racial drama “The Bachelorette” teed up for this season has begun to unfold.
Lee Garrett, a contestant on first black Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay’s season, made clear in a number of widely reported tweets that he has less-than-flattering views of black, Muslim, LGBT and female people. On the last episode of the show, which aired June 5, he openly antagonized a black cast member, Eric Bigger.
So it was disheartening, but not surprising, when Garrett escalated his misbehavior on Monday night by needling Kenny King, a black single father and pro wrestler who quickly became a fan favorite on the show. After sparking an argument with King by hovering and repeatedly interrupting his time with Lindsay, Garrett bragged in confessionals that he enjoyed getting under King’s skin and would happily make him look bad to the Bachelorette.
He later pulled Lindsay aside and told her that the wrestler had yelled and become “aggressive” toward him. Pressed on the details, Garrett reiterated that King had yelled at him and given him the finger.
After Lindsay relayed this criticism to King, he wasn’t having any of it. “Watch the tape, I was 10 feet away from this guy,” he pointed out in a confessional interview. “Aggression without action is just talk.”
This was the second time Garrett had insinuated a black man on the show had behaved in a frightening manner, both times after the contestant in question had vocally defended himself but hadn’t shown any apparent signs of physical aggression. Why was this so troubling? Well, this sort of claim is an extremely dangerous dog whistle. The term “aggressive,” as many Twitter users pointed out, has long been used to paint black men as ominous ― and to justify violence against them.
Teaser clips have shown black contestant Will Gaskins attempting to explain the fraught connotations of “aggressive” to a dubious Garrett. But given his checkered social media history, and his willingness to openly brag about provoking and smearing King and Bigger, it seems like his problem isn’t that he doesn’t know what he’s doing. His problem, it seems, is that he thinks he can get away with using coded language to tear down black contestants.
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Tiger Woods announced Monday that he is getting “professional help” after he was pulled over by police near his home in Jupiter, Florida, last month.
“I’m currently receiving professional help to manage my medications and the ways that I deal with back pain and sleep disorder,” he wrote in a statement posted to his Twitter account. “I want to thank everyone for the amazing outpouring of support and understanding, especially the fans and players on Tour.”
Police arrested Woods, 41, on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs early on Memorial Day after he was found asleep at the wheel of his car. He failed at least two field sobriety tests and appeared disoriented in police video.
But Woods registered 0.00 during a Breathalyzer test later in police custody, and he said in a statement that an “unexpected reaction to prescribed medications” caused the incident that day.
Mark Steinberg, Woods’ agent, told ESPN in a recent phone interview that Woods has been grappling with “insomnia and sleep issues” as a result from pain related to his back.
“He’s been in pain for so long. He’s had to handle the pain, which then potentially leads to the lack of sleep because you’re in so much pain,” Steinberg said.
At the time of his arrest, Woods had been recovering from his fourth back surgery, which was performed in April. Just days before the incident, he stated in a post on his website that the surgery had drastically improved his quality of life.
“It is hard to express how much better I feel,” Woods wrote. “It was instant nerve relief. I haven’t felt this good in years.”
Woods’ arraignment had been originally scheduled for July 5, but was pushed back to Aug. 9 last week for unexplained reasons. His last tournament win dates back to 2013.
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The president is under investigation. That much we know, right?
Wrong! Sad! You’re the puppet!
Seth Meyers took a confusing trip down the rabbit hole on Monday to try to make sense of the mixed messages coming from the White House about the alleged investigation into Donald Trump’s Russian ties.
First, the president tweeted an investigation was happening; then Jay Sekulow, a member of his legal team, denied it; and then Sekulow apparently confirmed it before immediately denying it again.
Thankfully, Meyers was there sifting through the ashes of our own sanities to break down what’s going on. He also breaks out his Jared Kushner impression, thanks to the Trump senior adviser’s recent reveal of his true voice. So if your head is hurting during this whole ordeal, at least there’s that.
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Chelsea, Bill and Hillary Clinton took in a Broadway show together in New York City Monday night, and garnered some applause of their own in the process.
Hillz looked lovely in a black jacket and a big beaded statement necklace, sporting a hairstyle reminiscent of her pre-election ‘do.
The trio saw the musical “Come From Away,” and the crowd went wild upon realizing the identities of their famous fellow audience members.
And as if this family outing weren’t already chic enough, Diane Von Furstenberg was there, too. Cast member Matt Armentrout wrote on Instagram that it was “such an honor to meet two women who have shaped our culture and lives!”
Bill and Hillary also posed for photos with the cast backstage, producing this perfect photo of a laughing Clinton that we might just need to have framed.
This whole scene gets a standing ovation from us.
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We knew “Harry Potter” was the s**t. We just didn’t know that was literal.
Even if you’re the biggest “Harry Potter” fan, you probably don’t know all the secrets the movies have to offer. Recently, HuffPost stepped into a big one.
Did you see it? Look again … at Buckbeak’s butt.
See it now?
HOLY. POOP.
How did this happen? Was Buckbeak just nervous? Does Hagrid have a magic pooper scooper? IS THIS CALLED A NIM-BUTTS 2000?
We have so many questions.
That’s why we got in touch with Framestore’s Michael Eames, who worked on the computerized characters in the film. The company first came into the franchise, and the world of visual effects, during production of “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.” Framestore then went on to bring some of the series’ most memorable creatures to life, including Fawkes the Phoenix, the Basilisk and, of course, Buckbeak.
Eames confirmed that, yes, Buckbeak takes a poo on screen.
(100 percent. That’s a confirmed poo.)
He also explained how it happened.
Eames told us that plopping in little Easter eggs like a character relieving himself is nothing new in animation. Back in the day, animators were hand-drawing most or all of the frames, so it was common practice to sneak things in for laughs.
“I can’t really go into too much detail with that, but there were some pretty outrageous things that slipped past editorial in those days, but I supposed as an animator you were kind of always looking for an opportunity to have a bit of a laugh on the side, and I guess that’s where that came from,” said Eames.
Here’s that Buckbeak moment one more time for s**ts and giggles (mostly the former):
Eames continued, “If you can be serious on that moment, I think we were trying very much to get a naturalistic feel to the way that Buckbeak behaved as a character, his whole being animalistic. I think he was described at the time by [director] Alfonso Cuarón as a sort of adolescent teenager, so we were trying to kind of place this character we very much wanted to get across in a very sort of real environment. It felt like something that he would do naturally, if there was an opportunity, would be a good idea.”
Eames says he believes his team told the director about the scene and were given the bathroom pass. In his recollection, the animator said Cuarón “thought it was funny and perfectly fitting.”
In addition to that moment, Eames told us that bringing Buckbeak to life was a huge challenge for Framestore, calling the hippogriff a “milestone” character in visual effects.
He explained that up to that point, CG characters “always felt like they needed to be glossed up.”
“There were lots of very [dimly] lit moments for Buckbeak, when he’s in the pumpkin patch for example, and it’s all quite gray and miserable. It wasn’t what you would expect in terms of how you would treat a fully CG, fully feathered, all singing, all dancing character like that, so there was that earthy quality to it.”
Though there were also animatronic versions of Buckbeak, Eames said at a relatively late stage the company was asked to do much more CG work on the film, and that the robotic one may only appear in the movie in two shots.
Buckbeak was built in a collaborative process from the bones up. Thanks to all that work, we finally got an animated character worth giving a crap about — one big, animated crap.
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These days it’s hard to escape the “Despacito” craze, but one artist’s saxy cover dials back Luis Fonsi’s hit in a perfect way.
Luis Graziatto’s saxophone version of the song was shared by the Facebook page Ages of Tones on Wednesday. The cover has since been viewed over 7 million times.
The Mexican musician, who first recorded the cover in April, has been posting covers for a little over four months on his social media pages. The artist has done covers of both Spanish-language and English hits, including “Sign of the Times” by Harry Styles, “That’s What I Like” by Bruno Mars, “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever” by Zayn and Taylor Swift, and “Felices los 4” by Maluma.
Graziatto, who lives in Torreón, Mexico, told HuffPost that the reaction to his “Despacito” cover since Ages of Tones shared it has been “pure madness but in a good way!”
“I didn’t realize my cover could make that kind of impact,” Graziatto added.
Listen to the artist’s saxophone cover of “Despacito” above.
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