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Has opening your garage door turned into a boring chore? Why not turn it into a video game with this fun garage door opener that looks like a classic NES controller? Of course button-mashing might result in a busted garage door, so you’ll probably want to avoid that.

The Opendo garage door opener is simply a garage remote transmitter stuffed into the shell of an 8-bit Nintendo controller. It’s something you could hack together yourself if you really wanted to, but when you can buy one from this Kickstarter project for $20 or less, it seems like the effort to make your own wouldn’t be worth it.

It’s designed to work with just about every garage door on the market, though you do need to specify the brand of your opener to make sure they get you one that works on the proper frequency. An early bird pledge of $18 gets you an Opendo garage door remote controller of your own.

It’s that time of year again when people look back at the past 365 or so days and take stock of what has transpired and what didn’t. It’s also that time when people take advantage of the changing of the year to plan for the next 365. Whether your make big lifestyle changes or taking baby steps towards a new … Continue reading

Multiple private space companies based in the United States are working on projects which will enable space tourism. Those tourists won’t be able to stay in space for long, though, unless they opt for what the Russians seem to be planning. Russian space corporation Roscosmos has proposed building a hotel on the International Space Station.

As you can probably imagine, it’s not going to be cheap by any stretch of the imagination. According to the proposal, the space tourists will have to pay at least $40 million for the week-long experience. Those who are feeling extra adventurous will be able to pay an additional $20 million to go on a spacewalk with a cosmonaut.

The plan has been developed by Russian space contractor RKK Energia. It’s pitched as a way to pay for the construction of the second module that’s going to cost up to $446 million.

The contractor has already started work on the first of the two modules that will house a science laboratory and a power supply station. The Russian government will only pay for the first module so the contractor has to figure out how it will pay for the construction of the second module.

The proposal mentions that the hotel is going to have four sleeping quarters measuring two cubic meters each with 9 inch windows. There’s going to be a lounge area with a 16 inch window. The module will also have medical and hygiene stations.

NASA will stop buying seats on Russia’s Soyuz flights after commercial crew programs of SpaceX and Boeing take off. RKK Energia will then fly one or two tourists per Soyuz flight to the ISS.

The contractor needs five years to finish work on the module. With the International Space Station set to be decommissioned in 2028, it remains to be seen is RKK Energia will be successful in this ambitious endeavor.

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Smart navigation apps like Waze help their users find the fastest way to their destination. By relying on data crowdsourced from users, these apps are able to provide a better picture of the traffic situation. This can often result in large numbers of users being redirected to streets that aren’t meant for a lot of traffic when highways and major roads are congested. No wonder some communities don’t like these apps. The town of Leonia, New Jersey is taking an extreme measure to tackle navigation app traffic.

The New York Times reports that the town of Leonia, New Jersey is going to close 60 streets to all commuters except residents and workers during peak driving hours – 6AM to 10AM and 4PM to 9PM – starting January 22nd, 2018.

All commuters except workers and the town’s residents will not be able to go through town in order to get around the traffic. They will have to stick to the highway no matter how bad the traffic is.

Some residents are happy with this move. They find it difficult to leave home when a large number of commuters take to the streets and then have to wait for the traffic to clear up. The town’s police chief Tom Rowe told the scribe that they have tried to limit the closures and even worked with navigation app providers but that just wasn’t enough to tackle the problem.

A spokeswoman for Waze said that the service is going to abide by any changes that legally declare a road to be private.

New Jersey Town Closing Streets To Tackle Navigation App Traffic , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

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