While a number of games have incorporated a countdown timer to increase the pressure upon players (looking at you, Dead Rising), few have taken it to extremes quite like Black Future ’88, a wild new synthpunk platform shooter from indie studio, Super…
Want to get fit, but you are not quite sure how you are going to get started? Perhaps getting a personal fitness trainer is a good idea, but that might put a huge dent in your monthly budget. Why not let technology work for you instead? This is where the Hyfit Personal Gym comes in handy, where it has been described to be the world’s first wearable IoT gym that will be able to bring a whole new level of technology when it comes to fitness tracking and personal exercise training. Touted to be a smart piece of workout equipment that rapidly adapts to the hyper-connected world we live in, the Hyfit Personal Gym comprises of a wearable fitness tracker that will arrive integrated with customizable tension cords. This unique combination offers a full body workout program that will guide the user through more than 250 specialized video tutorials.
Having launched on Kickstarter, this particular product will begin shipping in April 2018 onwards, so those who would like to obtain the Hyfit Personal Gym at a significant discount will be able to do so by being an early backer. This unique fitness device will leverage the latest in wearable health technologies, where it merges essential accelerometer readings alongside deeper analysis of body tension, strength building, BMI, fat burn, calorie burn, heart rate and other kinds of critical measurements when it comes to one’s exercise progress.
With a unique tension cord design that will combine aerobic exercises alongside strength training, the Hyfit Personal Gym is able to provide a fully versatile personal gym no matter where you go, thanks to its tiny, transportable package that can be unpacked in virtually any environment. With Hyfit, the user can gain additional insight and detailed information on how their workout affects their body, in addition to checking out the kinds of results that they achieve each day. The merging of advanced fitness measurement technology with the convenience and versatility of tension cord training resulted in a truly portable and comprehensive personal gym experience.
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If only more toymakers would take a page from LEGO’s book and let fans design potential new items. The LEGO Ideas site is responsible for some of the coolest sets in the past few years, and the new TRON: Legacy light cycles set is just one such example.
This set was originally approved for production in November, and now it is here. It looks LEGO’s designers refined and streamlined BrickBros UK’s original design for production, but these still look great. The set includes two light cycles, and minifigure versions of Sam Flynn, Quorra, and Rinzler, each with their own with identity discs. You can expect it to be available starting on March 31 for $35 from the LEGO website.
It’s a small set at just 230 pieces, but so very pretty to look at. Despite its small size, this set packs in a lot of nice detail and includes a display-friendly base. This is a great addition to any LEGO collection, but fans of the film are really drooling over it. It’s just too bad that we don’t have other LEGO Tron sets to go with this.
[via Gizmodo]
An effort to recall a Colorado county commissioner has become a proxy argument over rules to limit methane emissions.
The general lasted about a year in the tumultuous Trump administration.
The measure is intended to curb the use of funds originally designated for reforestation and fire prevention programs.
He’s one of the most controversial figures in foreign policy.
One of the most notorious advocates for the Iraq War is set to advise the president on U.S. foreign policy.
Being a neophyte in the world of woodworking — I’ve made a shabby but sturdy shed — I can appreciate the value of a good partner who can help measure, cut, hold stuff and generally be a second pair of hands. The usual drawback with humans is you have to pay them or feed them in return for this duty. So imagine my delight in finding that ETH Zürich is pioneering the art of robot-assisted woodworking!
The multi-institutional Spatial Timber Assemblies DFAB House project is an effort to increase the efficiency not just of the process of framing a home, but also of the design itself.
The robot part is as you might expect, though more easily said than created. A pair of ceiling-mounted robot arms in the work area pluck and cut beams to length, put them in position and drill holes where they will later be attached.
Most of this can be accomplished without any human intervention, and what’s more, without reinforcement plates or scaffolding. The designs of these modules (room-size variations that can be mixed and matched) are generated specifically to be essentially freestanding; load and rigidity are handled by the arrangement of beams.
The CAD work is done ahead of time and the robots follow the blueprint, carefully avoiding one another and working slowly but efficiently.
“If any change is made to the project overall, the computer model can be constantly adjusted to meet the new requirements,” explained Matthias Kohler, who heads the project, in an ETHZ news release. “This kind of integrated digital architecture is closing the gap between design, planning and execution.”
Human workers have to do the bolting step, but that step too seems like it could be automated; the robots may not have the sensors or tools available to undertake it at present.
Eventually the beams will also be reinforced by similarly prefabbed concrete posts and slot into a “smart slab,” optimized for exactly these layouts and created by sand-based 3D printing. The full three-story structure should be complete and open to explore this fall. You can learn more at the project’s website.
The larger the phone, the more screen time a user tends to clock. That’s what a study published this week suggests. The study comes from the folks at AppOptix and consists of data from 4,000 users surveyed over the entirety of the year 2017. There, they’ve shown that phones with displays less then 4.6-inches use their devices FAR less than … Continue reading
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