The United States Supreme Court on Friday rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to block a trial over its environmental agenda. The constitutional climate lawsuit being brought by 21 young activists between the ages of 11 and 22 is a go for trial, provided there isn’t any further interference.
Dyson vacuums dominated the nominations in our Kinja Co-Op for best vacuum, but they can be prohibitively expensive. Today though, refurbs of the popular Dyson Ball are down to $150 on Amazon, the best price we’ve seen.
We all know that we need to move our bodies in an active manner each day in order to maintain an optimal level of health. That would be the nicer way of putting the idea of exercise forth, but when it comes to getting actual exercise done, many of us do find more excuses than reasons. What if you are a shy person and generally prefer the creature comforts of your own home? Sure, you can get one of those Peloton machines, or if you find freedom in running, then hit the treadmill, but those tend to lack a degree of human touch, if at all. Enter Mirror, an actual mirror for you to preen yourself in the mornings, and yet it comes with high-powered technology within.
The Mirror’s panel is a liquid crystal display (LCD) that comes complete with stereo speakers, a camera, and a piece of custom software, all running off an unidentified quad-core processor underneath the hood. Connectivity options include Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, enabling you to hook it up to different kinds of monitoring devices as well as stream classes from Mirror.
Mirror’s classes are pretty much what you will find in a well equipped fitness studio or gym: they include cardio, yoga, strength, barre, boxing, stretch, and pilates. Depending on your current fitness level and objective, you will be able to check out different levels with each class. The Mirror connected display will cost you $1,495 upfront, certainly making you wish more than seven years of bad luck on someone who breaks it by accident. You’re better off getting a cheap, regular mirror from Ikea if you do not want to add on $39 monthly for the classes.
The Mirror stands at 52-inches in height, and you have the option to mount it to a wall or have it rest on a metal stand. As at press time, it is controlled via an iOS companion app, with no sign of Android support arriving in the future.
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Only a handful of men have ever walked on the Moon, and a very limited amount of soil and rock samples have ever returned to Earth. The rarity of these samples means that the vast majority of them are owned by the US and Russian governments – as the two nations that put men on the moon. On one visit to the Moon in 1970, Russian astronauts collected samples, and brought them home.
On return, some small soil samples were gifted to a woman called Nina Ivanovna Koroleva, widow of Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, who was previously head of the Soviet space program. Now, the samples are up for auction.
The tiny samples are encased under glass with an adjustable lens that can be used for viewing on what appears to be a metal plate with Russian writing on the front. The writing translates to “Soil Particles from Luna-16.” The particles have been identified by scientists as a basaltic central fragment with feldspar crystals, surficial debris called regolith, and glass coatings caused by micro-meteorite impact. Tests show that they contain more than 70 elements and are dated approximately 3.4 billion years old.
As the only known sample of lunar soil in private hands along with the provenance to back it up, these are very valuable. In fact, they last sold at auction in 1993 for $442,500. That buyer is now selling them again and the samples are expected to fetch between $700,000 and $1 million at a Sotheby’s auction called “Space Exploration,” taking place in New York on November 29.
[via Barron’s]
Just short of two years ago, Cadillac was one of the first to debut a monthly car subscription service. Dubbed Book by Cadillac, the program was priced at $1,800 per month, and gave subscribers the opportunity to drive a different Cadillac model each month. Now General Motors has announced it’s closing the service in December of this year, with the … Continue reading
During BlizzCon 2018, Blizzard launched a brand new animated short for its Overwatch franchise. Dubbed “Reunion”, this seems to be a short focused around McCree, one of Overwatch’s original heroes, and also Ashe, who is one of the new playable heroes that Blizzard announced that would be coming to the game.
Based on this animated short, it seems that both McCree and Ashe seem to know each other and they might even have been friends at one point (although the short does seem to hint at romantic overtones between the characters). They’re both of the gunslinger variety so it does make it a rather fun short to watch, which in a way also serves as an introductory video of sorts for Ashe and B.O.B, her butler/bodyguard companion.
While the title of the short is called “Reunion”, we’re not sure if it necessarily means a reunion between McCree and Ashe. At the end of the short, it reveals a robotic character whom McCree refers to as “partner”, so it could be referring to that as well. It is unclear as to who the new character is and whether or not she will end up being a playable character in the future.
In any case if Overwatch lore is something you’re interested in, then perhaps you might want to set aside a few minutes to check out the latest animated short in the video above.
Overwatch ‘Reunion’ Animated Short Released , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
“Lie Hard” or “Robert Mueller’s Day Off,” anyone?
During BlizzCon 2018, Blizzard launched a brand new animated short for its Overwatch franchise. Dubbed “Reunion”, this seems to be a short focused around McCree, one of Overwatch’s original heroes, and also Ashe, who is one of the new playable heroes that Blizzard announced that would be coming to the game.
Based on this animated short, it seems that both McCree and Ashe seem to know each other and they might even have been friends at one point (although the short does seem to hint at romantic overtones between the characters). They’re both of the gunslinger variety so it does make it a rather fun short to watch, which in a way also serves as an introductory video of sorts for Ashe and B.O.B, her butler/bodyguard companion.
While the title of the short is called “Reunion”, we’re not sure if it necessarily means a reunion between McCree and Ashe. At the end of the short, it reveals a robotic character whom McCree refers to as “partner”, so it could be referring to that as well. It is unclear as to who the new character is and whether or not she will end up being a playable character in the future.
In any case if Overwatch lore is something you’re interested in, then perhaps you might want to set aside a few minutes to check out the latest animated short in the video above.
Overwatch ‘Reunion’ Animated Short Released , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
“Lie Hard” or “Robert Mueller’s Day Off,” anyone?
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