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If you have ever looked at the prosthetic marketplace, you know that things like prosthetic arms are expensive. This page lays out the cost factor like this: Depending on the degree of amputation, today’s state of the art prosthetic arms can cost patients about $100,000 or more. DEKA’s goal is to keep the cost of [...]
I was at a big Christmas party last week. In attendance was a wide spectrum of people – young and elderly adults, democrats and republicans, religious and non-religious, etc. The topic of the latest round of tax cuts came up, and an amazing thing happened. There was not a single person who could understand how [...]
Facebook Overthrows Yahoo To Become The World’s Third Largest Website – “We’ve seen this one coming all year. Facebook is now the third largest website in the world, taking the No. 3 spot from Yahoo, according to comScore. Facebook drew an estimated 648 million unique visitors from across the globe in November, 2010, compared to [...]
How to Get Along with Difficult Relatives During the Holidays
by Jessika Toothman | December 24, 2010
Luckily, I get along very well with the majority of my relatives. And in the rare situations wherein that’s not quite the case, I’m easygoing enough to be pretty good at bluffing it so they don’t know I’m not much of a fan. Because it’s just not worth it, especially around the holidays. But lots of families aren’t that lucky. Just spend some time reading this online column and you’ll stumble across myriad examples of dysfunctional relatives struggling to sort out hurtful estrangements and familial entanglements.
Apple’s Problem: Selling Macs – “The Apple guys should have figured out by now that, if they want to supplant PC’s/Windows (and become astronomically huge), they just can’t conduct business-as-usual… (people have been banging on their doors for years to change all kinds of things, in order to help Macs become more widely used)… Try [...]
Yesterday was a bad day for Skype. The peer-to-peer voice over Internet protocol and messaging service experienced a massive failure across multiple regions, leaving millions without service. I follow a lot of tech podcasts and shows — many of these rely almost exclusively on Skype to connect hosts with guests and record content. Without Skype, they were left scrambling to do things the old-fashioned way, either by connecting by phone or relying on creating content in a physical studio.
Arcological megacities that span whole continents, pyramids of steel and skyscrapers that blot out the sun — we can’t help but stuff our minds with such futuristic skylines. Some megalopolitan visions brim with optimism, such as those of Walt Disney and Frank Lloyd Wright. Others, like the surrealist nightmares of Irving Norman and the Los Angeles of “Blade Runner,” express far bleaker outlooks.
What will the skyscrapers of the future really look like? In our “Life on the 500th Floor” episode, Julie and I look at both past and current plans for vertical living and farming.
Holiday Greetings from the International Space Station
by Marshall Brain | December 23, 2010
At the beginning, Scott Kelly mentions the speed of the ISS. You can get a better sense of that speed in this post: Putting things into perspective – the actual speed of anything in orbit is 17,500 MPH Here’s where the greeting came from – a quick space station tour: See also: Understanding the different [...]
First produced by the Studebaker Corporation in the early 1960s, the Avanti car model has a long, intriguing history. In this episode, Ben and Scott trace the history and evolution of this iconic car model.
ViewSonic ViewPad 7 Android Tablet Review – “ViewSonic is a household name that many consumers can identify with in terms of their lineage in the LCD market. So, at least on the surface, it would make sense that a panel manufacturer (akin to Samsung actually) would have solid leverage in components and materials, to compete [...]
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