article thumbnail

Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

Cars That Think

Buying and selling cryptocurrencies is a big business. The fraction that involved buying actual stuff (goods and services) is so small that it’s hard to measure. In de Bono’s vision, “large manufacturing corporations” should create their own currencies, which could be used to buy their products. Customers could convert U.S.

article thumbnail

10 Gifts For Retrocomputing Fans

Cars That Think

Get The Z Factor With An RC2014 This is the one entry in our retrocomputing gift guide I haven't tried myself: I've never been a Z80 guy, being more influenced by the 6502-based BBC Microcomputer than the Z80-based ZX Spectrum, which were the two most popular British-designed computers I had access to in the 1980s.

Kits 95
article thumbnail

Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

In a flurry of electric vehicle activity, three back-to-back announcements this week have placed a spotlight on Oregon’s plans to be the friendliest state in the nation in which to build, sell and buy electric cars. And with EV maintenance you are less exposed to being ripped off buy the ICE car repairman. — Jeff U 6. .

Oregon 58