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IoT-ize Your Old Gadgets With a Mechanical Hijacking Device

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Or, that was the idea, anyway. KAIST/Korea Polytechnic University The paper doesn't directly address the cost of the MHD, and with three motors and some other electronics in it, it's not likely to be super cheap. It's also possible to build your own MHD device for cheap , if you know what you're doing.

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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As we try to objectively study nature, we are often reminded of how natural forces affect us personally. When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. But we also have to cut emissions from heating.”

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This dual-steering wheel electric go-kart looks like a fun little divorce on wheels

Baua Electric

Considering that each of the two rear wheels is powered by its own 750W (1 hp) electric motor, you could have some serious fun with this thing if you eventually win out the dominance display and regain power over the vehicle. Just make sure you get your cheap thrills in quickly.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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The gadget, roughly the size of a pack of chewing gum, held 8 megabytes of data and required no external power source, drawing power directly from a computer when connected. Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. We see a person do something, and we know what else they can do, and we can make a judgement quickly. And we’re really good at that.

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Stuff We Use: What’s the Best Dash Cam?

The Truth About Cars

. & The cam comes with a very long power cord, though we do pine for the fictional day in which electricity can somehow be beamed to a device without wires. Whatever you select, it is a decent idea to mount forward-facing cams like this out of yer sightlines (that’s why we also campaign against mirror hangers and the like). &

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Opinion: The Bentley Crash in New York is Scrambling Brains

The Truth About Cars

What caught my eye was Krok highlighting this bit: “Why would an automaker manufacture a car with so much engine power that it requires an eight-speed transmission?” Kois’s answers his question by saying that the answer is obvious – people will pay more for more powerful cars. But, of course, the two aren’t necessarily related.

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