article thumbnail

Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

Cars That Think

Hundreds of thousands of Pong sets were distributed through the department store Sears. Brock , director of curatorial affairs at the Computer History Museum, fondly remembered playing Pong at home and in a restaurant in Pennsylvania. His house was the first in the neighborhood to have a home version of Pong.

article thumbnail

Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Is 381 miles by the shortest route and 420 miles if I take the Pennsylvania Turnpike. It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. From Pittsburgh to the town of Gardiner, N.Y., Right now, my Subaru Impreza, with its 14.5 And otherwise, it's a single shot.

article thumbnail

Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Is 381 miles by the shortest route and 420 miles if I take the Pennsylvania Turnpike. It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. From Pittsburgh to the town of Gardiner, N.Y., Right now, my Subaru Impreza, with its 14.5 And otherwise, it's a single shot.

article thumbnail

ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

Green Car Congress

Electronville: High-Amperage Energy Storage Device-Energy Storage for the Neighborhood. The Pennsylvania State University and partner Sentech Corporation will develop catalyst-coated titanium dioxide nanotube membranes to use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water to methane and other hydrocarbon fuels. DOE grant: $7,200,000).

Energy 231