Author Archives: Carol Edwards

Let us now make it rain upon our lord and savior Baby Yoda.

After two weeks of fans’ incessant pleading, Disney has finally confirmed the arrival of Baby Yoda merchAccording to CNBC, official “The Child” apparel and accessories will be available through various retailers — including Amazon, Target, Macy’s, Kohl’s, Hot Topic, Zazzle, and Box Lunch — as early as Friday. 

Additional merchandise will be sold through the Disney Store, ShopDisney, and at Disney Parks before the holidays. The all-important Baby Yoda plushies and toys will soon be available for pre-order, although it is unclear when those items are expected to ship.  Read more…

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Blade Runner pictures Los Angeles in 2019 with flying cars, neon signs, and massive video ads. It’s an urban portrait that looks more like today’s New York City than L.A., and watching it brought Istanbul-born artist Refik Anadol to Times Square almost eight years ago.

In November, his solo exhibition “Machine Hallucination“ brought him back to New York. The immersive installation, currently on display at a boiler room–turned-art space in Chelsea, marries artificial intelligence and audiovisual technology to imagine New York’s cityscape in 512 dimensions. 

Based in L.A., Anadol arrived from Houston the day before we met. He had just spoken at an artificial intelligence summit about the intersection of human creativity and machine learning — the subject of many of his works. Read more…

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Started by WASP, a 3D-printing company, this project seeks to integrate their work with hydroponics (growing plants through mineral solutions in water). Read more…

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SilverUnderwear is stretchy, odorless brand of undies, that allegedly “cleans” itself through silver fibers. Read more…

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The scrawled notes come as the impeachment process is ramping up, and come with interesting lines such as “I want no quid pro quo” and “I want nothing.” Read more…

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Hear that, Tesla? That’s the silent sound of Porsche trying to catch up. 

Porsche announced the Taycan as its first all-electric vehicle in September, but since that time, the German automaker has already unveiled two variations on its four-door sports sedan. At the Los Angeles Auto Show Wednesday, the company debuted a third variant, the “entry level” Taycan 4S, scheduled for release in 2020.

The Taycan 4S has a shorter range than the Taycan Turbo, with an estimated 253 miles per charge compared to up to 280 miles. (Although the 4S can get even more mileage with an extended battery pack, but that comes at an additional cost.) It also has a relatively cheaper starting price: $103,800. For comparison, the Taycan Turbo and Turbo S start at $150,000 and $185,000, respectively. That’s real money, people. Read more…

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Trump’s Sharpie-written notes are a tragically catchy pop punk song now. 

U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland gave a damning testimony against Donald Trump during Wednesday’s impeachment hearing. He claimed that the Trump administration, including the president, was aware of quid pro quo in Ukraine. 

The president, meanwhile, took to the White House lawn to reiterate once again that he had done anything wrong. Photographs of his notes from the appearance show the words “I WANT NOTHING. I WANT NOTHING. I WANT NO QUID PRO QUO” scrawled on a pad in what appears to be marker. 

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Pee could be a health goldmine. And to make the most of it, the world needs smart toilets.

That’s what a new, small-scale study published in Nature this month seeks to establish: whether regular urine collection and analysis of the thousands of telling, changing indicators in our pee can reliably serve up information about a person’s health.

The study’s University of Wisconsin authors, Dr. Joshua Coon and Dr. Ian Miller, say more research is still needed as the 10-day experiment only had two subjects: Coon and Miller themselves. However, they also think that a non-invasive device that could collect and analyze a person’s urine — like, say, a smart toilet — could work as a revolutionary tool for personalized, predictive health care.  Read more…

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TL;DR: Get the pictures you need with VectorGrove Unlimited Vector Images: Lifetime Subscription for $39, a 99% savings. 

As planet earth hurtles around the sun and the passage of time relentlessly marches on, we can be sure of at least one thing: someone, somewhere, is in need of royalty-free vector images.

But what can they do to fulfill their needs? Scour Google Images? Seems risky. Exhaust every image on Microsoft Clip Art several thousand times over? We guess it’s possible, but misguided.

No, they should instead check out VectorGrove.

The enormous library of royalty-free, scalable vector images will no doubt come in handy to anyone in the business of making websites, e-books, slide shows, business cards, ‘zines (do people still make ‘zines?), or literally anything that could be improved by the inclusion of an image. Read more…

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I regret to inform you that there is, in fact, One Good Prank on Instagram.

Look, we can all agree that among the petfluencer momagers and the vloggers who manufacture drama for views, prank accounts are Instagram’s most insufferable group. They’re notorious for objectifying women, shouting a lot, and possibly gaslighting their romantic partners for the sake of a good prank. 

But viral prankster Goubran Bahou may have actually pulled off a good one — his latest video posted to Instagram and TikTok is a perfect summary of the human condition. 

In the video, Bahou sprints away from some unknown force to an aria from the Italian opera Pagliacci. Puzzled bystanders watch him speed around the corner, frantically pumping his arms as if he’s running for his life. Then as the music swells, someone in a wearable dinosaur puppet rounds the corner as well, terrifying bystanders.  Read more…

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