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JIBO is a robotic personal assistant for the home designed to offer reminders, photograph moments, make video calls, and generally keep members of the family company. The robot, which was crowdfunded via Indiegogo, features facial recognition to identify individuals, so it can offer up personalized messages to each member of the family.
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INTEX has created an inflatable pool lounger that looks like a landspeeder vehicle from the Star Wars films. It is available to purchase online from Amazon.
The landspeeder was made famous from Luke Skywalker’s travels with Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars. Join the action, and be in the Landspeeder to help the rebels fight the evil Empire. At over 5 1/2 feet in length, the Landspeeder is beg enough for great live action pool play!
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A desperate cat pleads with an unknown human to open the door and let him inside the house. Realizing that his meowing isn’t helping his cause, he switches his pleas to French (voiced by comedian Faireset), which unfortunately made the human (also voiced by Faireset) that much more grumpy and unwilling to let him in.
The Ocean Brothers, real-life Spanish siblings Francisco and Armando del Rosario, created a truly stunning video involving some impressive underwater visuals without the aid of special effects. The entry for the World Shootout underwater photography contest features some trippy visuals including upside-down underwater walking.
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Originally previewed here as part of Nike‘s Zoom Air running collection, the Nike Air Zoom Structure 18 is set to launch in stores next week. Asymetrical Dynamic Flywire and a triple-density Dynamic Support system in the midsole combine to deliver unparalleled stability, while a new contoured last — created to provide a better fit and more responsive ride — works with Nike Zoom Air cushioning to provide toe spring and the quick-off-the-ground feel that athletes expect from Nike Zoom Air. A breathable Engineered Mesh upper rounds out the performance benefits. The Nike Air Zoom Structure 18 is available for customization now through NIKEiD, followed by an inline release on October 2nd.
Release Date: 10/2/2014 (Thursday)
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Budweiser brewer Anheuser-Busch has created a canned version of the spring water it uses in its beer to be sent to needy areas such as Toledo, Ohio, where a recent tap water ban has left many locals without drinkable water. The company will be sending 51,744 cans of the water to the area. Since 1988, it has donated more than 72 million cans.
A truck loaded with emergency drinking water from Cartersville, Ga., will be sent to the American Red Cross of Northwest Ohio for distribution. The American Red Cross will deliver the water to where it’s most needed.
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Like the Nike Air technology that came before it, the Nike Huarache silhouette helped to redefine the footwear category when introduced back in the early 90s. Now, 23 years later, its “less is more” design approach is found throughout the athletic footwear industry, a testament to Nike’s forward thinking. With even greater relevance today than before, Nike Sportswear will be introducing the Nike Air Trainer Huarache Premium to a new generation of wearers this weekend. With a mid-foot mesh strap for a greater lockdown fit, designers Tinker Hatfield and Eric Avar customized the Nike Air Trainer Huarache Premium specifically with cross-training in mind. However, thanks to its combination of Neoprene sockliner and exoskeletal design, partly inspired by traditional South American sandals and waterski boots, Nike Air Trainer Huarache Premium is just as light if not more than the current Nike footwear offerings.
Retails for $115 USD, the Nike Air Trainer Huarache Premium in White/Dark Emerald-Black-Medium Berry will be available at NikeStore.com, NikeTown, and other Nike affiliated retailers, such as Sneaker Politics, starting tomorrow, September 27th.
Nike Air Trainer Huarache Premium
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Color: White/Dark Emerald-Black-Medium Berry
Release Date: 9/27/2014 (Tomorrow!)
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The 19-year-old could face fines for violating a local law regulating the growth of medical marijuana amid the state’s historic drought.
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A 19-year-old California man siphoned off 1.5 million gallons of water for his illegal marijuana garden, the Madera County Sheriff's Office said this week.
The man may have to pay more than $18,000 for the water, which authorities said he siphoned off of a subdivision's water tank.
"With wells running dry, it's appalling to learn this much water was stolen during these drought ridden times," Sheriff John Anderson said in a statement.
Deputies discovered 100 mature marijuana plants growing on a hillside in Yosemite Lakes Park, a landscaped community with a lake and golf course in Central California.
Each plant was connected to a drip irrigation system and hose that stretched 1,000 feet to the subdivision's water system, authorities said. The plants were in a garden that stretched more than 40,000 square feet.
Deputies contacted the owner of the property where the plants were growing, and he said they were his, according to the Sheriff's Department. Medical marijuana is allowed in California, but a local law requires growers to keep plants within a 10-foot by 8-foot enclosure. Each plant grown outside could bring a $250 fine.
An investigation is ongoing, but in all, the man could face around $43,000 in fines. The marijuana plants were destroyed.
Dr Adam R Winstock, founder and director of Global Drug Survey, at Drugs Live: The Ecstasy Trial
If you’re a drug user, chances are you smoke, swallow, drink, or snort your chosen substance recreationally. Statistically, as long as you’re not taking stupid amounts of that substance, you’ll probably be OK in the long run. That said, it’s hard to know for certain what constitutes a “stupid amount," as official guidelines on alcohol (“no more than x drinks a week”) and drugs (“don’t take any ever”) aren’t all that realistic in practical terms.
It’s exactly that—harm reduction for recreational, or “unproblematic," alcohol and drug users—that the people behind Global Drug Survey (GDS) hope to address. Gathering feedback from a huge network of alcohol and drug users from around the world, they’ve devised the Drugs Meter and Drinks Meter, two interactive services (available online or in phone app form) that can tell you exactly how your usage compares to others around the world, as well as giving you peer-collected advice on how to take whatever it is you take.
There are also a couple of other features—one that shows you roughly how much you’ve spent on weed in the past year, for instance—designed to let you decide whether your intake is something that needs correcting. Finally, The High Way Code (HWC), published earlier this year by GDS, tells its users in no uncertain terms how to both enjoy their drugs and take them safely.
I recently spoke to Dr. Adam R. Winstock, founder and director of GDS, about how his organization’s tools are changing harm reduction.
A chart from the Drugs Meter showing peer-collected advice for MDMA use
VICE: Hi Adam. First off, let’s talk about how your approach applies to alcohol. Why are British people actively ignoring official advice on drinking?
Dr. Adam R. Winstock: I don’t think it’s just English people; it’s everyone around the world. National drinking guidelines talk about the risks of longer-term harms, while people are more interested in short-term benefits. They’re based on good evidence and, if followed, people will be at far less risk of developing health problems related to alcohol. But many drinkers want to drink for short-term gain, i.e. getting a little bit—or sometimes quite a bit—drunk.
For many, the current guidelines are set out in a way that doesn’t acknowledge that getting drunk once in a while might be desirable. We need to think about more nuanced and reality-based drinking guidelines that are going to treat people like adults, as well as accepting that alcohol is a legal intoxicant that can be very dangerous.
How do you go about doing that?
This year we’re going to challenge existing guidelines and use people’s expert opinions to help formulate the world’s first “safer drink and drug-using limits.” We’ll ask people in GDS 2015 how much they need to drink or take to feel the effects and have fun, and what the risks are at different levels and frequencies of use. I think most people who use drugs will be far more sensible than everyone expects.
Right. So I guess that helps to explain why state-funded campaigns like Talk to Frank are so ineffective when it comes to reaching this group.
I think Frank can be very informative, but it’s not for people who like taking drugs. It’s like taking a vegetarian to McDonald’s. Talk to Frank, like many state-funded campaigns, has to toe the party line: “Drugs are dangerous and people shouldn’t take them and that’s why they’re illegal.” It’s therefore very difficult for them to have an adult conversation that clearly accepts the reality: that people who use drugs generally aren’t stupid, and that they want to do it socially without intentionally harming themselves or people around them.
That’s the reason GDS is an independent project. We’re not beholden to the government, because they don’t pay us.
Dr Adam R Winstock
Why else has harm reduction had comparatively little success in influencing the way people recreationally—or “unproblematically”—use drugs?
Well, no one gives a toss about recreational drug users because they’re not out there committing a huge amount of crime or ruining their lives. So this huge group of people [about 89 percent of drug users take their chosen substances recreationally] are missed.
There’s also a lack of funding and a lack of interest. Plus, harm reduction has been driven at reducing crime, deaths and mortality, and was initially kicked off with the need to reduce HIV. Yet, the problems facing most recreational users are not death or HIV. The government has found it difficult to figure out what to advise these people to do. They keep pushing the “don’t take drugs” narrative, leaving little room to acknowledge that the risks can be reduced significantly by changing drug-using behavior and context.
Abstinence isn’t acceptable for the vast majority, for whom drug use is not a major problem. The advice just isn’t fit for the target audience, which is basically the general public, not a high-risk section of deviants.
Dr Adam R Winstock explaining the Drugs Meter
You say your harm reduction advice is “personalized." How so?
The real personalization bit is through the Drugs Meter and Drinks Meter, rather than the more generalized information given elsewhere. I’m not naive enough to think that because the GDS produced this pretty little app that people are just going to change the way they use drugs. That alone won’t change behavior. What changes behavior is for people to have an opportunity to reflect on how and what they do impacts on them personally, and how changing strategies will modify their own personal experience and risk of harm.
A feature on the drugs meter that can show you roughly how much you've spent on weed since you started smoking
How does it work exactly?
So there are four barriers, if you will, that all of us use to stop ourselves from changing what we do. The first thing we do is overestimate our personal invulnerability to harm. That barrier is challenged by the drink and drugs meters by, telling people how their personal and family history, medication they might be on, and their personal pattern of drug use impacts on their personal venerability to harm. So people can’t go, “Well, this has nothing to do with me,” because it is clearly all about them.
The second thing we say to ourselves is, “Yeah, I might get a bit hammered on the weekend, but fuck it, all of my mates do as well and they’re all fine.” We take comfort in the herd—but of course our herd is very small. The Drugs Meter doesn’t just compare you to your 25 mates; it compares you to tens of thousands of people around the world who also use the same drugs as you. That social, normative feedback, I think, can make people feel uncomfortable. They might realize that doing two grams of coke on Friday and Saturday is not what most people who do coke do. Knowing what other people do can shift our behaviors in the right direction when it’s done smartly.
The third thing is that people are ambivalent—they like getting high. Our feedback thinks that’s fine—it’s not judgmental. But we tell people how they can go off and do what they want to do a bit more safely.
The final thing is that when people do recognize they’re engaging in behaviors that are harmful and they do want to talk to someone, they’re faced with issues of stigma and shame—some of which are made worse by drug laws and some of which are irrelevant. That’s why all our services are anonymous, independent and confidential.
Have you encountered many challenges while doing your work, given the kind of harm reduction advice you give?
Honestly, remarkably little. Mind you, properly considered, it’s not really that radical. If you have any common sense—if you understand drug use at all and you don’t subscribe to the moralism around intoxication—there isn’t anything in the HWC that’s notably contentious. It follows tried and tested peer education models derived from having adult conversations with people who acknowledge the facts.
We’re just saying, “Hey guys, this is what a shit-load of people who do the drugs you do happen to think is sensible. And by the way, it doesn’t seem to reduce the pleasure they experience, so you might want to think about these things.”
So it’s really gentle. It’s information sharing—that’s how I see our organization, as essentially an information exchange agency. People tell us stuff and we give them information back. It’s rational, not radical.
Why do you think it took so long for someone to just ask drug users on a large scale for their knowledge and experiences? It seems like both pretty accessible and valuable information.
I agree, this ain’t rocket science. There’s been lots of people from the harm reduction movement who have been saying this for a long time, but it just takes time for that to filter through to people like myself, who are fortunate enough through the GDS to be in a position to help implement it. We’re really lucky to have the global network of researchers, media partners and users who have helped us make this happen.
Thanks, Adam.
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Chris New has posted a video demonstrating how dribbling an extremely overinflated basketball can go horribly wrong.
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We present a close-up look at the Commonwealth x ASICS Gel Lyte V “The Gemini,” featuring a tonal blue colorway and a combination leather/suede build. Inspired by the Gemini constellation, the twins motif is presented here with a twist: the left and right shoe are inversely designed, with one featuring a suede base with leather overlays, the other with a leather base and suede overlays. Heavy rope laces and a contrast off-white midsole complete the look. The kicks are set to launch this Saturday at Commonweath stores and online.
Release Date: 9/27/2014 (Saturday)
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A little brown goat named Clyde inexplicably begins babbling incoherently, almost as if he were suffering from glossolalia and speaking in tongues. According to his human Taylor Murphy, Clyde’s behavior was completely unexpected but amusing.
I’m not quite sure what he’s doing but it’s funny. Just watch.
I'd rather get this out of the way up front: the iPhone 6 is the best smartphone you can buy. In fact, it's better than that. The iPhone 6 convinced me to switch back to Apple.
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The Wallkill Mighty Mites youth football team — based out of Wallkill, New York — attempted to charge through a large banner to celebrate their first home game of the season. Instead, the little football players were knocked to the ground by the durable banner, as seen in a video uploaded by James Cracolici.
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Eteo, a Belgian Malinois personal protection dog trained by Protection Dogs Plus, is having a great time while pushing little Aden around Newburyport, Massachusetts in his Little Tikes Cozy Coupe toy car. Eteo even takes a moment to turn the car and greet a fellow canine that is crossing his path.
The “Plus” means that when our trained German Shepherds & Belgian Malinois aren’t busy taking out bad guys, they’re ready to be kid-friendly companions!
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Sometimes it’s best not to overthink these things.
According to New York Daily News, the clip shows a guy, known only as Shane, popping the question to his girlfriend Cheri while enjoying a paddle boat ride with friends on the Wisconsin River near Muscoda, US.
German teenager Kevin Pöhls earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records by building a 15,022-piece domino pyramid. The attempt had its share of built-in drama when Pöhls got more than 14,000 dominoes into a prior attempt before the whole thing came crashing down.
A very helpful German Shepherd releases his best friend Sophie, a maltese puppy, from her crate and into the freedom of the house in less than a minute. Their collective human Julie Caitlin set up this scenario in order to figure out how Sophie was getting loose at night.
I recorded this to make sure that I wasn’t forgetting to latch Sophie’s kennel after I stuck her in it – I kept noticing her running around with our German Shepherd Twitch soon after I would stick her in it. Turns out, I was latching it, but Twitch just figured out how to not only open it, but also figured out it was easier if he took the towel off as well. (Sophie is a Maltese 1 year old puppy and Twitch is a 6.5 year old German Shepherd.)
A larger-than-life airbrushed portrait of Hulk Hogan, former WWE champion and current Loan Mart spokesperson, stands guard overlooking the parking lot of his new business venture, Hogan’s Beach, a restaurant and club that opened on New Year's Eve of 2012 in Tampa Bay, Florida.
As you pass by the “motorcycles only” section of the parking lot and make your way through the damp Best Western banquet hall lobby that’s lined with Hard Rock Café-style memorabilia in dusty glass cases, it’s almost as if you get transported back to a time when Urkel was the class dweeb, Kelly Kapowski was the homecoming queen, and Hulk Hogan was that really cool PE teacher who looked the other way when you cut class to smoke weed.
When you finally arrive at the entrance of Hogan’s Beach, it’s hard to believe that this dream of a restaurant was almost just that.
Even though he had experienced huge success in the wrestling world—such as winning “Best Babyface” for ten consecutive years—Hogan’s track record in entrepreneurship has been somewhat shaky. His first restaurant, Pastamania, was located in the Mall of America and closed less than a year after opening. And after passing on the George Foreman Grill franchise (before Foreman was attached), Hogan tried to make up for the loss by fronting a line of health-centric blenders called the Hulk Hogan Thunder Mixer. The device has since been discontinued.
Hogan also suffered a string of seemingly unrelenting and very public personal lows from 2007-2012. There was the messy divorce from his wife Linda in 2007, in which it was reported that he turned over 70 percent of the couples liquid assets to her (no word on who got to keep the couple’s Thunder Mixer). Later that year, his son Nick was arrested at 17 for an illegal street race turned car crash that left his close friend, and former Iraq War veteran, braindead. A lengthy and expensive civil suit followed, and Nick spent six months in county jail before he was released on probation. Then, in 2008, Hogan started a 19-month-long nightmare where he endured nine back surgeries and was told he’d never walk again. To top it all off, an embarrassing sex tape he made with his best friend Bubba the Love Sponge’s wife, Heather Clem, was made public in April of 2012. But if there’s one thing Hulk Hogan fans know, it’s that he’s never down for the count for good.
In what could arguably be called his comeback, Hogan seemed to invest all his energy into Hogan’s Beach. It's a throwback to his glory days, and the carefully selected color scheme of American mustard yellow and cookout ketchup red pay homage to the wrester’s infamous costume.
As I sat down to eat next to a table of 20-plus patrons in the midst of what I can only describe as an NRA meet-up, I realized just what it took for this living icon to complete this venture.
Head Chef Rob Uzzillia, a graduate from the Culinary Institute of America, rounded out the menu at Hogan’s Beach in a way, he described, “that will make Hogan’s Beach a dining destination as much as it is a place to come have fun on the beach.” While I can certainly attest to having fun on the beach, I also ate at least half of the $14 microwaved chicken fettuccine alfredo that was served lukewarm. I took a break from devouring Chef Rob’s creation and walked out onto the restaurant’s “Tequila Sunrise meets Pirates of the Caribbean”-themed patio.
It was easy to imagine how this Tampa hotspot transformed into the place to be for people like this on weekend nights. Equipped with a jet ski-up beach, where patrons can literally park their jet skis near the beach, and some of the areas most high-end DJs spinning insane tracks (such as Tony Puccio, who’s described on his website as earning “respect both locally and globally"), it’s no wonder Hogan himself describes the nightlife “like a crazy beach party… that on Saturday and Sunday has 3,000 to 4,000 people.”
A flier near the outside bar informed me that the venue is set to host a “Nothing But 90s” Halloween Bash, featuring Vanilla Ice on October 31. A $5,000 cash prize will be awarded to the best-dressed contestants in the sexiest, scariest, and totally 90s categories.
Oh, and this bar gives back too. When 9/11 fell on the bar’s infamous “bike night” (gotta wonder what the “motorcycle only” lot looks like on a night like that), Hogan’s Beach took the opportunity to host a party to raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project. Cover band Cross Eyed Larry, self-described as "Tampa Bay's Best Roll and Roll," played on the main stage while a Latin-style/electronic DJ spun tacks in the lot to honor our nation’s soldiers.
As I walked towards the exit, feeling how Bill and Ted must have felt upon returning from their excellent adventure back to San Dimas, I looked back and I noticed this:
How could a man who seemingly put do-rags on the market for white people suddenly discriminate against his clientele for wearing them? Let alone the laundry list of other clothing he banned:
There is, of course, a reason for the restrictive dress code: “This is a beach party and beach attire is required.”
Hulk Hogan has done a lot over the years for his fans. This restaurant seems to be his way of grasping at his glory days, trying to remain the Hulk Hogan we knew and loved back then, but I wish he would allow himself to retire his do-rag and maybe jet ski up to someone else's beach.
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Upon seeing a large school of fish congregating around a pair of tourists who were throwing bits of chum into the water, a very brave and hungry stingray in Maldives jumped a man-made water ramp to make itself known to the humans with the food. The ray appeared to be very appreciative and even let the surprised tourists get in close enough for a bit of cuddle.
A hungry stingray jumps out of the water and onto a man-made ramp, providing these tourists an incredible up-close experience during a trip to Maldives.
At first, I was repulsed, but the more I thought about it…
And that’s much less of a good thing than you might think.
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The Suitsy is a business-suit onesie for adults that is currently being considered at Betabrand under their product development Think Tank project — where products are submitted and voted on by the community for a possible production run. The Suitsy gives the illusion that a person is wearing a suit, but in reality it is a comfortable zip-up onesie.
The Suitsy was submitted to Betabrand by inventor Jesse Herzog who also created a video of himself zipping up the product.
The Suitsy is a jacket connected to a shirt connected to pants. A zipper is hidden behind the shirt-button placket (with false buttons) and pants zipper. Fake shirt-cuff material extends from the end of the jacket sleeves to give the impression of a complete dress shirt worn underneath. It’s as if a jumpsuit and a business suit had a lovechild.
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The Octobot is an aquatic robot created by the Institute of Computer Science in Greece that takes inspiration from the Octopus vulgaris (common octopus), using eight arms to help quickly propel itself through the water. A squishy membrane connecting the robo-tentacles helps it swim through the water at speeds of up to seven inches a second.
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How NOT to play the Dane.
Krispy Kreme UK has created the Double Hundred Dozen, a tremendous box of 2,400 doughnuts to promote their new catering service Krispy Kreme Occasions. Krispy Kreme UK held a contest on their Twitter account to select a winning business to receive the giant box of doughnuts, and the prize went to 360 Resourcing Solutions who tweeted a celebratory image.
Mmm.. doughnuts… pic.twitter.com/dLiJkJ12QG
— 360 Resourcing (@360resourcing) September 19, 2014
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