More Game Boy stuff that’s been sitting around in my collection of likes/faves for the past year! This photo frame was procured and posted by @jgkry268.
this seven year old girl got half an arm (just like lusie in the gifs) 3d printed and it only cost $50
can we just compare that with the average price of buying a prosthetic
3d printing is gonna help so many people holy crap
No no no, guys, this gif set leaves out the literal best stuff from the video.
So a few years back, this guy who accidentally cut off his fingers, teamed up with a special effects artist/puppeteer and created a 3D printable prosthetic hand, that used the movement of the wearer to be able to grab things. The guys who did this said they were just going to post the schematics online, which in turn lead to creating a network of people with 3D printers, who were willing to print prosthetics for people. The network of volunteers, turned into an organization that gives prosthetic arms/hands to kids who need them. They have science types improving the designs and creating new ones, they got a grant from Google, classrooms and scout troops are getting involved and making prosthetic hands for people.
Everything about this is amazing.
And because the cost is so low (or much easier to be donated) kids don’t have to wear them after they grow out of them or go without, they can get a new one. And often the one that was grown out of is still in good shape and can be passed down to another kid in need.
God damn this makes me happy.
3D printing is going to straight up destroy manufacturing because this? Is eventually how we’ll get parts for literally everything. I’m not even complaining, just pointing out that this model is going to eventually become THE model for acquiring goods across a huge spectrum of materials…they’re already experimenting with 3D printing makeup machines, and don’t act like you wouldn’t be into being able to specify a Pantone color for your lipstick and kaboom!
So yknow… Don’t go too deep into factories, I guess. Also brace yourself for (more) tedious patent fuckery.
This is probably one of the most depressingly heart-wrenching photos I’ve ever seen. Native American children taken from their families and put into school to assimilate them into white society. the slogan for this governmental campaign ’“kill the Indian to save the man”. no official apology has ever been issued. never forgotten.
Police are claiming that Sandra took the trash bag out and tied it to the partition on her shower, and then used it to hang herself with.
Problems with this explanation:
Trash bags/cans are not allowed in jail cells because any lose items are considered a danger to the inmates. If it’s not bolted down to the floor, it’s basically not allowed in a cell
If the police are right and the picture was “taken right after the body was found with no changes made to the scene” then why did they replace the trash bag?
The bag she allegedly used was a “black industrial sized” trash bag, which was not only unlike the white one shown above, but it wouldn’t have been strong enough to hold up her body
The partition she “hung herself” from is shorter than her. Sandra was a little over 6 ft, and the partition was about 5 ft.
There were no lacerations or bruises on her neck consistent with a hanging.
#StayWoke
I’m sick
I’m gonna assume that the cops injured her severely when they beat her during the arrest, then realized if she got in front of anyone other than a cop, it would come out that she was severely injured, so they staged her suicide to try and cover it up.
And people are still gonna tell black folks that they will be fine around police if they just behave…
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In-depth article from a 1995 article in Step-by-Step Graphics — if you know what that is, congratulations, you've made it this far in your career — on the design of the Late Show with David Letterman logo by Roger White.
A school project created by two Yale undergraduates in 2011 has unexpectedly become a target of Facebook's legal team. The social networking giant has demanded that the two developers, Bay Gross and Charlie Croom, abandon the website they created at whatsherface-book.com. The site featured a game that showed people pictures of their Facebook friends, then quizzed them on which pictures they could recognize.
"You should not sell, offer to sell, or transfer the domain name to a third party and should let the domain registration expire," states the letter, signed by "Ethel" of Facebook's legal department. "Please confirm in writing that you will agree to resolve this letter as requested."
The missive from Ethel had unusual timing, since the game stopped working earlier this year after a Facebook API update. But the two friends, who created the website as a project in their Law and Technology class at Yale, still felt they shouldn't have to remove their website. While the game stopped functioning, the site still showcased the results of the quizzes that had been taken. Plus, the site had a real point to make about Internet privacy and how it's at odds with Facebook's massive data collection.
Researchers at an HP security division have publicly detailed four code-execution vulnerabilities that can be used to hijack end-user smartphones running the latest versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser.
The disclosures earlier this week came more than six months after researchers from HP-owned TippingPoint first privately reported the bugs to Microsoft security engineers. According to the advisories published here, here, here, and here, Microsoft officials acknowledged the bugs and in each case asked for an extension beyond the four months TippingPoint officials normally wait before publicly disclosing vulnerabilities. All four of the extensions expired Sunday, leading to the public disclosure of the bugs.
It remains unclear why Microsoft hasn't issued fixes. TippingPoint alerted Microsoft to three of the vulnerabilities in January and one of them last November. A Microsoft spokesman told Ars he was looking in to the matter.
2011's The Binding of Isaac has remained an Ars Technica favorite for some time, especially due to the "Zelda roguelike" game receiving robust upgrades and improvements in a 2014 semi-sequel. But for years, the gross, religiously charged adventure had one glaring issue: its absence from Nintendo systems.
That situation changed on Thursday with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth's launch on both the Wii U and new 3DS systems, along with the Xbox One—a fact we point out because of how long its creators have been trying to get the game on a Nintendo console.
"We just kept pushing them and working on the [new Nintendo] version," game creator Edmund McMillen told Ars in a Skype interview. He credited internal staffers who were fans of the game, including former Nintendo indie-games chief Dan Adelman, who had pushed for a change in policy that would allow the game to be launched on his company's devices.
Journalism is prone to hyperbole, but on July 23, 1985 technology genuinely changed forever. At New York's Lincoln Center, as a full orchestra scored the evening and all its employees appeared in tuxedos, Commodore unveiled the work of its newly acquired Amiga subsidiary for the first time. The world finally saw a real Amiga 1000 and all its features. A baboon's face at 640x400 resolution felt life-changing, and icons like Blondie's Debbie Harry and Andy Warhol came onstage to demo state-of-the-art technology like a paint program.
Today, Amiga—specifically its initial Amiga 1000 computer—officially turns 30. The Computer History Museum (CHM) in Mountain View, CA will commemorate the event this weekend (July 25 and 26) with firsthand hardware exhibits, speakers, and a banquet where the Viva Amiga documentary will be shown. It's merely the most high-profile event among dozens of Amiga commemorative ceremonies across the world, from Australia to Germany to Cleveland.
What's the big deal? While things like the Apple II and TRS-80 Model 100 preceded it, the Amiga 1000 was the first true PC for creatives. As the CHM describes it, the Amiga 1000 was "a radical multimedia machine from a group of thinkers, tinkerers, and visionaries which delivered affordable graphics, animation, music, and multitasking interaction the personal computer world hadn’t even dreamt of." It pioneered desktop video and introduced PCs to countless new users, rocketing Amiga and Commodore to the top for a brief moment in the sun.
“The originators and adherents of #GiveYourMoneyToWomen didn’t just suggest that women should get paid for existing, although yeah that too if you’re buying. Rather, women should get paid for all the work they typically do for free – all the affirmation, forbearance, consultation, pacifying, guidance, tutorial, and weathering abuse that we spend energy on every single day. Imagine a menu of emotional labor: Acknowledge your thirsty posturing, $50. Pretend to find you fascinating, $100. Soothe your ego so you don’t get angry, $150. Smile hollowly while you make a worse version of their joke, $200. Explain 101-level feminism to you like you’re five years old, $300. Listen to your rant about “bitches,” $infinity.”
After traveling from Washington, D.C., to Portland on a bike she built herself, Megan Holcomb found herself "heartbroken" on the second-to-last day of her cross-country tour.
Holcomb, 26, discovered Wednesday morning that her bike was stolen some time before 8 a.m. along West Burnside Street in Northwest Portland.
The bike had been her home for the last two and a half months as she stopped in nine states looking for a city to start her career in water quality research.
"With bike towns come bike problems," said Holcomb, who is originally from Columbus, Ohio.
After a yearlong water quality research fellowship with the EPA in Washington, D.C., Holcomb wanted to look for work opportunities out west. Her first step? Ride her bike about 2,800 miles through the TransAmerica Bike Route, also known as U.S. Bicycle Route 76, and ending her tour in Portland.
"I thought riding might be a nice way to travel and make the trip long enough to see some of the smaller cities," Holcomb said. "I feel like I've been trapped in a cubicle for a whole year."
At first, Holcomb said she looked for a standard bike. She searched on Craigslist and eBay, but then went to a sale at Phoenix Bikes in Arlington, Virginia. There she met shop manager Edoardo Buenaobra who inspired her to build her own bike for the trip.
"I knew nothing about bikes -- let alone know how to change a tire," Holcomb said, explaining she solely biked for daily commutes before the cross-country tour.
She handpicked every piece, from the black 46-centimeter frame to the 26-inch wheels to the lime green headset bottle opener to the MKS step-in pedals to a leather saddle that takes up to 10,000 miles to break in.
"It molds to your person and becomes your seat," Holcomb said.
The bike altogether cost more than $1,800, she said.
"I thought this bike would be with me for a very long time," Holcomb said.
On May 4, Holcomb set out with just a backpack and her bike.
From D.C., Holcomb went to Virginia, Kentucky and then Illinois, where she had a bad accident that left her with a scar on her elbow. It forced Holcomb to take a week off to heal. Soon after, she was off again -- stopping in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Washington and, finally, Oregon. Holcomb admits she didn't have the best lock system, but a heavy U-Lock didn't make sense for such an extensive trip. Plus, the bike was rarely out of her sight, she said.
The bike was parked outside a friend's apartment in Northwest Portland when Holcomb discovered it missing. She reported the bike stolen to police and has been chasing leads on the bike's whereabouts ever since.
"It's a bummer way to end the trip," said Holcomb, who plans on going home to visit family and friends before moving to Denver.
Holcomb said she wasn't going to let the theft tarnish the experiences she gained over the past two and a half months.
"It was never about the bike and I," Holcomb acknowledged. "It was about the people I met along way."
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Late Wednesday morning, Holcomb took her plea for her bike's return to Facebook. Her post offers a full description and the police report number.
Super Opinionated.
