Company Developing A Drone Umbrella That Follows Your Head

Company Developing A Drone Umbrella That Follows Your Head

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These are a couple preliminary test videos of Asahi Power Service’s freeParasol, a DJI Mavic Pro drone with an umbrella attachment that, with the eventual addition of an artificial intelligence tracking system, will allegedly be available for sale next year and be able to follow your head and keep you dry, hands-free. Will it stop other people from swatting at your dronebrella? No. Will it stop dronebrellas from bumping into one another and causing pandemonium? I doubt it. Does the test dronebrella in the second video crash into the floor? Yes. How practical will dronebrellas actually be? No. “That wasn’t a yes/no question.” Yes. “No.” For you, anything.

Keep going for three videos, the second featuring a crash, the third entirely CG.

Thanks to blue16, who agrees the easiest way to stay dry is to take a page from your good friend GW’s book and never leave your apartment, not even for a fire.

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June 4, 2018 at 12:59PM

Company Developing A Drone Umbrella That Follows Your Head

Company Developing A Drone Umbrella That Follows Your Head

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These are a couple preliminary test videos of Asahi Power Service’s freeParasol, a DJI Mavic Pro drone with an umbrella attachment that, with the eventual addition of an artificial intelligence tracking system, will allegedly be available for sale next year and be able to follow your head and keep you dry, hands-free. Will it stop other people from swatting at your dronebrella? No. Will it stop dronebrellas from bumping into one another and causing pandemonium? I doubt it. Does the test dronebrella in the second video crash into the floor? Yes. How practical will dronebrellas actually be? No. “That wasn’t a yes/no question.” Yes. “No.” For you, anything.

Keep going for three videos, the second featuring a crash, the third entirely CG.

Thanks to blue16, who agrees the easiest way to stay dry is to take a page from your good friend GW’s book and never leave your apartment, not even for a fire.

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June 4, 2018 at 12:59PM

What The?: Custom Chevy Truck With Two Front Ends Confuses Other Motorists

What The?: Custom Chevy Truck With Two Front Ends Confuses Other Motorists

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Hot on the heels of yesterday’s reverse driving expert, this is a video captured on Interstate 93 in Massachusetts of an old Chevy pickup truck that was heavily modified to appear to have two front ends so you can’t tell if it’s coming or going. There’s even a passenger riding in a rear-facing seat so she looks like she’s driving, and a custom ‘WHT THE’ license plate. Very cool, but I’m fairly certain the last thing you want to do is confuse other motorists on the road. They already have a hard enough time not crashing into things, why give them another reason to not pay attention to the road or try to film and drive? That said, you need to pull up right behind this truck then wake up your passenger yelling HOLY SHIT THEY’RE HEADED RIGHT FOR US!

Keep going for the video. Also, the wake-up prank performed in real life HERE.

Thanks to Corncorn, who may or may not still be on the cob.

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June 7, 2018 at 02:06PM

A Pizza Box Designed For Eating Pizza In Bed

A Pizza Box Designed For Eating Pizza In Bed

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To celebrate Father’s Day, this is the limited edition pizza box created by Boston Pizza and John St. Advertising with two legs that fold out like a breakfast-in-bed tray for eating pizza in the sack. Cool, but aren’t ALL pizza boxes made for eating pizza in bed? What’s wrong with just resting one on your belly like I do? “Besides making you look like a gluttonous monster?” My girlfriend happens to like the look, thank you very much. Isn’t that right, honey? Honey?! Wait — what’s this note? Can you read it to me? “It says ‘My dearest love, despite your penis being the absolute perfect specimen, I have to leave — the pizza in bed has just become too much for me to bear.'” I’m heartbroken. “The rest looks like you practicing your girlfriend’s signature.” Give me that!

Keep going for a brief video.

Thanks to marnie, who knows what I like, and I like eating in bed. Actually I like doing everything in bed.

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June 8, 2018 at 12:08PM

A 3D-printed house you can actually live in should be ready by 2019

A 3D-printed house you can actually live in should be ready by 2019

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In The Netherlands, a company called Van Wijnen is working with the city of Eindhoven to build the world’s first community of 3D-printed houses. The planned community will have five houses, all printed with concrete. Each subsequent house will build on the ones that came before; the first house will be relatively simple, just one story. The fifth house will be two stories and incorporate what the team has previously learned.

At the beginning, the houses will be printed offsite and brought to their final location in the Meerhoven district of Eindhoven. The aim is to make the futuristic-looking houses a work of art in and of themselves, so the final community looks like a sort of sculpture garden.

Van Wijnen is embarking on this project for multiple reasons. According to The Guardian, there are a shortage of bricklayers in The Netherlands. The craft is becoming more expensive as a result. In contrast, concrete is relatively in expensive and versatile. What’s more, 3D printing it is economical because none of the material goes to waste, and the method allows printing different types of concrete (reinforced with insulation or coated with dirt repellant) at once. Additionally, it can be easily customized according to the wishes of the person who will live in the home.

The real key here is that these homes aren’t just models; they will actually be lived in. And if this project is successful, more 3D-printed concrete homes will follow. The first home of Project Milestone should be ready sometime in 2019. For now, the homes are being printed offsite, but the company hopes that by the fifth house, the work will be done at the Meerhoven site. And apparently, the waiting list for the first house is already 20 people long, so it’s clear that Van Wijnen won’t have trouble finding someone to rent their 3D printed homes.

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June 8, 2018 at 10:24AM

Anheuser-Busch pulls millions from controversial NIH alcohol study

Anheuser-Busch pulls millions from controversial NIH alcohol study

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Beer giant Anheuser-Busch InBev is pulling millions of dollars in funding from a controversial study overseen by the National Institutes of Health that aimed to assess the health effects of moderate alcohol consumption, according to a report by The New York Times.

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June 9, 2018 at 08:32AM

Ajit Pai’s FCC lied about “DDoS” attack, ex-chair’s statement indicates

Ajit Pai’s FCC lied about “DDoS” attack, ex-chair’s statement indicates

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Tom Wheeler, when he was Federal Communications Commission Chairman, at left, listens to then-FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai testify before the House Judiciary Committee about Internet regulation on March 25, 2015. President Donald Trump promoted Pai to chairman to succeed Wheeler.

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There was no DDoS attack against the Federal Communications Commission comments system in 2014, former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said this week. Wheeler’s statement disputes claims made by the FCC under current Chairman Ajit Pai, who is under fire for unproven claims about DDoS attacks.

The controversy began in May 2017 after Pai unveiled an early version of his plan to eliminate net neutrality rules. The FCC system for accepting public comments on Pai’s plan failed just as many net neutrality supporters were trying to submit pro-net neutrality comments on the urging of comedian John Oliver.

The FCC claimed the May 2017 outage was caused by “multiple distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS)” rather than by the volume of legitimate pro-net neutrality comments or by a simple failure of the system. To bolster its case, Pai’s FCC claimed that a similar outage during the 2014 net neutrality proceeding was also caused by a DDoS attack. But Wheeler, who was chairman at the time and led the implementation of strict net neutrality rules, says there was no such attack in 2014.

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June 8, 2018 at 10:41AM