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Brain drain, I mean Android battery drain gotcha down?
Android smartphones run the gamut in terms of battery quality, from the incredible longevity of Motorola’s Droid RAZR MAXX to the quick-draining mediocrity of certain other handsets that will remain nameless. So if you’ve got an Android that could use some extra battery juice — or if you frequently find your smartphone in the red with no outlet in sight — Huffington Post has put together a bunch of tips, tricks, techniques and apps that can help you maximize battery life on your Android phone.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/05/galaxy-s3-battery-life-11-tips-tricks-android_n_2130787.html?ir=Technology#slide=1759508
For the price tag, the coffee better be the most exquisite tasting ever brewed. Named more like a rocket ship than a Mr. Coffee competitor, the Blossom One Limited is, in fact, a gorgeous, $11,000 coffee machine.
An apparent improvement-by-miles on the simple, mundane kitchen coffee machine, the Blossom One Limited was designed and developed by three impressively-credentialed young coffeephiles — all recent university grads with stints at Apple, NASA, BMW, and Tesla Motors on their collective résumés.
Why the Blossom One Limited? Too much variation in the copious amounts of coffee consumed during late night study sessions.
And so Jeremy Kuempel, President of Blossom One Limited, then a thermodynamic engineering student at MIT, set out to define what was causing these slight variations in the quality of his coffee. After much experimentation, controlling for the beans and amount of water he was using, he found that there were essentially six variables in the coffee-making process that determine the flavor, aroma, and level of perfection of a given serving of joe. They are (get out your pad and paper, coffee snobs): temperature of the water; amount of agitation (stirring) over the course of the preparation; ratio of coffee to water; pressure; and amount of time the coffee is in contact with the water.
The Blossom One Limited controls all that. But with the price tag, I would expect to only find this machine in the most discerning coffee drinker’s kitchen. Remember the percolator?
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/01/blossom-one-limited-apple-nasa-coffee-machine_n_1920529.html?ir=Technology
You lie in the hospital bed, your heartbeat weak, your breath faint. Old age has conquered you: You can feel throughout your body that you are going to die, and you resign yourself to the inevitable. You let your eyelids fall for a final time, preparing to pass on to the next life, when suddenly, a little white robot appears at your bedside, hovering over you.
“Hello,” the robot says to you, gently caressing your forearm with its cold, metallic hand. “I am the Last Moment Robot. I am here to help you and guide you through your last moment on earth.”
“I am sorry that your family and friends can’t be with you right now, but don’t be afraid. I am here to comfort you.”
This would be a totally macabre way to die. Fortunately for us, this is an art installation created by Dan Chen. The project is part of his thesis for his Masters degree at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Chen writes elsewhere that the Last Moment Robot was inspired by Paro, the plush “therapeutic robot” used in Japan to comfort the inflicted, especially patients with dementia and Alzheimer’s. While Paro is an adorable stuffed seal, however, the Last Moment Robot is a jungle gym-like construction of metallic tubes, rods, and hinges, thus enabling that “paradoxical sensation of knowingly interacting with a placebo treatment” Chen was going for.
As for me, when I do go, I want to be surrounded by my loved ones, who will be stroking my arm and weeping and wailing in sadness. If I can’t have that, I hope it’s because I went out in a blaze of glory, partaking in a dangerous yet fun hobby that I was passionate about. “At least she was doing something she loved.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/07/last-moment-robot-comfort-you-in-death_n_1578723.html?ref=technology
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