Nobody Cares: Technology-only Edition

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[Dakota Tebaldi]

I wanted one of these so bad but I never got one! I don't know if these kinds of toys are really even made anymore - certainly they're not as widely available as when Radio Shack was selling them.


FWIW I -did- get an alarm bell kit one year, and an electric motor kit the next year, and those were fun so I guess I can't complain that much.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

This is the one I had around 1980.

 

[Noodles]

Its all Arduino and ESP32s now.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Its all Arduino and ESP32s now.

Nun uh!

Amazon.com: Snap Circuits Jr. SC-100 Electronics Exploration Kit, Over 100 Projects, Full Color Project Manual, 28 Parts, STEM Educational Toy for Kids 8 + : Toys & Games

Amazon.com: Snap Circuits Jr. SC-100 Electronics Exploration Kit, Over 100 Projects, Full Color Project Manual, 28 Parts, STEM Educational Toy for Kids 8 + : Toys & Games

www.amazon.com

 

[Noodles]

Nun uh!

Amazon.com: Snap Circuits Jr. SC-100 Electronics Exploration Kit, Over 100 Projects, Full Color Project Manual, 28 Parts, STEM Educational Toy for Kids 8 + : Toys & Games

Amazon.com: Snap Circuits Jr. SC-100 Electronics Exploration Kit, Over 100 Projects, Full Color Project Manual, 28 Parts, STEM Educational Toy for Kids 8 + : Toys & Games

www.amazon.com

Stop showing me things I should not buy.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Hmmm....honestly that one seems a lot more rudimentary than the one in the video.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Upselling the 750 projects kit?

 

[Casey Pelous]

Upselling the 750 projects kit?

He was probably the kid who pitched a hissy fit on Christmas morning when the red bicycle didn't have whitewall tires.

 

[Free]

What the hell?

No One Can Afford to Buy Hardware, So Nvidia Made Trading Cards to Reminisce About the Good Times

The GPU company announced its first series of trading cards highlighting GeForce’s 'great moments.'

gizmodo.com

 

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This looks pretty, pretty cool

'Acceleration without fuel:' Revolutionary superconducting thruster harnesses Earth's magnetic field in 1st orbital test

New Zealand company Zenno Astronautics has tested the first of its kind thruster based on superconducting magnets to maintain the position of a satellite in space.

Superconducting magnets can convert solar energy directly into momentum in space and provide a source of acceleration that needs no fuel, but until recently, the technology was too large and complex to fit on a satellite. That's no longer the case.

Zenno Astronautics, a spin-off from the University of Auckland, has flown its new "Supertorquer" system on the Mira satellite built by California-based start-up Impulse Space. The tests began shortly after Mira's launch in November last year aboard the SpaceX Transporter 12 mission and saw the shoebox-size device perform with flying colors, Zenno Astronautics CEO and founder Max Arshavsky, told Space.com.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Tank Farm Dynamo, David Brin, 1983

 

[Noodles]

What the hell?

No One Can Afford to Buy Hardware, So Nvidia Made Trading Cards to Reminisce About the Good Times

The GPU company announced its first series of trading cards highlighting GeForce’s 'great moments.'

gizmodo.com

Works for sports cards. "I can't play Baseball but at least I can have a baseball card of this famous player!"

 

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There's a reason glassholes gained such a negative connotation the first time around.

The Meta Glasses backlash is changing how (or if) people use them - Engadget

Backlash online is changing how (or if) people wear Meta's smart glasses.

www.engadget.com

"A lot of men and their behaviors have ruined this product," Danielle, a Florida-based creator and travel host who asked to be identified by first name only, told Engadget. Initially she enjoyed using her smart glasses for capturing travel content from the international trips she hosts. Then she read a story about how contractors working for Meta said they had been tasked with reviewing intimate images and other sensitive details captured by glasses owners.

Further reporting of men using Meta-branded glasses to film videos of themselves harassing women in public sealed the deal. She says she hasn't used them since. "I wouldn't feel comfortable around somebody wearing them, so I wouldn't expect anybody to be comfortable around me wearing them, no matter where I am.

"At this point, they're like a fancy paper weight," she says.