Who doesn’t love longboarding? I personally love it, though my track record isn’t anything to brag about. However, kicking a longboard for a long (no pun intended) amount of time can prove to be a very tiring activity. Wouldn’t it be much better if the board kicked itself along instead? Well read on folks.
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We’ve just about wrapped up the intelligent device implementation in most places you can think of. Our cars can now drive themselves, we have homes which can automatically maintain their environment through sophisticated automation, and even our personal devices deliver more serious smarts than we can handle. But one of the remaining areas where technology hasn’t made huge strides is the garden…until now.
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Since the dawn of civilization man has sought to achieve three things…harmony with his surroundings, peace amongst nations and the perfectly crafted portable chess set. Of these the most intractable has probably been peace amongst nations, but that still leaves the chess set issue as a fundamental block to our global evolution.
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There are some things which are so very useful, and yet not exciting and when you find them you think…oh yes. One such initiative is this Maps Icon project which is one man’s delivery of free map icons for every country in the world. Not only that, but he has created them in a range of 11 sizes from very tiny to huge.
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We first covered LibriVox way back in 2007, and it’s great to see it’s still going strong. The open source service provides free volunteer created audiobooks for all, divided into a nicely categorized library. Think of it as the Gutenberg Press for audio books. One of the great features of the service is the fact that it also offers foreign language audio, which is something sorely lacking in the literary world.
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