There’s a constant flood of rumors on the Internet, some outlandish, some quite reasonable. The problem is it’s really hard to tell which is which, and it’s easy to be fooled by media hysteria during crises or important global news events. Now there’s a quick and very neat way to verify what you’re hearing about as it happens.
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Coding is understandably a huge thing these days. There are a ton of websites and programs out there to teach people to write computer programs. For free. The coders of the world are a giving bunch. The big push is to get kids into it. But what do you do when you don’t want them touching your computer? Get them Robot Turtles, the first board game that teaches kids programing.
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The sheer cold wind of the winter season is almost here or already here depending on which side of the Earth you’re located. All you need is a good way to keep yourself warm when it gets a bit chilly. So what you need, what you really really need is a smartphone enabled method of heating up your feet when you’re out and about in cold weather. And you thought technology didn’t care about you.
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Here’s a quick round-up of Red Ferret posts from the past week for those who missed them. Enjoy.
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Gardens are springing up all over the plac -rooftop gardens in New York City and large urban gardens in \cities such as Chicago and Portland. Growing your own fresh veggies has become a national pastime. Now baseball has jumped into the act. The San Francisco Giants now have a 4,320 square-foot vegetable garden behind the outfield wall in center field in AT&T Park, their professional baseball stadium. This is a first for baseball. The space where The Garden is located…
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Being a student is a tough gig, what with all the ramen life and all. But there are ways to make it more comfortable, if you know what you’re doing. No, we don’t mean set up a BRAD room, that’s extreme, we’re talking about cooking stuff quickly and easily to impress the neighbors.
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It’s great to see the great American tradition of opportunist marketing alive and well and flourishing online. The latest example of this ancient art is the newly launched iPhone 6 bend gate Case, which is a 3D printed phone case which has been specially prepared to cope with any unfortunate accidents that may have happened in a back pocket somewhere.
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It’s a pretty well known fact that if you want to capture the best photos you can with your fancy DSLR camera, you should switch your settings to shoot RAW images. These are the uncompressed images straight as they come into the camera, and the advantages of RAW are that you can see exactly what you’ve got stored, and you have many more options in terms of editing to get the image you really want at the end of the…
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A tiny bit of history was probably made a few weeks ago when the world’s first 3D printed car was driven out in public for the first time. Of course when we say 3D printed, we mean the bodywork and interior etc, not the motor, suspension or other metallic parts. That would be rather difficult right now. But maybe not in a few years or so?
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Remember when you were a kid and you used to make sound effects for all of your toys? Or just whatever thing you happened to pick up. Or maybe that was this morning. We don’t judge here. The Moff Band makes the sound effects for you so you can spend your time fighting dragons.
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USB hubs are a functional item. You buy them because you need them. Not to make your desk more attractive. But now you can have both form and function! And what’s more you can cherish and care for your very own family of data storage drives. Perfect for creating your own SIM Life existence. The House USB Hub is a cute little 4-port USB Hub. But it doesn’t end there.
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The idea of personal electric transportation has really taken hold of the imagination judging by the number of Segway like products flooding the market in China and the Far East. We’re not told exactly what the sales figures are, and certainly there are no photos of hundreds of ex-pedestrians poodling around Beijing on their new toys, but it definitely seems to be gaining in interest. Now there’s a new arrival which looks like it could actually convince people to give…
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It’s a fact of life that after a while every Windows computer on the planet gets filled up with junk programs. It doesn’t matter if you’re talking browser addons or old discarded programs, it continually accumulates as the months and years go by. And eventually it takes up too much disk space, and slows down your PC until it feels ancient and crusty. So it’s always useful to remember that you can do something about it quite easily.
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The old saying ‘you can’t teach an old dog new tricks’ may be a thing of the past, now that a new tech gadget has come into being. The idea behind Pavlok, a small device you attach to your body with a strap or plaster, is designed to help you break old bad habits and learn new good ones, using the power of your smartphone and a conditioning alert such as an electric shock.
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Way back in 2009 we featured a brilliant new YouTube artist who goes by the name of Kutiman. His work involves micro editing YouTube clips of musicians playing various instruments, to produce stunning polished songs. Explaining it doesn’t do it justice, and at the time we called it ‘probably the best thing on the web at the moment‘. Well he’s back with a new album, and the same sentiment applies. It’s amazing.
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