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The Ottilia, in Copenhagen’s rapidly evolving Carlsberg City District, is housed in a 19th-century warehouse commissioned by beer magnate Carl Jacobsen. The hotel retains impressive architectural features, including 64 golden shields on the eastern façade, and the inverted pyramidal forms of grain silos in the interior. This is eloquently offset with contemporary Scandinavian design, including a lighting installation by Niclas Hoflin that winds through the atrium. From the first-floor gin bar to rooftop Italian restaurant Tramonto, there are social places aplenty, so long as guests can tear themselves away from the 155 alluring rooms and suites, many featuring round padded window seats. § from CommaFeed - Real Time Trends Network https://ift.tt/2OK6kuJ via IFTTT

Next year we’re arguably coming up on the centennial of electronic music, depending on whether you count the invention or the patent for the theremin its creation. Either way, this observation is early, so start arguing about it now. If you want to celebrate the century of the theremin, how about you do it just like grandpa Leon and build one out of tubes? That’s what this crowdfunding campaign is all about . It’s a theremin, and it’s made out of tubes. Theremins are a dime a dozen around these parts, and yes, if you walk into a Guitar Center you can walk out the door with one. They’re pretty common. But being almost a hundred years old, the first theremin wasn’t made made with only silicon, this one had some dioxide thrown in. The first theremin was a tube device, which we all know has a warmer sound when connected to oxygen free cables in an oxygen free room. In any event, messing around with tubes is fun, so here’s a tube theremin. The circuit for this theremin is constructed arou

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There used to be a time when amateur radio was a fairly static pursuit. There was a lot of fascination to be had with building radios, but what you did with them remained constant year on year. Morse code was sent by hand with a key, voice was on FM or SSB with a few old-timers using AM, and you’d hear the warbling tones of RTTY traffic generated by mechanical teletypes. By contrast the radio amateur of today lives in a fast-paced world of ever-evolving digital modes, in which much of the excitement comes in pushing the boundaries of what is possible when a radio is connected to a computer. A new contender in one part of the hobby has come our way from [Guillaume, F4HDK], in the form of his NPR, or New Packet Radio mode . NPR is intended to bring high bandwidth IP networking to radio amateurs in the 70 cm band, and it does this rather cleverly with a modem that contains a single-chip FSK transceiver intended for use in licence-free ISM band applications. There is an Ethernet module a

ComScore's top two executives have abruptly left the company, with CEO Bryan Wiener citing "irreconcilable differences" with the board. He's being replaced by an interim CEO, Dale Fuller, a board member. Wiener, who became CEO of ComScore last April, has stepped down along with President Sarah Hofstetter. Wiener was formerly executive chairman of Dentsu's 360i and Hoffstetter was CEO. Their departure comes as ComScore also adds three additional board members--former Chairman-CEO of WPP's GroupM Irwin Gotlieb, SoFi Chief Marketing Officer Joanne Bradford, and former CEO of GfK MRI Kathi Love. Rob Norman, former chief digital officer of GroupM, was already serving as a ComScore board member. Continue reading at AdAge.com from CommaFeed - Real Time Trends Network https://ift.tt/2CXtkBN via IFTTT

You can now make flexible circuit boards of unlimited length. Trackwise was contracted out for making a wiring harness for the wing of a UAV and managed to ship a 26 meter long flexible printed circuit board . This is an interesting application of the technology — UAVs are very weight sensitive and wiring harnesses are heavy. Wings are straight, but they flex, and you need wires going from tip to tip. Flex circuits do all of this well, but first you need a technology that allows you to manufacture circuits that are as long as a wing. This is apparently something called ‘reel-to-reel’ technology, or some variant of continuous production. Either way, it’s cool, and we’re wondering what else this kind of circuit enables. You may have noticed a few odd-shaped buildings going up in the last few years. These are buildings designed for indoor skydiving. Two went up around DC in the last year or so. What if you didn’t need a building? What if you could make an outdoor, vertical wind tunnel? H

Metal fabrication is a useful skill to have. There’s plenty you can achieve in your workshop at home, given the right tools. There’s lathes for turning, mills for milling, and bandsaws and dropsaws for chopping it all to pieces. But what do you do if you need to make hoops and bends and round sections? You build a metal roller, of course – and that’s precisely what [James Bruton] did. The main body of the tool is built out of box section, chosen largely as it’s what [James] had lying around. Bearings are of the familiar pillow block variety, with 20 mm bright steel serving as the rollers due to its better tolerance than mild steel stock. Set screws hold the shafts in place to avoid everything sliding around the place. A 10-ton bottle jack then provides the force to gently bend the workpiece as it passes through the rollers. Initial tests were positive, with the roller producing smooth curves in 4 mm thick steel bar. There were some issues with runout, which were easily fixed with som

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The Digital Equipment Corp. PDP-11/70 is a masterpiece of Cold War-era industrial design. This microcomputer was the size of one or two modern server racks depending on configuration, and the front panel, loaded up with blinkenlights, was clad in a beautiful rose and magenta color scheme. The switches — the ones you used to toggle bits in memory — were actually custom designed covers made to match the shape of the completely unnecessary bezel. The aesthetic of the 11/70 is the intersection of baroque and modernism on the design Venn diagram. [Oscar Vermeulen] built a miniature version of the PDP-11/70 that houses a Raspberry Pi, and [rricharz] has been hard at work bringing an original copy of BSD to this system. The first great project to come out of this effort? It’s a weather station , and it’s exactly as cool as you think it is. A bit of ground work went into this build, including getting a historical Unix system up and running, in this case 2.11 BSD. Armed with a Pi and the PiDP

Streaming music may now come from somewhere in the cloud to an app on your phone and be sent to the client built in to almost every entertainment device you own, but there was a time when the bleeding edge lay in dedicated streaming device that connected to your existing set-up. One of the players in this market was Logitech with their Squeezebox line of products, and while the original hardware may have been discontinued it remains very much alive among its dedicated userbase due to the free nature of the Logitech Media Server software and implementations of the slimproto streaming protocol in players. Now you can create a network player on about as cheap hardware as it is possible to find, because [Bgiraut] has produced a client for the ESP32 and ESP8266 . The software can be found on GitHub , and comes with the warning that it’s an early proof-of-concept rather than a polished release. It has two options for playback that both require a little bit of extra hardware, an I2S DAC for

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Sensors are critical in robotics. A robot relies on its sensor package to perform its programmed duties. If sensors are damaged or non-functional, the robot can perform unpredictably, or even fail entirely. [Dheera Venkatraman] has been working to make debugging sensor issues easier with the rosshow package for Robot Operating System. Normally, if you want to be certain a camera feed is working on a robot, normally you’d have to connect a monitor and other peripherals, check manually, then put everything away again when you’re finished. [Dheera] considered this was altogether too much of a pain for basic sensor checks. Instead, rosshow uses the power of SSH to speed things along. Log in to the robot, fire off a few command line instructions, and rosshow will start displaying sensor data in the terminal on your remote machine. It’s achieved through the use of Unicode Braille art in the terminal.  Sure, you won’t get a full-resolution feed from your high-definition camera, and the disp

For a renowned maker of fast Italian cars , Maserati seems to move relatively slowly. This new V6-engined Levante SUV is the latest model in a leisurely launch calendar, and marks the first time the ‘base model’ of the company’s high-riding vehicle can be bought in the UK without a diesel engine. This is both good and bad news, for while diesel’s demonification has led to many premium brands dropping it like a hot stone ( Bentley and Porsche among them), the hard truth is that diesel power is especially well-suited to lugging around the typical supersized SUV. To offset this, plenty of power is required from a petrol unit, with the corresponding hit in economy. That probably won’t trouble potential customers. The Levante’s V6 slots beneath the range’s upcoming pair of V8-engined flagships (with a power unit built by Ferrari , no less), and here offers up 430bhp in GranSport trim. The first thing it claws back from its diesel sibling is a sonic signature unlike any other; you’re not

Patek Philippe, more than any other watch maison, rarely produces anything entirely new, the extent and richness of its back-catalogue means that it is both almost impossible and entirely un-necessary. Better and more interesting is to recombine different elements of existing designs, that way you produce watches that are both new and that fit with the past, which explains the pick of the 2019 collection, the 5235R Annual Calendar Regulator. First seen in 2011 as a Patek Philippe Advanced Research project, the watch showcased new silicon-based components in a design derived from early precision clocks that favours the minutes and seconds over the hour. For 2019 it returns with a rose gold and graphite design that balances warmth and cool to excellent effect.  Reference 5212A-001 Calatrava Weekly Calendar in steel Newer but with a more vintage feel is the 5212A Weekly calendar that uses the sort of hand drawn lettering that you might see on pre-CAD technical drawings. While it’s

The ThisAbles project is a series of 3D-printed IKEA furniture hacks making life easier for those without full use of their bodies. Since IKEA furniture is affordable and available across most of the planet, it’s the ideal target for a project that aims to make 3D-printed improvements accessible to everyone. These hacks fit all meanings of the word “accessible”: Available worldwide, affordable, and helping people overcome physical barriers of everyday living. ThisAbles has support of multiple organizations including IKEA Israel. In their short introductory video (embedded below the break) they explained their process to find ways to make big impacts with simple 3D-printed modifications. From bumpers protecting furniture against wheelchair damage, to handles that allow drawers to be opened without fine fingertip control. Each of these designs also fit the well-known IKEA aesthetic, including their IKEA style illustrated manuals. The site launched with thirteen downloadable solutions,

There are a few options if you want to network computers on amateur radio. There are WiFi hacks of sort, and of course there’s always packet radio. New Packet Radio , a project from [f4hdk] that’s now on hackaday.io, is unlike anything we’ve seen before. It’s a modem that’s ready to go, uses standard 433 ISM band chips, should only cost $80 to build, and it supports bidirectional IP traffic. The introductory documentation for this project (PDF) lays out the use case, protocol, and hardware for NPR. It’s based on chips designed for the 433MHz ISM band, specifically the SI4463 ISM band radio from Silicon Labs. Off the shelf amplifiers are used, and the rest of the modem consists of an Mbed Nucleo and a Wiznet W5500 Ethernet module. There is one single modem type for masters and clients. The network is designed so that a master serves as a bridge between Hamnet , a high-speed mesh network that can connect to the wider Internet. This master connects to up to seven clients simultaneously.

Although it isn’t very real-world practical, researchers at Cal Tech have produced a DNA-based programmable computer . Spectrum reports that the system executes programs using a set of instructions written in DNA using six bits. Like any programmable computer, this one can execute many programs, but so far they run 21 different programs. Using DNA for computation isn’t new — your body does it all the time. But, in general, DNA computers were akin to some logic gates that would do one set of things, not a general-purpose reprogrammable computer. DNA has two parts composed of four different chemicals — you can think of each part as a ladder cut vertically down the middle with each “rung” being one of the four chemicals. Each part will try to pair up with a part that has a complementary set of rungs. The researchers created DNA strands to act like logic gates that have two inputs and two outputs. They combine five of these gates to create a layer with six inputs and six outputs. A progr

The Rigol DS1054Zed is the oscilloscope you want. If you don’t have an oscilloscope, this is the scope that has the power and features you need, it’s cheap, and the people who do hardware hacks already have one. That means there’s a wealth of hardware hacks for this oscilloscope. One small problem with the ‘Zed is the fact that capturing an image from the screen is overly complicated, and the official documentation requires dedicated software and a lot of rigolmarole. Now there’s a simple python script that grabs a screen cap from a Rigol scope. The usage of this python script is as simple as plugging the DS1054Z into your USB port and running the script. A PNG of whatever is on the screen then appears on your drive. Testing has been done on OS X, and it probably works on Linux and Windows. It’s a simple tool that does one job, glory and hallelujah, people are still designing tools this way. This work was inspired by the efforts of [cibomahto], who spent some time controlling the Ri

In the electronic battlefield that is 2019, the realm of password security is fraught with dangers. Websites from companies big and small leak like sieves, storing user data in completely unsecure ways. Just about the worst thing you can do is use the same password across several services, meaning that an attack on one gives entry to multiple accounts. The challenge is to generate a unique and secure password for each and every application, and [Ilia]’s way of doing that is called HashDice. No, it’s not a password manager, or an app – it’s a simple method that can be readily applied by anyone with the right tools. A simple dice is used to create random numbers, which are used to select words from a list to form the basic secret phrase. This is then combined with the name of the service or application to be accessed, the date, and a salt, before hashing using the SHA256 algorithm. The final hash is then truncated to create the password. You can do it all on a device that’s airgapped fr

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Every few months or so, a new video from Boston Dynamics will make the rounds on the Internet. This is their advertising, because unless the military starts buying mechanical mules, Boston Dynamics is going to be out of business pretty soon. You’ll see robots being kicked down the stairs, robots walking through doors, and robots acting like dogs. If a hundred or so highly skilled and highly educated roboticists, technologists, and other experts can put together a walking dog robot in a decade, obviously one person can cut through the cruft and build one in a basement. That’s what [Misha] is doing. It’s the Dizzy Wolf , a robotic wolf, or dog, or cat, we don’t actually know because there’s no fur (or head) yet. But it is interesting. The key component for any quadruped robot is a high-torque, low-noise servo motor. This isn’t a regular ‘ol brushless motor, and for this application nine gram servos go in the trash. This means custom made motors , or DizzyMotors. You’re looking at a big

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Anansi in African folktale is a trickster and god of stories, usually taking physical form of a spider. Anansi’s adventures through oral tradition have adapted to the situation of people telling those stories, everything ranging from unseasonable weather to living a life in slavery. How might Anansi adapt to the twenty-first century? [odd_jayy] imagined the form of a cyborg spider, and created Asi the robot companion to perch on his shoulder. Anyone who desire their own are invited to visit Asi’s project page . Asi was inspired by [Alex Glow]’s Archimedes , who also has a project page for anyone to build their own. According to [Alex] at Superconference 2018 , she knew of several who have done so, some with their own individual customization. [odd_jayy] loved the idea of a robot companion perched on his shoulder but decided to draw from a different pool of cultural folklore for Asi. Accompanying him to various events like Sparklecon 2019 , Asi is always a crowd pleaser wherever they

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Let's get straight to golden tacks. In 2018, total revenue from internet advertising stood at $54.9 billion, with an annual growth rate of 24.2 percent. Sounds American-sized, right? But these are China's numbers (at 369.4 billion yuan, converted to dollars as of March 2019). They come from a report on the Chinese internet marketplace, recently released, if little noticed on this side of the globe, by the Interactive Advertising Marketing Lab, based in Zhongguancun, the Silicon Valley area of Beijing. The US digital industry reached this level of revenue in 2015, with a slightly slower growth rate, according to the IAB's Internet Advertising Revenue Report. From this measure, China is just about three years behind. But time lag in size isn't the only way to measure what these companies might mean for the U.S. digital ad industry. The report identified the top 10 earners, which includes some names that certainly are familiar to Western digital players, and some that a

You read about well-publicised security exploits, but they always seem to involve somebody with a deity’s grasp of whatever technology is being employed, as well as a pile of impossibly exotic equipment. Surely a mere mortal could never do that! Happily, that’s not always the case, and to prove it [Gonçalo Nespral] replicated an attack against RF devices such as some garage doors and motor vehicle locks that use a rolling code. His inspiration came from a device from2015 , that encouraged the owner of a key to keep transmitting fresh codes. It did this by swamping the receiver of the car, garage door, or whatever with a strong slightly off frequency signal. This would cause the lock to not work, so the user would try again and again. The attacker listens with a very narrow bandwidth receiver on-frequency that is good enough to reject the jamming signal, and can harvest a sequence of the rolling codes enough to compromise it. [Gonçalo]’s set-up uses a YARD stick One transceiver dongl

The AMG logo on go-faster Mercedes cars – like the super-quick 3.2 seconds to 62mph AMG GT 4-door coupe – might be familiar to some, but the backstory of those enigmatic initials is less so. As with so many good tales, AMG’s beginnings involve talented humans pursuing their dreams against all odds. Hans Werner Aufrecht and Erhard Melcher are the stars of this history. The two engineers were working in the 1960s development department of Daimler-Benz when the company decided to discontinue its motorsport activities. Undeterred, Aufrecht and Melcher spent their spare time in Aufrecht’s house honing the 300 SE racing engine in Grossaspach – thus the A, M and G in what would become AMG – and the resulting car went on to win ten times in the 1965 German Touring Car Championship. Fresh from that success Melcher persuaded Aufrecht to join him in a new venture founded in 1967 which has grown into the performance legend of AMG today via F1 and DTM success in motorsport plus decades of road-go

Some of biology’s most visually striking images come from fluorescence microscopes. Their brilliant colors on black look like a neon sign from an empty highway. A brand new fluorescence microscope is beyond a hacker’s budget and even beyond some labs’, but there are ways to upgrade an entry-level scope for the cost of a few cups of coffee. [Justin Atkin] of The Thought Emporium published a scope hacking video which can also be seen below. He is becoming a reputed scope modder. This video assumes a couple of things for the $10 price tag. The first premise is that you already have a scope, a camera adapter, and a camera capable of shooting long exposures. The second premise is that you are willing to break the seals and open the scope to make some reversible mods. Since you are reading Hackaday, maybe that is a given. The premise is simple compared to the build, which is not rocket surgery, the light source from below illuminates the subject like a raver, and the filter removes any li

I had a professor in Sociology 101 sophomore year whose name I can't remember, but whose class still stays with me. He had absurdly high standards and was ruthless when it came to evaluating how much of the material you understood. His tests were impossibly hard; he would have failed some of them. When asked why they were so difficult, he said, to paraphrase, "I could make the test easier and you'd all get 4.0s, but I wouldn't know if you knew the material. I'd rather give you hard tests, grade on a curve, and have a better sense of what you learned." It was harsh, especially for an (admittedly) lazy college student like myself who was studying fine art and just wanted to paint and sculpt all day long. Thankfully, I took it "Pass/Fail" and survived by the skin of my teeth. Continue reading at AdAge.com from CommaFeed - Real Time Trends Network https://ift.tt/2V1ffdu via IFTTT

For many people, phone and Internet connectivity are omnipresent and always available. It’s possible to upload selfies from a Chinese subway, and search for restaurant reviews in most highway towns, all thanks to modern cellular connectivity. However, in emergencies, we’re not always so lucky. If towers fail or user demand grows too large, things can collapse all too quickly. It’s in these situations that HELPER aims to flourish. HELPER stands for Heterogeneous Efficient Low Power Radio. It’s a radio system designed to operate in the absence of any infrastructure, creating a pop-up network to serve community needs in disaster areas. Users can share information about available resources, like water, gasoline and food, while emergency workers can coordinate their response and direct aid to those who need it. It’s a system built around commonly available parts. Raspberry Pis run the back end software and communicate with individuals over WiFi, with LoRa radios handling the longer-range

Creating a game from scratch can be hard work. There are concepts to be designed, coding to be done, and art to be created to make it all happen. However, it doesn’t always have to be quite so difficult. There are a variety of development tools that allow budding game designers to get started with a point-and-click approach. [Jonathan Cauldwell] has come up with just such a tool that lets you do just that, for a variety of 8-bit platforms. [Jonathan]’s project is called the Multi Platform Arcade Game Designer, so named for its ability to create games for several 8-bit systems of yesteryear. Currently, the Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and Acorn Atom are all supported, with plans to add more down the track. Creating a game is a simple affair, which [Jonathan] explores in a video tutorial series . Sprite and background editors are built into the software. Scripts can be automatically generated to create a wide variety of basic game types, from scrolling shoot-em-ups to classic platformers. Th

“Never Twice the Same Color” may be an apt pejorative, but supporting analog color TV in the 1950s without abandoning a huge installed base of black-and-white receivers was not an option, and at the end of the day the National Television Standards Committee did an admirable job working within the constraints they were given. As a result of the compromises needed, NTSC analog signals are not the easiest to work with, especially when you’re trying to generate them with a microcontroller. This PIC-based breakout-style game manages to accomplish it handily, though, and with a minimal complement of external components. [Jacques] undertook this build as an homage to both the classic Breakout arcade game and the color standard that would drive the home version of the game. In addition to the PIC12F1572 and a crystal oscillator, there are only a few components needed to generate the chroma and luminance signals as well as horizontal and vertical sync. The game itself is fairly true to the o

Vacuum fluorescent displays (VFDs) are one of those beautiful pieces of bygone technology that you just don’t see much of anymore. At one time they were a mainstay of consumer electronics, but today they’ve largely been replaced with cheaper and more energy efficient displays such as LEDs and LCDs. While they might be objectively better displays, we can’t help but feel a pang of regret seeing a modern kitchen bereft of that unmistakable pale green glow. If his impressive VFD clock is any indication [Simón Berraud] feels the same way . Not only does the clock’s display instantly trigger waves of nostalgia, but the custom PCB has that mistakable look of consumer electronics circa 1985. If we didn’t know better, we’d think this thing fell through a time warp. Well, if it wasn’t for the SMD ATmega328 on the flip side of the board, anyway. In addition to the MCU, the clock features four ULN2003AN Darlington transistor arrays to drive the VFD, and a M48T08 Real Time Clock to keep the whole

The launch of Apple News Plus, the all-you-can-eat magazine subscription service, aims to get publishers hoping for a new rush of readers glued to their iPhones. Once bitten, though, those publisers are still approaching the platform with caution, afraid of giving up the lifeblood of their businesses. The tradeoff from the subscription service, which launched last week, is clear, print industry stalwarts can appear on Apple News Plus, with immediate distribution on 1.4 billion devices, but they have to give up that direct connection to readers. The magazinesfrom publishers like Hearst, Cond Nast and Meredithwon't get access to data about their Apple News Plus readers, because Apple doesn't track users, which also means advertisers can't target them. "The economics on Apple News is obviously less than we get from our owned and operated properties," says Daniel Hallac, New York Media's chief product officer. "But it's a different audience than our we

Mickey Mouse is out but Bullseye is in. Target will be presenting at IAB's Digital Content NewFronts for the first time this year on May 2, a spokesman for the Minneapolis-based retail chain confirmed on Friday. Target plans to make a "big" announcement at the NewFronts, according to an invite sent out to agencies and obtained by Ad Age. It goes on to say the event will be "spectacular." A Target spokesman declined to share details about the May event. Target's participation comes days after Walt Disney announced it was pulling out of its April 30 NewFronts presentation. Instead, after acquiring 21st Century Fox assets, the entertainment giant will host an upfront show on May 14. Continue reading at AdAge.com from CommaFeed - Real Time Trends Network https://ift.tt/2FDAL1r via IFTTT

Ho Chi Mihn City is the hub for sourcing the materials and tools driving the growing Vietnamese economy. Whether you’re building new, or keeping existing equipment running, the supply chains and service companies aren’t yet in place and the markets of HCMC are the go-to for parts and equipment. Let’s get a little taste of what I saw in my tour of the markets. Forget Radio Shack: HCMC Electronics Markets I’d love to have a market like this in my city. The electronics markets are far better stocked than any local store I’ve encountered. One of the first booths we walked past included these waist-high stacks of crates containing reels of SMD passives, boxes of axial resistors, and those are sheets of copper clad sitting on top. You’ll also find well-organized glass counters full of components like the trimpots shown here. There was another with all sorts of segment displays (7-segment, bar graphs, double arrows, and 8×8 dot matrix varieties are all visible). Elsewhere you can get L

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WW is hoping for an Oprah Winfrey boost, featuring the media mogul in its new campaign as it tries to recover from a weak start to the year. The "It Works" campaign features Winfrey video chatting with other WW members to congratulate them on their weight loss. It debuts a month after the company predicted revenue and profit would fall in 2019 after a weak start to the year. WW, which changed its name from Weight Watchers last year, previously said it would feature Winfrey in a central role in marketing after a prior campaign that relied less on her wasn't a hit. That campaign, which debuted in December, "did not recruit as expected," President and CEO Mindy Grossman said in a statement in late February. Ads featured actress Kate Hudson in the United States and singer Robbie Williams in Europe and other markets, plus showcased non-star members, including in ads voiced by Winfrey. Continue reading at AdAge.com from CommaFeed - Real Time Trends Network http

Every weekday we bring you the Ad Age/iSpot Hot Spots, new TV commercials tracked by iSpot.tv, the TV ad measurement and attribution company. The ads here ran on national TV for the first time yesterday. A few highlights: Bank of America says it is "proud to support women in their journeys on and off the course" in a golf-themed spot that calls attention to its partnership with the Augusta National Women's Amateur. The Beatles' "Help!" serves as the soundtrack for a Google ad. And Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck and Angels' center fielder Mike Trout engage in, no kidding, a disco battle for Bodyarmor. Continue reading at AdAge.com from CommaFeed - Real Time Trends Network https://ift.tt/2uyLuFd via IFTTT

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There are few TV-watching annoyances worse than a long commercial break, and now Hulu has taken a hard-line stance against overstuffing ads by limiting show interruptions to 90 seconds. This essentially has removed more than half of the commercial time that had previously run in programming on the streaming TV service. Hulu told network partners like NBC, Fox, Turner and Viacom that it will implement a new cap on ads and has been quietly enforcing the regulations since the start of the year. Previously, commercial breaks on Hulu could run anywhere from 180 seconds to 240 seconds, but now those ad pods can only last 90 seconds, according to Peter Naylor, head of advertising sales at Hulu. Continue reading at AdAge.com from CommaFeed - Real Time Trends Network https://ift.tt/2YBHdOT via IFTTT

The 2019 Geneva International Motor Show has a number of “concept” vehicles. These are vehicles that usually include some cool feature that isn’t really practical — at least today. For example, in the past, concept cars have had adjustable color interior lighting, plug-in hybrid engines, and power windows — all things that would eventually become commonly available. However, today’s advances in computer-generated graphics have meant you can show things you can’t begin to build. Case in point: Goodyear has a video touting the Aero — a solid car tire that doubles as a propeller for your garden variety flying car. To us, the thing looks more like a science fiction movie trailer than anything remotely practical. Four relatively small wheels with no central hub can flip and provide enough lift to propel a sizeable vehicle skyward. Even more interesting, is to transition modes from ground to flight, the vehicle balances on two wheels while using only two as propellers to generate lift. In

Editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys catch up on the past week in hackerdom. It seems as if we’re in a golden age of machine building as an incredible rocker-bogie rover is built to transport a child and mechanical simplicity automates the wet cat food dispensing process. We marvel at the ability to use G-code to decorate eggs (them being curvy in more than one direction and all). The we contemplate the ability to build and start a motor which will continue to run long after your own life ends. And perhaps it’s time to add more layers to your PCB design playbook. Take a look at the links below if you want to follow along, and as always, tell us what you think about this episode in the comments! Direct download (52.3 MB) Places to follow Hackaday podcasts: Google Play iTunes Soundcloud Spotify Stitcher RSS Episode 012 Show Notes: New This Week: Mike just got back from China and Vietnam Seeing glass replaced on cellphone screen modules was a really interesting The