Don't join a Kickstarter campaign if you would like anything more than a novelty "thank you" tshirt. This week Oculus, which gained 2.4 million dollars through a Kickstarter campaign to design and build virtual reality goggles, sold their company and design to Facebook for $2 billion in cash and stocks. The donors received nothing but a virtual reality headset. Now, as d-baggy as that sounds, especially from one of the donor's points of view, you're lying to yourself if you're saying you wouldn't have done the same thing.
Using nothing but research and math, a Pennsylvanian 14 year old discovered that the Federal and State governments of the US could save up to 400 million a year by simply switching the font of all their printed documentation from Times New Roman to Garamond.
Italian researches temporarily convinced a testing group that their hands were made out of stone by touching their hands with hammers and making metal-on-granite "chink" noises for a period of 5 minutes. One step closer to a real life Fantastic Four.
Links to public smoking bans and healthier children and healthier infant births are found around the world on a regular basis. That being said, scientists have learned that 90% of West Nile infected lab mice injected with tobacco extract "evaded death -- and eventually made a full recovery." I don't want cancer, but I don't want West Nile, either. I don't know what to do.
Kyle Wiens, founder of one of my favorite companies, iFixit, stated yesterday that Apple is doing everything in their power to put repair shops out of business by not offering public iOS device certification and making their devices more and more difficult to work with. Anyone who's ever tried to replace a screen on a iPhone 4 or higher has to agree.
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