Tag: gadget catalog
Harvard professor believes he’s found fragments of alien technology
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard professor Avi Loeb believes he may have found fragments of alien technology from a meteor that landed in the waters off of Papua New Guinea in 2014. Loeb and his team just brought the materials back to Harvard for analysis. The US Space Command can confirm with almost near certainty, 99.999%, that it came from another solar system. The government gave Loeb a 10 km (6.2 mile) radius of where it may have landed. “That is where the fireball took place, and the government detected it from the Department of Defense. It’s a very big area…
Garden catalog season gives gardeners a chance to explore, shop for next year’s seeds
January begins the annual flight of vegetable, flower, and fruit tree catalogs to your mailbox or inbox. Depending on your level of gardening, the catalogs are starting to arrive frequently and en masse. “It used to be you would get either a vegetable catalog or a fruit catalog or flower catalog,” says Richard Hentschel, University of Illinois Extension horticulture educator. “Many catalogs now contain something for everyone, including the garden gadget addicts.” It used to be that Swiss chard was green, but now it is also available in shades of pink, orange, yellow, gold, white and purple. Illinois gardeners should…
this year’s trendy gadget, or a modern day game changer?
It’s impossible to count how many home appliances introduced over the past century have boasted their potential to “completely revolutionize the way you cook.” More often than not, they wind up being little more than a nifty trend that’s forgotten after just a few uses. Something simply looks cool, but isn’t all that practical. Just take a gander through the latest SkyMall catalog the next time you’re on a plane. I’m sure we’ve all fallen victim to the “I’ve just gotta have this” syndrome when we see a slick advertisement telling us how much a new slicer or juicer will…
How 3d Printing Is Helping Fight Coronavirus Despite All Odds
3D Printing is reinventing itself by trying to meet the acute shortage of medical devices, objects and even quarantine rooms As we sit down to write how 3D printing is fighting against Coronavirus, the officially confirmed cases of Coronovirus disease worldwide are over 2.46 MN with over 165,000 deaths. The sheer size of the Covid-19 threat makes it important for everyone to join hands and fight this dreadful pandemic. Historically, 3D printers have been used mostly for prototyping industrial items. Sometimes, 3D printed objects have also been used for aesthetic purposes, like printing a miniature of your favorite super-hero. Different…