But Uber knocked $15 off Jaime Hessel’s bill because it agreed that the driver had taken an “inefficient route.” Gothamist : Hessel told us by phone that she e-mailed Uber at 12:30 today to ask them for an explanation. Read the rest
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Uber charges rider $16,000 for a 7-mile trip
MadameBerry has made us a neat toy: EDDA , An atmospheric slam poetry battle based on a collection of Old Norse poetry . Alongside warm firelight in a great hall, you choose how to complete phrases in response to your challenger, with the aim of besting four different types of poets. Read the rest
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Try performing in atmospheric Norse slam poetry competition
If your car has a proximity-based ignition fob that lets you start the engine without inserting a key, thieves on the street in front of your house can use an amp to detect its signal from your house and relay it to the car, getting away clean. Read the rest
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A restaurateur in Lecce, Italy dug up the plumbing for his perennially blocked toilets and discovered thousands of years’ worth of tunnels beneath the building, including a Messapian tomb. Read the rest
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Blocked Italian toilet leads to thousands of years of buried history
“Because there are so many technological world-firsts in the demo, and because we’re bending the hardware in ways that people have never thought to do so, it’s only fair that we try to explain exactly how this was achieved .”
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Amazing demo gets 1000 colors out of 4-color CGA PC card from 1981
In just 100 seconds, this snazzy video from U.K.-based healthcare provider Benenden Health explores 100 years of fitness trends. Read the rest
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Watch 100 years of fitness history in 100 seconds
Design studio Studio Drift created “Shylights” that unfurl as they lower from the ceiling, looking more like glowing jellyfish than chandeliers (more…)
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Undulating jellyfish-like chandeliers
A group of biohackers is injecting a substance called Chlorin e6 into their eyes to give them temporary night vision . Read the rest
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Inject this substance in your eyes for night vision
Singapore’s insatiable appetite for sand to use to expand its island’s territory has led to a worldwide boom in illegal sand-mining, run by criminal gangs who are responsible for the destruction of entire islands in the Pacific rim. Read the rest
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Sandwars: the mafias whose illegal sand mines make whole islands vanish