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(NSFW: Language) Some men just want to watch the world burn. And some cats just can’t watch others at peace. YouTuber druxx0r’s pet is one such Joker.  Witness as it seethes with hate and envy towards its fellow feline.
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The procedures used in the handmade candy canes from the last entry were foreign to me. So here’s a way to make candy canes that will appeal more to industrial designers, employing all of the big-ass mass-production machines that enable our profession:

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Production Methods: How Machine-Made Candy Canes are Produced

Tennis balls are great for massaging, but you can also use them to replace a foam roller for deep soreness.

We’ve covered how you can use a tennis ball during an airline flight to relieve sore muscles. That’s just the beginning. Over at Prevention, they’ve got a list of all the different ways you can roll out your problems with one or two tennis balls. For example, if you have tight shoulders, like I do, they recommend:

Shoulder Shine-Up

Why It Helps: This move addresses some of the rotator cuff muscles that often tighten from overuse, poor posture, and repetitive motion.

How to do it:

Place a ball behind your shoulder blade while lying on the floor. Experiment with moving your shoulder in every possible direction for 3 minutes on each side. Your arm will look like seaweed floating in the water.

The balls won’t replace a professional massage and won’t work for serious pain. If you’re tight during the day, though, these quick stretches may just do the trick.

10 Pain-Fighting Moves You Can Do With A Tennis Ball | Prevention

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Carry a Pair of Tennis Balls in Your Gym Bag to Relieve Soreness

The violin is a cute little instrument but also, as I learned from watching this video of violin maker (or luthier) John Young, a really interesting instrument to make. It’s artfully designed and carefully shaved down and is still made in a similar way from when it first appeared centuries ago.

Young makes each violin personal and he hopes that his violins can last for hundreds of years (and get better sounding!) like Stradivariuses

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Video: The skilled precision and interesting history of making a violin

A distracted kid is more often than not a well-behaved kid. So for those times when a child’s phone or tablet has run out of power, Skechers is introducing a new line of shoes called Game Kicks that feature a built-in musical memory matching game that is played like Simon, except that these remain strapped to a kid’s feet.

Available in a girl’s style that features light-up flower buttons and a boy’s version with light-up blocks, the game has kids recreating a blinking beeping pattern that gets longer and longer as they progress. Once they get eight in a row correct, they can claim victory. It’s simple, but it really doesn’t take much to keep kids entertained.

Available for $65 starting in February of next year, the Game Kicks sneakers also come with an all-important mute button so kids can keep playing when the sounds would otherwise give them away, or when there’s the risk of driving their parents mad. [Skechers]

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Skechers’ Game Kicks Sneakers Are a Wearable Version of Simon

 If you’ve got more time than money and have a startup idea that you think you have the skills to build, a new partnership between Amazon Web Services and online education portal edX will hook you up with $1,000 in credit for completing one of two courses on entrepreneurship. Read More

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We have seen plenty of machines sort M&Ms or Skittle by color, but this new design posted over at Review My Life takes a clever new approach to sort the candies even quicker.

M&M sorters come in lots of designed but as RML points out they all basically work the same way. The candies travel down a shoot, their color is determined by a sensor, and then an Arduino-powered servo motor to drop the candy in the right bin. Servo motors and the Arduino color sensor are both quite slow, so the inventor tries to improve these bottlenecks.

The components are replaced with an iPhone camera, to read the color of the candy, and an array of electromagnet-powered gates, which do the actual physical sorting.

But I don’t stop the M&M for colour recognition. Instead I use an iPhone to capture the colour of the M&M as it is in freefall. As it is still falling the iPhone talks to a Bluetooth module attached to an Arduino and that fires off the correct electro magnet controlled gate. This sends the M&M into the correct pot. Even my rough prototype is reasonably fast because the colour recognition and path that the M&M takes down the chute is decided and determined whilst the M&M is moving under gravity.

In fairness, the prototype doesn’t appear to sort that much faster than the machines we’ve seen before, but you have to admire the creativity of the design. With a little refinement, this machine could by the blazing glory of candy sorters. [Review My Life]

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