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Consumers who have experienced image quality problems with their iPhone 6 Plus’s iSight camera may be eligible for a free repair, as Apple on Friday acknowledged a problem with a "small percentage" of units and will replace the affected component free of charge.
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Apple announces repair program for blurry iPhone 6 Plus cameras
(Note: This article is best enjoyed with the Battle Hymn of the Republic playing in the background.) Does anything stir your inner-patriotism than seeing the old red, white, and blue blowing in the wind? Obviously not, so a couple of guys invented a flag frame that simulates that effect in your living room.
To maximize its patriotic effect you’ll definitely want to use the InMotion Frame with Old Glory, but since it will be available in two different sizes—2×3 feet and 3×5 feet—you can actually swap in any flag you’d like. Whether it’s from your favorite college team, your branch of the military, or even the Jolly Roger for those who’ve ever dreamed of the pirate life.
Using a built-in fan hidden under the left side of the frame, you can adjust the intensity of your waving flag from a slight breeze, to an intense gust as if the Blue Angels have just just flown past. You will need to hang the frame somewhere close to an outlet so you can plug it in, but otherwise you can hang it anywhere in your home or office—because that’s what freedom’s all about.
The inventors of the InMotion Frame, Angelo Fruci and Adam Mallek, have chosen the crowdfunding route to help bring their creation to other patriotic Americans, and their Kickstarter campaign is very close to reaching its $10,000 funding goal.
If you want to help the pair out, and pre-order an InMotion Frame for your own home, a donation of $400 will secure you one of the 2×3-foot models. But for an extra $75 the $475 3×5-foot model will really tell people how much you love your country—or your favorite NFL team.
Both are expected to ship closer to the end of the year, barring any production catastrophes. Which is perfect, because when it’s cold and snowy outside, it means you can still proudly fly your flag indoors.
[Kickstarter – The InMotion Frame]
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Real Patriots Use a Flag Frame That Simulates it Blowing in the Wind
It’s no mystery that Hillary Clinton often acts as if she is above the law, and when accused will follow her hubby’s example of playing dumb. And when asked pointed questions, her responses (“What difference does it make?”) fall flat and fail to inspire confidence. But one of her recent snarky comments was actually inspiring[…..]
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I’ve often lamented that the iPhone is a beautifully-crafted object that we must hide inside a protective case. But Structures Engineer Nathan Cobb refuses to cover his up, presumably because he appreciates structures. So how does he manage to keep a grip on his slippery phone? Well, like this:
Okay, so the product is somewhat silly, but it’s only a dollar for two pairs. (Edit: At press time, the Early Birds have run out and it’s now $3 for two pairs.) Cobb needs your help!
The Lil Grits that you see in my pictures and the ones in my video were all handmade. I laminated the silicone film and the adhesive with a spoon and cut the Lil Grits by hand with a hobby knife. That’s fine for making a few sets here and there but producing larger quantities is going to require a much larger spoon and custom tooling.
This one may or may not make it; though the target’s just eight large, it had barely cracked $2,000 at press time. There are, however, still 18 days left to make Lil Grits happen.
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This Smartphone Anti-Slip Solution Has the Best Kickstarter Video Ever
Based on Bad Lip Reading’s version of the first Republican presidential debate, we vote Ben Carson and Ted Cruz as co-presidents, Scott Walker’s hair stylist as vice-president and Mindy as Treadmill Pooper. America!
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Nerf’s new Apollo and Zeus Rival blasters are some of the most innovative additions to the toy line in decades. And while they can fire foam rounds at an impressive 70 MPH, there’s still room for custom upgrades as YouTuber LordDraconical demonstrates by making the Zeus fully automatic.
Just pull the trigger and less than a second later all 12 foam balls in the Zeus’ magazine will be unloaded on your opponents. It makes for a devastating attack, but it also means you’ll want to carry a few extra magazines with you into battle.
This mod isn’t for beginners, though. In this video LordDraconical walks you through every step, but his upgrades include everything from swapping in new trigger switches, to replacing all of the Zeus’ internal wiring, to upgrading the blaster’s batteries to a lithium polymer alternative that gives the flywheel motors a lot more kick.
There’s always the risk you could damage your new toy in the process, but the payoff seems totally worth it in this case. Your co-workers will love living in terror while working in range of your cubicle—trust us.
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Guy Upgrades Nerf’s New 70 MPH Rival Zeus Blaster To Be Fully Automatic
Let’s say you’re trying to tackle this whole retirement thing, and that means it’s time to beef up your savings. If you’re looking into an individual retirement account (IRA), you’ll have to decide between a traditional or Roth IRA. There are a number of factors that go into picking the best option, and this calculator can help you decide.
Traditional and Roth IRAs are different in quite a few ways, but it mostly comes down to this:
We’ve told you the ins and outs of how IRAs work, so you’ll want to thoroughly research which option is best for you. But this calculator can at least put you in the right direction. You enter in details about your tax rate, savings rate, expected savings return, and so on. From there, the calculator tells you how much you can expect to earn (considering taxes and return) with one type of IRA over another. You’ll even get graphs that show a side by side comparison.http://ift.tt/1D59DEr…
In order to work, the calculator asks you to plug in your expected retirement rate, and of course, that’s just an estimate, so this isn’t an exact science. Still, it’s a helpful tool because you can adjust the amounts and see just how much you’d earn with each option. You can also see how those numbers change as your tax bracket changes.
Give it a try for yourself at the link below.
Roth IRA vs. Traditional IRA | Dinkytown
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This Calculator Will Help You Decide Between a Roth or Traditional IRA
You almost have to feel bad for Isaac Newton. Despite all of his groundbreaking discoveries in mathematics and physics, his accomplishments have just been eclipsed by a man named James Risner who has somehow bent the laws of the universe to build an infinitely-looped spiral model railroad.
Powered by what appears to be seven HO-scale locomotives, Risner’s creation also works in reverse. But based on our scientific calculations, which are in turn based on the science we learned from the original Superman movie, leaving this setup running in reverse for too long will undoubtedly start to turn back time. [YouTube via Geeks are Sexy]
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You Can Watch Forever But the End of This Infinite Model Train Will Never Arrive
We skipped a week with this column, but this week, I want to talk about the variations in the stormtrooper costume. Not all stormtroopers are the same, and between each film, there’s minor differences that need to be taken into consideration when building your costume.
I’m just thinking about Stormtroopers this week, but there’s other variations, especially when you look at Clone Troopers, Sandtroopers and others. Between the production of each film, the stormtrooper costumes that were used were changed up in small ways.
Take a look at the examples from the three original trilogy movies. Can you spot the differences?
A New Hope:
Empire Strikes Back:
Return of the Jedi:
They’re subtle, but they’re there. In A New Hope, the frown on the helmet is grey, with black in the middle. The holster is on the right, the hand plates are trapezoidal, and the lenses are a greenish color. In The Empire Strikes Back, the frown is entirely black, the eyes are greyish, the hand plates have changed to clamshells and the holster is on the left. Finally, in The Return of the Jedi, the black frown and hand plates are still there (you can’t see them in this picture), but there’s a trim around the edges of the chest plate. There’s some other minor differences in decals that are too hard to see in these images.
These are admittedly very minor differences between each movie, but it shows an interesting thing that happened between each production: they didn’t recycle parts, but changed them up little by little. Thus, when you put together a trooper, you can’t just pull a reference picture from any of the films: the troopers change each time. Trapezoidal hand plates with an all-black frown or trim around the edges of the chest? Not accurate to any of the movies.
For my purposes, I’m going with the troopers from The Empire Strikes Back. So: black frown and new hand plates for me!
Once George Lucas decided to follow up A New Hope with a sequel, he financed it himself. As a result, many of the original stormtroopers costumes that were used in the first film were brought back for the second. When production began, the team reused the ‘stunt’ helmets (those not used on the heroes), and made some changes. The frown was painted entirely black, and the hand-painted details on the helmet – at the temples, next to the eyes, at the back of the head, at the ears and the stripes – were replaced with vinyl duplicates.
More recently, costume historians have discovered that there were some additional costumes cast for Empire Strikes Back. Early in the film’s production, a total of seven stormtroopers were required during the carbon freezing scenes. Later on, however, the scenes required additional stormtroopers. To fill the demand, the film’s costume designer, John Mollo, indicated that they began creating plaster casts off of the existing sets of armor in existence.
Mollo’s notes also indicated that they assembled the suits a bit differently: they ordered new eyes and liners for the helmets, and used elastic and rivets to hold the shoulders in place. Other straps were put into use to hold the suits together a bit better – probably due to feedback from the actors who were involved in some of the early scenes.
Later, for Return of the Jedi, entirely new stormtroopers were constructed for filming.
We’ve already begun seeing pictures from Rogue One hit the web, and no surprise, there’s stromtroopers in this film. Unfortunately, the pictures are a bit too far away to make out any real details – the only thing that I can see for sure is that these stormtroopers do have trapezoidal handplates, rather than the curved ones. Once the publicity of the film ramps up, we’ll likely get some close looks at the costumes, and see how they line up with the ones from a over four decades ago. Once that happens, we’ll have an entirely new designation of stormtrooper: The RO TK.
Top photo credit: Ashley Fraser.
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So You Want To Join The Empire: Movie-Accurate Troopers