NBA general managers want to see if their basketball players have game–inside the video game series NBA Live. About half of NBA teams use the video game in their evaluation of rookies and possible trades, according to the Los Angeles Times. They say that the game allows them to assess new players based on early season statistics, as well as get a sense of how adding a player might change a team's dynamic.
There's nothing bad I can say about this. It is just teaching the player how to play, and if it helps the players how to play, then it helps the team, and that makes the game all the better! I think this is a good idea.
With all due respect to the "Best of What's New Awards," it appears my esteemed editors at Popular Science missed at least one invention in their yearly lineup. The Hatfield Hot Dog Launcher has changed the way fans eat and scream at Citizens Bank Park, home of the World Series champion Philadelphia Phillies. "What does the wheel mean to mankind? What does landing on the moon mean to mankind? I think that's what the launcher means to mankind," notes an engineer who worked on the launcher.
That's priceless AND awesome! I would love to get a free hot dog launched straight at me from the field!
To follow up on its famed Aeron office chair, Herman Miller gave its engineers a challenge: Create a seat that offers a custom fit for anyone, no matter how big or small, round-shouldered or straight-backed. The engineers’ solution was to construct the frame from dozens of small, flexible pieces that bend precisely to your contours.
I know so many people who complain about their backs and spinal problems to the point they wont sit down or rest without a pillow behind them. This seat is a solution solver for all ages! I'd really like to get my hands on this...
“Cancer treatments have hit a wall,” says chemist Michael J. Sailor of the University of California at San Diego. Today’s chemotherapy drugs leave the body too quickly, and both chemo and radiation kill healthy cells indiscriminately, he explains. So he has developed “nanoworms,” strings of iron-oxide particles that could swim through your blood to kill nascent cancerous tumors—and nothing else.
Great! Maybe we will finally find a cure against cancer now. This could turn into a real lifesaver!
This seems a little off of the SciFi channel... Flying cars? Think of the hazards... I would copy and paste what AtomicDynamo said, but that would be a rude ditto to me. But what's the goal of this? I'm not asking "What's the goal of this team", because that's obvious; "To make a flying car." But what I'm really asking... What will a flying car do? What's the good out of it if you have to go off of a runway just to go to work or the store if it will take you even longer just to drive down to the AirPort in the first place? These people just want to have cool cars. Flying cars. My point is that it's a worse idea than any vehicle I've seen before. The hazards of drunk drivers? Look at the drunk PILOTS! This sounds cool. The flying part. But the limits of owning this thing are too much of a draw back from making it a reliable cruiser that I'll be taking to work someday...
The transportation program at the Art Center College of Design has produced legendary car designers, including BMW chief of design Chris Bangle and Henrik Fisker, the creator of the Fisker Karma electric supercar. But this year, after professor Bumsuk Lim’s inaugural motorcycle-design class, the buzz is all about bikes, especially Jake Loniak’s exoskeleton motorcycle concept Deus Ex Machina.
I don't think I'll ever see someone actually driving this thing around town. In fact, most people would probably think that it is unsafe!
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