I love that 90’s trends are coming back into fashion. Mainly because I haven’t gotten new clothes since the 90’s, but that is a whole other blog post. Like any retro trend, the old style needs a new twist. Clothing brand Zoo Jeans has the new twist on pre-distressed denim. Rather than mechanically manufacturing wear and tear on the jeans, they are wrapping the denim around tires and letting animals at a Japanese zoo do their thing to them before stitching them into pants. That’s right, your jeans are being pre-torn by lions, and tigers, and bears (oh my!) The proceeds from the jeans go back to renovating the zoo, so it’s not just a sweet trend back in action, but a way to donate to the zoo.
Depending on the stage of your life, you may be looking to buy a home. For some people it’s a first home, others maybe a vacation house, or possibly just upgrading to something bigger. Regardless of your reason, you have to be prepared to spend some serious coin. I’ve always been a firm believer in getting the most out of your money. Currently you can go on eBay and purchase the Italian village of Borgata Calsazio. I know what you’re thinking, “I don’t have the dough for a whole village!” Well, need not fret, because the “buy it now” price (yes, an Italian village has a “buy it now” option on eBay) is only $333,057. That’s the price of a decent sized home depending on where in the states you live. So scrap the house hunting, and go buy a village in Italy. Don’t worry about work, you’ll be king of the village! Right? That’s how that works, isn’t it? Either way, if any of you decide to purchase Borgata Calsazio, let us know and then invite us all over! Thanks!
We’ve all been there, somewhere without cell phone service or an internet connection. For most of us, it’s enough to make you feel claustrophobic and start doing the dance of trying to find a few extra bars. (You know the one, arm way in the air with your cell phone, walking around hoping for enough service to check your email.) But there is hope! If Turkish sheepherders can have internet service, I’m sure we can all find a way.
A producer of solar panels in western Turkey has created a solar panel that can be strapped to a donkey so that sheepherders can be connected to the internet even in the rural environments their jobs demand them to be. The solar panels produce as much as 7 kilowatts of electricity. This can be used to power cell phones, laptops, lights, pretty much anything. It’s great to see development in rural areas like this. The next time I’m driving to New Hampshire, I’ll have to remember to bring along a solar powered donkey for that one stretch of i91 where I have no cell service.
Criminals these days seem to be staying on top of technology. You see a rise in cyber crimes, new inventive ways of stealing your identity, hackers, and scammers. It seems as the technology grows, the criminals grow with it. Well, luckily for seventy-year-old Seattle resident Nancy Fredrickson, they don’t seem to retain the knowledge and understanding of our older technology.
Nancy returned home from a day out shopping at garage sales to be greeted by three hooded males. One of which was brandishing a gun and demanding her car keys. Nancy is a black belt in martial arts, but she is no dummy. She tossed her keys on the ground and let the criminals take her car. The only issue for these would-be car thieves is that Nancy drives a standard, and these three guys did not. Nancy said they struggled to even turn the car on. After a minute or two of fumbling with the clutch and shifter, the three guys exited the car and took off running. The three have not been caught yet, but they were seen on a local surveillance camera and hopefully will be brought to justice before they can find an automatic car to steal.
Most of us understand the importance of a good cup of coffee during the workday. For some of us it’s the only thing that can carry you through the day. Now imagine being 155 miles from the nearest coffee place. That is the issue that Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano was dealing with. When he returned from the International Space Station (ISS) he said the thing he missed the most was a real cup of espresso. Meanwhile, Italian engineers were already hard at work developing the first espresso machine able to work in space. The appliance is the first capsule based espresso machine, meaning it uses capsules rather than loose grounds. The machine is able to make other coffee drinks too, besides just espresso. The astronauts aboard the ISS have had a coffee machine before, but by all accounts it was a poor substitute for the coffee we know here on Earth. This new machine will provide our space men and women with the same coffee we would get in a coffee shop here on Earth. Now for the best part, this new espresso machine’s name… ISSpresso!
