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Siri vs Google Assistant vs Bixby Voice vs Amazon Alexa.

IKEA launches solar battery packs to rival Tesla's Powerwall IKEA is expanding its solar panel offering with a battery-storage solution, which it claims could help homeowners cut their electricity bills by 70 per cent. The Swedish furniture giant has been selling solar panels since 2013, but has announced it will now also sell battery packs that allow users to store the power generated by the sun and use it whenever they like.

" As shown in this video, a door latch and a pair of pliers are among the mechanisms created without screws, bolts or other fixings by researchers working with metamaterials. The team at the Hasso Plattner Institute's Human Computer Interaction Lab design objects that move despite being 3D printed as one single part. Specifically, the objects have controlled directional movement, which means they can perform set mechanical functions, like gripping something or latching a door. This makes it an example of a metamaterial – an engineered material defined by its internal structure rather than what substance its made of. Metamaterials have properties not found in nature, as with the real-life "invisibility cloak". The Hasso Plattner Institute's research opens up new possibilities for 3D printing by cutting out the need for a printed mechanism to be assembled from multiple, sometimes fiddly pieces. "The ultimate vision is to design the inside of objects," ...

We at Nerd Stalker have been trumpeting this message for some time, nice to see Scott Galloway of L2 put it in a nice little digestible package. Advertising agencies will be dead soon.

Our Crew Gets Behind the Scenes look at Drone Racing Photo Courtesy of Comcast & Beck Diefenbach Have you checked out drone racing? It isn't new but it isn't quite mainstream yet. We were invited to get a behind the scenes look at drone racing. It actually was amazing. The feel of the event was what we can describe as somewhat Maker Faire, SF Tech Event and NASCAR rolled into one. Why Maker Faire? All drones are custom made by each "drone pilot" and tweked in between the races in the netted pit area. Why SF Tech Event? If you have ever gone to a SF tech event , it is has an organic, underground feel to it. People in the "know" network. People on the outside try to get inside for connections. Why NASCAR? There is starting to be some sizable purse money at stake and all the racers we talked to are full time racers. At the CA Drone Speed Challenge , $10,000 was up for grabs with an inside course laid out at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco....

Uno Bolt is the worlds first e-unicycle with Gyro Force Technology. With built-in stabilizer sensors, it's the quickest responding gyroscope to be put into a one wheel machine. Uno Bolt, bolting away with style and precision. See the kickstarter here .