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Would it be possible for someone to make some "night-time driving glasses" that are shutter LCD-type (3d TV glasses) and which synchronize to the duty cycle of any bright LED light…

This is tangentially Rivian related, but does anyone else see the inherent danger of stylized tail lights that are just a single red bar across the back of the car? Travelling on t…

One of the cool things I saw on BBSes back in the day - that I have yet to see replicated - was 'real time chat' in telechat, or being able to see what the other person is typing o…

How long do we need to wait until whatever patent encumberance that's keeping e-ink displays at these ridiculous prices expires and we can start to see affordable e-ink displays?

one variable to take into consideration that I hardly see mentioned, ever - legalization of marijuana in California and other states: there's been a few times on my commute to work…

There's one thing about this I don't see brought up - if someone says "add me, I'm janitor#0832" people usually know they're talking about Discord since that format is ubiquitous, …

This might date me but I'd love to see a resurgence of the Gopher protocol - maybe a touch more modernized, but still just plain text files with hyperlinks. Some sort of public-com…

I think a 3D version of scrabble would be fun, where you build the words using cubes in 3 dimensions instead of two. You could probably even do it non-digitally if you had magnetic…

font-size: [fit-width|fit-height|fit-container]; would be nice

I'd say they should avoid bloating CSS, keep Sass style and just use type='text/sass' or type='text/css-nested' in the style tag, but it seems that attribute is depreciated... why …

Not an expert on this, but I get the feeling they're trying to dissuade people from discovering videos with lower view counts in search results, since these videos are less likely …

"Groceries are 8% higher than last year. Dollar stores: now dollar-and-a-quarter stores." - so, is it 8% or 25% ?

Newer microwaves don't use bulky HV transformers + voltage doublers for the magnetron anymore and instead use high frequency power supplies + step up transformers, and are noticabl…

Pretty fascinating stuff, seems like it's time to implement some quantum CAPTCHAs

Firefox, like most modern software, is suffering from Winchester house syndrome. Hiring full-time UX designers and making them perpetually justify their salary will eventually turn…

The problem I have with touch screens in cars is lining up your finger so that it presses the right area of the screen, which is difficult when driving (and dangerous). Why can't t…

If they were going to change anything, it would be likely to get rid of both the penny and nickel and use 1 decimal place for prices; the current US nickel already has a melt price…

what is up with those weird recipes in the third section? That's not vanilla

Is that reported-to-insurance billions of dollars or actual billions of dollars?

Humanoid robots won't be feasible while we're still tethered to existing Li-ion battery technology. The two advancements in robotics in recent years, Boston Dynamics' Atlas and Spo…

If you're going to freeze your credit reports with the agencies, disable your adblocker - a few of the sites are javascript-fragile. https://www.experian.com/freeze/center.html htt…

If I were to play devil's advocate: Barring alchemy, I don't believe we've ever had a period of exceptional technological supremacy in the history of mankind that subsequently reve…

pragmatically, the mandatory vaccinations seem to be predicated on the following assumptions: 1. Asymptomatic transmission is the primary vector and just as dangerous as being in p…

I don't know if it's just me, but the increased height of these large cars greatly increases their headlight glare and causes me to feel less safe around them at night. If one is d…