I'm no sword expert but I think if you also hold a blade like that, you'll hit with the flat side.

Maybe the hilt is curved so his left hand is in front of the other fingers? Yeah. I'm going to go with that even though it's extremely unlikely to be true. And that even if it was, swinging the sword with a grip on a curved hilt like he's holding it would break those invisible fingers on impact with anything not…

No. Smart home means I have 2 young children and it's easier to set up a geofence to unlock the door when I get home than it is to try to unlock the door myself while also carrying a diaper bag and a car seat with an infant in it while it's snowing out.

I worked as a technician and installer for a few years at a large company that did all sorts of A/V work, automation, and security. We wired houses and istalled massive, expensive systems for very wealthy clients, and even those things still kinda suck. Of the brands we used (Control4, ElanG!, Crestron, and Savant)…

But the Smart TV solution to that is a large TV cost markup to purchase poorly designed software running on rapidly outdated hardware. A better (and already existing) solution to the lack of Netflix on my TV problem is to buy an inexpensive and dedicated streaming box with superior software and current gen hardware…

For an example of usefulness. I just moved into an apartment that had pull string lights installed throughout. I'm a tall person and I hate walking onto those things, also swinging my arm around like a crazy person in the dark trying to find the damn string. So a smart hub (Almond Plus) and a few bulbs later I don't…

I have 'smart' light switches in my home that behave exactly as ordinary light switches (specifically dimmers), but with the added ability to be remote controlled. They were already in my house when I bought it and it took me a while to even realize they could be controlled this way.

You're an idiot. He writes about this stuff for a living. If you don't think Smart Home technology and reviews of those products are worth your time, then get the hell off a technology blog.

Yeah but this is phone-centric which is crap. You gotta pull out your phone to unlock the door, later pull it out to turn the lights down, oh and then pull out your phone to set the thermostat, later get your phone out to lower the blinds...etc. Unless you are tethered to your phone 24/7 and even take it to bed with…

The bottom line is "too many points of failure".

If it had a laser pointer and dispenses catnip bags, it would be the best cat toy ever.

The robot needs a laser pointer.

I love these Japanese video's with zero BGM. Just purely what you see.

Hah, now those systems were even more obtuse than Grims controls.

1) you're just getting old, and part of that means that you are no longer the target demographic. You know how music was better when you were younger? It wasn't, it was just catered to you. Now you're an old man and it has continued to cater to largely the same group (the gamer, as far as developers and advertisers…

Games are catering to their audience. It's just that the audience is now a wider, more varied target market than they used to be.

Laser guidance would probably not work. But that seems like a poor reason to coat your targets in this stuff. As for wavelengths, size matters and what works for visible light needn't work (and, generally speaking, probably doesn't except maybe for metallic reflection) for much longer or shorter wavelengths.

coatings tend to be very wavelength dependent - plenty of classic examples of materials that are transparent in visible, and opaque to IR. (and you see a lot of IR windows that are opaque to visible light)

Well light is light, meaning that yes there's different frequencies but it doesn't mean the material stays put only in the visible spectrum, I'm sure there's some spillover of the effect in the IR and UV or possibilities of changing the nanofiber construction to high or lower frequency light. That would make DARPA's…