Date of sighting: Oct 2023Location of sighting: USA (no other info given)Source: Dept of WarLink: https://www.war.gov/UFO/?releaseDate=Release+06&release=06#LLE-UAP-PR002-Unresolved-UAP-Report-Colorado-October-2023I was looking at the Dept of War website at…
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Background Movements for civil rights were a worldwide series of political movements for equality before the law that peaked in the 1960s. In many situations…
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Background The following document was obtained by The Black Vault through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and was part of the “Stargate Collection” release.…
Read MoreOut of ideas for your last-minute halloween cosstume? Cheeck these out, from Scientific American and Adafruit! Halloween is here, and there’s no better time for some nerdy fashion. For the grad students and postdocs too busy with job…or anyone else who’s had their nose in the books lately, we’ve got some easy costumes thrown in…
Create a glowing, animated Halloween mask with NeoPixels and Hallowing. No soldering required! Use a vinyl cutter (or a utility knife and some elbow grease) to create a beautiful mask — we’ve included designs for a butterfly and a dragon. Add a one-way mirror and some holographic vinyl, and you have a stunning mirror mask…
Body temperatue fluctuates throughout the day. Generally speaking our bodies are cooler in the morning than they are at night. That means if you’re trying to figure out whether or not you have a temperature, and your current temp is an edge case, the best practice is to take your temperature a few times throughout…
Yes, my Instagram algorithm is sweating trying to keep up. While I try to address that, you should stop everything you’re doing and check out this amazing Chappell Roan Pink Pony Club LED Jacket from House of Rox Designs, via silver__rox on Instagram. It is SO GOOD We’re feeling super inspired by this jacket and…
Rachel Freire recently shared this banger of a process writeup over on Instructables, detailing the collaboration between Melissa Coleman, Rachel Freire, Rebecca Odedra and Joachim Rotteveel to make a sick wearable for Imogen Heap: However. I recently came across these pictures while reviewing our documentation… And the drama of it all, the zoomed out theatricality…
Watch enthusiasts are familiar with the Casio AE-1200, often referred to as the Casio Royale. A fan modded one just for Adam. Jump to 4:17 for the watch itself. Spoiler it’s NASA themed. Adam opens and shares two gifts from fans he received at a recent convention: a COD-inspired mask based on a pun, and…
An ammeter measures the amount of current in a circuit. That measure is in amperes. In the analog days of yore, ammeters could weigh almost a pound. But now, if you own an Apple Watch, you could have an ammeter on your writs. Here’s more from Hackaday:Like many mobile devices, the [Apple Watch] comes with…
colmi_r02_client is an open source Python client to read data from the Colmi R02 family of Smart Rings. It is 100% open source, 100% offline.What is the Colmi R02 family?It’s a cheap (as in $20) “smart ring” / fitness wearable sold on AliExpress. It includes the following sensors: Accelerometer step tracking sleep tracking gestures (maybe…?)…
What happens if your wearable device is inaccurate? Researchers at West Virginia University take a look at the differences between data reported from clinical testing versus what is recorded by a smartwatch. At a time when usage of smartwatches and rings has become more common, a West Virginia University human performance researcher points out heart…
Here’s one for you, from the forgotten wearables files: in the late 90s, Sun Microsystems created the Java Ring. The gaudy stainless steel ring is a wearable computer with “a built-in Java Virtual Machine, non-volatile storage, and an serial interface for data transfer.” Here’s more from Hackaday:Made of of stainless steel and waterproof grommets, this…
