Month: June 2021

Kabuto, the French startup that designs and sells smart suitcases, is releasing a new suitcase today. Called the Kabuto Trunk, this is the company’s biggest suitcase to date. Unlike smart suitcases from other brands, this isn’t just a suitcase with a battery in it. In particular, there’s a fingerprint reader located at the top of
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For fans of a certain age-old age, the video store is a haven of a bygone era. For fans with even more gray hairs, they remember video stores littered with shot-on-video movies. These movies weren’t produced by major studios and were usually shot on whatever qualifies as less than a shoestring budget. Before YouTube was
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When your local library does not have the book you want in their collection, what do you do? For most folks, particularly if they’re searching without the aid of a library staff member, the go-to solution is to purchase the book. But even then, costs can sometimes be prohibitively expensive or unjustifiable. Fortunately, many libraries
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WandaVision composer, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, wishes the series could have included a dance scene reminiscent of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” music video. Anderson-Lopez is known for her work creating songs alongside her husband, Robert Lopez, for Disney’s Frozen, Coco and Frozen 2. The pair was once again tasked by Disney when asked compose WandaVision‘s theme song, as well as the popular
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Even as remote software uptake has boomed during the pandemic, certain workflows have gotten prioritized for specialized toolsets while other team members have been left piecemealing their productivity. Employees designing the copy that directs users and encapsulates company messaging have been particularly forgotten at times, say the founders of Ditto, a young startup building software
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News Perfume Genius Announces 2021 Tour The run of September dates includes shows with Tame Impala and Death Cab for Cutie By Noah Yoo June 1, 2021 Facebook Twitter Perfume Genius, photo by Camille Vivier Facebook Twitter Perfume Genius is headed back out on the road. Mike Hadreas will perform a show at Henry Miller
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Disney+’s live-action 101 Dalmatians spinoff Cruella drew 686K U.S. households over the four-day Memorial Day holiday weekend according to today’s figures from Samba TV. It’s a number that’s 39% less than the 4-day Labor Day traffic for another Disney+ Premier title, Mulan, which pulled in 1.12 million U.S. households over Sept. 4-7, 2020. Both titles were available
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Perspective drawing of “Nintendo Gallery” (tentative name) (Image: Nintendo) Nintendo has announced its Uji Ogura Plant and the land surrounding the building is being transformed into a new gallery to showcase the company’s development history and philosophy. The gallery will be tentatively known as the “Nintendo Gallery” and renovations are expected to be completed within
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