Taste Brings a Cards Against Humanity-Style Edge to Dating Apps
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Dating apps are usually cutesy, at best. The questions they ask are always geared toward the agreeable and the design is chipper and romantic. Taste, a new dating app, isn’t that.
Billing itself as a “twisted dating game,” the app asks questions that range from the confrontational to the borderline dirty. These include inquiring whether you think colleges are overpriced, whether you thought Rudy Giuliani was going to get some in
Attak Piks are High Tech Guitar Picks that Mix Up Your Music
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Guitar picks are pretty low-tech. They’re usually little pieces of plastic and you buy a few dozen and keep them for years or promptly lose most of them and then buy another few dozen.
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Now, however, there’s a new pick in town. Called the Attak Pik, these oddly-ridged guitar picks promise distortion and harmonics that normal picks can’t match, allowing you to add nuance to your music without electronics or pedals.
Mark Labbe, the creator, began having mobility issues in his hand. He used to play with his fingers and he switched to using picks but hated them.
Find Focus With This DIY Distraction-Free Editor
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I’ve tried way too many distraction-free writing devices, from the Freewrite to an old Brother typewriter. As a glutton for punishment, however, I may just build the FeatherQuill while I’m trapped at home.
The FeatherQuill is a project by Cameron Coward, a writer and hardware hacker who focuses on 3D printing. The project consists of a Raspberry Pi single-board computer, a touchscreen LCD, and a keyboard. He also added a set of rechargeable batteries to power the thing for 36 hours straight.