If you want to take your bicycle off-road, you need larger and larger tires depending on how rough the terrain gets—and that makes it harder and harder to pedal. But maybe Ron Schroer has found the perfect off-road cycling alternative with his Boneshaker Big Wheel that rolls and walks all at the same time.
Monday, March 30, 2015
You Can Now Hire a Handyman on Amazon
Last year, Amazon started toying with the idea of not only selling you a TV, but also hooking you up with someone who could mount it
Fab's Online Furniture Brand Gambles On Brick And Mortar
Hem's debut showroom in Berlin takes the "design made easy" ethos offline. Here is why.
This past October, e-commerce design site Fab launched a furniture company that aimed to be "the first affordable high-end design brand created to serve online-direct customers." Now, the furniture brand Hem has gone brick and mortar with its first flagship store, opening this week in Berlin. The new store attempts to solve one of the most intractable problems with buying furniture online: How do you know what that table really looks like?
The Apple Watch "Journey," and Everything Else You Missed This Weekend
DARPA is making a next-gen GPS, Valve's Vive VR headset will be free for devs, and Windows 10 arrives for more phones. All the news and rumors you missed while lazing the weekend away, all on BitStream.
Amazon Is Testing Its Delivery Drones in a Secret Location in Canada
Forget the U.S and its rules. The Guardian is reporting that, frustrated by the Federal Aviation Administration, Amazon has been testing its delivery drones in a top-secret site just 2,000 feet from the US border.
Check Out Three Amazing Rocket Launches That All Happened on One Day
What a busy weekend for space exploration. There were three successful lift offs around the world, including two Soyuz launches from opposite sides of the Earth:
What Really Happens When Someone Enters the Witness Protection Program
Born of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, and the brainchild of longtime Department of Justice attorney, Gerald Shur, the U.S. Marshall Service Witness Security Program (WITSEC) has successfully protected more than 18,000 people since it first began operations in 1971.