We've Been Storing Our Beer All Wrong

Somebody's Heine crowdin' your icebox? Here's how to fix it.

Modern living is increasingly about spatial efficiency—doing more with less. But when it comes to food storage, that can get tricky. A lot of food is short and wide (pizza boxes, leftovers in Tupperware) or tall and skinny (milk, condiments), and playing Tetris with your consumables isn't much fun.



Luckily, design engineer Brian Conti has decided to tackle the problem head on.

In addition to his day job, Conti has also founded two companies of his own—Spoke Design and Strong Like Bull Magnets—to pursue his own personal design projects.

The inspiration for his fifth and most recent Kickstarter project was born of necessity and grounded in his ample experience with strong magnets.

“The introduction of a 6-pack or 12-pack of bottled beverages into my refrigerator creates space havoc," he said. "After some thought, it was obvious that there was a lot of unused space at the top.” Thus the BottleLoft magnetic bottle hanger was born.

Here's how it works: Each bottleLoft strip includes three custom-sized neodymium magnets surrounded by steel cups, and sticks to the roof of your fridge with adhesive backing. Any bottle with a ferrous metal lid simply snaps into place, floating effortlessly above the rest of your food.

WoW... =D

Photoshop Turns 25 Today, and Adobe Is Celebrating

It's a big birthday bash for the industry-standard image editor.

It's a big day for Adobe. The maker of the industry-standard image editing software, Adobe Photoshop, is celebrating the program's 25th anniversary with an aggressive social media campaign.

The company's most visible efforts can be seen on its Instagram account, where it's showing off artwork from visual artists under the age of 25. Adobe will also be hosting a Reddit AMA with Photoshop co-creator Thomas Knoll. And if you prefer motion picture celebrations, there's a new tribute video for Photoshop, showing off the different kinds of artwork that it makes possible.

Photoshop 1.0 was released for Mac on February 19, 1990, but the program's origins go back even further. Adobe notes that as a PhD student in 1987, Knoll created a pixel image editing program called Display. When he showed it off to Adobe execs, they decided to purchase his work and re-release it as Photoshop.
As part of the festivities, Adobe has also released a set of images highlighting the evolution of the Photoshop toolbar (the image at the top of this article) and logo (below). It's a quick and easy way to see just how far we've come.

The new Photoshop Instagram account is showing off artwork from 25 artists under 25.

Adobe created this image showing the evolution of the Photoshop icon over the past 25 years.

If you want to follow along with the company's celebrations, Adobe encourages you to search for and use its #Photoshop25 hashtag on Twitter. (After all, no product anniversary is complete without a hashtag.)

Let's Celebrate Adobe...

Beat the Heat This Summer and Cook Oven-Free

Cook a real meal without heating up your home.

The dog days of summer will soon be upon us, and if you don't have central air conditioning, it'll quickly become pretty difficult to cook without overheating your kitchen.

Luckily, there are plenty of ways to prepare a real meal without firing up your oven. They can range from the obvious (grilling) to the more creative (cold meals), but regardless of how you do it, you can still create a satisfying meal for yourself or the whole family. HERE'S ONE:

Fire Up the Grill
This will be a no-brainer to some of you, but grilling is a great solution. You can grill just about anything, including pizzas and fruit, and pretty much everything tastes better grilled. And the best part? All the heat stays outside.

If you're not a grillmaster, LifeHacker has a handy info-graphic on how to grill all the major types of food. And if you don't already own one, you can get a cheap but reliable grill for around $200.

Sadly, not everyone (myself included) can own a grill either due to the lack of a yard or municipal bans. But don't worry, you aren't out of luck—you just have to get more creative with your cooking methods.

ENJOY...

This app calls itself the Tinder for jobs

What if a right swipe was all that stood between you and your dream career?

That’s the premise of Switch, a discreet i OS mobile app dubbed the “Tinder for jobs.”

Switch allows users to set up a profile and share their resume. The platform then creates a default, anonymity profile, which shows limited information about the user and is hidden from all companies listed on his or her resume. Candidates’ complete profiles are also withheld from internal HR professionals and hiring managers until both parties swipe right and connect.

The mobile app features a built-in chat function and also connects parties via email.

In addition, job seekers receive a daily, individualized log of up to 21 job recommendations based on related industries, job function and target salary, according to Switch CEO Yarden Tadmor.

ENJOY.

GE Unveils Bluetooth Range That Pairs With Microwave

Chef Connect axes three minor kitchen inconveniences

GE announced that its latest range and microwave will talk to one another in order to make cooking just a bit easier for the most fastidious home chefs.

The Profile-branded range and companion microwave will use Bluetooth to synchronize a few minor aspects of the cooking process, including turning on task lighting and ventilation. While the added functionality is rather limited, it's the first time such technology has been available on relatively affordable appliances.

The clocks on each device are automatically synced, so that setting the time on one automatically sets the other.

Called Chef Connect, it's designed for a setup where a combination microwave and vent hood is installed directly over the range. Turn a burner on, and the microwave's built-in task lighting will automatically shine down on your food. This shortcuts the step of turning on your own light when using the stove. It only saves a second or two, but it will at least keep greasy hand prints off the microwave.

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Second, the clocks on each device are automatically synced, so that setting the time on one automatically sets the other—which my more compulsive coworkers assure me is an actual source of anxiety. GE Appliances product manager Heather Koyama assures us that the "nagging one-minute difference between the microwave and the range will be a thing of the past."

Finally, Chef Connect provides consumers the option of setting their vent fan to turn on automatically as soon as the range is engaged. Like the microwave light, this setting provides further connectivity and again eliminates one step that otherwise might leave behind fingerprints and hog a second or two of your time.

We wouldn't pay a major premium for such minor conveniences, but it appears that the Bluetooth functionality won't cost any extra.

GE's Over-the-Range Microwave will feature a 2.1-cubic-foot capacity, and will come in four design options: stainless steel ($499), slate ($499), black ($449), and white ($449). It will be available in September. The freestanding Profile Range will come in both gas (MSRP $1,200) and electric (MSRP $1,100) configurations, and will hit retail in August..

SanDisk's 200GB microSDXC Card Turns Smartphones into Enviable PMPs

SanDisk's 200GB microSDXC Card Turns Smartphones into Enviable PMPs

The price ($230 USD) is surprisingly tame and the Class 10 speed promises sufficiently aggressive performance

After decades of declining costs and soaring capacities, flash smartphones have finally reached a crucial milestone, with microSDXC solid state storage capacity finally topping the mechanical hard disk drive (HDD) solutions found antiquated, but beloved personal music player (PMP) models of years past.

I. A New Record in Commercial Mobile Flash Storage

True to its teaser at the 2015 Mobile World Congress (MWC) in March, Sandisk Corp. (SNDK) launched its 200 GB, Class 10 "Ultra" microSDXC card before the end of Q2.  What's perhaps most surprising is the price.

Tomorrow will see quantum computers for all the world's needs

 The third age of machines is near. Quantum and cognitive computers will perform Big Data processing in the cloud. This age follows that of data science, a multidisciplinary science for collecting, processing and enhancing Big Data. 

Data science is like petrochemicals for the digital world, refining crude Big into useful, predictive information. Thanks to this, we know in advance the product a customer will choose. To achieve such a feat, data science uses algorithms, and quite extraordinary machine learning can improve these algorithms over time. 

1) The current computing model is unsustainable 

these algorithms need immense computing power, and giants such as Google, Amazon and Netflix have developed parallel computing systems. The problem is, current equipment is not ideal - a machine is sequential and does not know how to comprehend thousands of pieces of information at once. 

We want some kind of super human brain, which has an average of 100 billion neurons with 10,000 connections each. We can wait as microprocessors improve - after all, Moore's Law states that they double their capacity regularly through miniaturization. But we are still far from electronic transistors being as small as a few atoms. 

The solution that researchers are considering is to base the treatment of information on a quantum state of small electronic components. According to physicists, in a quantum system a particle can be in two places at one time and an action on one particle can automatically alter another. 

In the present state of research, quantum computers have a fault: any unfortunate interaction with their environment changes their super processing power into what is effectively a game of heads or tails. The idea would be to have only a few quantum computers, stored in special ways and designed to interact with all other conventional computers for combined optimization. Such a computer was built by the startup D-Wave, and Google bought it to control its self-driving cars and other technology. 

2) Connected objects with a brain 

other companies are also getting into the development of super-intelligent machines that are inspired not by quantum physics but by cognitive neuroscience. Their chips have plasticity, that is to say they have the ability to adapt and understand. 

These chips, inspired by the human brain, will equip all connected objects eventually to make them more intelligent in their interaction with data and users. This will be the stage of 'isomorphic' machines. 

These two revolutions, of quantum and cognitive computing, will begin with very bulky and expensive machines. We believe they will be available as a hosted or cloud service, to allow consumption of their computing capacity on demand, at much lower prices. This is the future. 

posted by: TUNJI OLOGUNEBI