Double-decker airline seats may be coming soon — The future of low-cost travel may involve airlines stacking Economy passengers one on top of the other. That’s the nightmarish vision of designer Alejandro Nunez Vicente, who just won a prestigious design award for the Chaise Lounge Economy Seat, his design for two-level stacked airline seats. The seats, which have…

And there’s an even crazier configuration on the way — Over the last few decades, airlines have worked harder and harder to cram more people onto their planes. The more passengers they can carry on a flight, the more revenue they earn. Passengers may grumble, but ultimately we love cheap flights more than we love legroom and comfort. If the…

The story behind a strange piece of string on the Red Planet — Earlier this month, NASA’s Perseverance rover captured a strange image while cruising around the surface of mars. The image shows what appears to be a coiled piece of string. Some people think that the coil of material looks a lot like spaghetti. So is this the remains from some alien’s…

The DALL-E Beta is open to the public, too — OpenAI, the artificial intelligence platform behind the groundbreaking DALL-E image generation system, just made a massive announcement. In one world-changing blog post, OpenAI opened DALL-E to the general public through a Beta program, announced how much using DALL-E would cost, and authorized people to use DALL-E’s image for commercial purposes. …

Join me to see all the cool stuff I review each week — TLDR: Please head over to my Amazon Live storefront and press the Follow button. You’ll help me out a lot, and get access to all my upcoming weekly livestreams. For a while now, I’ve been experimenting with Amazon Influencers and the Amazon Live platform. Livestream shopping is huge overseas, and…

The results? Mind-boggling — If you live in the East Bay, you know that no matter where you go, Mount Diablo is always just kind of there. At 3,800+ feet, the iconic East Bay mountain is massive and imposing enough that you feel its presence on a…

Friendly washing machines and images from my mind — In 2020, I got the chance to Beta test OpenAI’s GPT-3, a remarkable system that can generate nearly any kind of text, using only a simple prompt. Experimenting With GPT-3 Felt Like Witnessing a Technological Revolution The potential for the new artificial intelligence program is nearly unfathomableonezero.medium.com Enter “Write me a sea chanty about Joe Biden’s inauguration” into GPT-3, for example, and it will duly respond with exactly that.

It was totally legal — here’s what I learned — Celebrity dogs can amass millions of followers on social media, bringing in hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. My dog Lance is not a celebrity — yet. He’s a friendly, somewhat smelly, barely house-trained Bichon Frise with a sunny disposition and a penchant for standing on the kitchen table. …

A new partnership adds 3D printing to the metaverse — For years now, people have been dropping truly ludicrous sums on NFTs. Beeple kicked off the trends with an NFT that sold for $69 million, and other drops have since broken that record, with prices over $90 million. NFTs have always had an issue, though. When you buy one, you’re…