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But the thing that really makes me recommend these to everyone is without a doubt the people who work for Nanoleaf. These are passionate folks who are excited about the work they are doing. I was fortunate enough to see a massive Nanoleaf Canvas installation where you could play a functional version of Pac-Man on it, and the people who excitedly explained to me how it came to be thanks to an internal hackathon totally sold me on everything about this company. These are people who want to change the way we think about lights, and it’s working.

The front view shows that Xplore designed the tablet to primarily be used in landscape mode, but it also quickly snaps into landscape or even upside down mode if the tablet is turned. For hardware controls, there’s an unmarked physical Windows button in the bottom center of the face. Above the display is the camera, the ambient light sensor, as well as dual microphones. To the right of the screen are four small indicator lights and the unit’s fingerprint scanner.

When specified with the Rear Seat Entertainment Package, twin USB 3.0 ports or the HDMI and HDMI/MHL connectors enable rear-seat occupants to stream media from smartphones and tablets. Front-seat occupants can select and monitor the content shown on the rear screens, and can also turn off individual screens, if desired1.

The tabletop is a 4’x4′ sheet of plywood, reinforced from underneath and cut out to accommodate a support box for the TV. Each leg ended up being four pieces of 1’x4′ wood, laminated together with a channel cut into one for the table’s power cable. An outer ledge has dice trays — if they’re even needed in today’s world — ready for all those nat 20s, cupholders because nobody likes crying over spilled drinks, and electrical outlets to keep devices charged. Foam squares cover the tabletop which can be easily removed and washed if needed — but more on that in a second. [CapnJackHarkness] painted the table as the wood rebuffed many attempts at staining, but they’re happy with how it turned out.

It’s a curious detail that since the introduction of clean air legislation in the early 1980s, coal fired power stations in Germany have been legally obliged to scrub their smoke of fine dust particles, which are for the most part ash with traces of sulfur. This is done with an electrostatic precipitator (also called an ESP), that charges the particles, and then draws them down so that they heap up in huge hoppers that look like geometric teats. Periodically, semitrailers come and collect the fine dust that has accumulated in the hoppers. Clean, white, and powdery, this dust is sold to manufacturers who turn it into plaster, and then drywall (made of calcium sulfate dihydrate). Even as servers continue to model these spaces in which we will live, the dust rain continues to silently fall. Hundreds of thousands of tons of it, every year. Even as we sit in front of screens, in order to pay for our homes or distract ourselves from them, the dust falls. The more electricity we consume, the cheaper and more widely available drywall is. The thin-walled world that we see around us is a side effect of the electricity that we consume as we produce it, study it, and dwell in it. A polygonal balloon inflated by the light with which we illuminate it. The built environment, when examined via this metabolic material path, is in all earnest a media effect, a strange double to the stucco ornament of the rococo, with its inhuman profusion, its rank fecundity. You are looking through a sequence of photographs. At first, they all look the same. And they seem to show the same thing: nothing. No furniture, no people. You have the feeling you are in a labyrinth. You become disoriented.

Nolan gave me complete access to every part of their manufacturing plant and processes and I am deeply grateful for the time and effort put forth by of all the Nolan staff and in their very gracious hosting of my visit.

The Defender is easily the biggest case that will be featured in this roundup. It’s thick, it’s wide, and it’s heavy. This is all thanks to the dual-layer design, which comprises a rubber external layer and a two-piece polycarbonate frame. The rubber layer features textured panels on the left and right sides for improved grip, as well as some prominent OtterBox branding on the back. However, the polycarbonate bit is extremely hard to take apart due to the clips it’s held together with and the sheer brittleness of the material; every time I (attempt to) remove the case, I feel like I’m going to break something. That’s not something you’d expect from a case of this caliber. It does pass OtterBox’s Certified Drop+ Protection standards, so I wouldn’t be worried about punting it around once the rubber layer is wrapped around the outside. The soft layer inside the polycarbonate frame likely helps with that.

Weighing in at 3,660 grams per square metre together with a reinforced heavy-gauge woven glass mat, Webglas GC offers outstanding skylight strength so much so that safety mesh is not required. This is a particularly important benefit in aggressive and corrosive environments that can quickly destroy metal.

“The biggest thing is to bring in more lighting,” he said. “Garages often have LED lighting, and we add brighter lighting as well as additional outlets, especially around work surfaces so you can plug things in.

The Trailer Light Test feature enables drivers to test trailer lights without help from others by pulsing them while they are standing outside the vehicle2. The system can be activated with a button in the luggage compartment or by using the touchscreen.

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The last time I bought/used a Ringke case was when I got my Nexus 5. I haven’t seen any of the company’s offerings lately, and quite honestly, I thought they’d gone bust. But many of you seem to be enjoying your Ringke cases, so we reached out to them for some review units. I was pleasantly surprised with them. Let’s start off with the Bevel.