SAN FRANCISCO—The newest tradition at the Game Developers Conference is the “Alt.Ctrl” pavilion. Every year, hackers gather to present some of the weirdest games ever made. Some count as “video games,” while others eschew screens and even computers for content that only barely qualifies as “digital entertainment.” We managed to play nearly all of the […]
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Smart garbage can turns trash into a game
Waste is a big concern for cities — after all, no one likes looking at trash on the street. But it ends up there anyway, for various reasons: bins overflow, sometimes they’re hard to find and worst of all, some people just don’t care what they do with their trash. Sencity seeks to fight this […]
Fire-spewing drones are one way to get trash off your power line
I’ve never really thought about how garbage sometimes settles on power lines. I’ve also never thought about how that garbage is taken down from those power lines. I guess I figured someone went up there and grabbed it? That seemed obvious. This 100 percent isn’t the case in China. In China, they use fire-spewing drones […]
Doritos were originally Disneyland trash
In the early days of Disneyland, a restaurant named Casa de Fritos invented Doritos by repurposing stale tortillas they bought from a local vendor. The chips proved to be so popular they were eventually rolled out nationally by Frito-Lay in 1966. Follow BI Video: On Twitter Feedburner
