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In honor of Sacred Bones Records’ 15th anniversary, the Brooklyn-based label is repressing the cult classic Mother Earth’s Plantasia by Mort Garson on limited caladium pink and green vinyl. First released in 1976, the album, suffused with Moog synthesizers, was composed specifically for plants and only available to those who purchased a plant from Mother Earth on Melrose Avenue in LA or a Simmons mattress from Sears. Almost 50 years later, the album’s legacy continues to grow with a remastered vinyl that also comes with a fully restored original booklet and seed paper.

Looking quite like something out of an *insert high-end audio company name* catalog, the OEPLAY MusicStar5 is a pretty sizeable audio unit that makes the ultimate promise — to make you hear music the way the artist intended it.

Armed with a high-performance AMT tweeter and some seriously impressive audio tech, the MusicStar5 is designed to fill any room with distortion-free sound that has both power and detail. It creates an immersive soundscape, whether you’re watching something on television, tuning in to audio from a music/streaming app, or even listening to lossless music tracks via USB.

Designer: OEPLAY

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This top-of-the-line speaker is crafted with only the finest materials, from the solid aluminum base to the elegantly designed wooden legs. The size of a basketball, the speaker, sits on three legs with the demeanor of something from Devialet or Bang & Olufsen. Its large size isn’t without justification, because it uses its internal acoustic chamber to pump out what OEPLAY professionally refers to as ‘ground-shaking bass’, covering rooms of up to 740 sq.ft. comfortably with balanced, crisp audio.

Custom-designed AMT Tweeters – Sounds will hit your ears up 5x faster than conventional dome speakers and transport you by an incredible audio experience that goes beyond what you hear.

The AMT tweeters located on the top help deliver the mids and highs, while the driver is responsible for the ribcage-shaking bass. With a frequency range going all the way to 33Hz and up to as 55kHz, MusicStar5 gives you a solid range that you only get from well-tuned speakers from top companies.

The OEPLAY MusicStar5 was designed keeping the audiophile in mind, but prices itself much more aggressively, delivering high-end features to audio enthusiasts on a budget. With Bluetooth 5.0 it seamlessly connects with your smartphone, tablet, laptop, and even smart TVs up to distances of 30 meters. For lossless listening, there’s a USB-A port on the back that lets you connect a thumb drive with uncompressed audio files (the MusicStar5 supports FLAC, WAV, APE, WMA, MP3, and AAC). Each speaker also comes with a multimedia remote that lets you control playback.

For anyone looking for a hifi audio experience on their table, the MusicStar5 offers a table-friendly mini tripod. And if you want to use the MusicStar5 as part of a home cinema setup, you can always pair two of these speakers together to create a full-fledged sound system that immerses you in a well-crafted expansive soundscape, allowing you to enjoy music and movies the way they were meant to be.

The OEPLAY MusicStar5 is available in 4 colors and starts at a pretty impressive price tag of $469, considering that most audiophile-grade speakers of its caliber can cost thrice that amount, at the least. The MusicStar5 is already in production and will begin shipping globally from November 2022.

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While FPV drone operation remains an incredible skill that requires reflexes, patience, and a lot of money for expensive drone gear, the DJI Avata is making the elusive art of FPV drone flying a little more accessible to the masses.

DJI is on top of the world, metaphorically as well as literally. Not only is the company absolutely dominating the drone market (despite tariffs and restrictions caused by geopolitics), but it’s also been pretty successful in filling every void in the drone category from the needs of beginners to seasoned FPV racers and even filmmaking professionals. Moreover, the company’s latest drone, Avata, is quite literally a high-flyer for a pretty affordable budget of $629.

Designer: DJI

FPV Drones are just built differently from cinematic ones. They’re made for speed, split-second reflexes, and are much more powerful than the average drone. This makes them much more expensive too (DJI’s FPV drone from last year started at $1,299), but DJI is determined to democratize them. The Avata is the company’s flagship ‘consumer-grade’ FPV drone that’s designed for amateurs as well as seasoned flyers. It’s fast, capable, and has an incredible camera, but it’s also heavy, rugged, and built to take a few bruises.

Unlike cinematic drones, FPV drones are designed using a separate template. Given that they focus more on flying forwards rather than upwards, the drones are designed considering the fact that they’re perpetually leaning forward. To this end, the Avata comes (like most FPV drones) with a camera mounted on the front, rather than the underside. The camera sits on a stabilizer, and the drone itself is modeled on the popular quadcopter format, although the Avata’s propellers come with rather sizeable propeller guards to prevent any permanent damage to the drone’s wings. This robust construction adds to the Avata’s weight, bringing it up to 410 grams (which means it’ll need to be registered with the FAA before you fly it around the place).

The DJI Avata comes equipped with a  48-megapixel Type 1/1.7 sensor that’s capable of delivering 4K shots at 60fps, or shooting even at 120fps but at a reduced resolution. The lens on the front features  wide 155-degree FoV that captures more than the human eye can see, sending all that footage at a mere 30ms lag to the drone’s headset so that the ‘pilot’ can instantly react as the drone traverses its path. The Avata comes with 18 minutes of flight time, which may not seem like a lot, but at those speeds, 18 minutes can get you to cover quite a distance. In fact, the Avata drone can transmit video to the goggles up to distances of 10 kilometers.

The drone, aside from the build and the camera, is quite an impressive little beast too. It comes with two sensors on its underside that can help detect obstacles, enabling low-altitude flight and also allowing it to sense when it’s above water (so as to not accidentally land on it). The drone also comes with a halt-and-hover feature that allows it to instantly brake in the air to avoid any chances of head-on collisions.

While capturing footage, the Avata’s RockSteady 2.0 and HorizonSteady abilities help stabilize the footage and keep your horizon relatively, well, horizontal (avoiding having the video tilting dramatically while the drone tilts). Like its predecessor (the more expensive DJI FPV), the Avata offers 3 modes of flying – Normal, Manual, and Sport. It’s compatible with DJI’s Goggles 2 headset, and can even be controlled using the intuitive Motion Controller from the previous FPV drone. Just the drone itself starts at $629, although you won’t get a remote controller, goggles, or the proprietary motion controller at that price. For the full trimmings, be prepared to shell out as much as $1388 which includes all the bells and whistles. It’s still relatively cheaper than the DJI FPV, and much more capable than anything you can build in your own workshop…

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We are currently in a very specific moment in history when the phrase of “office attire” may not mean the same thing to everyone. Recent studies show that nearly six out of ten people work from home at least one day a week. And while there has never been a universal business dress code, the pandemic has disrupted society’s understanding of office attire once companies sent their employees home to work remotely.  

Here are some ways the pandemic has changed business attire.

Dress codes have become more casual (and comfortable)

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, companies were forced to send their employees home to work remotely. Ever since mandatory work from home, there has been a major shift in companies’ dress codes. Once employees started working remotely and in typically more casual and comfortable clothing, companies realized a couple of things: maybe this remote work method was here to stay and maybe looser dress codes were there to stay with it.

Looser dress codes have even gained traction on Wall Street. So once employees returned to their offices, their workplace dress code was likely not the same as it was before the pandemic. Instead of high heels, people have optioned for flats. Instead of suits and ties, people have gone with a more relaxed button-up look. Workplace attire is growing more casual. And some companies are ditching dress codes altogether.

Employees are spending less money on their business attire

When business attire becomes more casual, odds are that employees spend less money on their clothing. According to a survey, Americans spent an average of $580 on work clothes in 2019. In 2020, they spent $399.

Unsurprisingly, remote workers spent even less on their work attire—paying an average of $139 on clothes per year—while over half of workers didn’t spend money on clothing at all.

Remote dress codes are less likely to be enforced

While in-person work is more likely to require a dress code, remote work’s dress code may still exist but is less likely to be enforced. This could be due to the likelihood of an employee being just as (or more) productive in clothes that don’t fall within a dress code.

According to a study done by Fast Company, workers’ own feelings of authenticity increased their engagement at work. Home attire increased authenticity—and engagement in return.

Additionally, dress codes are being reconsidered altogether due to the implication of gender-specific limitations. In fact, the Supreme Court has even ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity—making it more difficult for employers to enforce a strict, gender-based dress code.

While Alibaba’s Xiaomanlv robots have delivered more than a million parcels and the Amazon Proteus warehouse robots for fulfillment centers, the scope for streamlining e-commerce packages is hugely unexplored. The smooth movement of logistics plays a pivotal role and the automated robotics involvement can be of huge advantage when we talk of huge volumes.

Into the picture comes the AgileX Robotics RANGER which is an unmanned platform for the movement of logistics under the roof or even deliveries in not-so-ideal terrain outside. According to the makers, the electric-powered rig will be useful for inspection, agriculture, security and energy sectors. So, the intent here is to make RANGER capable of most industrial applications and carry loads weighing up to 150 kg anywhere in the city or suburbs.

Designer: AgileX

The omnidirectional navigation robot propelled by a 48V brushless geared hub motor fed by the 600W*4 battery gets a 560 mm track and an 890 mm wheelbase capable of orienting in any direction. Mind you, the platform robot can go at a top speed of 2.6m/s which is impressive. Add to that the IP5 water resistance, and the RANGER can tread any terrain with ease. So, we can add autonomous home deliveries also to the equation.

AgileX Robotics has tested the four-wheeled autonomous robot in a diverse set of conditions – for example, hilly roads, gravel paths, and even stairs. In the prototype test runs, the RANGER easily took on slopes of 10 degrees and 10 cm high obstacles.

The flatbed platform EV has a very good prospect of turning into a widely used commercial robot for a wide array of applications in the industrial avenues as well as routine applications. How it will be priced is ultimately going to determine the adaption in B2B models.

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