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Historic Electronics Firm RCA Is Creating E-Bikes Now?

January 22, 2023 Audrey

These days, a good deal of historic organizations are embracing electric powered mobility in an try to as soon as once again achieve traction in the sector. We have observed it with Radioflyer and its new vary of electric powered bikes, and so, way too, with now-defunct German bike model Zundapp. While that is amazing and all, a single model we surely didn’t count on to see moving into the e-mobility space is RCA.

Wait, a next, RCA? The electronics firm that employed to make radios and televisions? Indeed, that RCA. Founded in 1919, RCA was once a household title when it arrived to electronics. Now, I am certainly way to younger to have any 1st-hand practical experience with the model and its solutions, but evidently, RCA proceeds to exist right now. Its existence, even so, lies in its various trademarks, which are now owned and distributed by Sony and Technicolor.

As such, what we’re observing in the kind the 3 new e-bikes bearing RCA badging most likely are not developed by the very same individuals that introduced you TVs and radios in the early to mid twentieth century. Whatever the circumstance might be, new electric powered bikes are always welcome, especially in modern speedily growing e-mobility phase, so let us take a closer glance, shall we?

Unveiled at the not long ago concluded Shopper Electronics Exhibit in Las Vegas, Nevada, RCA introduced a few new e-bicycle designs to opt for from. Of the three, just one of them in distinct stands out thanks to its outstanding functionality, but let us talk about that one particular a minimal little bit later on. For now, let us choose a seem at the two commuter-centered designs. The first is the GoGo, which is basically a unwanted fat-tire folding electrical bicycle. Even though its design and style is unquestionably almost nothing new, the utility a bicycle of this character supplies is plain. It is really driven by a 750W hub motor, and will get front and rear baggage racks for extra utility.

Up future, the RCA Explorer is a city-focused electrical bicycle that’s built mainly for road-targeted accessibility. As evidenced by its low step-by frame, the Explorer is approachable for all styles of riders. It can be outfitted with a entrance suspension fork, fenders, and designed-in LED lights for secure travels at night. Just like the GoGo, it can be packing a 750W hub motor mated to a 691-Wh battery pack. RCA has not disclosed charging periods or claimed assortment figures just nevertheless.

Final but definitely not the the very least is the Dust-E. This scrambler-motivated e-bicycle is built as an all-terrain two-wheeler with a rugged design. Just one particular glimpse at this two-wheeler helps make it clear that RCA wishes to go up in opposition to the likes of Super73, with its bike-motivated styling, off-road capability, and most of all, significant-functionality motor. The Grime-E is packing a motor with a peak output of 1,250 watts, and capable of an unlocked major velocity

Online games like Stray and Endling are creating a lot more practical animals

August 10, 2022 Audrey

When an ominous blood moon hangs in the sky, four cats acquire shelter from torrential rain. In Stray, released this 7 days for PlayStation consoles and Computer, you enjoy as a single of these animals. A push of the left analog stick results in your cat to relieve into a lilting trot holding the appropriate set off tends to make them accelerate into a certain then, at sure moments, you push a button to interact with your nearby feline mates. You perform combat, nose rub, and curl up to them, every single action superbly animated, soundtracked with delightful purrs and trills.

By coincidence, Stray was produced on the pretty similar day as Endling: Extinction Is Permanently, an additional recreation that casts you as a digital animal: a fox in a planet ravaged by environmental catastrophe. Where Endling is a uncomplicated eco-fable, Stray is a philosophical cyber-adventure. Jointly, these games do far more than talk to our memefied passion for virtual critters they enable us ask queries as a result of their virtual protagonists though inquiring questions of ourselves. In Stray’s scenario, the cat’s pretty form — a digital / digital staying posing as a organic / organic creature — feeds into the game’s subtext. Developer BlueTwelve explores the all-much too rigid division we impose on mother nature and know-how, the blurry line involving artificial and all-natural intelligence. It’s a credit rating to the game’s artists, animators, and audio designers that the constituent parts of this animal coalesce into these a persuasive full. We’re a extended way off the reduced poly animals of yesteryear.

In truth, as I generate this, Twitter is awash with videos of cats glued to tv screens as their proprietors enjoy Stray (there is even an account dedicated to it). Their ears rotate with each individual chirp their eyes keep track of the on-screen 4-legged overall body as it’s directed about the subterranean streets of Walled Metropolis 99. These movies could just about be outtakes from Ridley Scott’s cyberpunk traditional, Blade Runner. What, we may question, are these cats contemplating as they interact with their digital doppelgangers? Perhaps a fragile perception of kinship how about a bit by bit dawning horror?

Endling, by distinction, is concerned with very little so abstract. The recreation, a 3D facet-scrolling adventure, opens with a devastating forest fireplace (like these that have just swept across Europe for the duration of a week of intense heat) that you, a pregnant fox mother, ought to escape. From there, occasions scarcely get any much easier as you venture out every evening with your newborn cubs, scavenging and looking for food stuff even though looking for your cub caught by a furrier (a man or woman who offers in animal furs). The bulk of its story is instructed through the variety of environmental storytelling popularized by game titles this sort of as 2007’s Bioshock. You’ll pass graffiti that reads, “Your grandson is by now dead,” as the

‘Creating accessibility programming benefits everyone’

April 2, 2022 Audrey

Everything is different as the performing arts world feels its way back into being together and breathing the same air, but in a way that won’t infect and kill each other.

As everyone hopes to be headed toward a post-pandemic world, the question of accessibility, of finding a way to bring everyone—and not just select groups—together continues to be asked and answered in new ways.

A.B.L.E. Ensemble’s goal is to provide performing arts experiences for people with Down syndrome and other intellectual and developmental disabilities. With an acronym standing for Artists Breaking Limits and Expectations, the ensemble had to think carefully about the needs of its participants this year, needs that they recognize have grown in intensity because of years of isolation.

This spring, they have four ensembles serving a total of 35 actors ages 16-52.

“Since this is the first time many of our actors have been together in person in over two years, we’re doing something a little different this spring,” says Katie Yohe, A.B.L.E.’s founder and artistic director. “We’re focusing our semester on rediscovering the joy of being together, playing games, and enjoying some time to play.”

Instead of picking a show and working toward producing it, they’re going to livestream their rehearsals May 22-24 and let audiences get a behind-the-scenes look at their process.

“Social situations take a lot of processing energy, and we all need to rebuild those muscles,” Yohe says. “I’m exhausted after a trip to the grocery store, let alone a two-hour rehearsal. I’m so glad we’ve been able to offer programming throughout the pandemic, but sitting in your Zoom square is definitely not the same as being up and in 3D.”

Seesaw Theatre produces multisensory theatrical experiences for small audiences, giving each audience member an “adventure guide” who plays with them throughout the performance. During the pandemic, it created virtual, sensory-based theater.

According to a letter on its website from artistic director Ilana Abusch and executive director Julia Hogan Laurenson, “Although we missed getting to interact with our audiences in person, a silver-lining we found in this virtual year was that our work became far more accessible, and we were able to serve far more audience members than we have in our normal, in-person years.”

Their tenth-anniversary 2021-2022 season includes three shows. Dates have not yet been announced for the spring show, Dino-Mite Dig.

Sampling of accessible spring shows:
By and for those with diverse abilities
Special Gifts Theatre presents Disney’s The Lion King Jr., 4/23-4/24, Walter R. Sundling Junior High School, 1100 Smith Street, Palatine, with virtual shows 5/5-6/5. It also offers Disney’s Moana Jr., now through April 24, virtual edition, specialgiftstheatre.org.
Tellin’ Tales Theatre, Divercity, 5/13-5/16, Greenhouse Theater Center; Teen Tales, 6/25-6/26, Loyola Park, tellintalestheatre.org.
Special access options
Goodman Theatre, Good Night, Oscar, 4/9 2 PM, audio description and touch tour; 4/15 8 PM, ASL interpreted; 4/16 2 PM, captioning; Relentless, 4/24 2 PM, audio description and touch tour;