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It’s a little early for me personally to embrace Christmas; but I am willing to start talking about advent calendars and gifts for those who like to be ready. This week I received the 2017 Wera advent calendar and it looks awesome and has already turned my pre-christmas grinch tendencies around. First thing to mention is that the box is pretty big, so you’ll have to bear that in mind. It comes with a removable outer sleeve to keep up the mystery of what’s inside. It includes 24 windows of Wera tool goodness consisting...

A novel idea to reduce stress in workers’ joints is being tried out at a BMW production plant in Germany. The Munich factory has given out 3D printed thumbs to workers, for them to use while they are putting together car parts. These so-called super-thumbs are more correctly known as thermoplastic polyurethane thumb protectors. They are made to size for each BMW worker by using a mobile scanning device to measure their hands. The thumb protector is then printed off using a 3D printer and fits snugly over the worker’s real thumb like...

An Israel-based company called ICVT has developed a new image compression technology for JPEG pictures called JPEGmini, which reduces the image’s overall file size by up to 5 times while preserving its resolution and quality. The new technology was designed specifically for the Web as more photographers, professional and amateur, use the internet for archiving and storing their photos. JPEGmini enables users to share and upload image files faster and saves bandwidth and storage costs. According to the developers, JPEGmini works by...