Who Makes Stanley Power Tools And Are They Any Good? Originally, Stanley was mainly known for its hand tool business. Founded in 1843 by Frederick Stanley in New Britain, Connecticut, it built up a reputation over the years for quality tools backed by strong warranties. If anything was the clear name brand for hand tools in the U.S., it was probably Stanley.Aside from Stanley’s Bostitch-branded pneumatic nail guns, though, hand tools were all that the company made for over a century and a half....

Why Losing One Engine On Takeoff Is More Dangerous For Twin-Engine Aircraft At first glance, a twin-engine aircraft looks a whole lot safer than a single-engine one. After all, if you lose an engine, you still have another to keep you flying in the air, right? This isn’t exactly true: For a twin-engine aircraft,losing an engineduring takeoff can actually be a whole lot more dangerous than a single-engine airplane losing one....

10 Iconic JDM Cars Of The 80s, Ranked By Original Price The 1980s was simultaneously one of the best and one of the worst decades in automotive history. While we Americans busied ourselves making automotive disasters thanks to emissions regulations and the notorious SMOG restrictions, economic crises had Japan’s car industry pulling in its belt a few notches, too. However, rather than settling for making sensibly boxy economy cars, Japanese automakers got clever....

We could be in for another Apple production introduction soon, and this time around the Cupertino company is predicted to release an updated Apple TV model featuring the company’s fast A12X Bionic processor that debuted in the 2018 iPad Pro. According to prolific leakerJon Prosser, the next Apple TV will also double the storage from the current 32/64GB offering to the 64/128GB storage tiers. The device is apparently “ready to ship,”Prosser wrote in a tweet....

Amazonmade a newPrime Air delivery drone- and this one is set to launch sometime in 2019. While at its Re:MARS conference, the company unveiled a hybrid unmanned aerial vehicle capable of vertical takeoff and landing and sustained forward flight. The drone features thermal cameras, depth cameras, and sonar. It also uses machine learning models and onboard computers. With all this technology, it can detect hazards and automatically identify and navigate around obstacles....

Apple ahead of HomePod’s schedule arrival this Friday gave select members of the press a nice tour of its dedicated audio laboratory in Cupertino, California where engineers tested the Siri-powered smart speaker’s sound capabilities. Jim Dalrymple of The Looppublisheda trio of images depicting a trio of non-reflective, echo-free anechoic chambers used to develop the beam-forming speaker array and high excursion woofer in HomePod, test Siri’s voice detection algorithms in loud environments and more....

Rumors are flying fast ahead of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on June 9. While much of the attention has centered around adesign overhaulfor the company’s operating systems, and the likelihood of them switching to ayear-based naming scheme, another thing reportedly in the works is a new gaming app. As described byBloomberg, this should be available across platforms, acting as both a launcher and a replacement for Game Center. None too coincidentally, you’ll also see promotional content related to things likeApple Arcade....

Asus has been a little quiet in the UK recently when it comes to smartphones, while impressing with phones in the US and Asia. That may be all about to change as the company appears to be making a comeback to the UK,listing the Asus Zenfone AR on pre-order for the UK. TheZenfone ARisn’t a normal smartphone, however, as it’s a Tango phone, equipped with the sensors to capture the 3D world around you....

Beauty and the Beastis heading to Blu-ray and DVD next week, and a few of the deleted scenes from the bonus content have found their way online. The billion-dollar movie was released in March and is now a worldwide smash.Beauty and the Beastis also the10th highest grossing movie of all freaking time, which is kind of a big deal and is more than likely the reason that we will see every animated thing Disney has ever donerebooted into a live-action scenario....

Last we heard,Bill & Ted 3was happening soon or not at all according to starAlex Winter. The actor-turned-director is still promoting his latest documentaryDeep Web, which actually reunites him with hisBill and Ted’s Excellent Adventureco-starKeanu Reeves, who provided the narration. While we don’t exactly have another update on Bill & Ted 3,Alex Winterdid share some interesting early notes on the original movie. These pages come fromEd Solomon, who wrote bothBill and Ted’s Excellent AdventureandBill and Ted’s Bogus JourneywithChris Matheson....

When I first saw Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness, it reminded me of CRPGs such asNeverwinter NightsandBaldur’s Gate. Who can forget memorable companions like Minsc and his hamster Boo together with the egotistic yet powerful Edwin Odesseiron? Or how about the harrowing experience of solving numerous traps and puzzles in Durlag’s Tower? However, unlike these two classics, Black Geyser isn’t based on any Dungeons & Dragons ruleset. Instead, and similar to Pillars of Eternity, it uses its own system....

Quick Links Blue Princeliterally has a new puzzle around every corner, and after a while, it gets hard to keep track of the literal hundreds of clues and leads that fill the Mt. Holly Estate. Blue Prince: Every Way to Enter the Basement Every entrance to the Underground areas of Mt. Holly Estate. Some of the most elusive puzzles in the game revolve around the seven secret safes found throughout Mt....

Best known for their remake of Shadow of the Colossus, Bluepoint are already hinting at their upcoming title and this one will be considered a “Re-Envisioning” rather than a remake or remaster. Bluepoint Games' Shares Next Project Will Be “Re-Envisioning” a Previous Title At Bluepoint Games GDC presentation they outlined a new project in the works, explaining that their previous work forShadow of the Colossuswas considered a remake but their next will be much bigger according to technical director Peter Dalton:...