Motorcycle giant Yamaha Motor is building a device that could make electric vehicles sound like they belong in a “Star Wars” movie. Hideo Fujita, a sound developer at the company, told Bloomberg that the device would fit onto electric vehicles to change how they sound. The device would mimic the…
Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo (CNN)As night descended on Tokyo, the climbing wall at the Aomi Urban Sports Park was bathed in light. It was there that Janja Garnbret became the first woman to win a gold medal in sport climbing at the Olympics, thanks largely to masterful bouldering and…
TOKYO, Aug 6 (Reuters) – A Belarusian member of India’s wrestling coaching staff is being sent home for assaulting a referee at the Tokyo Olympics, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) said on Friday. “Indian wrestling team’s foreign assistant coach Mr Murad Gaidarov, who was involved in an uncalled (for) incident…
As someone whos never worn hearing aids, I found that they definitely took some getting used to. Hearing aids extend much deeper into the ear canal than a standard earbud, which makes them difficult to put in, more difficult to take out, and mildly uncomfortable all the time. After a…
Welcome to a new occasional series at Jalopnik, one that I promise will get new installments with the most rigorous erraticability I can muster. This series is called Ghost Cars, and the point is to feature cars that were once fairly commonplace but are now just about extinct. Gone. Almost…
They turned a romantic corner in February 2013, on a first date that began in Mr. Connellys Washington apartment, where Ms. Warren helped him cook risotto. I knew that the constant stirring required would mean precious minutes rubbing shoulders with each other in front of the stove, said Mr. Connelly,…
The video opens on a scene of hazy, unspecified danger. A group of people are milling about on a street corner that could be anywhere, their identities obscured by hoods, caps and the graininess of the footage. It is almost midnight, and the road appears deserted. Suddenly the anonymous figures…
Television After last years Christmas special, its time to return to the vast yet crumbling Button House and its inhabitants both alive and dead. At the end of series two, young married couple Alison (Charlotte Ritchie) and Mike Cooper (Kiell Smith-Bynoe) were slowly coming to terms with the presence of…
Lin-Manuel Miranda may be best known for his hit musicals “Hamilton” and In The Heights,” but he says his latest film, Vivo, is his kids favorite thing Ive ever worked on. I am so glad that your kids now will all get to hear the thing that has been playing…
In 2008, the American Conceptualist Adam Pendleton, then in his mid-twenties, conceived Black Dada, a poetic manifesto of sorts, about avant-gardism, abstraction, and civil rights. In 2015, Pendleton planted a flag for Black Lives Matter at the Venice Biennale. In the ambitious installation Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen?, the artist…