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Giant Jell-O measures crowd volume in wobbles

Giant Jell-O measures crowd volume in wobbles

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Sports arenas across  the United States could soon have a new, jiggly way to measure the excitement of a game. Jell-O, the company most known for its physics-defying gelatin dessert, is introducing a device it says can calculate fan intensity in a stadium and then visually represent that data in real time as a jiggling mass of Jell-O. The rowdier the crowd gets, the more the Jell-O jiggles. The company is calling its bizarre invention the JELL-OMETER. It’s already been used at a professional hockey game in New York and is expected to be on its way to other stadiums soon. Anyone who has been to a sporting event has likely seen messages on the jumbotron urging fans to “Get Loud” and cheer. Those systems typically use decibel readers to measure sound. The JELL-OMETER takes a different approach and tries to measure fan energy instead. The company claims the device uses “proprietary plate-sensing” technology to capture sound pressure from the …

Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra hospitalized after hemorrhagic stroke

Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra hospitalized after hemorrhagic stroke

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Punk legend Jello Biafra has been hospitalized after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke due to high blood pressure. The former frontman of Dead Kennedys, 67, recounted the moments after a blood vessel burst in his brain in a Saturday social media post shared by Alternative Tentacles, the record label that Biafra co-founded. “I hopped out of my bed because I needed to pee, and my left leg just collapsed under me and I fell to the floor,” Biafra said in the post shared on Monday. “I couldn’t even break the fall with my left arm because it wasn’t working either. I tried to hop back up again, and I couldn’t. I realized I had ‘fallen and I can’t get up!’” He continued, “It was this point I thought, ‘Oh s***, I’m having a stroke!’ I still have a lot of great stuff in me, …