This week...

• Boys with shiny objects.
• Did Jag make a mistake with its ad? Depends on its goals.
• Stretchable cabins
• Faking polygraphs.
• Do electric vehicles need to ugly?
• Coasting through Rhode Island.
• Casino people and Brown people.
• Holiday tip: Interview your table mate.
• Home run distances.
• Yogi the insurance fraudster.
• Balloon Slacklining.
• Robot Secret Service Dogs.
• Eyes, Ears, Mouth: The Big Dig; The Diplomat; Neil Gaiman.
• DEA Dosh.
• Oakland isn't San Francisco.
• Self driving cars... .maybe we just pay someone to drive?
• Shortening the line city in the desert.
• 3D printed pants.
• Coco Critiques
• Hot shower with Jimmy Carr and sleeping with Trevor Noah