When you think about robotic companies, General Electrics probably doesn't come to mind. 

But coming off of the Second World War in the 1950's, GE was dabbling in all sorts of projects — including robotics — and the company quickly became a pioneer in the space. 

The US Military soon partnered with GE to create some of the most futuristic looking robots that were way ahead of their time technologically.

Check them out.

The Handyman was a robotic manipulator developed to handle delicate materials.

In 1958, GE worked with the US Military to create a manipulator that was sensitive enough to handle delicate objects and that could be controlled remotely.

GE engineer Ralph Mosher helped create the Handyman and described it in a technical paper as a "two-armed master-slave manipulator used to handle radioactive equipment."

A wearable control harness enabled the operator to control the giant mechanical arms. Every time the operator made a gesture or hand movement while wearing the harness, the manipulator would mimic the motion. 

Here's the Handyman twirling a Hula hoop.

"The coupling is so direct and detailed that the man does not have to think about operating the machine. He simply concentrates on the manipulation task itself; he observes the actions of the mechanical arms and hands as if they were his own,"Mosher stated in his paper. 

Mosher called the Hadyman a Cybernetic Anthropomorphous Machine (CAM) and he saw this kind of control system being useful a wide variety of applications. 

According to the paper, he said the Handyman's control system could be used to manipulate things in outerspace, in the depths of the ocean, and for industrial purposes, like construction work. 

GE's Hardiman was a giant exoskeleton that would give the wearer superhuman strength.

Funded by the US Military in 1968, the Hardiman was the natural evolution of the Handyman. However, instead of remotely controlling a manipulator, the Hardiman was a wearable manipulator. 

The Hardiman, also known as the "man amplification device," enabled the wearer to lift more than 1,400 pounds. 

New York City is home to some of the best food in the world.

Whether you're looking for an incredible bowl of ramen or a serious slice of pizza, you're bound to find it somewhere in the city's five boroughs.

Here, food and lifestyle journal Lucky Peach shares the recipes behind the famous dishes of some of New York's most celebrated restaurants. 

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Margherita Pizza by Roberta's

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Momofuku Pork Buns by David Chang

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Milk Bar Birthday Cake by Christina Tosi

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As America's commander-in-chief, President Obama is the supreme commander of the US's armed forces. 

In this role, Obama has the final say on all matters of the country's military. But, additionally, as the head of the military, Obama must also cater to the morale of the US military and ensure that the nation's nearly 1.3 million active soldiers and veterans feel cared for.

Below are some of our favorite photos of Obama interacting with US military service members and veterans.

SEE ALSO: 44 iconic images of Barack Obama's tenure as president

A soldier hugs the President as he greeted U.S. troops at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan.

Obama claps as he passes by 'The President's Own' US Marine Band on the White House grounds.

Obama greets US troops as he holds a Veterans Day event at the US Army Garrison at Yongsan military base in Seoul November 11, 2010.

Looking at the money it takes to be among the top 1% and top 10% of earners in major US cities might feel discouraging.

But if you didn't crack the top 10%, you're not necessarily doing too badly for yourself. In the New York City metro area, for example, if you're earning $52,000 a year, you're earning more than half the population.

That's according to an interactive tool from The New York Times that allows you to enter your household income and compare your earnings across 344 zones throughout the US.

Here, we've highlighted the annual household income required to be in the top 25% and top 50% in 19 major US metro areas, from lowest to highest.

SEE ALSO: How much you have to earn to be considered middle class in every US state

19. San Antonio, Texas

Top 25%: $83,345

Top 50%: $48,787

18. Charlotte, North Carolina

Top 25%: $88,427

Top 50%: $51,200

17. Nashville, Tennessee

Top 25%: $87,424

Top 50%: $51,247

This week, the Senate is expected to approve a bill that would give out over $700 million in grants and government funding to combat America's growing heroin epidemic.

By the latest count, more than two million Americans currently live with an opioid addiction, a figure that has been rising in recent years due to the over-prescription of painkillers following an injury.

Dr. Marc Galanter, professor of psychiatry at NYU's School of Medicine and author of "What is Alcoholics Anonymous?," spoke with Tech Insider about the ways $700 million could help put the epidemic to an end.

Here are the solutions he thinks could get millions of Americans back to health.

1. Suboxone

Today's gold-standard for overcoming opioid addiction is a mixture of two drugs called buprenorphine and naloxone, Galanter says. The brand name is Suboxone.

If the $700 million goes toward anything, he argues, it should be to open more clinics offering Suboxone — for the simple reason that it can treat the largest number of people with the greatest effectiveness.

To get the medicine, patients place a small film underneath their tongue. The buprenorphine, an opioid, satiates the body's physical dependence on the drug for 24 hours. If people decide to shoot up while on Suboxone, for instance, the buprenorphine in their system will block the euphoric effects. 

The naloxone stops people from snorting or injecting Suboxone to get it faster, as it produces harsh withdrawal effects.

Without getting high and relapsing, patients can reconsider the value of staying on their treatment. Studies have put the success rate of Suboxone treatments as high as 60%.

2. Naloxone

While other solutions look towards the long-term, naloxone's value comes in its immediate life-saving potential.

When someone is on the verge of dying, an emergency responder can administer a quick nasal spray of naloxone to reverse the effects of the drug in the brain, bringing the person back to consciousness.

"In a lot of locales, it's available readily easily even by someone who's addicted or by a family member," Dr. Galanter says. "That's not the case everywhere, but it's increasingly being supported by federal and state governments."

If the support networks around an addict (or the addicts themselves) can do something to prevent fatal outcomes, the thinking goes, more people stand a chance at getting clean.

3. Vivitrol

Another route for wiping out dependency is to stop cravings directly in the brain, rather than weaning people off gradually, like Suboxone does.

The drug naltrexone (brand name Vivitrol) blocks all opioid receptors in the brain. Patients don't feel euphoria because the agents that cause pleasurable feelings never actually reach their intended target.

Dr. Galanter believes part of the $700 million should go toward research on naltrexone since there is less long-term data to show it holds up over time.

"Some people definitely benefit from it," he says, "but others may not come back after a month and could relapse."

Success largely depends on what other forms of treatment the patient is also seeking.

Artificial intelligence (AI) became a scientific field almost 60 years ago. Ever since then, researchers have tried to achieve human-level smarts or better.

Yet even with recent feats of computational genius — for example, Google DeepMind beating a human player in the game Go — AI scientists say they still have a long road ahead.

Tech Insider spoke with AI researchers, computer scientists, and roboticists around the world about what it is going to take to build a machine that's able to think, work, and feel like a human.

Scroll down to see their lightly edited responses.

Bart Selman said computers need to learn how to understand the world like a human.

"The big obstacle, though it's not an obstacle because I think it will just take time, is the computer has to learn more about the way we see the world.

"It's very hard to understand the world from a human perspective. Intelligence relies on the way we view the world as humans, and the way we think about the world.

"Computers are just starting to be able to hear and starting to being able to see images. Those are tremendous improvements in the field in the last five years.

"We're doing that by having computers read millions of texts and pages from the web, by hooking them up to cameras and moving them around human environments."

Commentary from Bart Selman, a computer scientist at Cornell University.

This experience of the world will foster more intelligent AI, Peter Norvig says.

"AI needs to experience living in the world.

"We are very good at gathering data and developing algorithms to reason with that data. But that reasoning is only as good as the data, which, for the AI we have now, is one step removed from reality.

"Reasoning will be improved as we develop systems that continuously sense and interact with the world, as opposed to learning systems that passively observe information that others have chosen."

Commentary from Peter Norvig, director of research at Google.

To do that, Yoshua Bengio says computers should be trained to learn like children.

"Right now, all of the impressive progress we've made is mostly due to supervised learning, where we take advantage of large quantities of data that have already been annotated by humans.

"This supervised learning thing is not how humans learn.

"Before two years of age, a child understands the visual world through experiencing it, moving their head and looking around.

"There's no teacher that tells the child, 'in the image that's currently in your retina, there's a cat, and furthermore it's at this location' and for each pixel of the image say 'this is background and this is cat.' Humans are able to learn just by observation and experience with the world.

"In comparison to human learning, AI researchers are not doing that great."

Commentary from Yoshua Bengio, a computer scientist at University of Montreal.

Oh, McDonald's. Home of the McNuggets, the McFlurry, and the beloved Big Mac; McDonald's has taken over the world with over 35,000 locations.

But that doesn't mean each restaurant serves the same menu.

Thousands of global outposts have their own versions of the classic American menu as well as tons of food that caters to their specific country's cuisine.

We scoured Instagram to find the best McDonald's items worldwide.

If you find yourself at a Mickey D's a long way from home, here's what you should order.

In Taiwan, McDonald’s serves a McPork burger with a pork patty and something called “Japanese sauce."

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Taiwanese McDonald's also offers a salmon and beef burger.

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In Thailand, try the chocolate pie dessert.

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Everyone says they want to be rich, and there’s certainly enough advice out there on how to acquire more money.

But what about the reasons you’re not rich? What’s really holding you back?

It’s easy to tell someone how to do something, but chances are they aren’t going to change until they recognize the real root of the problem.

Here are 21 reasons you’re not rich:

SEE ALSO: I'm a self-made millionaire, and here are the 10 best pieces of advice I can give you about money

You have middle-class beliefs about money

In other words, no matter how smart you are or how good a product or service you have, if you’re focused on saving versus earning or you're looking at money through the eyes of fear and scarcity instead of freedom, opportunity, and abundance, you’re never going to join the ranks of the wealthy.

You think rich people are crooks

The average person has been programmed from childhood to believe rich people acquire wealth through dishonesty and deceit. The truth is the majority of fortunes were built through ambition, drive, and vision.

You’re afraid of success

You might find it surprising, but some people are just flat-out afraid of success. Deep down they want it, but they’re terrified of what could come from it, even if it’s all positive.

Stop being controlled by fear and learn to embrace it like a snake handler holding a venomous king cobra by the neck. The great ones use the energy and intensity of fear to drive them to greater heights.

A great education doesn't have to cost a fortune — especially in high school.

Niche, a company that researches and compiles information on schools, just released its 2016 rankings of the best public high schools in the country.

The ranking looked at over 100,000 schools based on 27 million reviews from more than 300,000 students and parents. They rated schools in areas like academics, teachers, student culture and diversity, and resources and facilities. You can read more about the methodology here.

Many are charter or magnet schools, meaning they pull in qualified students from around their districts.

Here are the top 25 public high schools in America.

SEE ALSO: The 50 smartest public high schools in the US

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25. Townsend Harris High School — Queens, NY

Academics: A+

Student culture & diversity: A+

Teachers: A+

Resources & facilities: B+

"There are extracurricular activities that everyone can enjoy from sports clubs, to coding, to community service, or even religious clubs," one recent alum said. The extracurriculars "are what give a sense of community and belonging in a school."

24. Bronx High School of Science — Bronx, NY

Academics: A+

Student culture & diversity: A-

Teachers: A+

Resources & facilities: B

"The student body is diverse as well as the range of extracurriculars, there are many AP classes, and most importantly, there isn't the sense that everyone is competing with each other," one senior said. "Although it's assumed the Bronx Science student body is ambitious and competitive, we don't seem to show it."

23. William A. Shine Great Neck South High School — Great Neck, NY

Academics: A+

Student culture & diversity: A-

Teachers: A+

Resources & facilities: A+

"There are some teachers who know to make the material engaging and are willing to help you no matter what," one student said. Another alum noted, "The teachers prepare the students for exams and they also prepare them for college. They make the students take more responsibility over their work and grades."

More people are electing to vacation in pod hotels.

You read that right. Pod hotels.

These unusual hotels are pretty much what they sound like: Lodging made up of small pod rooms that fit only the necessary amenities — a bed, lighting, and some storage space. Most of them have communal bathrooms, and some hotels have other perks like spas and cafes.

The trend was born out of Japanese capsule hotels — extraordinarily tiny rooms built into small fiberglass boxes. The very first one was the Capsule Inn Osaka that opened in 1979. Staying in rooms this tiny may not be for everyone, but their popularity stems from a growing desire for cheap lodging that provides a bit more privacy than the traditional hostel.

Here's a look at 8 of the most innovative pod hotels from around the world:

The Ninehours hotel in Kyoto, Japan starts at $49 a night and offers pod sleeping arrangements. But you can also choose to nap for just $9 an hour or just shower for $7 with shampoo, soap, and towels included

Guests are given a locker key upon check-in where they can store their personal belongings.

The lockers are necessary considering the pod assignments change every night. If you want to stay for more than day, you'll have to check out and back in.

Learn more about the hotel here.

The pods have a Sleep Ambient Control System meant to mimic dawn so you wake up easier. Each pod is made of fiberglass, making them stackable.

John Gutfreund — the Wall Street legend made famous in Michael Lewis' 'Liar's Poker' — has died.

Gutfreund was the CEO of Salomon Brothers when Lewis began his career there. He spent a total of 38 years at the firm.

In Liar's Poker, Lewis recounts his four-year stint at Salomon Brothers, the now-defunct Wall Street investment bank where the mortgage bond was invented.

Lewis' detailed explanation of how Salomon reaped massive profits from the explosion in mortgage bonds is instructive.

It was his depictions of the larger-than-life personalities like Gutfreund, the jungle mentality, and other elements of the unsavory culture that really made the book a hit, however. 

We've compiled 10 moments from Liar's Poker that capture exactly why the book became an instant classic.

Editor's Note: Former Business Insider writer Luke Kawa contributed to an earlier version of this feature.

The scene where the bank's CEO John Gutfreund challenges John Meriwether to a hand of Liar's Poker for $1 million.

The limits of reckless gambling on the Street were defined in the book's opening scene.

John Gutfreund proposed playing one hand of Liar's Poker, which requires gamesmanship and knowledge of probabilities highly valued by the traders, for $1 million. His opponent, John Meriwether (widely considered the firm's best player) didn't want to beat the CEO, so he got the boss to back off by saying he'd only play for $10 million. 

Source: Liar's Poker

The scene where Lewis describes how miserable his friends are as analysts.

Lewis describes a friend working as an analyst who "was so strung out that he regularly nipped into a bathroom stall during midday lulls and slept on the toilet. He worked straight through most nights and on weekends, yet felt guilty for not doing more. He pretended to be constipated—in case someone noticed how long he had been gone... Many analysts later admit that their two years between college and business school were the worst of their lives."

Source: Liar's Poker

The scene with the one trainee too terrified to step on the Salomon trading floor.

"...a third, by far the most interesting, couldn't bear to step off the elevator and onto the trading floor. He rode up and down in the rear of the elevator every afternoon. He meant to get off, I think, but was petrified. Word of his handicap spread. It reached the woman in charge of the training program. She went to see for herself. She stood outside the elevator banks on the forty-first floor and watched with her own eyes the doors open and shut for an hour on one very spooked trainee. One day he was gone."

Source: Liar's Poker

Zac Efron is more ripped than ever.

The 28-year-old actor has been training for months to prepare for his role in the upcoming "Baywatch" movie — filming now and out summer 2017 — and it's clearly paid off.

Efron has been posting photos on his Instagram to show off his progress and share some secrets. He also wrote about his strict diet on Twitter.

Check out some of his intense regimen below:

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First things first: lifting weights to work out his back and biceps

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There is a "Ninja Warrior"-like training course on set for Efron and his costar, "The Rock," aka Dwayne Johnson, to work out on. Efron said that he's been training for "months and months" to reach this level.

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Efron and The Rock even got into a tire-flipping race on set. The Rock won.

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Maybe you're a workaholic and spend 80 hours a week at the office. Perhaps you come home every night wanting to complain about your micromanaging boss or annoying coworkers. Whatever the culprit, our careers often affect our personal relationships — and in extreme cases, they can even ruin marriages.

"Because we spend the majority of our waking hours Monday through Friday at the office, our jobs tend to easily spill into our personal lives," says Lynn Taylor, a national workplace expert, leadership coach, and author of "Tame Your Terrible Office Tyrant: How to Manage Childish Boss Behavior and Thrive in Your Job." 

"And it's natural, for instance, to come home wanting to vent," she says, "but this kind of thing can wear thin on your partner over time, as they may feel helpless."

She says frequently bringing the office into your personal life can be stressful for both of you, and it's important to know if your job is affecting your marriage.

"You want to recognize red flags early that your work is impacting your marriage, so you aren't blindsided by your spouse before it's too late to make any changes," adds Michael Kerr, an international business speaker and author of "The Humor Advantage." 

Here are 16 signs your job is ruining your marriage:

SEE ALSO: 3 subtle differences between workaholics and high performers

You put work priorities ahead of your relationship.

If you find yourself opting out of activities you would normally engage in with your spouse, such as going to a movie, visiting friends or just enjoying time together, you could be placing undue pressure on the relationship, Taylor explains.

You're too tired from work to spend time with your spouse. 

If work is sucking all of your energy out of you, your partner will be affected and take note.

Your spouse has become your career therapist.

If you find yourself constantly seeking advice from your spouse on your next "move" at work, you could be hurting your marriage, Taylor says.  

If you love the game where love is a score, then add these courts across the US to your bucket list.

From historic indoor courts in New York to Hawaii's best seaside spots, these will keep you on your toes. We've included all kinds of options, from public spaces to championship grounds to the top resorts for state-of-the-art facilities and beautiful surroundings.

Whether you're just learning to serve or you've already perfected your backhand, you'll want to pay these courts a visit.

SEE ALSO: 47 stunning pools everyone should swim in once

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Mauna Kea Beach Hotel

Location:Kamuela, Hawaii

Facilities: 11 seaside hard courts

Details: Hotel guests at the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel or nearby Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel can take advantage of stunning outdoor tennis courts overlooking the bay. There are lessons available as well. 

Vanderbilt Tennis and Fitness Club

Location:New York, New York

Facilities: 1 indoor court

Details: Deep within Manhattan's Grand Central Station lies an unexpected treasure: a tennis court. It's open to the public, but it will cost you up to $250 an hour.

All Iowa Lawn Tennis Club

Location:Charles City, Iowa

Facilities: 1 grass court

Details: Situated on a former corn farm with windmills and fields on the horizon, the grass court makes for a unique experience. The All Iowa Lawn Tennis Club is a fairly new addition to the pack, built in 2003 and made to emulate Wimbledon's Centre Court. A bonus: it's free — you just need to email in your reservation.

For some people, ending a marriage is reason to celebrate ... with cake. 

After splitting ties with their partners, people around the world are starting off their newfound single lives by eating divorce-themed cakes frosted with phrases like "I do, I did, I'm done," and "wife goes on." We first spotted the bizarre desserts in the Daily Mail earlier in March. 

On Instagram, a quick search for the hashtag #DivorceCake will show dozens of confections designed to celebrating the end of a marriage. While divorce is not something everyone takes lightly (just ask the folks behind the "divorce selfie" trend), the people noshing on these cakes seem to be making the best of a bad, or possibly good, situation. 

Check out 17 creative divorce cakes, courtesy of Instagram. 

Check out this detailed divorce cake.

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"For sale," reads this intricate dessert, which is designed to look like the iconic blue ring boxes from Tiffany & Company.

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Many of the cakes have elaborate themes, like this Hollywood-inspired confection.

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Will Arnett's new Netflix comedy, "Flaked," is getting a big thumbs-down from television critics.

At the time of publishing, it had earned a 39/100 score on review-aggregation site Metacritic. That's the second-worst score ever for a Netflix original comedy, though it did beat "Fuller House." The spin-off got a 35 score (but it still got renewed for a second season).

For context, Netflix's highest-scoring comedy show on the site is Aziz Ansari's "Master of None," with a 91. "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" comes in at a far second with a 78 score.

On "Flaked," which comes out Friday, co-creator Will Arnett stars as Chip. He has carefully engineered a "guru-like" public persona that begins to break down lie by lie as he falls for the same girl his best friend is pursuing.

From a thin story line to a lack of laughs, here's what the critics are saying:

SEE ALSO: John Stamos reads the most brutal reviews of Netflix's 'Fuller House'

SEE ALSO: Netflix has a foulmouthed new comedy show with Ashton Kutcher and Danny Masterson — here's the trailer

Do we need another indie comedy-style protagonist?

With so many good shows that seem similar in tone and style, there's bound to be some genre saturation for viewers. One critic feels that "Flaked" doesn't quite justify its own existence.

"There’s nothing inherently unwelcome about another portrait of a womanizing, self-hating middle-aged manchild in theory," wrote A.V. Club's Dennis Perkins. "... But for all of Arnett’s wet-eyed appeal (and for all the heavy lifting done by Stephen Malkmus’ score of on-the-nose indie rock), 'Flaked' fails to make the case that Chip’s self-pitying a--holery is unique enough to carry an entire series."

There isn't enough story for an eight-episode series.

Critics pointed out that "Flaked" had some inconsistencies in tone and pace, and that story content seems too thin for a series.

"The series gets more substantive and quicker starting in episode six, but overall the pieces — man-boys on the prowl, bromance, occasional forays into seriousness — fit together uncomfortably,"New York Times critic Neil Genzlinger said.

Las Vegas Weekly's Josh Bell wrote: "'Flaked' offers up weak jokes and even weaker drama, as later episodes pile on contrived, overwrought plot twists. A feature-film version could have tightened up the storytelling — or at least ended sooner."

It's just not funny.

Clearly when a show is called a comedy, it should produce some laughs. But "Flaked" seems to fall very short on this level.

The Hollywood Reporter critic Daniel Fienberg wrote, "In all of these L.A. neighborhood rom-drams, a running time of under 30 minutes dictates we call them comedies more than the tone necessarily does, so 'Flaked' episodes almost all run just a notch over 30 minutes and offer almost no laughs at all, daring you to change your classifications."

San Francisco Chronicle's David Wiegand agreed: "The new Netflix comedy 'Flaked' asks the question: Can a show be called a comedy if it has zero laughs?"

Watch the trailer for "Flaked" below:

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Remember the utter frenzy created by Pokémon cards? Or the "one-of-a-kind" Cabbage Patch Kid Dolls?

Sucked in by marketing ploys to scoop up these "one-of-a-kind" items that could eventually be worth a fortune, many consumers have found themselves with piles of junk in their garages rather than the promised goldmine.

"You have to be really aware of 'phenomenons," Rudy Franchi, an appraiser who has often appeared on PBS' hit show "Antiques Roadhouse," told Business Insider. "People get swept up in a mass craze to collect something ... until it creates a giant bubble that bursts."

Here are 11 such collectible crazes that didn't live up to their potential.

Mandi Woodruff contributed to an earlier version of this article.

SEE ALSO: 15 things you can stop wasting your money on

Andy Warhol cookie jars

After pop culture icon Andy Warhol died in the late 80s, friends and family discovered one of his greatest obsessions: antique cookie jars.

The jars turned into hot-sellers at his estate sale, with some fetching as much as $250,000.

But what collectors didn't realize was that their value expired not long after their owner. "I tell people at the roadshow that (the jars) are worth today what they were always worth — about $200," Franchi explained.

80s movie posters

Some vintage movie posters from the early 20th century have been sold for upwards of half a million dollars.

The same can't be said for more modern flicks, thanks to a couple of factors: For one thing, it's easy to recreate posters online, and secondly, theater employees hoarded posters so much in the 80s and 90s that supply began to outweigh demand.

"There's a difference between rarity and scarcity," Franchi said. "Now there's an absolute flood of movie posters from that period. It'll be a long time before they find homes."

Modern baseball cards

The 80s and 90s saw a massive baseball card balloon that made many modern ball cards (post-1970s) basically worthless.

"Manufacturers were coy about how many cards they were printing," Zac Bissonnette, consignment director for Heritage Auctions, told Business Insider. "Once you had eBay — a searchable database of everything everyone wants to sell — it became obvious that stuff that was thought to be rare wasn't rare at all."

Don Mattingly rookie cards used to sell for $50 a pop. Now you can find them for pennies online.

Annoying your coworkers, while never a good idea, is one thing. But annoying your boss with your unprofessional habits could cost you your job.

To help you avoid letting your bad habits get the best of you, we asked experts to highlight some of the least professional behaviors you could demonstrate at work that will put your job on the line or cost you a promotion.

Here are 18 things you could be doing all wrong that may make your boss think you're not right for the job:

SEE ALSO: 19 unprofessional habits that could cost you a job

DON'T MISS: 17 unprofessional work habits that make your boss and coworkers hate you

Showing up late to work

"Punctuality is critical,"Rosalinda Oropeza Randall, an etiquette and civility expert and the author of "Don't Burp in the Boardroom," tells Business Insider..

"The professional thing to do is to arrive on time, ready to do what is expected. It's not like they just sprung this job on you," she says.

Rolling in 10 minutes late to every meeting

Similarly, showing up late to meetings shows that you neither respect your coworkers — who showed up on time, by the way — nor the meeting organizer, Vicky Oliver, author of "301 Smart Answers to Tough Interview Questions" and "Bad Bosses, Crazy Coworkers & Other Office Idiots," tells Business Insider.

"Keeping people waiting can be construed as inconsiderate, rude, or arrogant," Randall says.

Being negative all the time

Repeatedly responding to suggestions with a pessimistic or contrary attitude can be construed as being uncooperative, Randall says. Phrases like "That won’t work,""That sounds too hard," or, "I wouldn’t know how to start," should be avoided.

Similarly, complaining too much puts you in a bad light.

"While there may be times when everyone feels the desire to complain about the boss, a coworker, or a task, voicing it will only make you look unprofessional," Randall says. "It's even worse if you complain every day, all day, from the moment you walk into work. Before long, people will go out of their way to avoid you."

"There's nothing as energy-draining as having to deal with a pessimistic coworker," Rosemary Haefner, chief human-resources officer for CareerBuilder, tells Business Insider. "Things do go wrong, but even when they do, focus your energy towards what you've learned from a bad situation."

She points to a recent CareerBuilder survey, which shows that a majority of employers — 62% — say they are less likely to promote employees who have a negative or pessimistic attitude.

Wow.

That's what the entire internet was left saying after the latest trailer for "Captain America: Civil War"was released on Thursday.

The new trailer features more new footage of the battle between Iron Man and Captain America, along with the surprise debut of the beloved comic-book hero, Spider-Man.

If you haven't watched it, check it out here.

There are tons of details hidden in nearly every frame. Let's break down what you just saw:

The trailer opens on a secret military facility. The doors open to reveal ...

Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), the Winter Soldier. He was once a puppet of the evil organization Hydra, but regained free will at the end of 2014's "Captain America: The Winter Soldier."

Central to the film is whether or not superheroes need regulation. Because of the events of the past films, the American government believes that The Avengers need guidelines.

More and more, offices are opting for open-concept layouts. 

This can foster collaboration, but it can also make it difficult to get work done.

Helsinki-based design firm Mottowasabi has come up with an intriguing solution. The team has designed a massive felt helmet that shields you from your coworkers, as noted by Fast Company.

It's like a cubicle, but just for your head. Check it out below.

The bubble, called the Tomoko, is made from recycled polyester felt. Since it's nearly soundproof, it can cloister you from pesky office distractions. It also signals that you don't want to be disturbed.

Source: Motowasabi

One version goes over your head; another sits on a desk and houses a laptop.

"Working environments are changing," designer Yuki Abe tells Tech Insider. "They are becoming more like home or a library, where you can change the workstations according to your needs." For instance, you can treat the Tomoko as a makeshift phone booth like the dude below.