
Twenty-three university students in the Netherlands spent a full year away from their regular classes and delivered something no one else had managed. On a July afternoon in 2026 they rolled out Stella Juva, a two-seat ambulance that generates its own electricity from the sun and uses that power both to move across difficult ground and to run a full set of medical tools. The project comes from Solar Team Eindhoven at Eindhoven University of Technology, the same group that previously built a solar family car, a solar camper, and an off-road solar vehicle that crossed Moroccan desert terrain.

Three years to the day after settling a bruising legal fight over trade secrets, Archer Aviation is buying the company that once sued it. On Monday, Archer and Boeing announced definitive agreements under which Archer will acquire Wisk Aero along with two other Boeing subsidiaries, SkyGrid and Insitu. In return, Boeing will receive a substantial equity stake in Archer, warrants for more shares later, a board seat, and continued access to key autonomy technology.

Physical keyboards once shaped how people handled their phones every day. Soft keyboards took over as screens grew larger and every maker chased the same glass rectangle. Minimal Company refused that trade. Its second phone, the MP02, packs a full QWERTY layout into a smaller aluminum body while upgrading the parts that held the first model back.

Back-to-school season always brings the same scramble for supplies that will still work two, three, even four years later. Graphing calculators sit near the top of that list for anyone heading into algebra, geometry, precalculus, statistics, or calculus. Texas Instruments just made the choice clearer with the TI-84 Evo, priced at $86 (was $160), a deliberate step forward from the long-running TI-84 Plus CE that keeps the familiar foundation while fixing the slowdowns and clutter that used to slow kids down.

Kiara from Kiara’s Workshop has a habit of pulling game mechanics into the physical world and making them work. Her newest project targets the catch sequence unique to Pokémon Legends: Arceus. In that older setting a successful capture does not produce the familiar series of rapid shakes. The ball instead rises once into the air while a burst of smoke escapes from the top. A failure simply opens the shell and plays a short sound.