Summer heat hits us like a ton of bricks, and before you know it, everyone is looking for something cold to drink. The Ninja SLUSHi, priced at $259 (was $350), fulfills that call by transforming liquids into the perfect frozen delight in the comfort of your own home without the mess.
In 1891, Gabriel Lippmann made a breakthrough in color recording. Instead of relying on added chemicals or substances, he took advantage of light waves’ intrinsic behavior. It’s no wonder that this revolutionary achievement earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1908. For years, scientists had been attempting to understand natural color photography, with typical methods including either tedious hand coloring or layering filters on images. Lippmann, on the other hand, was not having it, and came up with the brilliant concept of using interference to capture colors exactly as they were in the picture.
Greenhill Forge runs a rural workshop focused on hands-on projects for smallholding life. Years spent building an axial flux permanent magnet generator gave him the perfect foundation for a new challenge. Cold water needed reliable heating off the grid, and fuel or grid power carried too many hassles. He turned those existing rotors into the heart of a device that creates heat through nothing more than motion and magnetic fields.
Gamers everywhere just gained a cleaner path to play on their Windows 11 machines. Microsoft started pushing out Xbox Mode on April 30 in select markets, with the update spreading to more users over the coming weeks. This full-screen interface draws straight from the console playbook yet runs on everything from laptops and desktops to tablets and handhelds. Players flip into it when they want games front and center and slip back to the regular desktop whenever they need to check email or open another app.
Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory gathered around a special 26-foot vacuum chamber in February of last year to witness a prototype engine fire five times in a row. The temperature within that device skyrocketed, exceeding 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit, with a center tungsten electrode burning a brilliant white and an outer nozzle spewing out an astounding crimson stream of lithium plasma into the void of space.
Hikers and tourists frequently find themselves cut off from friends and family as soon as they venture into the great outdoors, but Meshtastic puts this isolation into perspective with a dead simple system that allows radios to simply talk to one another. You purchase a little board created for this and simply put the free software from the official website onto it. Setting it all up takes only a few minutes, thanks to a brilliant browser plugin that handles everything for you.
Racing fans hold fond memories of one particular Porsche from decades ago. In the 1980 season a customer 935 K3 from Dick Barbour Racing hit the circuits wrapped in bright rainbow colors and the Apple Computer logo. That machine competed at major events including the 24 Hours of Le Mans and left a lasting impression wherever it appeared.
Mathieu Stern spotted an oddity one afternoon at a French flea market. Inside a simple blue canister sat a compact Foth 50 millimeter f 2.5 lens from the late 1920s. Three euros later it was his. The optic had come from a Foth Derby folding camera built for 127 roll film, a model once positioned as a rival to early Leica designs. It even showed up in a few motion pictures from that period, including work tied to Alfred Hitchcock.
Runners frequently struggle to strike the perfect balance when it comes to listening to music or podcasts on long runs: they want to be able to zone out from the world while also remaining aware for approaching cars or chatter from fellow trail-goers without having to rip out their headphones at every little sound. The Shokz OpenRun Pro 2 bone conduction headphones, priced at $139.95 (was $180), solve that exact problem with a design that sits snugly against your cheekbones while leaving both ears open for full awareness.
James Lucas Condon turned his passion for cars and camera into a platform that now funds some of the rarest cars on the planet. Known online as TheStradMan, he has spent years sharing his passion for hypercars with millions. His latest move shows just how far that success reaches. He commissioned Bugatti to create a one-off W16 Mistral called Fly Bug, the fourth car in a series built around insects from the natural world.