Robot vacuums solved floors years ago, while windows stayed stubborn. Tall panes, frameless panels, sliding doors, and mirrors still demand ladders, squeegees, and a weekend you would rather spend elsewhere. Ecovacs answered that gap with the Winbot W2S Pro Omni, a square climbing cleaner that sticks to vertical glass, sprays solution, scrubs edges, and returns to a portable station that cleans its own pad.
Fresh images of the finished cabin for the JAS Tensei arrived this morning, and they confirm the car is nearly ready for its public debut. JAS Motorsport and Pininfarina released the definitive interior design of their limited restomod based on the first-generation Honda NSX, showing a driver-focused space finished in bold black and red with clear ties to the original car’s simple, purposeful layout.
Astronomers have long known NGC 2392 by several names, yet the latest images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope make the Lion Nebula nickname feel newly earned. Released today, the views combine near-infrared light from NIRCam and mid-infrared light from MIRI to show a planetary nebula roughly 5,000 light-years away in the constellation Gemini. What appears is a glowing, roughly circular structure about 2.6 light-years across, its center dominated by a bright point that looks for all the world like a button nose.
James Bruton keeps building machines that walk and are capable of carrying a person. His latest one is a compact quadruped he calls the Mid-Walker, open-sourced on GitHub under XRobots. Diagonal legs are mechanically linked so they swing in pairs. That means only two feet stay planted at any moment. On flat ground the setup works, but on anything uneven, it tips.
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In late 1972 Butler Lampson sat down at Xerox PARC and wrote a short internal memo titled “Why Alto?” He wanted a machine each researcher could claim as their own. Alan Kay had been dreaming of a portable Dynabook for years. Lampson and Chuck Thacker offered him an interim version that would fit under a desk instead. Bob Taylor gave the project its name, and work began that November. By April 1973 the first unit was running, with a Sesame Street Cookie Monster test pattern appearing on its tall portrait screen.