Cowabunga hits different when four people can actually stand side by side and mash buttons the way the game was meant to be played. A builder working under the name arcademinimalist just finished a commissioned machine that takes an old Arcade1Up cabinet, drops a Nintendo Switch 2 inside it, and turns Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge into a proper four-player arcade experience.
Fifteen years after its first snow fell, Skyrim still refuses to stay buried. A free fan project now lets anyone wander the entire province inside Unreal Engine 5, and the latest showcase from Digital Dreams captures that walk in striking detail. Greg Coulthard built the foundation. He wrote a custom C++ plugin that reads Skyrim’s original ESM data files and automatically generates the landscape and places most of the objects. Assets still needed manual import, yet the result is a complete, continuous map of Skyrim running natively in Unreal Engine 5. Digital Dreams then layered their own texture work and ReShade presets on top, producing the footage that has people hitting pause every few seconds.
Most cameras ignore a wide stretch of near-infrared light that plants reflect and certain materials absorb in unexpected ways. One maker spent three months turning three ordinary USB webcams into a single system that records that invisible band as full color video. Project 326 started with the same $15 modules many people already own. Each sensor already responds to near-infrared once the factory IR-cut filter is gone.
Zack Nelson of JerryRigEverything does not mess around when a new phone shows up claiming to handle real work. His latest target is the Samsung Galaxy XCover7 Pro, the company’s current rugged workhorse built for construction sites, emergency crews, and anyone who treats a phone like a tool instead of a fragile gadget. What he found challenges years of industry talk about why modern phones cannot combine a sealed body with a battery you can swap yourself.
Mojave Air and Space Port sits in the high desert where the air stays dry and the runways stretch long enough for machines that refuse ordinary limits. On a recent morning there, a prototype Porsche Cayenne Turbo Electric rolled into position under the shadow of Stratolaunch’s Roc. Six jet engines sat silent for the moment. The SUV waited between the twin fuselages of an aircraft whose wings span 385 feet.