Engineers the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, along with collaborators, have created something called ‘RoboCake’ as part of the EU-funded RoboFood project. This isn’t just a cake you eat while watching a robot dance around it. RoboCake is a fully edible wedding cake that’s also a functional robot.
Let’s face it, weaponized drones are a big problem, but the British Army’s Radio Frequency Directed Energy Weapon (RF DEW) aims to change that. This fascinating piece of tech was specifically designed to tackle drone swarms by disrupting or destroying their electronic components.
Mercedes-Benz G-Class Edition STRONGER THAN THE 1980s is not a movie title, but a limited-edition G-Wagen that’s got everyone talking. This beast is a retro-inspired tribute to the original W460 G-Class from the ’80s, specifically the 280 GE.
Here’s a close-up look at COSMO, a cartoon-style robot from Netflix’s “The Electric State.” It was made by UCLA’s RoMeLa (Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory), led by Professor Dennis Hong, to bring the fictional character from the movie’s graphic novel to life, focusing on a fun, lively look instead of regular robot efficiency.
Anker’s Soundcore Sleep A20 earbuds are perfect for travel, or when trying to slumber in noisy environments, and you can get a pair for $119.99 shipped, originally $149.99. It’s specially designed for side sleepers, using a 3D ergonomic design, ultra-soft materials, and Soundcore’s Air Wing technology to minimize pressure. Product page.
This handcrafted Rolls-Royce Chess Set mirrors the brand’s automotive elegance and will most likely cost you more than a new Tesla Model Y. It’s designed for home use but could easily fit in the back of a Spectre with its magnetized pieces, which glide smoothly across the board thanks to carefully selected magnets.
NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a new image of the Eagle Nebula (Messier 16) as part of its 35th anniversary celebrations. The picture shows a huge pillar of cold gas and dust, stretching 9.5 light-years tall, sitting 7,000 light-years away from us in the Serpens constellation.
Zach Nelson of JerryRigEverything put the Light Phone III ‘anti-smartphone’ through his usual gauntlet of durability tests and a teardown to peek inside its minimalist guts. At $599 USD, this device is essentially stripped-down device meant to handle essentials while keeping distractions at bay.
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Forget standard hard drives, the rice grain-sized Poxiao is being touted as the world’s fastest flash memory, developed by researchers at Fudan University in China. It’s capable of erasing and rewriting data in just 400 picoseconds (one-trillionth of a second). That’s 100,000 times quicker than regular flash memory, breaking speed limits nobody thought could be beaten.
It’s official, the 2025 Porsche 911 GT3 set a new Nürburgring Nordschleife record for production cars with a manual transmission. Brand ambassador Jörg Bergmeister was behind the wheel and managed to lap the 20.832 km track in 6:56.294 minutes, beating the previous manual-transmission record (held by a Dodge Viper ACR) by over 9.5 seconds.