This McDonald’s, located in Taupo, New Zealand, is located inside a decommissioned Douglas DC-3 plane, and it just might be the coolest location yet. This aircraft went out of service in 1984 and promptly became a promotional tool for Taupo’s Aeroplane Car Company.
The 20,000mAh Mophie Powerstation XL power bank can either be picked up for full price at the Apple Store, or you can get one today for $24.99, originally $59.99. Featuring a 20W USB-C Power Delivery port that can charge your device up to 50% in just 30 minutes, as well as two USB-A ports for multi-device charging. Product page.
When Raspberry Pi meets BlackBerry phone, you get Zitao Tech’s Hackberry Pi Zero, a handheld cyberdeck of sorts. Put simply, this is not a smartphone, but rather a learning tool for programmers and anyone who just likes a handheld device that can be fully customized.
The upcoming Sabrent Rocket XTRM5 is the world’s first Thunderbolt 5 portable SSD, boasting bi-directional bandwidth of 80 gigabits per second (Gbps) and 120Gbps with Bandwidth Boost. As for performance, this drive offers read speeds of higher than 6,000 MB/s and write speeds of over 5,000 MB/s.
This may not be as exciting as finding the $2-million MTG ‘The One Ring’ card, but this Unreal Engine 5 tech demo does give us hope that a future Lord of the Rings game can actually look the part. It took Micah just 6 days from start to finish to complete the Fellowship of the Ring river scene using the ‘first person player’ template in Unreal Engine 5.
Forget resin, PNIPAM 3D printing ink extrudes as a liquid and then solidifies in water. This process uses a liquid polymer solution known as poly(N-isopropylacrylamide), which when extruded through a needle into a calcium chloride salt solution, it instantly solidifies as it makes contact with the salt water.
Rocket Lab announced this week that the company has successfully tested their two spacecraft destined for Mars orbit. The twin spacecraft were built for UC Berkeley’s Space Science Laboratory and NASA to enable the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission, scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral this year.