A well-used Motorola bodycam arrived at Bringus Studios with visible signs of prior shifts, including residue that suggested long days clipped to an officer’s chest. Model N701A, it runs a version of Android from the mid-2010s labeled Motorola Incident Plus 17. Buttons include a red rocker for recording, a green push-to-talk key, and others that trigger photos or covert mode.
Near Nobeyama Station on the Koumi line in Nagano Prefecture, a humanoid robot mounted on a special vehicle extends its arms toward tree branches hanging over the tracks. One arm ends in a multi-pronged claw that grips the wood. The other carries a chainsaw that cuts through the growth, sending pieces falling clear of the rails below.
Michael Rechtin spends his days as a full-time aerospace engineer and his evenings turning filament into machines that most people would still expect to come from a factory. His latest project takes an ordinary electric ducted fan and adds a combustion section behind it, creating a functional afterburner that he then put on a thrust stand to measure what actually happens when fuel joins the airflow.
Amazon spent years selling cheap plastic tablets that locked you into a limited app store and showed ads on the lock screen. The Alexa Tablet 12 Pro marks a clear break from that pattern. It ships as a full Android device with access to the Google Play Store, an aluminum body, and a 12-inch screen that reviewers have called one of the strongest reasons to consider it over more expensive options.
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Microsoft’s all-digital Xbox Series X in Robot White, priced at $599.99 today (was $749), removes the disc drive while keeping every bit of the original hardware performance intact. An eight-core custom Zen 2 processor runs at 3.8 GHz, paired with a custom RDNA 2 graphics processor delivering 12 teraflops across 52 compute units. Sixteen gigabytes of GDDR6 memory split into high-speed and standard pools handle the load, letting games target true 4K resolution with frame rates reaching 120 on compatible displays.