We’ve yet to hear about DeLorean Alpha5 deliveries, but the VinFast VF 3 micro electric vehicle is coming soon to the Vietnamese market, priced from $12,650 USD. This vehicle measures a svelte 125.6 inches long, 66.1 inches wide, and 63.8 inches tall, with an 81.6 inch wheelbase.
The Aura Carver 10.1″ WiFi Digital Picture Frame lets you send photos from a smartphone, and it’s being offered for just $148.99 shipped, originally $169.99. Unlike tablets, this frame automatically adjusts screen brightness, manages photo cropping, turns off automatically at night, and more, complete with a built-in speaker for video playback. Product page.
MIT researchers have developed sound-suppressing silk fabric barely thicker than a human hair that contains a special fiber that vibrates when a voltage is applied to it, allowing you to suppress sound in two ways. The first one has the fabric generating sound waves that cancel out unwanted noise, similar to ANC headphones.
Sierra Space announced this week the successful completion of a rigorous environmental test suite on their Dream Chaser spaceplane, Tenacity, at NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio.
Nintendo Japan has just released a life-sized Master Sword replica from The Legend of Zelda, and it measures around 3.4-feet in length. The Master Sword is made from ABS plastic and comes with the main unit, a sheath, and display stand.
Photo credit: Banseok Seo
We know Microsoft is working on a handheld, and for those who just can’t wait to see a prototype, industrial designer Banseok Seo’s Xbox Half concept teases what such a device could look like. One feature we hope the real Xbox Handheld has is dual-booting, enabling users to partition the main drive into two halves for separate operating systems.
Stanford researchers have developed 3D AR eyeglasses that look at normal at first, but they actually combine holographic imaging with artificial intelligence. More specifically, a pair of prototype augmented reality glasses that basically use holographic imaging to overlay full-color, 3D moving images on normal-looking lenses.
We know robots can make coffee, but this ultrasonic coffee machine can make a cup of cold brew in under 3-minutes. UNSW Sydney engineers started with an existing Breville espresso machine and then equipped it with their own patented sound transmission system.
There’s the flux capacitor alarm clock, and then this custom-built digital clock that uses sand to tell time. Álvaro Gómez Giménez came up with the idea after being intrigued by persistence of vision gadgets, which use the human eye’s afterimage phenomenon to create the illusion of a continuous moving image.