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.
The Apple MacBook Air M2 is the perfect laptop for most use cases, even some content creators, and you can get one for $829 shipped today, originally $999. Even with its brilliant 13.6-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit display with IPS technology, it offers up to 18-hours of continuous use on a single charge. Product page.
The BlackBerry Pi was first unveiled several months ago, but now, modder Taylor Hay has nearly completed the build. Unfortunately (or fortunately), this isn’t a Windows-based handheld computer, but rather one running either Raspberry Pi OS or Linux.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has possibly detected atmospheric gases surrounding 55 Cancri e, a hot rocky exoplanet located approximately 41 light-years from Earth. Why is it so hot? The planet orbits just 1.4 million miles from its parent star, resulting in a surface that is likely to be molten.
Set for release on July 18, Nintendo World Championships NES Edition for the Switch brings the legendary speedrunning competition home. A special edition Deluxe Set includes a physical version of the game, 5 collectible pins, 13 art cards commemorating each of the featured NES classics, and a replica of the gold-colored NES Game Pak from 1990.
The United States Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) is currently testing a weaponized robot dog made by defense company Onyx Industries, equipped with an AI-powered rifle. This news isn’t too surprising considering that MARSOC is also testing Ghost Robotics’ quadrupedal unmanned ground vehicles.