A drone hovers above a truck speeding down a rural road at 110 km/h, and it begins to descend with precision and then lands smoothly on its bed. This is the latest achievement from the Createk Engineering Lab at Université de Sherbrooke in Canada. Their Project DART has solved a long-standing problem for drone technology: landing on a moving target in real-world scenarios.
Duke Nukem 3D was released in 1996 and still holds up today. Now a fan project called Voxel Duke Nukem 3D is bringing back those memories. Modder Dan Peterson has spent years converting the 2D graphics into voxel based 3D models. These models are exact to the originals, replacing 2D images with 3D models that rotate as you move.
Fifty years after astronauts bounced around the lunar surface in a stripped-down electric cart, General Motors is back with a rover that’s more like a reliable pickup truck than a one-time toy. The Lunar Terrain Vehicle, or LTV, is developed by a team led by Lunar Outpost, with General Motors handling the battery pack, frame and smarts for standing upright on uneven ground. This vehicle is for NASA’s Artemis missions which will deliver humans to the South Pole starting around 2030.
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Apple is continually improving its smartwatch lineup and the Series 11 is the latest example. This one is brand new and has all the features that made the Series 10 a daily must have. Amazon has already dropped the base aluminum model to $389 from $399, so now is the time to pick one up before the Black Friday craze kicks in.
A couple in the US were so smitten with their Labrador-Golden Retriever mix named Bailey they wanted to give him more than a pat on the head. They turned to Rolls-Royce, the British maker of ultra-luxury cars, to create a one-off Spectre, called Specture Bailey, that’s as much a tribute to their dog as it is a work of art.
After months of locking Comet behind a $200/month paywall, Perplexity is making their AI-enhanced web browser available to anyone with internet access. No strings, no expiration dates. Just download and go.
Concrete surrounds us as the backbone of our cities, but what if the walls of your home could store enough energy to keep your lights on, your fridge running, and your devices charged? At MIT, researchers have turned this wild idea into reality, creating a new kind of concrete that doubles as a battery.
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Natalie the Nerd has spent years reverse engineering old Game Boy motherboards and mapping them out onto detailed schematics. When Nintendo and LEGO released their $59 display set—a brick built Game Boy—she saw more than just a shelf ornament.
In the early 1980s, a strange beast called the Vectrex carved out its own niche among the giants of home gaming. Unlike the colorful sprites jumping across TV screens from Atari or Intellivision, the Vectrex drew lines in bright green vectors directly on its own nine-inch screen. Now, four decades later, a new team in France has brought that back and shrunk it down to pocket size. Meet the Vectrex Mini, coming to Kickstarter next month.
