Dyson CameraJet Toothbrush Street Photographer Photography

Dyson CameraJet Hits the Sidewalk, Street Photos From a $499 Toothbrush

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Dyson CameraJet Toothbrush Street Photographer Photography
A street photographer spent a recent afternoon walking city blocks with Dyson’s new CameraJet pressed against her face, treating a $499 electric toothbrush as if it belonged in a camera bag. She goes by all gear no skill on Instagram and has a habit of forcing odd tools into photo walks. Dentists owning Leicas is an old running joke in that circle, so a toothbrush that already carries a camera felt like the next logical dare. Photography should be fun, she said, and she meant it enough to stand on a sidewalk holding oral-care hardware while strangers stared.

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Volkswagen Mission Efficiency XL1 Successor

Volkswagen Puts the XL1’s Slippery Shape Back on Public Roads as the Mission Efficiency

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Volkswagen Mission Efficiency XL1 Successor
Volkswagen unveiled Mission Efficiency today as a near-production electric 2+2 coupe whose entire brief is to waste as little energy as possible. The car is a clear nod to the 2013 XL1, the plug-in hybrid teardrop that once held the title of the most economical production car on sale. This time the powertrain is fully electric, the platform is the same front-drive MEB+ hardware headed for the ID. Polo and ID. Cross, and the claim is a new record for any road-approved car: a drag coefficient of 0.158.

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R/C Car 100,000 Scale Mile Drive Experiment

RC Test Flight Goes Self-Driving to See if R/C Cars Can Hit 100,000 Scale Miles on a Buried Wire

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R/C Car 100,000 Scale Mile Drive Experiment
Four years after Daniel Riley first lashed remote-control crawlers to a backyard tether and asked whether any of them could rack up 100,000 scale miles, he ran the experiment again. This time the cars steered themselves. In the original 2022 test, a spinning line kept every vehicle on a circle, which also loaded one side of the drivetrain harder than the other and turned wear into a lopsided argument. For the Self Driving Edition, Riley laid a perimeter wire through his yard, borrowed the sensing idea from robot lawn mowers, and taught an Arduino to twitch a steering servo whenever a coil on the bumper drifted off the signal.

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ESOX X2 Unmanned Ground Vehicle UGV

First Look at ESOX X2, an Electric UGV with Four Quiet Motors and a Thousand Newton-Meters for the Last Mile

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ESOX X2 Unmanned Ground Vehicle UGV
Soldiers still burn hours and calories moving water, ammunition, and radios across ground that wrecks ordinary trucks. Pack animals once filled that gap. Conventional electric robots often stall in the same mud, sand, snow, and rubble because their motors sit in the middle of the chassis and feed torque through gearboxes and shafts that lose grip the moment the surface turns ugly. ESOX Group finished a compact uncrewed platform, called the X2, this summer that tries to skip that failure.

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