Nick Mo from the YouTube show Work From Hype likes to turn his home office into a playground for wild ideas. His latest creation is the Glow Desk, which uses an overhead projector to turn a plain wooden desk into a dynamic, interactive display.
In 1996, Ford showed a concept car at the Detroit Auto Show that looked like it was ripped from the pages of a comic book. The Ford Indigo was a head-turning, open-wheeled monster powered by a 6.0-liter V12, designed to harness the raw power of IndyCar racing into something that could, in theory, hit the streets.
Mattel, the company behind Barbie and Hot Wheels, entered the video game business in 2006 with the HyperScan, a console for tweens that combined physical trading cards with digital gaming. It was released on October 23, 2006, for $69.99, just as the PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii were expected to dominate the holiday season.
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In the blocky world of Minecraft, the compass is a simple tool, pointing players to their spawn point with a flick of its red needle. It’s blocky, pixelated and iconic. Now, thanks to a clever DIY project, that virtual compass has jumped out of the game and into the real world. Maker chaosgoo on GitHub has created a handheld, 3D printed Minecraft compass that not only looks like the game but also works as a real world compass.
KOACKL’s Propane Torch Adjustable Flamethrower, priced at $42.99 with coupon (was $69.99), was designed for soldering pipes or just searing a steak. It definitely holds its own against pricier competitors like Bernzomatic and Tesla’s ‘Not a Flamethrower’.
MIT engineers have created a paperclip-sized robot that flies like a bumblebee and pollinates crops on Mars. This tiny marvel, from Kevin Chen’s Soft and Micro Robotics Lab, flies and hops.
In 1985, Buick showed a concept car that looked like it had been ripped from the set of the Running Man. Displayed at the SEMA show in Las Vegas, the Wildcat was a radical departure from the brand’s reputation for building soft, boring sedans. Its sleek, aerodynamic body, all-wheel-drive and McLaren-tuned V6 engine made it a showstopper that could hang with the era’s most outlandish supercars.
Frameworks’ new Laptop 16, the 2025 model, powered by NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5070 graphics and AMD’s Ryzen AI 300 Series processors, aims to be a machine that evolves with you.
Zack Nelson of JerryRigEverything has put the new Google Pixel 10 Pro XL through his signature durability tests. This $1,200 phone is supposed to get 7 years of software updates, so can its hardware live up to the promise?
