Travis Pastrana McMurtry Speirling Test Drive
Photo credit: McMurtry
Travis Pastrana has jumped from a plane with no parachute, landed the first double backflip on a motorcycle, collected 11 X Games gold medals, and raced the Daytona 500. On a day at Dunsfold Aerodrome in England, the same airfield used as the old Top Gear test track, he still found something that reset his scale. He climbed into a McMurtry Spéirling prototype and later said he had gone faster than in any vehicle of his life.

Unitree G1 UnifoLM-X2 Autonomous Human Robot Combat
Hangzhou’s Unitree Robotics posted a clip last week that looks familiar until you watch who is missing. A G1 humanoid in red boxing gloves squares off against a padded human trainer inside a ring. Stance changes, slips, straight punches, and body kicks arrive on their own. Unitree calls the software UnifoLM-X2-1.0 and labels the demo the first real-time world-model-driven fully autonomous humanoid combat. No VR headset operator appears, and no gamepad rests just off frame.

Supersonic Whip Launcher Project Build
Cattle herders have been punching small holes in the sound barrier for centuries. A bullwhip’s sharp crack is a miniature sonic boom, created when the last few inches of the lash accelerate past the speed of sound. Doing it by hand still demands practiced timing and a fluid arm motion most people never master. Craig Turner, the Australian maker behind Turnah81, wanted a device that delivered that same boom on demand, aimed where he pointed, with no prior skill required.