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FlyWithRookie’s Fully Enclosed Boeing 737NG Home Flight Simulator Puts a Line Jet Behind a Locking Door

By Bill Smith September 24, 2026

FlyWithRookie streams from a Boeing 737NG flight deck that occupies a room the way a real jet occupies a hangar. Flight Deck Solutions in Canada supplied the fixed-base trainer, mixing replica hardware with real aircraft parts from the shell inward, and the result includes circuit breaker walls, a crew jumpseat, a working cockpit door that latches, and a custom galley aft of the flight deck. He has said there is nothing more satisfying than pressing TOGA and watching a real-world throttle walk forward as the jet builds toward V1, rotate, and V2.

Snapping Helical Legs Let This Palm-Sized Robot Hop, Flip, Climb, and Swim

By Jackson Chung September 23, 2026

Small motors inside tiny robots hit a wall the moment a machine needs a sudden shove. A UCLA and University of Michigan team built around that wall by giving a 98.2-gram platform, 11 centimeters long, 8 wide, and 4 tall, a pair of rear legs that wind up slowly and then fire all at once.

Meta VR Glasses Fold a Personal Cinema Workspace and Console Into a Hundred Gram Frame That Goes on Sale Next Spring

By Jackson Chung September 23, 2026

After more than a decade of headset work, Meta introduced Meta VR Glasses at Connect 2026 today as a two-piece system that keeps roughly one hundred grams on your face and parks the rest in a clip-on puck. Magnesium alloy frames sit on your ears with no head strap and open sides so you still see the room to your left, right, and below.

CEER EXOBOT Gives Saudi Arabia Its First Homegrown Electric Sedan and SUV

By Bill Smith September 23, 2026

Saudi Arabia’s first domestic car brand showed its opening pair of production vehicles this weeks, at the new CEER Manufacturing Complex in King Abdullah Economic City. CEER is a joint venture between the Public Investment Fund and Foxconn, and the EXOBOT collection starts with a long, low sedan and a slightly shorter SUV that share one electric platform, the same 112 kWh battery, and the same 800 volt electrical layout. Five more models are planned by 2030, some smaller and some with other power sources, but these two flagships are the ones the company is putting on the road first.

Google Pixel 10a Still Makes Four Hundred Dollars Feel Like a Fair Trade for a Phone You Will Actually Keep

By Jackson Chung September 23, 2026

Google kept the Pixel 10a at $499 for 128GB when it launched, and street prices have since drifted lower, with the Obsidian version often landing at $424. That number matters because almost every rival in this range either costs more on day one or starts cutting software support much sooner. Hardware inside this phone will look familiar if you held a Pixel 9a.