France has just launched a simple yet genius idea: a stretch of highway that fuels electric vehicles as you drive. No plugs, no stops, just a seamless flow of energy from the road to your wheels. Coils in the asphalt beam power to receivers installed under compatible vehicles, trucks and buses. So you never have to stop.
Erick from Not From Concentrate spent months shrinking Sony’s PlayStation 5 into a 6-litre aluminum box. He calls it the Tiny PS5 Redux. Builders can now download his guide and build their own. The finished machine sits between two full-size PS5s like a child flanked by parents, yet it plays the same games at lower temperatures.
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Elon Musk has a talent for bringing far-fetched ideas down to earth. When word surfaced last month that two of the new generation of space companies were collaborating, he couldn’t help but share his thoughts, even if it was merely to make a simple point about SpaceX’s intentions to build data centers in orbit. There was no fanfare, no extensive explanation, just a deadpan remark to scaling up existing satellite technology. In a world where the demand for processing power is constantly increasing, that casual statement sent shockwaves across the IT community, drawing everyone’s attention to that untapped resource – literally the void where silicon meets sunlight.
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Dycus started digging through a box of old electronics on a lazy afternoon and pulled out a dusty circuit board from an optical mouse that had long since been forgotten. That seemingly worthless bit, tucked away a few years ago on a hunch, ended up sparking 65 hours of late night modding and more soldered connections than he cares to count. By the end of it all, that old scrap had turned into something completely new: a tiny camera that snaps pretty terrible, yet somehow charming portraits and sweeps panoramic scenes that seem to capture the whole world in a single sweep.
Scratches on a smartphone screen reveal the story of drops, drags, and daily wear. For refurbishers, those marks have resulted in additional hours of disassembly, glass replacement, and reassembly, which has cost them time and money. This is where the TBK-938 Intelligent Polishing Machine comes in, a Shenzhen-made piece of machinery that completes the task in a single sealed, slurry-fed operation.
In a world where most smartwatches feel more like fragile extensions of our phones, the Apple Watch Ultra 3 comes along as the rugged one that can take a pounding and keep rolling. For $699.99 (was $799), you get a device that can handle everything from weekend hikes to daily commutes without missing a beat – or so the promise goes. But does it really live up to that tough-as-nails reputation, especially for people like you and me, and not just hardcore trail runners?
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Modder Stopdesign needed a way to write code from his couch – or even the bathroom. Laptops just felt too bloated and phones too cramped. So he went ahead and built a clamshell computer the size of a PS5 controller. Flip open the lid and you’re greeted by a 5-inch screen – right below that sits a tiny keyboard that lets you fly across letters and symbols with both hands. Under the hood, a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is sipping on a battery that’s capable of keeping it running for a whole day of typing – an 8000mAh battery to be exact.
Matthew Lim decided to experiment with an ESP32 board that sports a tiny 8×8 LED matrix, capable of flickering through a digital recreation of fluid that looked eerily similar to moving water. He found it fascinating, and an idea sprang to mind: try if he could fit a few pieces of hobbyist gear into a pocket-sized 3D window.
Las Vegas recently put ten Tesla Cybertrucks in police colors on display along the strip. Drivers appear to be slowing down, tourists are pausing to take photos on their phones, and officers are hurrying to get behind the wheel of a vehicle right out of a science fiction film. These trucks are increasingly responding to actual emergencies, such as traffic stops on Fremont Street and rescue missions in Red Rock Canyon.
Throaty Mumbo opens a box from the 1990s sealed with packaging tape and pulls out a copy of Netscape Navigator 4.5 that has been shrink wrapped for longer than he has been alive. The plastic wrapping “cracks” like thin ice on a winter pond. Inside, there’s a gleaming CD-ROM, a stack of floppy disks that appear to have been there for decades, and a gigantic 300-page manual that’s thicker than a phone book.