Sixty two years after Amédée Gordini fitted a hotter 1.1 liter four cylinder and twin Weber carbs to a modest rear engine Renault sedan, the same badge sits on a low, wide two seat coupe that never has to share its garage with a production schedule. Renault showed the one off on September 24 at its Carwalk event and will park it on the Paris Motor Show stand from October 12 to 18 before it heads to the new Renault Collections museum in Flins.
Google just gave its newest live conversation model a face. Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar became generally available on September 24 for Gemini Enterprise customers, one week after the audio-focused Gemini 3.8 Live models launched and months after a first look at Google Cloud Next 2026. The update generates a 24-frame-per-second video of an animated person or cartoon character whose mouth and expressions stay locked to the spoken words, pairing the existing speech model with low-latency streaming video in a single pass.
HTX Studio spent about two months turning a full work desk into a charger that finds a phone wherever you set it down and starts feeding it power. Apple showed that idea in 2017 as AirPower, a small mat that would charge a phone, Watch, and AirPods case without lining them up on a single coil. The pad never shipped. Apple cancelled it in 2019. The YouTube builder waited through nine promised “next years,” then built a version big enough to work on.
Days after Valve started sending Steam Frame kits to buyers, iFixit already had one open on the bench and mostly liked what sat inside. Steam Frame launched September 14 as a standalone SteamOS headset that also streams from a PC through an included wireless adapter, starting at $1,059 for 256GB and $1,299 for 1TB, with controllers and Half-Life: Alyx in the box.
Jude Robinson built Daisy as his final year mechatronics project at the University of Glasgow, finished with first class honors, and took the IET prize for the best manufacturing project on campus. Two upright gantries face each other across a short workspace. Each carries a four joint gripper whose V shaped fingers close on a daisy stem and center it whether the stem is thick or thin.