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Batman Returns Hero Batmobile Built From Two Chevy Impalas Heads to Auction

By Bill Smith October 8, 2026

Nineteen feet and eight inches separates the nose of this car from the trailing edge of its rear fins, and almost none of that length came from a single factory chassis. Custom builder Carl Casper and his shop, Hollywood Productions, cut two Chevrolet Impala frames apart and joined them into one long backbone, then wrapped the result in a hand-shaped fiberglass body finished in gloss black. That body still wears the paint it carried when cameras rolled on Tim Burton’s 1992 film Batman Returns. Julien’s Auctions calls this example the number one hero car, screen-matched to most of the driving scenes Michael Keaton shot, and says it has never been offered at auction before.

DOOM Plays From a Nine Millimeter Antenna Plug Screwed Into a Television

By Bill Smith October 8, 2026

RayTriangle built a game console small enough to live inside a 9.5 mm Goobay antenna plug, the sort of screw-terminal adapter once used to join old 300 ohm ribbon cable to a 75 ohm television socket. Battery included, the whole machine screws into the antenna jack and puts DOOM on the screen.

Strangers in Times Square Controlled Real Fighters Inside a Giant Street Fighter Cabinet

By Bill Smith October 8, 2026

Midtown foot traffic slowed this week in front of an arcade cabinet tall enough to stand inside. Paramount parked it in Times Square to sell the new Street Fighter movie, and the usual field of pixels had been swapped for two people. Stunt performers in Ryu and Ken costumes took their marks behind the glass and waited for someone in the crowd to pick a side.

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Catches Morning Light on the Wind Carved Cliffs of Mars

By Jackson Chung October 8, 2026

NASA’s Curiosity rover took the frame on August 11, 2026, at 8:30 in the morning local time on Mars, about an hour after sunrise on sol 4,982. Six shots from the mast camera were stitched into one panorama after the files reached Earth. Mission staff left the usual white balance off, so the morning tint stayed in the file instead of being pushed toward the rusty palette most rover pictures carry.

Sierra Screamin 3D Was the Only Graphics Card a Game Studio Ever Sold Back in the 1990s

By Bill Smith October 8, 2026

Sierra On-Line spent most of the 1990s shipping adventure games with names like King’s Quest and Space Quest, then spent one Christmas trying to sell the board those games would run on. Screamin’ 3D reached stores in November 1996 at a suggested price of $199, the only graphics card the Oakhurst studio ever put its name on, and it vanished so completely that plenty of people who owned a Sierra box never knew the company had tried hardware at all.