Peter Ryseck built a pole that balances on a contact patch about the size of a coin and stays there long after most people would have walked away. Four drone propellers sit on a 3D-printed mount at the top and give small sideways pushes whenever the shaft begins to tip. Nearly all of the weight still travels down the tube and into the ground, so those motors spend most of their time barely above idle.
A fan who still likes a phone that fits the hand mailed DirectorFeng a tired iPhone 13 Mini. Daily use had worn the battery to 77 percent health, enough that the owner charged three or four times a day. Storage sat at 256 GB and felt tight. iOS 16.2 was still on the device, a leftover most people would have overwritten years ago.
Brenpoly’s PolyMO is a palm-sized desk creature with a bright 1.8-inch AMOLED face, a microphone, a speaker, and a capacitive screen, and its health is bound to how long you stay inside the apps that eat an evening. Sit it on a table, pair it over Bluetooth to an Android phone, and the little face blinks, grows hungry, gets bored, and moves through life stages on its own clock. Spend too long on flagged feeds and it falls ill. Leave the illness untreated long enough and it dies for good. That is the whole contract.
Nintendo used this morning’s Direct to give Switch 2 its first real collector finish, timed to forty years of The Legend of Zelda. Officially called Nintendo Switch 2 – The Legend of Zelda – 40th Anniversary Edition, the system arrives October 29, one week before the Ocarina of Time remake on November 5.
Google DeepMind opened AlphaGenome Atlas on September 8, 2026, as a free lookup table of predicted effects for every possible single-letter swap in human DNA. That catalog covers about nine billion single-nucleotide variants, plus more than one hundred million short insertions and deletions already seen in people. Anyone doing academic research can type a variant into a website and read the forecasts without writing code or running the original model.