People who want a pair of over-ear headphones with good noise cancelation and a long battery life without spending money on AirPods Max continue to prefer the Beats Studio Pro, priced at $149.99 (was $350). They borrow enough from Apple’s playbook to be comfortable while being versatile enough for Android users, and they do it in a package that is substantially lighter and more robust than the aluminum cans that many people desire.
Mexican jumping beans have long intrigued people with their capacity to twitch and hop across a table when touched by a hand or exposed to sunlight. A little moth larva within a hollow seed pod is responsible for the motion. Heat drives the larva to pull on silk threads, propelling the entire pod into rolls, flips, and short hops in search of cooler shade. Researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology’s Bioinspired Soft Robotics department have developed a robot that exhibits the same restless behavior without the usage of motors, batteries, circuits, or an onboard computer.
Rockstar and parent company Take-Two Interactive have spent the past week watching pieces of GTA 6 slip into public view one short clip at a time. A figure or group operating under the name Cyberleek began posting what looks like real gameplay footage on August 18. By the middle of this week the videos had piled up past a half-dozen, some of them still circulating even after the main website and Telegram channel went dark.
Infiniti spent the late 2000s watching Lexus launch the LFA and wondering how a brand built on elegant sedans and SUVs could ever answer. The response arrived in March 2012 at the Geneva Motor Show, a low-slung two-seater that looked nothing like anything the company had sold before. Called the Emerg-E, it was the first Infiniti designed and engineered almost entirely in Europe, and it carried a hybrid powertrain so unusual for its time that it still feels modern fourteen years later.
Gav Free of the Slow Mo Guys has spent years chasing moments too fast for ordinary eyes. Several years back a hammer strike on a single mirror left him staring at the footage in confusion. Right at the moment of impact a small ripple spread across the surface. He kept returning to those frames, wondering how something so rigid could flex like that. This time he arrived with a Phantom TMX 7510, a pile of spare mirrors, and the determination to settle the question for good.