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Ferrari’s CZ26 One-Off Debuts at Monterey Car Week, is Silver Capsule with Red Edges

By Bill Smith August 15, 2026

Ferrari rolled a completely unique coupe onto the Monterey Car Week stage this week and called it CZ26. Built through the Special Projects programme for a single American client, the car started life as an SF90 Stradale and left Maranello two years later looking like something else entirely. Flavio Manzoni’s design team treated the SF90’s hard points as a fixed foundation and then drew a new body around them, one that leans hard into the clean geometry of 1970s Italian industrial objects while still delivering the performance numbers the donor car made famous.

Steady in Your Hand, Why the DJI Osmo Pocket 3 Still Earns Its Place in 2026

By Bill Smith August 15, 2026

Flipping the two-inch screen open is all it takes to start recording with the DJI Osmo Pocket 3, priced at $399 (was $499). That simple motion turns the camera on and gets you rolling in about two seconds, whether you hold it upright for vertical clips or keep it horizontal for wider scenes. The screen itself rotates freely and stays bright enough to read outdoors at 700 nits, so framing a quick walk-and-talk or a family moment never feels like a chore.

Six Years of Quiet Work Built a Pair of Robots That Make an Acoustic Guitar Play Itself, Called MegCell Pulse

By Jackson Chung August 15, 2026

After long evenings spent designing mechanisms and calibrating movement, a New Zealand engineer named Bruce finished a system that mounts directly onto an ordinary acoustic guitar and turns digital tablature into live string vibration. He calls it MegCell Pulse. Two coordinated robots handle the work of human hands. One presses the strings against the frets. The other plucks them with six individual plectrums. The sound that reaches the room is the actual instrument speaking, complete with the body resonance and the space around it.

Porsche’s One-Off Flachbau RS Revives the Slant Nose for the Road

By Bill Smith August 15, 2026

A single customer handed Porsche’s Sonderwunsch team a nearly new 2018 911 GT2 RS with the Weissach package and asked for something that had not existed in decades. The result is the Flachbau RS, a factory one-off that stretches the front of a modern turbocharged 911 into the flat, purposeful silhouette once reserved for the most extreme racing cars of the late 1970s.

ETH Zurich Students Send a Robot (Alpine Submarine) Under Frozen Lakes

By Jackson Chung August 15, 2026

High in the Swiss Alps, frozen lakes hide risks that surface checks often miss. Snow piles up, presses the ice sheet down, and new layers form on top. Thin spots or cracks stay invisible until someone or something falls through. For more than a century people have cut holes by hand, measured with tape, and hoped the ice held for skating, racing, or simple crossings. In 1907 St. Moritz turned that hope into spectacle with skijoring, horses pulling skiers across the ice. The tradition continues, yet the dangers remain. In 2017 a crack swallowed horses during an event. Manual surveys still demand hours of chainsaw work and firefighters on standby, and they only sample a few points while ice thickness can change across short distances.