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Blink Mini Pan-Tilt Camera Turns One Fixed View Into Full Room Coverage

By Jackson Chung October 25, 2026

A small white cube sits on its motorized base and quietly sweeps left, right, up, and down at your command. The Blink Mini Pan-Tilt Camera, priced at $23.99 today (was $40), plugs into any wall outlet, connects to 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi in minutes through the Blink app, and gives you control over nearly an entire room from a phone or tablet. Its 110-degree lens sits on a base that pans roughly 350 degrees and tilts about 125 degrees, so you can check the far corner of a living room, glance at a hallway entrance, or look down at the floor without walking over to move the camera yourself.

Swhole Animal Builds a Rideable Giant Hexbug From Brooms and Motors

By Jackson Chung October 25, 2026

Hexbugs start as tiny plastic toys that scurry around floors on the strength of a single vibrating motor and a few angled bristles. One maker took that basic idea and scaled it up until a person could climb aboard. The result, shown in a recent video, looks more like a moving plywood platform than a finished robot, yet it does travel under its own power once someone sits down.

TechRax Puts the iPhone Duo Through Stairs and City Drop Tests

By Bill Smith October 25, 2026

Launch week for Apple’s first foldable brought the usual ritual from TechRax, who has spent years sending new iPhones through increasingly harsh trials. This time he took two separate iPhone Duo units. One went down a spiral staircase from roughly 200 feet. The other spent an afternoon being released over and over on ordinary city surfaces.

NC State Feather Star Robot Swims in Three Dimensions Using Only Two Actuators

By Jackson Chung October 25, 2026

Marine invertebrates called feather stars drift and turn by coordinating clusters of flexible arms, rising, sinking, or hovering with almost no visible effort. Researchers at North Carolina State University copied that coordination in a soft underwater robot that manages the same range of motion with only two actuators.

Anthony Toth Spent Decades Recreating a Perfect 1970s Pan Am 747 Cabin Right Down to the Peanuts

By Bill Smith October 25, 2026

Photo credit: Coolest Thing
A five-year-old boy stepped onto a Pan Am Boeing 747 bound for Europe to visit his grandparents and never quite left that cabin in his mind. Anthony Toth, raised near Cleveland Hopkins International Airport in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, began photographing interiors, collecting anything with the blue logo, and building wooden mockups in his parents’ basement by the time he turned twelve.