Charging a smartphone with marbles sounds impossible until you watch Engineezy spend weeks turning steel balls into a working power source. He called the finished machine a Sphero electric battery, a playful nod to the way pumped hydro plants store energy by lifting water high and letting it fall through turbines later.
Richard Browning took off from the grassy stretch outside the Eden Project’s famed biomes on a beautiful late March morning, the engines roaring to life as they have every time he has flown one of these. This time, he was demonstrating the Jet Suit at Anthropy UK, a gathering of movers and shakers in Cornwall. As the creator of Gravity Industries and the suit’s chief pilot, he intended to give everyone a taste of what personal flight is like when the engines roar, movement is instinctive, and the crowd feels the blast of exhaust in their face.
Michael Pick wanted a small electric pickup without paying forty thousand dollars or waiting for something like the Slate to reach the market. High gas prices made his old V6 Ranger feel expensive to run, so he bought a high-mileage 2017 BMW i3 REx sight unseen from an online auction for fifty-eight hundred dollars and set out to convert it himself.
Apple invites media to a Los Angeles experience this Wednesday for what reports describe as the long-awaited high-end MacBook Pro refresh. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman and other sources point to 14-inch and 16-inch models that finally bring touch support and OLED screens to the Mac lineup. The gathering carries the tagline “Pro and tell,” with a press release expected around 10 a.m. Pacific Time followed by hands-on time for attendees. Shipping could begin as early as November 6.
Affordable over-ear headphones usually force compromises. You accept weak noise cancellation, short battery life, or plastic that feels temporary. CMF by Nothing’s Headphone Pro refuses most of those trade-offs at a price that still sits under one hundred dollars, or $55 to be exact.