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PhyFawkes stared at a Steam Deck motherboard one day and wondered how small it could actually get. The answer now sits in a case that matches the original Game Boy’s footprint. Thirty-two millimeters thick. Same basic outline. Only SteamBoy holds modern PC hardware capable of running current games.
Spanish startup Kreios Space just named Kongsberg NanoAvionics as the builder of the platform that will carry its experimental thruster into space. The goal is straightforward and ambitious: prove that a satellite can collect residual atmospheric gases at extremely low altitudes and turn them into continuous thrust, staying aloft where conventional craft fall quickly.
Brazilian speedrunner LeKukie finished Super Mario Bros. in 4 minutes, 54 seconds, and 365 milliseconds on June 2. That time sits exactly one tenth of a second, or six frames, short of the best possible human run under the rules speedrunners follow. Former record holder Kosmic laid out the details in a recent video, and the community now treats the perfect completion as an approaching fact rather than a distant dream.
Engineer Shane Wighton set out to answer a simple question that industrial food processors have quietly solved for decades. What if you could force a potato or apple to shed its own skin without a blade ever touching it? His answer involved building a high-pressure steam system dangerous enough that he ran every test from behind a blast chamber, operating valves remotely so he would not be standing next to something holding the energy of several sticks of dynamite.
Twenty-three university students in the Netherlands spent a full year away from their regular classes and delivered something no one else had managed. On a July afternoon in 2026 they rolled out Stella Juva, a two-seat ambulance that generates its own electricity from the sun and uses that power both to move across difficult ground and to run a full set of medical tools. The project comes from Solar Team Eindhoven at Eindhoven University of Technology, the same group that previously built a solar family car, a solar camper, and an off-road solar vehicle that crossed Moroccan desert terrain.