Home flight simulators are nothing new, but if you just so happen to be a multi-millionaire with lots of expendable income, the Dogfight Boss F/A-18C motion cockpit should be added to your shortlist. Put simply, it consists of a fully wired cockpit for Digital Combat Simulators (DCS), complete with mixed reality goggles and a Motion Systems 3Dof platform.
With sealed first-generation iPods selling for north of $29,000 USD, it’s only fitting that some fans are building their own alternatives using much more affordable Raspberry Pi boards. Developer Dr. Hatch is one of them, and opted to use a $6.99 Waveshare 2.13″ (250 x 122) E-ink display instead of an LCD on the ePiPod.
How about a futuristic prison with technology that could simulate a 10-year prison sentence in just 10-minutes by implanting fake memories into a prisoner’s brain? Introducing Cognify.
NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope observes elliptical galaxy M105, which is home to a deceivingly calm supermassive black hole, with an estimated mass of 200 million Suns, that has countless stars zooming around it.
Developer Joshua Barretto’s Super Mario 64 remake for the Game Boy Advance looks interesting to say the least, as its 32-bit CPU with integrated memory just isn’t powerful enough to emulate N64 hardware.
Unistellar’s Envision smart binoculars use augmented reality to help you identify over 1,000 stars by overlaying contextual information in its natural optical field of view. Users can ask the app to guide them to various points of interests in the night sky or where a trail is located when hiking.