NASA released a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope that brings a modest galactic resident into view. ESO 490-017 lies about 23 million light-years away in the constellation Canis Major. The galaxy spans roughly 12,000 light-years from one side to the other and belongs to the dwarf irregular category, a group whose stars and gas sit in loose, disorganized arrangements rather than neat spirals or bright central cores.
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Accessory companies with direct ties to Apple have released images of rugged cases built for the company’s rumored foldable iPhone, often labeled the iPhone Ultra. These cases present the device in its folded and unfolded states from several angles, giving a solid sense of the overall shape and key features. Closed, the back carries a slim camera island holding two lenses along with a small additional sensor. Below that sits a large circular area designed for magnetic wireless charging and accessory pairing.
Every Flavor of Robot built Etchbot to stand out at the OpenSauce event. The machine sketches a complete portrait on a regular Etch-a-Sketch in roughly sixty seconds. It also accepts video files and renders them by sketching one frame after another while a camera records each result. The finished time-lapse clips show the classic toy screen updating rapidly enough to convey motion.
Caviar has released its own take on a phone built around a prominent T. The T-GREAT starts from the iPhone 17 Pro Max and receives a full exterior transformation that mixes jewelry techniques with American symbols. The result sits in the company’s Visionaries collection and arrives only in the top 1-terabyte storage configuration.
Eric Min wrapped up his senior year at Purdue with a project that keeps every curve and button of the original Game Boy Pocket exactly where people remember them, called StereoBoy. The red or pink shell still slips into a pocket the same way it did in the late 90s. Flip the power switch and the device wakes up ready to play music instead of games.