Soiboi Soft set out to build a four-digit display out of nothing but air pressure. The finished product is an impressive design, with 3D printed pieces and ultra thin silicone sheets, without cables running directly to the section. Instead, vacuum lines pull on flexible membranes to create luminous bars, which remain in place long after the signal is turned off.
A brief video showed a pair of arms slithering out from an ultra slim floor lamp, reaching out to pick up a rumpled blanket, and then nimbly transforming it into a clean rectangle in the blink of an eye. That lamp is called Lume, the creation of a Palo Alto-based company, and they had a rather basic idea: what if house robots looked more like furniture than machinery?
Hyundai took the risk and launched IONIQ in China as its own specialized brand for electric vehicles. Today, executives convened in Beijing to unveil not one, but two concept cars that signify the brand’s new path in this market. These vehicles have some bizarre and fascinating names and appear unlike anything else in the global IONIQ fleet, but in a good way.
Joe Barnard is the man behind several rockets that do far more than just launch and crash. What set him apart is his ability to take ideas typically designated for full-fledged space initiatives and scale them back down to considerably smaller sizes. His most recent creation is a little camera pod that pops out of the rocket’s side at its highest altitude and records the entire scene.
Engineers have managed to compress an incredible amount of audio power into a speaker that is small enough to be held with one hand. Listeners who attach the Bose SoundLink Flex 2nd Gen, priced at $119 (was $149), to a backpack or throw it in a beach bag are in for a surprise: sound that fills a patio or campsite so convincingly that you forget it’s a compact device, with no distortion or muddiness to worry about.
News surfaced earlier this week about a collaboration that will make electric vehicle charging a seamless part of people’s daily trips in China. BYD collaborated with Yum China, the company that runs all of the KFC restaurants there, to install high-speed Flash Charging stations at select drive-thrus. Owners can now get a snack and charge their battery all at once, taking less than ten minutes from walking in the door to driving away.
Way down in the belly of the Orion spacecraft is a large cylindrical module built in Europe that provides almost everything the crew requires to safely return to Earth after a voyage to the Moon. The European Service Module houses all of the propulsion systems that maintain the crew safe and comfortable until splashdown, including power, water, air, and temperature control for all four astronauts. It was manufactured by Airbus for the European Space Agency, weighs a whopping thirteen tons and measures roughly four meters across and tall.
Pokemon fans grew up watching trainers pull out sleek red Pokedex devices to learn everything about wild creatures they encountered. Now, one serious maker has transformed that fantasy into a fully functional device that is nearly identical to the ones trainers shown on the show. Mr. Volt spent months working out and creating every single part of the project on his own, minus the software.
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Leaked CAD files have brought the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8 into sharp view well before its official release. High-resolution models created from internal data reveal a clamshell foldable that plays it safe and sticks to a tried-and-true formula while making one significant change, one that makes all the difference when the device is closed in your hand or pocket.
An interesting story unfolded in the world of classic Nintendo games just yesterday, and it has already sent shockwaves across all of the retro gaming groups. A mysterious buyer paid $60,000 for a cartridge containing an early prototype of Punch-Out for the NES, and here’s where things get interesting. Rather than simply taking this unusual find home and storing it, the buyer collaborated with the Video Game History Foundation to extract the game data and upload the entire ROM online.