When the heat of summer makes it impossible to think of anything other than a cold sweet treat, a trip to the grocery or the ice cream shop line may not appear so enticing. When you can create it yourself at home, it’s a completely different story. The BLACK+DECKER Perfect Pint Ice Cream Maker, priced at $149.99 (was $220), provides a relatively simple solution, transforming a few basic components into a frozen delight in only a few minutes of actual work.
Apple TV+ has just released the first teaser for Mayday, a Cold War thriller that already offers more than your typical spy thriller after just one minute of viewing. Ryan Reynolds plays Lieutenant Troy “Assassin” Kelly, a Navy pilot on a top-secret SR-71 surveillance mission that goes catastrophically wrong and crashes deep into the Soviet Union. Kelly is wounded, left to fend for himself, stuck in enemy territory, and his chances of survival are dependent on an unlikely ally.
Crew members aboard a Canadian National Railway freight locomotive captured roughly 84 seconds of video on July 13 that puts viewers right inside the cab as wildfire pushed close to the tracks near Armstrong in northwestern Ontario. The recording, later shared publicly, shows the train stalled while intense flames and thick smoke turned the view outside into a constant swirl of orange.
There has always been a lot of information that could be gathered from Beta Pictoris, which is the best place to learn about the formation of planets in our galaxy. It’s located just 63 light years away from us, and it was formed some 23 million years ago. There is a lot of debris material around this star, along with two heavy impacting planets.
James Bruton has fabricated many rideable machines over the years. This one began with a simple question: could ordinary elastic bands, the thick variety offered for exercising, store enough energy to propel a full-size cart carrying a person? The solution emerged after weeks of testing, gear ratios, special plates, and meticulous winding. The final contraption rolled approximately ten meters using nothing but twisted resistance bands.