A 28-year-old Steve Jobs may have predicted the iPad during his ‘The Objects of Our Life’ speech in 1983 at the International Design Conference. In addition to the tablet, he also believed that by 1986 sales of the PC would exceed sales of cars, and that in the following decade, people would be spending more time with a PC than in a car.
Let’s face it, most Mercedes-Benz Sprinter camper vans consist of a small sleeping area and possibly some additional seating, but Serena takes living off the grid to a whole new level. Created by UK-based Van Life Builds, this luxurious home on wheels has sliding doors that open to reveal a corner sofa-like seating area that converts into a bed.
Nintendo VirtualBoy fans rejoice! Those with an Apple Vision Pro can now relive some of the VR console’s classic games in mixed reality with VirtualFriend. This app lets you explore the entire official library of Virtual Boy titles as well as the most popular homebrew, complete with provided metadata and 3D title screen previews.
It’s not everyday that you see a LEGO submarine, much less one with a motor and a somewhat functional inner hull. Riley Scott of Brick Science managed to build one with three goals in mind: make it waterproof, an inner hull large enough to fit minifigures, camera, etc., and a functional ballast to help it rise back up to the surface.
Priced at $2,500 ($5,153 in 2024) with matching 14″ CRT monitor, the very first Acer Aspire desktop PC (575LB) from 1995 that runs Windows 95 was much sleeker than the competition with its rounded case. It featured a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Vibra 16 sound card, Cirrus Logic GD5440 integrated graphics with 1MB of onboard memory, and more.
Hacksmith Industries is back at it again, and this time, the team builds a One Punch Man-inspired glove that can deliver a devastating blow. For those unfamiliar with the Japanese manga, it basically tells the story of Saitama, an independent superhero who can defeat any opponent with a single punch due to having trained himself to his peak condition.
NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured this glowing image of the Little Dumbbell Nebula, also known as Messier 76 (M76), located 3,400 light-years away in the constellation Perseus. This planetary nebula is basically an expanding shell of glowing gases that were ejected from a dying red giant star.
Google’s AI-powered DeepMind robot can now play table tennis and actually beat its human opponents. Training this AI model combined reinforcement learning in a simulated physics environment and using that data during real-world examples.