Scotty Allen of Strange Parts traveled through the gates of OPPO’s huge factory outside Shenzhen, China, where flagship phones like the Find X9 Pro are produced. For someone who had spent years building electronics from market booths in Huaqiangbei, this felt like the end of a long process.
Oppo has just launched the Reno14 F Star Wars Dark Side Limited Edition, a smartphone that draws enthusiasts directly into the Empire’s clutches. This version takes the sturdy Reno14 F midranger and surrounds it in Darth Vader’s dark shadow, along with a slew of extras that transform a standard phone into a must have collector’s item.
Diorama111 has spent years bringing life to the plastic tiny worlds he designs. With him behind the wheel, a simple plastic shell is transformed into something that moves, turns, and even blinks back at you in an unsettling way. His most recent achievement transforms the 1/64 scale Suzuki Carry truck, an homage to Japan’s minuscule Kei automobiles, into a fully functional remote-controlled vehicle. This little hauler, only 53mm long and 23mm wide, packs an incredible amount of motor, steering, and lighting into a body roughly the size of a sugar packet.
Samsung keeps bringing back the Galaxy Tab S6 Lite and each one finds a way to remind us why this tablet won’t go away. This latest model comes with an S Pen and a price tag of $159.99 (was $329.99). People grab it for school notes, casual sketches or just scrolling through feeds without guilt.
Gustavo Valiente spent months bringing back the magic of Namco’s 1993 arcade classic on a handheld that really wasn’t meant to handle such a challenge…the Game Boy Advance. His RR Project crams the original Ridge Racer’s crazy tracks and adrenaline-fueled drifts onto Nintendo’s beloved handheld, even if it wasn’t exactly made to handle a game of this caliber.
Travel is hard enough without the constant scramble for reliable internet. You arrive in a new city, turn on your phone, and suddenly data charges increase or the connection slows to a crawl. Netgear hopes to alleviate this annoyance with the Nighthawk 5G M7, a portable WiFi hotspot that packs serious speed and global reach into a device compact enough to fit in a carry-on.
BlackBerry phones previously ruled the day, their clicks and screens demanding your full attention. Now those days feel like a distant memory, buried deep beneath an endless sea of glass slabs. The Zinwa Q27, a prototype smartphone, however, brings it all back.
Over the weekend, videos of The Legend of Zelda’s New Zealand set were posted online. Low-resolution footage showed actors sliding into costume while they went about their business in the midst of a lush forest, with horses dressed in what appeared to be Hylian armor, which was a very fantastic touch. Fans spotted Bo Bragason preparing her bow as Princess Zelda, while Benjamin Evan Ainsworth was getting into character as Link. Early this morning, the Nintendo Today app was filled with crisp, high-resolution photographs directly from Shigeru Miyamoto.
Falling has long been a major issue in robotics, and engineers have been working for years to keep their creations upright, often transforming twitchy bipedal walkers into virtual acrobats capable of navigating all types of uneven terrain or avoiding obstacles with eerie mechanical poise. But when gravity ultimately gets the best of them, those same robots collapse to the ground like a pile of discarded garbage, their joints locking up in a sort of robotic horror or flailing madly until something breaks or bends.
A group of miniature quadcopter drones sit in a lab at TU Delft, cables trailing from their bellies like umbilical cords to a shared load beneath. The load sways slightly as they lift off, but the machines quickly settle into a pattern, pulling together with silent precision. Researchers have spent years working toward this kind of harmony, and now they’ve cracked the code to turn a slew of off-the-shelf drones into a force capable of lifting weights much beyond what one could manage alone.