Brian Watson has worked in games for more than four decades. He started at DMA Design on classics like Lemmings and later spent time at Sony on projects that included emulation work. During a talk at The Retro Collective museum in the United Kingdom, he brought along a prototype controller most people had never heard of and showed it to the room.
Alan of the MandicReally channel needed consistent, high-resolution close-ups of 3D printer nozzles and hot ends. Every tiny surface mark and wear pattern mattered for his Mandic Labs work, yet standard microscope shots left large portions blurred. Focus stacking solves that by shooting the same subject many times at different focus depths and merging the sharp areas later. Doing the job by hand quickly becomes impractical. The microscope’s own focus ring lacks the precision and repeatability required, and even small shifts in framing or angle ruin the stack.
Sarla Aviation just finished a full round of flight tests with its Sylla 1.0. The 700-kilogram machine with a 7.5-meter wingspan became the heaviest electric aircraft ever to take off vertically in India. Engineers put it through more than 500 tests and over 18 hours of flight time during a six-month campaign in southern India.
Many smartphone shoppers today simply want a device that manages their routines smoothly. They need reliable calls, zippy apps, clear photos for everyday moments, and enough battery to last without constant worry. Samsung built the Galaxy A37 5G, priced at $399.99 (was $539.99), around those priorities.
The original PlayStation console launched with only 2MB of main RAM, split across four 512KB chips soldered to the motherboard. That amount served the system well for its era, powering a library of games that still hold up today. Yet the central processor inside was built from the start to work with up to 16MB. Sony simply never populated the extra capacity in consumer units, even though some of its own arcade hardware ran with the larger amount in two separate 8MB banks.