Chinese New Year 2026 brought the Year of the Fire Horse, the ideal opportunity for Beijing-based Robotera to showcase their humanoid L7 robot in a full-fledged sword dance routine. Robotera engineers have been working with Tsinghua University on the L7 since its debut in mid-2025, and they’ve programmed it to capture the spirit of legendary swordplay, drawing heavily from the fictional Dugu Nine Swords style, which Chinese outlets have nicknamed the robot after wuxia hero Linghu Chong.
Jamie from Jamie’s Brick Jams chose to get back to basics, thus no fancy motors for him. He’d previously made some sophisticated motors, but for this one, he wanted to go back to simplicity. That’s exactly what he got: simple, easy mechanicals built with basic electromagnetic principles and a few non-LEGO components. Almost all of the pieces can be assembled using regular LEGO pieces.
Apple’s Mac Mini has been sitting quietly on desks all across the world, pushing through daily business and creative chores with the simplicity of a small powerhouse. In spirit, if not in design, it is right next to an equally little, yet quite different, machine known popularly as the Mini Mac, or Wondermac in some circles. This little device began life as a Maclock, a desk clock that looks exactly like the original 1984 Macintosh, complete with the instantly identifiable beige shell, a teeny-tiny screen bezel, and even a false floppy disk port, but what occurs next adds a lot of complexity to what was once a simple gimmick.
Opt! created a tiny digital camera that resembles a classic film canister. The OPT100 Neo Film measures 47mm x 25mm x 25mm and weighs only 25 grams, making it ideal for sliding into a pocket or attaching to a keychain without drawing attention to itself. Available in multiple variants of the original Kodak style, including the iconic black and yellow combo, white with a bright orange flash of color, and some eye-catching multi-colored patterns reminiscent of vintage film packaging.
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A cassette tape squeezes a snapshot and then spits it out in an altered state. Jordan Blanchard, the mastermind behind this project, calls it the Digital-Analog Tape Picture Camera. It’s a handheld device that digitally captures still images, converts them to sound, saves them to standard cassette tapes, and then allows you to view them.
Kratos begins as a boy in God of War: Sons of Sparta, a far cry from the god-slaying monster that fans know and love. This 2D action-platformer transports you to his adolescent years at the notorious Agoge in Sparta, where the Spartans train their young warriors to be the fiercest of them all. Just like the games we know, but from the opposite end of the chronology. Sons of Sparta, developed by Mega Cat Studios with the story team from Santa Monica Studio, was released as a digital-only title on the PS5 today, and cost $30 or $40 for the digital deluxe version.
The Razer Kishi Ultra, priced at $70 (was $150), is undoubtedly the best option for anyone who takes mobile gaming seriously, whether on a phone or a small tablet. A variety of features work together to make it seem like a high-end controller. So the full-sized grips on this thing allow your hands to rest comfortably, much like holding a pair of Xbox controllers connected together in the middle. Smaller clip-on alternatives can become cramped after a time, but the Kishi Ultra avoids that. The comfort level is really high, to the point that you can play Genshin Impact, Call of Duty Mobile, or stream from a PC for hours without your hands suffering.
LHS 1903 is a tiny red dwarf star in the Lynx constellation, 116 light-years away. This small star is around half the mass of our Sun and emits a faint glow that is scarcely visible against the night sky. Nonetheless, subsequent observations have revealed a system of four planets, and what they’re exhibiting is a pattern that utterly contradicts our assumptions.
Salim Benbouziyane spent months obsessively designing a computer that folds up like a typical laptop but includes all sorts of custom features that you won’t find in any ordinary off-the-shelf machine. He refers to it as the CM Deck, and every aspect of its design stems directly from his decision to use the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 as the foundation of the project.
Sony’s recent State of Play event revealed that the Unbreakable X-Men are joining Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls. Arc System Works, the company behind the recent Guilty Gear successes, has stated that their next major item will be released on PS5 and PC on August 6, 2026. Pre-orders begin on February 19th on the PlayStation Store and certain retailers.