You’ve finally splurged and purchased a quality drone, charged the thing, and taken it outside, but gravity and nervousness take over and you watch, in slow motion, hundreds of dollars bounce off the pavement or be pulled up into a tree. It’s a pattern that helps to explain why so many people don’t make it past the first week with their new flying device. That’s where the Veeniix V995 micro drone, priced $33.99 (was $50), comes in, and it’s supposed to break the cycle for you.
Graduate students at Clemson University spent nearly two years answering a direct challenge from BMW. Build a working electric vehicle that gathers more energy from the sun than it spends on a normal day of city driving. They delivered Deep Orange 17, also known as Luminetta, a two-seat coupe that does exactly that under the conditions they tested.
RayRod TV has released a free VR mod that drops Mario Kart 64 into modern headsets with full head tracking and stereo 3-D. Built on HarbourMasters’ SpaghettiKart PC port, the project runs the original 1997 racing game natively on Windows while adding an OpenXR layer so any compatible headset can take over the view. You supply your own US .z64 ROM, point the executable at it once, and the rest is ready to go.
Most encrypted USB drives announce themselves the moment they connect. The operating system sees scrambled data or an unusual volume that immediately suggests something valuable sits behind a lock. Phantom Drive takes a different approach. Ryan Walker of Rootkit Labs built an open-source flash drive that presents itself as an ordinary 8 GB stick. Disk utilities show no extra space, no encrypted headers, and the remaining capacity is completely hidden unless a specific procedure is taken to unlock it.
