Florida’s highways, long and flat like a dragstrip, have a new cop on the beat. The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) has added a Ford Mustang GT to its fleet, a car that’s as much about raw speed as it is about turning heads while keeping speeders in check.
The AYANEO Flip 1S DS takes the flip-open style of the old Nintendo DS and turns it into a full gaming PC you can hold in your hands. Launched on Indiegogo in July 2025, it’s trying to carve out a spot in a crowded market where single-screen devices like the Steam Deck and ROG Ally dominate.
A black hole where the Moon used to be sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, but let’s get into what would happen if the Moon, that battered, glowing ball, turned into a black hole with the same mass. The result is a mix of normalcy and weirdness.
Two tennis players, Jamie Murray and Laura Robson, strapped to the roofs of SUVs tearing down a runway, hitting a tennis ball back and forth isn’t something you ever expect to see, but this was the stunt Lexus pulled off to get two Guinness World Records. They called it “Served at Speed,” and turned Duxford Airfield, a place usually home to old planes, into a wild tennis court for a day.
A YouTuber named MINT after hours took on a crazy challenge: building a computer processor from scratch. Not a full PC, but its beating heart—a central processing unit (CPU) dubbed EPROMINT. This 8-bit creation, slapped together on perfboard with chunky dual in-line package chips, is a straight-up throwback to the 1980s when the 6502 and Z80 powered the first personal computers.
In a Swiss lab, a biology experiment gadget has been repurposed into a gaming console. Meet the OpenDrop, a digital microfluidics platform that shuffles water droplets across an electrode grid to play Snake, Pac-Man and Frogger. This isn’t your old Nokia phone – it’s a €1,000 machine that turns water into pixels, dreamed up by science communicator Steve Mould and the OpenDrop’s inventor.
A Caltech team has created a jellybean-sized pill called PillTrek that travels through your digestive system, sniffing out everything from pH levels to glucose and serotonin. This is a game-changing window into the gut’s wild world, delivering real-time data that could change how we tackle inflammation, metabolic disorders and even mental health.
Prime Day 2025 may be over, but there are still non-membership deals to be had, like this 2TB SanDisk Extreme portable SSD for $126.31 shipped, originally $209.99. This SSD is fast, with read speeds up to 1050MB/s and write speeds up to 1000MB/s, powered by NVMe and USB 3.2 Gen 2. In real world terms, it zips a 10GB video file across in seconds, not minutes. It’s perfect for photographers and videographers who need to move big files fast. Product page.
