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.
Evening falls in Houston, and with it comes word of a ghost from the golden period of Japanese engineering: a 1995 Honda NSX-R, chassis # NA1-1300340, which is now listed on BaT. This right-hand drive coupe, number 458 in a small batch of only 483 produced for the domestic market, has recently arrived in the United States, still with 19,000 kilometers on the clock.
Samsung’s latest smartwatch comes with a confidence born from knowing exactly what it’s good at. The Galaxy Watch 7 (40mm), priced at $149.99 (was $249.99), shows up with a snazzy aluminum case that looks and feels way more premium than you’d expect, without drawing any more attention to itself than you’d want.
Zero just revealed something new from its California garage, a machine that can slice through downtown traffic without a single drop of gas. Unveiled at EICMA 2025 in Milan, the LS1 electric scooter is Zero’s entry into a world where two wheels means quick escapes and even quicker savings.
Expedition trucks typically start as military surplus, but few end up feeling like mobile hotel suites. The Maniac takes that concept to the next level, with a MAN-KAT truck, one of those old German army beasts designed to move goods over mud and mountains. Turkish contractors at Sya Mobil spent nearly two years converting it into a people mover before delivering it to the Atik family in 2023. What they got was a 4×4 home on wheels that sleeps four but shines as a couple’s escape pod, with 215 square feet of living space in a shell that can withstand tough terrain.
Manual LEGO sorting has always been the barrier to endless building fun. Each piece requires one to look manually, make a decision and then drop into the right pile. Spencer is a software developer / engineer by trade, so he decides to roll up his sleeves and begin designing a machine that could change everything.
Aditya Sripada still gets a kick out of those all-night robot build marathons where time just slips away, and you’re completely fixated on getting that next piece to fall into place. Back in November 2022 he found himself spending every free weekend at Nimble, chipping away at a whole robot for fun, in a bit of a makeshift junkyard space with no lab of his own to call home and a pretty tight budget to boot. At first, it seemed like a simple idea: take the famous robot sidekick from Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, TARS, and bring him to life using good old fashioned 3D printing.