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Matty Benedetto’s Buzz Buddy Slides Onto Your Beer Can and Gets Drunk With You One Sip at a Time

By Bill Smith September 23, 2026

Matty Benedetto of Unnecessary Inventions just found a new way to turn a quiet night with a cold can into something that stares back at you. Out of his Burlington, Vermont studio he just finished invention number 469, a little digital pet he calls the Buzz Buddy that perches on top of any standard beer can and matches you drink for drink. The unit is a compact, egg-shaped screen housing with a pixel character already seated at a tiny desk, waiting. Once you crack the tab the figure stays put until the first tilt.

Innovative WorMa Robot Pumps Water From Head to Tail to Cross Land, Steps, and Water

By Jackson Chung September 22, 2026

NYU Tandon assistant professor Nana Obayashi and Ph.D. student Daniil Filimonov built WorMa so one undulating machine could inspect a coastline, a flooded street, or a wetland without extra limbs or a second gait. WorMa blends “worm” and “mass,” and that mash-up is the entire plan. Five 3D-printed segments form a body about 50 centimeters long and a little over one kilogram. Four servos at the joints send a traveling wave down the length. Silicone pads under the belly give directional grip on dirt or pavement. Foam disks along the sides keep the robot from sinking once it enters water. An ESP32 runs the servos and the pump.

GoldenEye 007 Runs on Super Nintendo in Retroports’ Super FX2 Dam Test

By Bill Smith September 22, 2026

A three-and-a-half-minute video released this weekend made an N64 first-person shooter look like it belonged on the Super Nintendo, a 16-bit machine that many grew up with. Bond stands on the Arkhangelsk dam, the gun is in the lower corner of the frame, and the concrete bunkers pass by in chunky polygons while fog eats the far cliffs.

Craftsman Chris Transforms a Dumpster Window Air Conditioner Into a DIY Geothermal Heat Pump

By Jackson Chung September 22, 2026

Two thousand feet of half-inch PEX already slept six to eight feet under Craftsman Chris’s yard when his first homemade cooling plan came up short. Four parallel five-hundred-foot slinky loops and a Taco 009 pump pushed water through a heat exchanger in the furnace plenum, yet the dirt had baked in the sun after excavation and the loop stayed warmer than he needed. Direct ground water barely cooled the house. He needed a machine that could pull heat out of indoor air and dump it into that soil instead of into hot summer wind.

Moto G Stylus (2025) Turns a Budget Flagship Phone Into a Daily Note Taker You Can Live With

By Jackson Chung September 22, 2026

Motorola still sells the only widely available Android phone in this price range that keeps a real pen tucked in the frame, and the Moto G Stylus (2025), priced at $279.99 (was $400), uses that old idea as the excuse for a much sharper everyday phone. You get a 6.7-inch pOLED panel, IP68 sealing, 68W wired charging, 15W wireless charging, a microSD slot, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 chip in a 191-gram slab that measures about 0.33 x 2.94 x 6.38 inches.