Tesla reported Q2 earnings earlier today, painting a picture of challenges and ambition. Revenue was $22.5B, down 12% from $25.05B last year, just shy of $22.64B estimate. EPS clocked in at 40 cents, missing the 42 cents set by analysts, but CEO Elon Musk is looking beyond electric vehicles.
Photo credit: Sebastian Staacks
Sebastian Staacks, a physicist and maker of interesting tech, has turned a retro relic into a wedding photo booth. His Game Boy Camera photo booth is a lo-fi delight for his cousin’s wedding. He’s built five photo booths for family events, including his own. For this one, he tapped into his cousin’s love of vintage gaming and chose the 1998 Game Boy Camera as the star. This DIY favorite features a 0.014-megapixel monochrome sensor that produces 128×112-pixel images.
Segway’s GoKart Pro 2, priced at $1,499 (originally $2,500), is a go-kart that redefines the category where competitors are as expensive as a used car or disrupt entire neighborhoods with their noise. This electric beast combines speed, adaptability and fun without the noise of gas powered models.
A 2001 Acura Integra Type R in Phoenix Yellow is up for auction on Bring a Trailer and getting a lot of attention from auto enthusiasts. As one of only 1,173 made for the US market in 2001 and with only 4,800 miles, bidding has already reached $120,000 with 2-days left, surpassing the 2022 record.
Step into a time machine, but don’t plan to stay in the past. Maingear’s Retro95 PC is a brilliant paradox—a computer that looks like it belongs next to a 1990s CRT monitor and a stack of floppy disks, yet roars with the performance of today’s most powerful gaming machines.
Ken Pillonel, the Swiss robotics engineer who likes to challenge Apple’s walled garden, is back with another innovation: a snap-on phone case from his Obsoless brand that turns the Lightning port into USB-C on compatible iPhones, no tools or expertise needed.
Tomasz Patan, the genius behind the Jetson ONE, has done it again – the Volonaut Airbike is real and it’s a jet powered hoverbike. Test flight footage from a mountain valley shows this prototype flying smoothly over a misty landscape with a near supernatural ease.
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A VHS tape sits on your shelf, full of rewind buttons and Blockbuster runs, its black plastic shell a portal to a bygone era. But Reddit user CommonKingfisher has pulled off a magic trick, embedding a tiny video player inside a VHS cassette, turning a retro relic into a self contained work of art.
