A 21-inch motocross bike tire is rolling wild down a massive sand dune in Argentina’s Fiambalá Desert. The drone is struggling to keep up, weaving through the air to catch every bounce and tumble. This is the Tuk South team’s attempt to break the world record for the longest tire roll, adventure, physics and spectacle.
SK Hynix, a name synonymous with memory chips tucked inside your devices, has stepped into the portable SSD game with the Beetle X31. This 1TB drive is now $62.99 (down from $84.91) and is a great option for anyone who needs fast, reliable storage that fits in a pocket.
Boston Dynamics’ Spot, the four-legged robot dog that roams factory floors, has learned a new trick: it can jump into the air and flip and twist like an acrobat.
Trevor Rainbolt sat in the passenger seat of a Google Street View car, his eyes wide with wonder. For years he had spent hours upon hours looking at the world through the lens of Google Maps, pinpointing unknown locations in seconds for his devoted GeoGuessr followers.
Nintendo has always been able to make Mario feel like an old friend and their latest initiative, It’s Me, Mario! Stop Motion Shorts, does just that in a new and familiar way. This series of one minute stop motion animations is part of the My Mario campaign which includes toys, clothing and apps for young children and their families.
Fallout: Bakersfield is a fan made total conversion mod for GZDoom that turns the 1997 classic Fallout into a first person shooter. Alexander and Denis Berezin, aka Saur X, made this project that reimagines the post apocalyptic wasteland of Necropolis—originally Bakersfield, California—as a visceral sprite based FPS/RPG mix.
In the sleepy Finnish village of Pornainen, a 42 foot tall and 50 foot wide building is filled with 2,000 tons of crushed soapstone. This isn’t a silo, it’s the world’s largest sand battery, a revolutionary thermal energy storage device that went live in June 2025. Polar Night Energy developed this behemoth for Loviisan Lämpö and it’s the backbone of Pornainen’s district heating network, reducing carbon emissions by 70% and eliminating the need for oil completely.
Smartglasses have been teasing us for years with promises of convenience and coolness. Rokid, a company that has been working on AR tech for over a decade, has finally launched the Rokid Glasses. They pack AI and AR into a slim, lightweight device that weighs only 49 grams.
