For over two decades now, NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been coming back NGC 3370, a spiral galaxy 90 million light-years away in Leo, for another look, and their latest image shows off the galaxy’s stars in hypnotic fashion as they gradually fade from bright yellow in the center to those vivid blues at the edges.
Holiday decorations have a way of bringing people together but then they’re often over and done with come the new year. Govee Curtain Lights 2, priced at $85.99 (was $149.99), is one product that actually seems to bring things together – we mean this literally, by design to basically merge decor from several rooms and even patios into one beautiful display. The whole thing looks like a set of strands of LED lights draped over something, pulsating with a whole range of different patterns.
LG just revealed a beast of a screen called the MAGNIT Active Micro LED, a 136-inch monster that’s basically a private IMAX for your living room. Announced today in Seoul, it hits stores in Korea tomorrow and comes to North America soon after. At 3 meters wide and 1.7 meters tall, it makes your average TV look like a postage stamp.
A high-speed, color camera able to capture 16,000 frames per second has snapped a vivid glimpse of nuclear fusion inside Tokamak Energy’s ST40 – a spherical tokamak. The footage shown by the UK based startup, lets you see a glowing pink edge of deuterium plasma, along with streaks of greenish/yellow lithium ions careening through a magnetic cage.
A computer desk is frequently a hive of activity, but one maker chose to take the concept literally. Full Stack Woodworking created an L-shaped desk that simulates the life of a beehive. This desk is a woodworking, technology, and art mix, featuring 74 hexagonal frames, unique electronics, and a Raspberry Pi 5 running a beehive simulation.
IKEA has established a furniture empire that transforms our living rooms into flat-packing hubs and kitchens into comforting havens, but this latest move takes the business to a whole new level. In the UAE, where they’ve been operating for over 30 years, a completely new line of products known as the Phone Sleep Collection arrived softly at bedtime. No, these are not full-sized beds for your duvet. Instead, they’ve been scaled down to the size of your phone, which has most likely spent many late nights by your bedside.
Unitree Robotics – based in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou – has just unveiled their latest creation, the H2 humanoid robot. This impressive looking machine is a respectable 180 centimeters tall, 70 kilos in weight and looks as if it could handle anything you throw at it. To be honest, its design is a nice blend of practicality and sportiness without going off the rails.
Photo credit: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have managed to create a thin layer of material that turns your run of the mill soft robots into agile explorers. These vine robots can stretch and twist through spaces that would be way too small and fiddly for bigger machines, just like a snake slithering through grass.
Beats Flex Wireless earbuds don’t just put up a fight against Apple’s AirPods – they make you seriously wonder if it’s even worth splurging on a set of those pricey, completely wireless ones. At $30.01 (down from $65.99) these earbuds serve up a winning combination of ease of use, decent sound quality and comfort that you can’t ignore, especially if you’ve spent all your time fiddling with tiny lost earbuds or wincing at the price tag.
