Bell Textron’s X-Plane, part of DARPA’s Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) program, combines the straight up and down maneuverability of a helicopter with the speed of a jet.
The Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarer smartglasses have cemented their spot as the go-to for 2025, combining a classic design with tech that fits into your day seamlessly. They take the iconic Ray-Ban look and weave in modern features without making it feel like you’re wearing a computer on your face.
Honda has revived a name that’s been quiet for over two decades and the 2026 Prelude showed up at the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed to prove it’s worth the wait. From July 10 to 13, parked on the green fields of Goodwood House, this prototype turned heads with a sharp design and a mix of driving joy and practicality.
Florida’s highways, long and flat like a dragstrip, have a new cop on the beat. The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) has added a Ford Mustang GT to its fleet, a car that’s as much about raw speed as it is about turning heads while keeping speeders in check.
The AYANEO Flip 1S DS takes the flip-open style of the old Nintendo DS and turns it into a full gaming PC you can hold in your hands. Launched on Indiegogo in July 2025, it’s trying to carve out a spot in a crowded market where single-screen devices like the Steam Deck and ROG Ally dominate.
A black hole where the Moon used to be sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, but let’s get into what would happen if the Moon, that battered, glowing ball, turned into a black hole with the same mass. The result is a mix of normalcy and weirdness.
Two tennis players, Jamie Murray and Laura Robson, strapped to the roofs of SUVs tearing down a runway, hitting a tennis ball back and forth isn’t something you ever expect to see, but this was the stunt Lexus pulled off to get two Guinness World Records. They called it “Served at Speed,” and turned Duxford Airfield, a place usually home to old planes, into a wild tennis court for a day.
A YouTuber named MINT after hours took on a crazy challenge: building a computer processor from scratch. Not a full PC, but its beating heart—a central processing unit (CPU) dubbed EPROMINT. This 8-bit creation, slapped together on perfboard with chunky dual in-line package chips, is a straight-up throwback to the 1980s when the 6502 and Z80 powered the first personal computers.
In a Swiss lab, a biology experiment gadget has been repurposed into a gaming console. Meet the OpenDrop, a digital microfluidics platform that shuffles water droplets across an electrode grid to play Snake, Pac-Man and Frogger. This isn’t your old Nokia phone – it’s a €1,000 machine that turns water into pixels, dreamed up by science communicator Steve Mould and the OpenDrop’s inventor.
A Caltech team has created a jellybean-sized pill called PillTrek that travels through your digestive system, sniffing out everything from pH levels to glucose and serotonin. This is a game-changing window into the gut’s wild world, delivering real-time data that could change how we tackle inflammation, metabolic disorders and even mental health.