Joshua Bird set out to build a flying drone small enough to fit comfortably in a room without the bulk that usually comes with single-rotor designs. Most approaches either rely on a second rotor for balance or force the machine to grow large so its blades can produce usable control forces. He wanted neither, so he kept the hardware to one motor and one propeller sitting on a compact finned body, then solved the control problem through rapid changes in blade angle instead of extra hardware.
Ruins across the Capital Wasteland pick up sunlight and shadow in ways Bethesda’s original fixed lighting never quite managed when Fallout 3 first arrived. A small fan effort has been stitching RTX Remix, ray reconstruction, and neural rendering into Tale of Two Wastelands, the long-running project that drops Fallout 3 and its expansions into the Fallout: New Vegas engine so both games can run as one continuous playthrough. The result, shown in a short gameplay video released mid-October, already shifts familiar locations enough that some viewers describe the footage as looking like an entirely different game.
Hotel rooms, home offices, libraries, and school desks share one familiar problem: too many devices and too few outlets. A laptop, phone, tablet, and earbuds quickly turn a single wall socket into a puzzle of adapters and cables. UGREEN’s Nexode 100W GaN charger, priced at $39.98 (was $55), solves that with one compact unit. Three USB-C ports and one USB-A port share a total of 100 watts, so a full charge session for several gadgets runs from a single connection.
Hugo appears as a purple, furry figure with small horns, a blue nose, a flower tucked into its hair, oversized hands, and either embroidered shorts or leather lederhosen. In video released by the Cambridge startup Dynamic Creatures, this bipedal character walks through an office, high-fives engineers, hugs children, and dances while carrying a small backpack. The company calls it the first living character robot, meant to move freely among people rather than stay fixed in one spot like traditional park figures.
Visitors walking into the Waltham, Massachusetts shop floor often arrive expecting a loose collection of experimental machines, only to find rows of workstations that already resemble a working production line. Boston Dynamics keeps machining, assembly, and repair in the same building so every Atlas unit can move from raw material to a finished, tested robot without leaving the facility. Sr. Technical Program Manager Katie Conner notes that building one robot used to count as a major multi-day effort just a year earlier. The same process now finishes in roughly a single day, with a stated target of one hour by 2027 and minutes in the years after that.