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.
ANBERNIC’s upcoming RG DS handheld has a clamshell design that folds out to give you two screens – just like the original Nintendo DS – but packs a lot more grunt than you’d expect for a device that’s under $100. It fits in your pocket and won’t break the bank (or your nostalgia) with early footage showing it handling everything from quick sketches in Kirby: Canvas Curse to the meatier stuff of Pokémon Black Version 2 with ease.
Palmer Luckey stands in a Washington, D.C. conference room getting some sunlight, fiddling with a couple of high-tech glasses that look a lot like something you’d expect to see a fighter pilot or mechanic wearing . These are prototypes for EagleEye, the latest foray into wearable battlefield tech from Anduril Industries. Now the guy who kickstarted the whole virtual reality thing with Oculus in his parents’ garage way back in the day, Luckey has been circling around to this exact point for years.
October 18th 1985 was a pretty ordinary autumn day in New York City but the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was about to start something big – 200 unassuming grey boxes placed alongside cartridges of plumbing adventures on shelves. Four decades later, that simple launch remains the foundation of what we consider entertainment today.
