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.
Prime Day 2025 may be over, but there are still non-membership deals to be had, like this 2TB SanDisk Extreme portable SSD for $126.31 shipped, originally $209.99. This SSD is fast, with read speeds up to 1050MB/s and write speeds up to 1000MB/s, powered by NVMe and USB 3.2 Gen 2. In real world terms, it zips a 10GB video file across in seconds, not minutes. It’s perfect for photographers and videographers who need to move big files fast. Product page.
The Switch Lite has always been the little sibling of the Switch lineup—small, budget-friendly and perfect for gamers who just want to get into handheld gaming without the bulk of the standard Switch or the price tag of the new Switch 2. But its quirks—no TV hookup, fixed Joy-Cons and an aging LCD screen—have held it back from being great. Taki Udon, a modder whose SUPER5 HDMI mod, paired with an OLED screen upgrade, turns the Switch Lite into a handheld that feels like it came straight from Nintendo’s factory.
Electric cars have always had people wondering how far they can go before needing a charge. Lucid Motors answered that question with a bang. On a crisp July weekend in 2025, their Air Grand Touring sedan drove an incredible 1,205 kilometers—749 miles—from St. Moritz, Switzerland to Munich, Germany without stopping for a charge.
Inventor James Bruton is at it again, creating things that make you go “how does that even work?” His latest is a two wheeled e-bike with omni directional wheels. The front wheel is mostly like a normal bike wheel and the rear omni wheel is flipped 90 degrees. This thing moves in ways that will leave you dizzy.
The new Lamborghini Temerario GT3 made its debut at the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed and it’s a showstopper. This is a purpose built racing car, the first of its kind designed, developed and built at Lamborghini’s Sant’Agata Bolognese factory.
