Nā ʻUhane Māhoe Huki Pū i ke Ola NGC7253

Nā ʻUhane Māhoe Huki Pū i ke Ola, Project Hōkūlani Names Two Galaxies Still Mid-Merge

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Nā ʻUhane Māhoe Huki Pū i ke Ola NGC7253
Photo credit: International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
High school students on Hawaiʻi Island gave NGC 7253 a name that already feels heavier than its catalog number. Nā ʻUhane Māhoe Huki Pū i ke Ola translates to “The Twin Spirits Pulling Together Creating Life,” and Gemini North on Maunakea recorded the pair with enough reach that pink knots of newborn stars sit in plain view. More than 200 million light-years out, in the stretch of Pegasus known in Hawaiian as Ka Lupe o Kawelo, two spiral galaxies tug at one another across about four million light-years of open space.

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Insta360 X6 Camera Edge of Space

120,000 Feet on a Friction Clamp, MAKE. ART. NOW. Flies the Insta360 X6 Near Space

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Insta360 X6 Camera Edge of Space
A year of weather balloons, cheap helium, and one brand-new 360 camera produced footage from roughly 110,000 to 120,000 feet. MAKE. ART. NOW. spent twelve months lofting Insta360 gear on 1,500-gram latex balloons aimed at a 115,000-foot burst, and the freshly launched X6 became the main camera for the last of those flights. Dual 1/1.1-inch sensors, 8K recording, 10-bit color, and horizon lock went along for a ride that included minus-70-degree air, a metal clamp that let go at 17,000 feet, and a neighborhood car crash captured in 360.

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Lenovo Project AeroBlade IFA Berlin

Lenovo’s Project AeroBlade Packs a Silent 14-Inch Laptop Into 830 Grams

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Lenovo Project AeroBlade IFA Berlin
Lenovo rolled Project AeroBlade onto the IFA Berlin floor this week as a ThinkBook-class concept that treats cooling as the last piece of bulk still worth removing. Shown at Innovation World on September 3, the 14-inch machine stays under 10 millimeters thick and under 830 grams, a magnesium-aluminum shell with a high screen-to-body OLED panel, Thunderbolt 4, and Wi-Fi 7. Official copy frames it as full-performance computing for hybrid work, with every part of the board and chassis sized around travel rather than a traditional heat stack.

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NES Radar Live Flight Tracker

NES Radar Turns a 1985 Nintendo Into a Live Air Traffic Scope

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NES Radar Live Flight Tracker
Levi Maaia’s NES Radar takes an original Nintendo Entertainment System and treats it like a small air traffic display. You load a custom ROM on a flash cartridge, type any airport’s four-letter ICAO code with a controller in port one, press Start, and real aircraft flying near that field appear as moving 8-bit targets on the television. It works for airports worldwide. A quiet local strip shows a few arrivals lining up. A code like KLAX fills the ring in a hurry.

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