Joby Aviation just made a big move, as the California-based company, known for its electric air taxis designed to zip people through urban skies, is buying the passenger transportation arm of Blade Air Mobility. This deal is worth up to $125 million and by folding in Blade’s network as well as expertise, Joby is getting a head start on its air taxi service, especially as it prepares to launch its first passenger flights in Dubai next year.
A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is a painting of a distant dream. This Hubble Picture of the Week shows a corner of the Tarantula Nebula, a star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy 160,000 light-years away. The nebula’s name alone is mysterious and the image delivers on that promise, with a riot of cosmic clouds and glowing stars that seem to come alive.
Paul Davids, a Dutch guitarist, walked into the vast halls of Austria’s Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant three years ago. The plant was built in the 70s, but never operational. However, it had an acoustic wonder: a reverb so big it felt like the notes went on forever. Davids captured this with guitar in hand, and the result was a sound akin to playing in a concrete and steel cathedral. Fast forward to 2025 and that experience has been transformed into the Nucleo Reverb, a pedal made by Italian boutique maker Cornerstone Music Gear.
This $1,499 MacBook Pro’s M4 chip feels like a cheat code. How so? The 10-core CPU and 10-core GPU devour video editing, coding and graphic design like it’s nothing. Apps launch instantly and heavy workloads like 4K video rendering run smoothly where older PCs would stutter or crash. Geekbench scores are 3,925 single-core and 22,669 multi-core beating the M3 Max.
Chuck Jurgen Teschke, an aircraft maintenance engineer with 38-years of experience from Canada, has a habit of turning trash into treasure. His latest creation, the Frankencopter 4, is a Volkswagen T1 bus merged with an Airbus H125 helicopter. This isn’t a flying or driving vehicle – it’s art, built from discarded parts and welded together to get your attention.
Gamer Benoit Bourgerie isn’t known for viral content, but his latest project, a fan-made recreation of Clocktown and Termina Field from The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask in Unreal Engine 5, is a must see and took him over a year to do.
Traveling light is an art and forgetting a charger is a universal mistake. Twelve South’s PowerBug, a clever device that turns any wall outlet into a wireless charging station, aims to change that. This little guy is $49.99 and combines a Qi2 wireless charging pad with a USB-C port.
The SEGA Game Gear is a beloved console for many who grew up in the early 90s, its backlit screen and colorful games a breath of fresh air compared to the monochrome Game Boy. Macho Nacho Productions, a YouTube channel dedicated to retro gaming mods, has taken this classic handheld and turned it into a modern marvel.
