Weave Robotics introduced Isaac 1 this week as a wheeled machine built from the start for real homes rather than labs or factories. It rolls through rooms on its own power, reaches for items with a pair of arms, and focuses on jobs that repeat every day, such as gathering stray clothes or straightening spaces after daily life has scattered them around.
Mike Shake has spent years exploring the edges of what simple materials can do when pushed hard. His latest project takes compressed air and turns it into a directed force that moves tables, destroys targets, and leaves visible clouds in its wake. The device is not a gun in the usual sense. It contains no powder or projectile. Everything comes from the sudden release of air stored at extreme pressure inside a sturdy tank.
A hypercar that carries real fired porcelain on its fuel cap, oil cap, badges, and several interior controls sounds like an unusual experiment. Bugatti made it real with the W16 Mistral Blanc Éternel, a single custom commission built through its Sur Mesure program. This roadster serves as the final road-going expression of the long-running W16 engine before the brand moves on.
Early in 2013 a small Utah company walked into CES with something that looked more like abstract art than a gaming machine. The Xi3 Piston sat there as a compact metal cube, roughly four inches on each side, with indented sides and a front grille that gave it a distinctive industrial look. Valve had invested in the company and even displayed the device in its own booth. For a brief moment it seemed like this odd little box might become the foundation for a new kind of living-room gaming experience built around Steam.
Wenting Zhang looked at the M5PaperS3 and decided its e-ink screen could do more than display static pages. The compact development board from M5Stack carries an ESP32-S3 processor, a 4.7-inch 960-by-540 e-ink touchscreen, a simple buzzer, and a microSD slot. He turned the whole package into a handheld that runs original Game Boy software at a steady 60 frames per second.