Salim Benbouziyane looked at an empty Altoids tin and decided it should hold an entire working computer. Not a toy, not a partial gadget, but a real cyberdeck with a screen, keyboard, battery, audio, and enough power to run software, including DOOM. He documented the entire process in a video that walks through design, board layout, soldering, troubleshooting, and final assembly.
Marvel just released an official LEGO version of the first full Avengers: Doomsday trailer, and the whole thing runs shot for shot against the live-action cut that dropped in July. Disney Consumer Products, Marvel Studios, and the LEGO Group built it together as part of their “All Moments Lead to Doomsday” campaign. Real cast voices stay in place, including Robert Downey Jr. delivering Doctor Doom’s lines. The result lasts almost exactly as long as the original, missing only the final countdown clock, and it pulls off a level of precision most fan stop-motion attempts never reach.
In 1991, seven Mazda transmission research engineers combined a hard-shell Samsonite and a pocket bike to create something no airline would ever allow. Their submission for the company’s Fantasyard contest was a three-wheeled motorcycle that folded into luggage, weighed seventy-one pounds, and could reach speeds of nearly nineteen miles per hour with a 33.6-cubic-centimeter two-stroke engine. Assembly takes approximately one minute. The thing was highlighted on Oprah and at major auto shows, but just one original remains today.
Old railway handcars appear in classic films as simple machines with a long beam that two people push up and down in opposite rhythm. That motion turns a crank and spins the wheels, sending the cart rolling along the rails at a steady, unhurried pace. Sam Barker and Tom decided the idea deserved a modern remake built almost entirely from plastic.
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Apple’s long-awaited foldable phone has reached the hands of a small group of early testers, and the feedback arriving through Mark Gurman’s latest Power On newsletter is largely positive. People who have spent time with the prototypes, referred to internally as the iPhone Ultra, keep coming back to how the device feels when closed and how it works once opened.