This may not be as exciting as finding the $2-million MTG ‘The One Ring’ card, but this Unreal Engine 5 tech demo does give us hope that a future Lord of the Rings game can actually look the part. It took Micah just 6 days from start to finish to complete the Fellowship of the Ring river scene using the ‘first person player’ template in Unreal Engine 5.
Forget resin, PNIPAM 3D printing ink extrudes as a liquid and then solidifies in water. This process uses a liquid polymer solution known as poly(N-isopropylacrylamide), which when extruded through a needle into a calcium chloride salt solution, it instantly solidifies as it makes contact with the salt water.
Rocket Lab announced this week that the company has successfully tested their two spacecraft destined for Mars orbit. The twin spacecraft were built for UC Berkeley’s Space Science Laboratory and NASA to enable the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission, scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral this year.
The Twelve South AirFly Duo wireless transmitter lets you use AirPods or any other wireless headphones on planes, and you can get one for $29.99, originally $44.99. On a single charge, the AirFly Duo is good for over 22-hours of continuous use, which is longer than any current non-stop international flight. Product page.
Industrial Inspection and Consulting (IIC) says they can now use a CT scanner to reveal exactly what’s inside unopened Pokemon packs, or more specifically, the holographic cards. The method involves extracting the shape of the Pokemon due to slight density differences in the cards and foils.
The AYANEO Pocket Micro may not be the smallest Game Boy ever, but it does pay tribute to the Game Boy Micro (2005). Featuring a CNC machined aluminum body that houses a 3.5″ (960 x 640) borderless IPS LCD display with 400 nits brightness, a MediaTek Helio G99 processor, 6GB of LPDDR4x-4266 RAM, 128GB of UFS 2.2 storage, and a 2,600mAh battery.
Meta’s new AI-powered Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) is capable of identifying which pixels belong to a target object in an image or video. This means that it can segment any object and consistently follow it across all frames of a video in real-time, whether it be for video editing purposes or mixed reality experiences.