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.
You’ve seen MIT’s KnittedKeyboard II, now check out CMU’s Solid Knitting Machine. Similar to 3D printers, this machine builds objects by layers with material fed through an automated system that consists of a series of hooked needles with latches that can be instructed to engage with manipulating the yarn.
Playing Windows XP sounds on instruments is one thing, using custom MIDI dials to manipulate an AI image generator image in real-time is another. Johannes Stelzer accomplishes the latter by with Stable Diffusion‘s SDXL Turbo, which creates a baseline image of “photo of a red brick house, blue sky”.