In a Swiss lab, a biology experiment gadget has been repurposed into a gaming console. Meet the OpenDrop, a digital microfluidics platform that shuffles water droplets across an electrode grid to play Snake, Pac-Man and Frogger. This isn’t your old Nokia phone – it’s a €1,000 machine that turns water into pixels, dreamed up by science communicator Steve Mould and the OpenDrop’s inventor.
In the heart of Jinan, a city in eastern China, something wild has appeared in the urban jungle: a 50-meter tall inflatable dome, covering 20,000 square meters, swallowing up an entire construction site. This isn’t a circus tent or a pop-up sports arena—it’s a new way to tame the chaos of city building. The world’s largest of its kind, it traps dust and hushes noise, changing how cities handle construction in crowded neighborhoods.
A Toyota Corolla became an unlikely stunt car in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, when a heatwave turned a quiet road into a ramp. Caught on video by bystander Albert Blackwell, the sedan soared skyward after hitting a buckled pavement.
Photo credit: 60 Minutes Australia
Way down under the sun-baked dirt of Chihuahua, Mexico, hides a geological jaw-dropper that’s hard to wrap your head around—a cavern where crystals shoot up like ancient trees, glowing with a spooky, see-through shine. Called the Cave of Crystals, or Cueva de los Cristales, this underground gem, buried 1,000 feet beneath the Naica Mine, grabbed the world’s eye when 60 Minutes Australia took a rare dive into it for a June 2025 special.
On June 16, 2025, the Trump Organization took a surprising leap into tech, with Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump unveiling the Trump Mobile T1 smartphone and its wireless service at a flashy Trump Tower bash. Touted as a “sleek, gold smartphone engineered for performance and proudly designed and built in the United States,” the T1 is gunning for a slice of the smartphone pie, where Apple and Samsung reign supreme. Priced at $499 with a $47.45 monthly “The 47 Plan,” it’s bursting with bold claims, though the fine print leaves plenty of questions.
On Christmas Day 2024, a National Geographic expedition aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor (too) delivered the first-ever live footage of an Antarctic gonate squid. This three-foot-long, blood-red cephalopod was spotted 7,060 feet beneath the Southern Ocean’s surface, gliding through the midnight zone.
Amid the jugglers, singers, and contortionists on America’s Got Talent, a pack of robotic dogs from Boston Dynamics trotted onto the stage, delivering a performance that left jaws on the floor. These weren’t your average auditionees. They were Spot robots, the four-legged marvels of engineering, choreographed to Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now”.
YouTuber Juskim, a modder who thinks outside the box, literally, decided to craft a gaming mouse so tiny it laughs in the face of standard designs, yet still packs the precision and speed that pro gamers demand. It’s safe to say that this could be the world’s smallest wireless gaming mouse.
