There’s the Egyptian pyramids, and then these unusual pyramid mountains in Anlong County, Southwest China. Images of this site recently went viral online, with some claiming they are man made, but Professor Zhou Qiuwen of Guizhou Normal University believes they are natural formations.
This 3rd generation Apple iPod prototype contains an unreleased Tetris game by Apple. Called Stacker, players would rotate the bricks using the scroll wheel and there does not appear to be any bonus stages or power ups like modern versions of the game.
Priced at $4,199 USD, the Cluvens J20 Gatling Workstation looks more like a science fiction film prop than a place where you’d spend hours working. The functional tank tracks can be used to easily move the workstation around the office or home, while also providing a stable base on uneven surfaces.
There’s the Compal Rover, and then the SZBOX DS16, an interesting laptop that ditches a physical keyboard for two 16-inch (1920 x 1200) touchscreen displays. The bottom display can be propped up for an more optimal viewing angle, but you’ll still have to settle for a virtual keyboard.
You’ve seen DOOM on C64, now check out this AI image generator programmed by Nick Bild for the Commodore 64. How? He basically used modified Python code and then made about 100 retro-inspired sprites (represented as binary strings) to train the model on a modern computer with the modified scripts.
Finally, Super Mario 64’s unopenable door on Cool Mountain has been opened, and without any modifications to the original game to boot. More specifically, the cabin at the bottom of the Cool, Cool Mountain’s slide, which has no door handle.
There’s the flux capacitor alarm clock, and then this custom-built digital clock that uses sand to tell time. Álvaro Gómez Giménez came up with the idea after being intrigued by persistence of vision gadgets, which use the human eye’s afterimage phenomenon to create the illusion of a continuous moving image.
Princeton and North Carolina State University researchers have developed an unusual caterpillar robot that can split its segments apart and then reassemble itself. These segments can operate independently or merge to form a longer unit, enabling the robot to easily move and steer in any direction.