HMD Global, the company still making Nokia devices, partnered with Heineken to launch ‘Boring Phone’. You won’t find any smart features, as it was designed to take you back to a time when smartphones weren’t a thing, meaning communicating over SMS rather than social media.
YouTuber Nick Zetta thought it was outrageous to pay $3,500 for an Apple Vision Pro, so he built his own…sort of. Simply put, it consists of a monitor, camera, and a Windows 11 PC, all strapped onto a makeshift helmet of sorts.
Manned drones are nice for getting around the city, but sometimes, you just need something smaller. Meet the Hopcopter. This bizarre pogo stick drone created by a team of scientists from City University of Hong Kong and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology boasts an elastomer-band-loaded rubber-tipped leg that also allows it to hop around.
Engineer Fabricio H. Franzoli of Franzoli Electronics used four tesla coils to play an interesting cover of Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean. These musical tesla coils basically produce sound by switching on / off a certain number of times per second, thus causing air molecules around it to heat up and vibrate.
Microids has just released a new Empire of the Ants trailer, and this Unreal Engine 5-powered RTS game is looking more intriguing than ever. Think of it as Command & Conquer, but with ants, letting players explore, strategize, battle, and even form alliances with local wildlife.
There’s the unmanned Kawasaki K-Racer X2 drone, and then this ‘heavy-lifting’ manned drone that you can buy on Alibaba for a whopping $39,000 USD. Riders to need to weigh under 220 pounds, but those that meet the criteria can use it to fly up to 400-feet in the air.
At first glance, this just appears to be a giant Publix shopping cart, but upon closer inspection, you’ll realize that it is a real vehicle, based on a Volkswagen Beetle. One thing to note is that it actually rides on a custom tube chassis rather than a heavily modified Beetle frame, but it still does have two seats as well as a rear-mounted engine.
It may be a while until you can smell things in virtual reality, but the AI-powered GameScent device aims to bring that experience to your everyday gaming sessions. It basically utilizes AI to analyze in-game audio in real-time, translating it into corresponding scents to augment the gaming atmosphere.