Dave Niewinski, a robotics engineer who enjoys escaping the daily grind, chose to redefine pleasure on the sea. What is his solution? A canoe that paddles itself using two robotic arms and an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano.
Super Mario 64, released in 1996, is a nostalgic classic for many, but there’s a shocking truth beneath the surface: the game is memory hungry. Thanks to the work of modder Kaze Emanuar, we get to see how this legendary Nintendo 64 game used its 4 megabytes of RAM in ways that were, at times, surprisingly wasteful.
Mount Fuji, Japan’s 12,300ft stratovolcano, has been dormant for almost three centuries and is a popular backdrop for photos as well as cultural worship. But on August 26, 2025, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Japan’s Cabinet Office issued a chilling reminder of its fury. They released AI-generated videos showing a catastrophic eruption and plunging Tokyo’s 37 million people into an ash-choked hell.
A 21-inch motocross bike tire is rolling wild down a massive sand dune in Argentina’s Fiambalá Desert. The drone is struggling to keep up, weaving through the air to catch every bounce and tumble. This is the Tuk South team’s attempt to break the world record for the longest tire roll, adventure, physics and spectacle.
Trevor Rainbolt sat in the passenger seat of a Google Street View car, his eyes wide with wonder. For years he had spent hours upon hours looking at the world through the lens of Google Maps, pinpointing unknown locations in seconds for his devoted GeoGuessr followers.
Nintendo has always been able to make Mario feel like an old friend and their latest initiative, It’s Me, Mario! Stop Motion Shorts, does just that in a new and familiar way. This series of one minute stop motion animations is part of the My Mario campaign which includes toys, clothing and apps for young children and their families.
Fallout: Bakersfield is a fan made total conversion mod for GZDoom that turns the 1997 classic Fallout into a first person shooter. Alexander and Denis Berezin, aka Saur X, made this project that reimagines the post apocalyptic wasteland of Necropolis—originally Bakersfield, California—as a visceral sprite based FPS/RPG mix.
Nissan’s Tochigi plant, a quiet facility about 100 kilometers north of Tokyo, was buzzing with a mix of emotions this week. After 18 years and around 48,000 cars, the last R35 GT-R rolled off the production line—a Premium Edition T-Spec in Midnight Purple, headed for a lucky buyer in Japan.