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PhyFawkes stared at a Steam Deck motherboard one day and wondered how small it could actually get. The answer now sits in a case that matches the original Game Boy’s footprint. Thirty-two millimeters thick. Same basic outline. Only SteamBoy holds modern PC hardware capable of running current games.
Brazilian speedrunner LeKukie finished Super Mario Bros. in 4 minutes, 54 seconds, and 365 milliseconds on June 2. That time sits exactly one tenth of a second, or six frames, short of the best possible human run under the rules speedrunners follow. Former record holder Kosmic laid out the details in a recent video, and the community now treats the perfect completion as an approaching fact rather than a distant dream.
Twenty-three university students in the Netherlands spent a full year away from their regular classes and delivered something no one else had managed. On a July afternoon in 2026 they rolled out Stella Juva, a two-seat ambulance that generates its own electricity from the sun and uses that power both to move across difficult ground and to run a full set of medical tools. The project comes from Solar Team Eindhoven at Eindhoven University of Technology, the same group that previously built a solar family car, a solar camper, and an off-road solar vehicle that crossed Moroccan desert terrain.
Kiara from Kiara’s Workshop has a habit of pulling game mechanics into the physical world and making them work. Her newest project targets the catch sequence unique to Pokémon Legends: Arceus. In that older setting a successful capture does not produce the familiar series of rapid shakes. The ball instead rises once into the air while a burst of smoke escapes from the top. A failure simply opens the shell and plays a short sound.
Robot vacuums solved floors years ago, while windows stayed stubborn. Tall panes, frameless panels, sliding doors, and mirrors still demand ladders, squeegees, and a weekend you would rather spend elsewhere. Ecovacs answered that gap with the Winbot W2S Pro Omni, a square climbing cleaner that sticks to vertical glass, sprays solution, scrubs edges, and returns to a portable station that cleans its own pad.
Fresh images of the finished cabin for the JAS Tensei arrived this morning, and they confirm the car is nearly ready for its public debut. JAS Motorsport and Pininfarina released the definitive interior design of their limited restomod based on the first-generation Honda NSX, showing a driver-focused space finished in bold black and red with clear ties to the original car’s simple, purposeful layout.
James Bruton keeps building machines that walk and are capable of carrying a person. His latest one is a compact quadruped he calls the Mid-Walker, open-sourced on GitHub under XRobots. Diagonal legs are mechanically linked so they swing in pairs. That means only two feet stay planted at any moment. On flat ground the setup works, but on anything uneven, it tips.
Researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Rekimoto Lab built a backpack that turns ordinary jumps into something closer to a slow-motion bounce across the lunar surface. Called Lunavity, or Augmented Jump in the formal paper, the system straps a multi-rotor aircraft to your back and uses constant upward thrust to lighten your body so you can jump higher, stay airborne longer, and come down more gently.
Storage always fills up faster than expected. Games grow larger, video files push higher resolutions, and phones or handhelds run out of room just when you need them most. A regular microSD card keeps working in those situations, yet the time spent waiting for transfers and loads starts to add up. SanDisk’s 256GB microSD Express card, priced at $58.99 (was $74), changes that equation with speeds that feel closer to a basic portable SSD than a traditional memory card.
Kasquez just released a complete fan recreation of Donkey Kong Land that runs natively on Windows. The 1995 Game Boy original from Rare now exists as a standalone PC build with visuals, audio, and movement drawn straight from the style of Donkey Kong Country. Over thirty full-sized levels wait, along with the usual banana collecting, secret hunting, and a fresh trip to reclaim the hoard from King K. Rool.