Daniel Riley set out to tackle an issue that had been plaguing him: what if you built a drone with propeller blades a mile longer than regular models? His design features 41-inch blades that reach from tip to tip and spin at a steady 350 to 500 revolutions per minute, a far cry from the tiny, high-speed propellers seen on nearly every commercial drone on the market.
Skoda started as a bike manufacturer in 1896 and later expanded into vehicles and trucks. Over a century later, the company is revisiting an early item of riding gear. Standard bike bells are just not loud enough to catch the attention of anyone using noise-canceling headphones, which is a big problem in this situation.
Product designer Matty Benedetto discovered some clips of passengers stranded in airport security lines and clogged airport terminals. He determined that his next trip needed to be less of a nightmare, so he set out to design a carry-on suitcase that would make the entire experience a little less stressful. More specifically, he decided to create one from scratch using his 3D printers.
Tesla owners with HW4 hardware awoke today to get a lot more out of their automobiles. The most recent FSD (Full Self-Driving) version 14.3 was released with the recently released software update 2026.2.9.6, and it’s impossible not to get the impression that some significant progress has been achieved since the first drive. The team basically ditched the existing AI compiler / runtime and started over, using a new method called MLIR.
Japanese musicians commemorated Wikipedia’s 25th anniversary with a unique composition made up entirely of Wikipedia entries. Open Reel Ensemble produced the song as part of a virtual birthday celebration, and it’s a true journey because it’s totally made up of ancient reel-to-reel equipment that also function as instruments. Every sound is produced by physically moving the tape over the heads, with no artificial samples added after the fact.
Liberty Walk, a Japanese performance shop, has a long history of creating ridiculous, widebody modifications, and their work on a 2007 Lamborghini Murciélagos LP640 coupe pushes this to new heights. This Murciélago was originally sold in the United States, but it wound up in Japan in 2012, where it was given a very significant makeover by Liberty Walk’s Silhouette Works GT Evo treatment before making a few more long-distance excursions to Canada and back to the States.
Handheld console fans have long praised Nintendo’s Switch Lite for its compact size and low price, but many have wished for a variant that included those fancy premium features without sacrificing portability. Fortunately, Tito from Macho Nacho Productions stepped up and created exactly that type of machine through a series of painstaking modifications that transformed a regular Switch Lite into something far more capable.
Most drivers have in mind a pure British roadster from the early 1990s, the Lotus Elan, but only a small group of fans are aware of the strange story of the Kia Vigato that followed. After the original Elan M100 run ended in 1995, Kia bought the whole production tooling from Lotus. The company then assembled the car in Korea and shipped examples to Japan under the Vigato name.
Costs for PC parts are skyrocketing, and I’m sure you understand the frustration of attempting to construct a gaming system when graphics cards and RAM are so expensive. Watching the price continue to rise is enough to put you off even the most basic upgrades right now, but a device like the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally, priced at $499.99 (was $600), steps in and saves the day, as you simply open the box and you have a whole gaming system right in your hands.
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The First World Hotel, located in the Genting Highlands, some 50 kilometers north of Kuala Lumpur, stands out against the backdrop of the greenery. Its two main buildings and annex include a remarkable 7,351 rooms, which kept the Guinness World Record for world’s largest hotel under lock and key since 2015. People come via cable car or by making their way up the mountain roads, and then find themselves in a realm of continual motion, as you can’t help but keep going forward to the next surprise.