It’s no CC850, but there’s only one Koenigsegg Agera N in the world and it just got a special wallpaper wrap from UK-based Yiannimize. As for why, it was requested by SuperVettura, the official UK Koenigsegg dealer to not only give the hypercar additional protection, but to add a unique touch for Salon Privé.
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There’s Black 4.0, and then Nxylon, a super-black wood material developed by University of British Columbia (UBC) researchers that absorbs almost all light. The name is derived from Nyx, the Greek goddess of the night, and xylon, the Greek word for wood.
This past weekend on August 31st, NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore contacted Mission Control to report an unusual sound coming from the Boeing Starliner spacecraft’s speaker ahead of its return to Earth. He said it was similar to a pulsing noise, almost like a sonar ping of sorts, occurring at regular intervals.
Living for 104-years has given Lilabel Babcock the chance to witness technology that most would not have imagined at the turn of the 20th century, including the rise of the autonomous Zoox robotaxi. She believes that current vehicles have become ‘quite expensive’ and is glad that there are robotaxis capable of picking her up for errands.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has successfully tested IceNode, their autonomous underwater robot in Beaufort Sea north of Alaska. Engineers hope that one day IceNode will be able to venture beneath Antarctic ice shelves to gather data that would help scientists calculate how rapidly the ice shelves there are melting.
Sugar Design unveiled a miniature Rolls-Royce Phantom EV knockoff at the 2024 Chengdu Motor Show. Aesthetically, it resembles a squished version of the ultra luxurious sedan, complete with a familiar front chrome grille, but without the iconic The Spirit of Ecstasy hood ornament.
You’ve seen the living Terminator sculpture, now check out this bizarre biohybrid robot that is controlled by fungus. That’s right, Cornell researchers cultivated fungal mycelia and then harnessed its innate electrical signals to control “biohybrid” robots.
While probably not as durable as the Unitree G1, the 1X NEO Beta humanoid robot is the first we’ve seen that was designed specially to help around the home. The company just released a video showing how the robot would be safe to work among people.
