You’ve seen the flamethrower-equipped robot dog, now check out what happens when you use sound to extinguish flames. James Orgill of The Action Lab first attempted to use a 70Hz tone to extinguish an alcohol flame, but that proved futile.
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Remember the Alaska Airlines emergency a few days ago? Someone apparently lost their iPhone when the emergency door / window blew out and it landed on Barnes Road in Portland, Oregon, where game designer Seanathan Bates tumbled upon the device.
Takumi Fujiwara’s Toyota Sprinter Trueno GT-APEX (AE86) featured in the Initial D Japanese street racing manga series has been turned into a functional wireless computer mouse by Camshop. When powered up, the AE86’s front and back lights also turn on, ready to use on the included special mouse pad.
The Arcade1Up Pac-Mania Bandai Legacy Edition Arcade Machine includes 14 classic games in 1, all for $299.99 shipped with riser and light-up marquee, originally $499.99. Unlike other Pac-Man arcade machines, this one offers WiFi leaderboards, and you won’t need subscription either to see them. Product page.
Set to compete with the Apple Vision Pro, the XREAL Air 2 Ultra AR glasses feature six degrees of freedom (6DoF) via dual 3D environment sensors, complete with computer vision capabilities, XREAL. It combines fashion and function in a sleek new titanium ring frame with a wayfarer-esque design.
Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander will deliver five NASA payloads to Sinus Viscositatis, a large flat region on the Moon that was once a giant lava flow near the Gruithuisen Domes. It’s set to launch on Monday, January 8, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, atop a United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket.
Long before the iPad and Huawei MatePad Pro, there was the Dauphin DTR-1, a touchscreen Windows tablet from 1993. Weighing in at 2.5-pounds, this device was thought to be the world’s smallest 486 computers, and one of the first palmtops to run the Microsoft Windows operating system.
Think of NGC 6397, a dazzling globular cluster, as a galactic beehive, or at least that is what this Hubble Space Telescope image makes it seem like. It’s located 8,200 light-years away in the constellation Ara and one of the closest globular clusters to Earth.