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Tesla Honda Accord

Unless your 1981 Honda Accord has some major modifications, it probably can’t do 0-60 in 2.7-seconds, that is unless…you’re talking about Jim Belosic’s vehicle. He took the drivetrain of a Tesla Model S P85, and installed it in his Accord, with the result being a 536-horsepower frankencar called the Teslonda. For the setup to work, Jim had to source a 436-pound battery pack from a Chevrolet Volt for the engine bay. Since the Model S drivetrain was rear-wheel-drive, he also had to source the front steering and suspension parts from Ford models between 1928 and 1941. Click here for the first image in today’s viral picture gallery. Continue reading for the five most popular viral videos today, including one of a solar-powered boat.

MIT Self-Driving Car

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) researchers have built an innovative new system that enables self-driving cars to drive on umapped country road, without the need for 3D maps. It’s called MapLite, and it combines GPS data with a series of high-tech sensors that accurately observe the road conditions more than 100-feet in advance. “The system first sets both a final destination and what researchers call a ‘local navigation goal,’ which has to be within view of the car. Its perception sensors then generate a path to get to that point, using LIDAR to estimate the location of the road’s edges. MapLite can do this without physical road markings by making basic assumptions about how the road will be relatively more flat than the surrounding areas,” according to the research paper. Click here for the first image in today’s viral picture gallery. Continue reading for the five most popular viral videos today, including one of a real-life Fortnite battle royale.

SpotMini Dog Robot

Another day, another Boston Dynamics’ robot video, and this time, it’s of the SpotMini. Before the test, the dog robot was manually driven through the space so it could build a map of the space using visual data from cameras mounted on its front, back and sides. During the autonomous run, SpotMini uses data from the cameras to localize itself in the map and to detect and avoid obstacles. Once the operator presses ‘GO’ at the beginning of the video, the robot is on its own. Click here for the first image in today’s viral picture gallery. Continue reading for the five most popular viral videos today, including one of explaining why so many fast food logos are red.

Real Millennium Falcon Cockpit

Greg Dietrich, Jake Polatty, and a group of Star Wars fans have spent the past 6-years building a life-sized Millennium Falcon cockpit inside a garage in Huntsville, Alabama, complete with hundreds of lights that glow from the flight console, blink behind radar units, and clicking analog switches. “As I’m posting images of the build, someone says ‘you know if you build the console you’ve got to build the back wall,'” said Dietrich. Click here for the first image in today’s viral picture gallery. Continue reading for the five most popular viral videos today, including one of an invention that could save natural disaster victims.

HoloLens Mario Bros

Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. World 1-1 can be found in all types of games, including Minecraft, but Abhishek Singh decided to combine the stage with Microsoft’s HoloLens in Central Park, and this augmented reality experience is the result. Yes, the obstacles require one to walk around them rather than jump, but since none of them exist as physical barriers, things can get a bit scary. Click here for the first image in today’s viral picture gallery. Continue reading for the five most popular viral videos today, including one of an original 2007 iPhone unboxing.

TrackingPoint Mi50 Rifle

When you combine TrackingPoint’s electronically controlled sighting systems with a .50-caliber BMG rifle, you get the precision-guided Mi50 rifle, the company’s largest yet. It’s based on a Barrett M107A1 platform and can calculate crucial ballistic information for long-range shots, all at the push of a button, which includes pressure, temperature, and the Coriolis effect. Click here for the first image in today’s viral picture gallery. Continue reading for the five most popular viral videos today, including one of rainbow paint on a speaker at 12,500 fps.

Disney Facial Recognition

Disney Research has developed the first real-time high-fidelity facial capture method to enhance a global real-time face tracker, which provides a low-resolution face mesh, with local regressors that add in medium-scale details, such as expression wrinkles. The team discovered that although wrinkles appear in different scales and at different locations on the face, they are locally very self-similar and their visual appearance is a direct consequence of their local shape. Therefore in order to train local regressors from high-resolution capture data, they proposed an automatic way to detect and align the local patches required to train the regressors and run them efficiently in real-time. Click here for the first image in today’s viral picture gallery. Continue reading for the five most popular viral videos today, including one of a true all-screen smartphone.

LEGO Augmented Reality

The MIT Media Lab is known for their innovative projects, and this latest one that combines LEGO with augmented reality, is no exception. MIT’s Changing Places group was created to tackle large challenges like fighting pollution and urban modeling, with the latter being solved using these two technologies. Click here for the first image in today’s viral picture gallery. Continue reading for the five most popular viral videos today, including one of twelve brilliant Marvel movie details you might’ve missed.

Real Iron Man Hulkbuster

British inventors Colin Furze and James Bruton managed to build a 10.5-foot tall Hulkbuster suit that is not only strong, but also able to lift, and repeatedly drop, heavy items. However the most impressive feature is that there’s enough room for an adult to ride inside, enabling them to control it using a custom-built joystick. While it can’t walk manually, the suit does boast a working flamethrower in one hand. Click here for the first image in today’s viral picture gallery. Continue reading for the five most popular viral videos today, including one showing how to start a fire with a hammer.

Disney Soft Robotic Arm

Disney Research has created a Big Hero 6-inspired soft arm and hand for physical human-robot interaction. Featuring two air-filled force sensing modules that passively absorb impact and provide contact force feedback, as well as an inflated outer cover which encloses the arm’s underlying mechanisms / force sensing modules. It also comes equipped with an internal projector to project a display on the inside of the cover which is visible from the outside. At the end of the arm is a 3D printed hand with air-filled, force sensing fingertips. Click here for the first image in today’s viral picture gallery. Continue reading for the five most popular viral videos today, including one of a fascinating density ball.