Does the name Jean-Yves Blondeau sound familiar? If so, that is because his 32-wheel roller suit has been around since 1997, with several new versions having been created since. This suit comes equipped with a number of rollers on most of the major joints, torso, and back. It’s capable of propelling the rider downhill in a variety of positions at speeds of up to 78 mph.
Though not quite as expensive as Caviar’s iPhone 14 Pro Daytona, iDesign Gold’s batch of thirty five custom 24K gold iPhone 14 Pro smartphones did cost Lionel Messi more than $210,000 USD. Each one of these handsets was engraved with the player’s names and numbers, complete with the Argentina national football team logo.
Wilson Sporting Goods Co. unveiled the world’s first airless prototype basketball made with 3d-printing technologies. It was used by Houston Rockets’ player Kenyon Martin Jr. during the first round of the AT&T Slam Dunk Contest this past Saturday night. Not just a show piece, it nearly meets the performance specifications of a regulation NBA basketball, including its weight, size and rebound (bounce).
State Farm Stadium now exists in Minecraft, thanks to one fan who goes by ‘Bubba Flubba’ online. It took 150-hours to complete, which included lots of research to get the details right, and celebrates Super Bowl LVII. There’s a retractable roof, 7 lounges, 33 restrooms, 66 suites, and over 6,000 parking spaces.
Recon’s GMC Hummer EV bike is great for getting around town, while the Acer eKinekt BD 3 will help you burn some calories as you work or game. This exercise bike and computer desk hybrid boasts an integrated LCD display that can be paired with a companion app to track your workout progress. It comes equipped with two USB Type-A ports, a USB Type-C port, cup holder, and a bag hook.
Set to be introduced at the IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing in Italy next month, Golfi is basically a golf robot that can putt like a professional. It does this by utilizing a Microsoft Kinect 3D camera mounted on the ceiling to capture a depth map of the green and that data is then sent to a physics-based model.
While APPTRAKK won’t work on Europa, this wearable anti-drowning device, developed by Macquarie University researchers, detects signs of drowning and alerts lifeguards to the swimmer’s location. Sensors on the bracelet have built-in sensors to detect heart rate, blood oxygen, water depth, submersion time and movement patterns.
Those familiar with billiards know that the opening pool break is when a player hits the group of balls that are racked together at the far end of the table in order to start the game. The Slow Mo Guys recorded this break with a cannon-fired 400mph cue ball at 80,000fps using a high-speed Phantom TMX7510 camera.
YouTuber Mark Rober has built machines to defeat scammy arcade machines, and most recently, Squirrel Maze 3.0 for his backyard Squirrelympics event. This definitely made use of his skills acquired as a former NASA engineer, as it consists of seven different events, such as a spinning balance beam as well as the long jump.
Sure, Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot can survey the ruins of Pompeii, but this quadruped robotic dog goalkeeper is probably more skilled than most humans at saving shots. That’s right, an international team of researchers developed a reinforcement learning (RL) framework that enables quadrupedal robots to perform soccer goalkeeping tasks in the real world.