The Hypershell X is called the world’s first outdoor PowerSuit, or basically, an easy-to-use, AI-powered exoskeleton that enhances mobility, strength, and how long you can keep going. Unlike the Power Loader from Aliens, this is a light, wearable gadget made for outdoor fun like hiking, running, and biking, plus everyday chores.
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Modder Pedro Luraschi showed off the world’s first E-ink game console, named Figment. It’s got a Waveshare 7.5″ E-ink screen made for playing old-school, text-based, or simple games. The device is being touted as a innovative project that uses E-ink’s low-power, eye-easy display for gaming without distractions, different from the fast-moving LCD or OLED screens found in modern handheld PCs.
Engineers the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, along with collaborators, have created something called ‘RoboCake’ as part of the EU-funded RoboFood project. This isn’t just a cake you eat while watching a robot dance around it. RoboCake is a fully edible wedding cake that’s also a functional robot.
Let’s face it, weaponized drones are a big problem, but the British Army’s Radio Frequency Directed Energy Weapon (RF DEW) aims to change that. This fascinating piece of tech was specifically designed to tackle drone swarms by disrupting or destroying their electronic components.
Here’s a close-up look at COSMO, a cartoon-style robot from Netflix’s “The Electric State.” It was made by UCLA’s RoMeLa (Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory), led by Professor Dennis Hong, to bring the fictional character from the movie’s graphic novel to life, focusing on a fun, lively look instead of regular robot efficiency.
Zach Nelson of JerryRigEverything put the Light Phone III ‘anti-smartphone’ through his usual gauntlet of durability tests and a teardown to peek inside its minimalist guts. At $599 USD, this device is essentially stripped-down device meant to handle essentials while keeping distractions at bay.
Looking Glass Factory just showed off their new 27″ Light Field Display, which has a super sharp 5K picture and 3D visuals you can see without glasses, feeling real and wrap-around without needing headsets or trackers. It uses their special light field tech to show up to 100 different views of a 3D scene at once, so everyone watching gets a slightly different angle depending on where they stand, kind of like looking at real objects.
Forget your smartphone or smartwatch and need to make a contactless payment? Well, there’s Alipay’s PL1, which lets you pay using your palm print. This device comes from Ant Group, an affiliate of Alibaba, and is part of Alipay’s push to expand biometric payment options beyond QR codes and facial recognition.
