Suidobashi Heavy Industries, the company that built the KURATAS mech robot over a decade ago, unveils their latest creation, a Phalanx automatic BB gun that sits in the bed of a pickup truck. It’s modeled after the US Navy’s Phalanx CIWS (Close-in Weapon System), which consists of a radar-guided 20mm Vulcan cannon mounted on a swiveling base.
There’s the minimalist Braun instant camera, and then photographer Bjørn Karmann’s Paragrphica, which uses location data to describe the place you are at and then converts that into an AI-generated photo. Even though it may look like something from a science fiction film, the camera functions much like a normal one, as in you point and shoot.
If OpenAI’s ChatGPT existed in the 1980s, it may have required an Intel 80286-powered computer, 640 Kilobytes of RAM, a modem, a 20MB of larger hard disk, and of course floppy diskettes. Getting everything setup would be quite different from just opening up a website like today, as you first have to set the destination directory, select your modem, and then wait for the floppy disks to copy everything to the hard disk.
You’ve seen a calculator run DOOM, and now Tobias Madel has managed to get a working version of the game on a Vevor SC240N thermal imaging camera. It actually runs fbDOOM, a Linux port of the game and doesn’t load any bloat, just the files necessary to launch everything.
McDonald’s China quickly sold out of a bizarre Chicken McNugget-shaped Tetris game that was being offered to celebrate the food item’s 40th anniversary. The handheld device was being offered for 30 yuan ($4.24) with the purchase of any meal, and it even came with a bonus McNugget-themed carrying case of sorts.
Photo credit: Ulises Design Studio
Sure, these bizarre multi-level caravans aren’t as practical as the Nissan NV350, but they are definitely more livable than any standard vehicle. Unfortunately, all of these multi-level caravans are completely AI-generated by Ulises Design Studio for their new ‘Kinetic Kingdoms’ series, all set against a desert backdrop.
There’s the Smart car, and then this Minghong micro electric car that can’t be legally driven on roads here in the US, but might be great for a golf course. Its electric motor is connected to a 60V 50Ah lithium battery that can be fully charged in about 2.5-hours using the included 1,500W charger. The EV measures in a 7’9″ long, complete with a super panda decal on each side.
Ben Howard used a robot puppet to recreate the music video for Vanessa Carlton’s ‘A Thousand Miles’, which debuted in 2002. The original music video was directed by Marc Klasfield and filmed in in Newbury Park, California as well as sections of Downtown Los Angeles, using a piano attached to a custom-built dolly.
Two men were detained by Hong Kong authorities after they discovered that their van filled with live lobsters was being used to smuggle 70 NVIDIA Quadro graphics cards. This happened as they were trying to cross the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, which is basically a 34-mile collection of roads, bridges, and tunnels around the Pearl River Delta.
EPFL researchers have managed to decode a mouse’s brain signals to predict what it sees using a new algorithm for building artificial neural network models designed to capture brain dynamics. This machine learning algorithm is called CEBRA and it can decode what a mouse sees while it watches a movie as well as reconstruct the positions of rats as they freely run around a room.