Boston Dynamics’ Spot is now ChatGPT-enabled, but what if you wanted to put a face to AI? Introducing Wehead GPT Edition. At $4,950 USD, this virtual face consists of four separate displays that take on the look of a real human and sits on your desk.
Sure, this kinetic PC case looks cool, but what if you wanted something more functional? Meet the Thermaltake Xray A2021. It was first released a few years back and adds a functional cigarette lighter as well as a cup holder to your PC case.
There’s the smart basketball hoop that helps improve your skills, and then inventor Shane Wighton’s dunk boots, which definitely can’t be used in real games. He may call them dunk boots, but they definitely look more like Inspector Gadget’s extendable legs if we’re being honest.
Inventor James Bruton wanted to create something unique for a Secret Santa gift exchange, and this giant Furby robot was the result. Not just a static sculpture, it took lots of 3D printing and even the actual toy in the center to make this interactive robot a reality.
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At first glance, this abandoned Mercedes MBUX seat pod concept looks like an amusement park ride vehicle, but it as actually created to showcase the 2020 S-Class interior ahead of the vehicle’s reveal. It was discovered withering away at a recycling plant in Atlanta, just outside of the company’s Sandy Springs headquarters.
It’s no walking motorbike like the Suzuki MOQBA, but Penn-E-Farthing just might be the strangest-looking electric bike yet. Chris Makes Stuff basically transformed a children’s electric motorbike toy into a high wheeler with a large front wheel.
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio was harvesting tomatoes for the eXposed Root On-Orbit Test System (XROOTS) experiment aboard the ISS in 2022, but two of them went missing, that is until now. This experiment basically utilizes hydroponic and aeroponic techniques to grow plants without soil or other growth media, which could be viable for astronauts on deep space exploration missions.
NASA announced that their Voyager 1 spacecraft’s three onboard computers, called the flight data system (FDS), have malfunctioned. The FDS is not communicating properly with one of the probe’s subsystems, called the telemetry modulation unit (TMU), thus no data is being sent back to Earth.