UAE-based auto enthusiast, also known as Zaku Mods, turned a Nintendo Game Boy into a functional speedometer for this Nissan 300ZX. Upon closer inspection, you’ll realize that the Game Boy’s internals have been removed and replaced with a backlit screen.
French artist Jean-Marc Côté, along with others, were asked to draw what they envisioned the world would be like in the year 2000 at the turn of the century, for the En L’An 2000 series ahead of the Exposition Universelle (1900). They depicted scientific advances and a total of 87 were known to be produced including the Stirrup-Cup, which appears to be a flying machine used by someone to get drinks, as well as humans racing on fish-like creatures under the ocean.
This followup to the world’s largest functional blender is just as messy, since the crew got two air cannons and then proceeded to record several collisions in super slow motion, including watermelons. Air cannons basically work by shooting bursts of compressed air into a chute to dislodge built-up materials, or basketballs, LEGO bricks, and more, in this case.
Photo credit: JunkFoodAisle
Junk Food Aisle used OpenAI’s DALL-E text-to-image model to generate several fast food and snack-themed game controllers that might actually be a hit if they were ever released. Kicking things we off, we have a Taco Bell and Reese’s examples that are modeled after their respective foods.
Researchers from SDU (DK) and ETH (CH) Zurich have developed a soft magnetic kirigami robot that can crawl forward and backward using rotating magnetic fields. The clockwise as well as counterclockwise rotating magnetic fields with distinct locomotion patterns enable the robot to crawl with forward and backward propulsion.
Photo credit: Dmitri Tcherbadji
How about a functional instant film camera made from gingerbread that you can actually eat? Photographer Dmitri Tcherbadji from Poland has created just that, and it uses a sugar glass lens capable of shooting on Fujifilm Instax Square instant film.
The Clippy Edition made its debut in 2022, and as a followup, Microsoft releases the Windows XP ugly sweater for 2023. At $69.99 USD, this garment features a design inspired by the Windows XP wallpaper, Bliss, in knit, made of 55% cotton / 45% acrylic.