Google Earth VR was the first mainstream real-world immersive map exploration app for modern PC VR headsets, but the app never made it to the standalone VR headset era. The new app FLY still uses Google Earth’s 3D map tiles, but brings exploring Google Earth in VR to Quest 2, Quest Pro, Quest 3, and Apple Vision Pro. It even includes the 3D geometry for certain cities.
Instead of ear-splitting roar of an engine, this Tesla cybertruck quietly pulls as far as 2500-3500 diesel engines.
Honestly, it’s probably inevitable. I mean, trains use diesel-electric combo where the diesel engine powers the electric motors that do the actual pulling. If someone hooked a few train motors into a frame, slapped a auto/truck body on it and took it to a pull, it would likely out-pull anything out there…
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Starting with the basic idea of using a hot glue gun to form and build up a model, why not make whole objects in this way? Why not shoes? If you attach that glue gun to a robotic arm and the glue into a light filament – voila: LightSpray.
LightSpray is a technique that use a robot arm to spray a recyclable filament around a mold to create a seamless one-piece upper that is directly attached to the midsole, eliminating the need for stitching or glue. The entire shoe is fully assembled in just 3 minutes. Supposedly coming Fall/Winter 2024.
The video is pretentious – thinking they invented something new – but it does get the idea across. Like Nike’s attempts at 3D printing, and 3D printed clothing, I think it’s definitely going to change things.
Robotic start-up Aescape just debuted a fully robotic massage.
You can explore booking a massage with one of these systems today on their website.
Just a few months back, Blue Scuti got the first Tetris kill screen; now DogPlayingTetris just got the last remaining achievement of NES Tetris.
The NES Tetris community has long been aware that you could (theoretically) avoid the crash at level 255 and then cause the game to loop all the way back to level 0. Rebirth has been the game’s mythical true ending – thought thought to likely be impossible/extremely unlikely.
Just today, NES Tetris rebirth has finally been achieved by “DogPlayingTetris” or “Dog” or “Michael Kahnh” at 1:40:34
Teenage Engineering makes some beautiful products. Now they’ve come up with a new one: the EP–1320 which features hundreds of built-in medieval sounds. Create your own medieval melodies with drums and medieval string and pipe instruments such as their kind of wacky intro video below.
There’s also some folks already making medieval jams on youtube.
Luno makes a lot of cool car camping gear. Pillows, window covers, camp fans, organizers and other upscale tidbits for your #vanlife. Now they’re offering their AIR+FOAM custom fitted car camping mattresses. They claim to be better than a standard air mattress because they use air and perforated open-cell foam sandwiched between protective layers.
Each set is custom fitted for your specific vehicle. You put in your make/model/year and it’ll find the set that perfectly fits your vehicle (if available). It looks like they charge a flat $499 for most vehicles.
For the more budget minded, they have cheaper pre-owned/upcycled/returned products.
Car camping is fun, but something you should always keep in mind is that these pretty much take up all your cargo space (unless you use only one – which is a nice feature). So, if you’re bringing any other gear/food it better all fit in the front seat or it’ll sit outside all night (in the rain/snow/elements and with critters or bears around to nibble on anything edible). Some other tips for car camping here – like always sleeping with your head pointed uphill (since it’s been shown being inverted for long periods has even led healthy people to death).
Now on their 5th version, Light Toys Visual Poi V5 MAXI are LED light sticks that can produce some amazing patterns when swung around. Persistence of vision illusions (in this case a pair of sticks) uses densely-packed RGB LEDs and circuitry that displays a line at a time to produce complete images when spun. They are pretty amazing, but ought to be since a pair costs an eye watering $2190
Amaze your friends at the next rave for about 30 minutes – or more likely synced up as a backup dancer for the next Super bowl concert.
Apple has halted its long-rumored “Project Titan” that was developing an electric car (Bloomberg). The company reportedly announced the news internally on Tuesday and said many people in the 2,000-person team behind the car will shift to other AI efforts instead.
Despite hiring industry leaders like Tesla’s former Autopilot director, the project has been plagued by high turnover (including chief Doug Field in 2021), constantly changing plans, and internal skepticism. More recent rumors suggest that the $100,000 car would likely not have self-driving capabilities.
Given this, it likely makes sense apple is re-directing the efforts of the automotive team to more established AI plans.
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