Arquivos de Tag: Compact

Sony ELF-MN1 Compact Display Puts Lifelike 3D Characters Right on Your Desk

Sony just announced the ELF-MN1, a six-inch spatial reality display that shows characters, avatars, and objects in full depth right on a desk or side table, all without any special glasses or a headset. It joins the company’s XYN lineup of spatial tools and arrives in Japan on December 11 for an open price that […]

Michael Pick Turns a Used BMW i3 Into a Compact Electric Pickup for Under $8,000

Michael Pick wanted a small electric pickup without paying forty thousand dollars or waiting for something like the Slate to reach the market. High gas prices made his old V6 Ranger feel expensive to run, so he bought a high-mileage 2017 BMW i3 REx sight unseen from an online auction for fifty-eight hundred dollars and […]

Kenko Pieni III Ultra Compact Digital Camera Hangs Like Jewelry and Records Soft Retro Shots

Kenko Tokina introduced the Pieni III earlier this week, as a toy digital camera small enough to wear on a neck strap during ordinary days. Measuring about 53 by 35 by 18 millimeters and weighing roughly 18 grams without a card, the body sits lightly against clothing or sits on a shelf as decoration when […]

This Compact Single Propeller Drone Hovers Using Just One Motor

Joshua Bird set out to build a flying drone small enough to fit comfortably in a room without the bulk that usually comes with single-rotor designs. Most approaches either rely on a second rotor for balance or force the machine to grow large so its blades can produce usable control forces. He wanted neither, so […]

Whisplay HAT+ Rebuilds Google’s Offline Gemma Translator Into One Compact Pi 5 Slab

Google Creative Lab published Gemma Translator back in August 2026 as a voice box that never phones home. Alan Yam, Shashwath Santosh, and Dan Motzenbecker built it with help from Google Antigravity, then posted the code, model scripts, and 3D-print files on GitHub under Apache 2.0. You talk into a microphone. Moonshine turns the recording […]