Photo credit: PolymarketVisitors walking the floor of the 2026 China International Industry Fair in Beijing came face to face with a machine that stands four meters tall and weighs 1.2 tons. Neo1 from NeodraDynamics Robotics Technology does not look like the smaller electric humanoids that have spent years practicing in labs. Its frame uses a […]
Tyler Fever of Prop Department already cut a Ford Festiva into the thinnest street-legal car possible. For the follow-up he reversed the idea and produced a version that measures exactly ten feet from one side to the other. Three more of the little 1988 hatchbacks served as donors, each purchased for roughly $250, so the […]
Jake Laser has been trying to stick a person to a building for years. On his JLaservideo channel the earlier versions used compact vacuum pumps, and with those he once raced a Spider-Man stunt double up a glass skyscraper. For the suit in his latest video, he dropped the pumps and copied the foot of […]
A British Airways flight started descending 27,000 feet about 30 minutes after it departed London on Monday en route to Chicago, according to flight data. A spokesperson for British Airways said there was a technical issue and that the aircraft later landed safely. The jet had dropped to 9,000 feet from 36,000 feet over […]
Cosmic rays have been running a slow version of this experiment for as long as air has been thick enough to hit. A fast proton from space strikes a molecule high overhead, the collision throws off short-lived fragments, and some of those fragments decay into muons. A muon behaves a lot like an electron, except […]
A year of weather balloons, cheap helium, and one brand-new 360 camera produced footage from roughly 110,000 to 120,000 feet. MAKE. ART. NOW. spent twelve months lofting Insta360 gear on 1,500-gram latex balloons aimed at a 115,000-foot burst, and the freshly launched X6 became the main camera for the last of those flights. Dual 1/1.1-inch […]
Nick Alvarez, the electrical engineer and maker who posts as NickBuilds and Nickbuildstuff, decided a regular Game Boy Color was too small for what he had in mind. He built one that stands ten feet tall and still accepts button presses, volume twists, and game input the way the 1998 original did. Alvarez didn’t actually […]
Israel announced on Monday it had recovered the wreckage of the Altalena, an arms-smuggling boat whose sinking by the Israeli military just after the state’s founding in 1948 exposed divisions that persist today. The Altalena had set sail from France loaded with weapons packed for the Irgun, the militant Zionist force that conducted attacks against […]
Boston Dynamics just gave its yellow four-legged Spot robot a new assignment that still stumps most machines. Spot now hauls packages from a delivery van and sets them carefully on doorsteps, closing the short but costly stretch that carriers call the porch gap. Spot emerges from the back of a delivery van. A driver places […]