Users who have lost a hand can now move individual fingers on BrainCo’s prosthetic by reading a mix of signals that still travel through the remaining arm. Sensors in a simple cuff against the skin detect the electrical activity that muscles produce when a person tries to move, along with the weaker neural impulses that […]
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Four brick-shaped lithium iron phosphate cells, each rated 3.2 volts and 15 amp-hours, sit in a row and form the whole energy store of a homemade power station small enough to close a hand around. Wired end to end, they make a 12.8-volt pack that climbs to 14.6 volts when full and holds about 192 […]
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Silk bends, slips, and changes shape the moment a fingertip presses a little too hard. In Suzhou, master embroiderer Fu Xianghong spent a session teaching AGILINK’s OmniHand 3 Ultra the opening moves of a craft that runs back more than 2,500 years: separating a main silk thread into 16 finer strands, threading a needle, stretching […]
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Broad Arrow will offer the only Daytona Shooting Brake Hommage this Friday at the Zoute Concours Auction in Belgium, lot 172, with an estimate of $450,000 to $650,000. Dutch studio Niels van Roij Design spent about 15,000 hours on the car, a one-off coachbuilt body on a 2009 Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano, chassis ZFFFD60B000160781, with […]
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Google Japan marked October 1 with the fifteenth entry in a running series of keyboard proposals from the Gboard team. The date is a small joke on its own. Read as 101, it points at the old full-size layout with a number pad, and the team has used that reading since the company retired its […]
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A 15-year-old student lost a hand on Monday picking up a police grenade as part of nationwide protests in France over classroom conditions that have disrupted lessons at hundreds of schools since last week. Some students returned to classrooms but others maintained actions outside their schools, ahead of a day of larger demonstrations expected on […]
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Alfa Romeo’s Bottegafuoriserie division finished a single 33 Stradale for a collector who wanted the car finished in bare carbon and little else. He named it Perla Nera, Italian for black pearl, and stayed involved through the build. Cristiano Fiorio, who runs the division for both Alfa Romeo and Maserati, said every detail was worked […]
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Fingers as Legs, ETH Zurich Turns a Store Bought WUJI Hand Into a Walking Addams Family Extra
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Amirhossein Kazemipour, Hehui Zheng, and Robert Katzschmann of ETH Zurich’s Soft Robotics Lab began with a commercial WUJI right hand with five fingers designed for grabbing. They put a Raspberry Pi, an IMU, and a battery to its back, resulting in a package weighing 818 grams and operating without a cable. Twenty powered joints remained […]
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Fujifilm spent two years listening to owners of the first Instax Pal, then rebuilt almost every part of it. Instax Pal 2 keeps the palm-sized brief and discards the round pebble body that split buyers when the original arrived in 2024. In its place is a squat rectangular shell that reads like a 110 film […]
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Xiaomi just gave its next foldable, the 18 Fold, a public face five days before the China launch, and the company is calling the shape a mid-fold. Official video and stills from Lu Weibing’s Weibo posts show a shorter, wider inward folder finished in Nishino Red, with large rounded corners, thin bezels, and a horizontal […]