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How a Split-Flap Display Works

How a Split-Flap Display Works

Split-flap displays used to be common in everything from tabletop clocks to arrival and departure boards at airports. While not as popular these days, these electro-mechanical displays are still marvels of engineering. Scottbez1 walks us through how they work with a demonstration of his single-digit Arduino-controlled display.

Divoom Tiivoo-2 Alarm Clock + Bluetooth Speaker

Divoom Tiivoo-2 Alarm Clock + Bluetooth Speaker
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Divoom’s Tiivoo-2 looks like a tiny and shiny retro television. It can display a variety of digital clock faces, song lyrics, pixel art animations, or photos from your phone. It also has 15 built-in games, a white noise machine, a countdown timer, and an FM radio. Plus, its built-in Bluetooth speaker and amp sound great for their size.

Glowbound Digital Watch

Glowbound Digital Watch

This sweet digital wristwatch features a digital display inspired by vintage fluorescent and nixie tubes. Each of its surface-mounted digits is integrated with a perforated screen for a retro effect, while a blue/orange tube indicates battery level. It has an aluminum case with tritium tubes around its bezel, a sapphire glass lens, and is IP68 water resistant.

Bluetti X20 Laptop Power Bank

Bluetti X20 Laptop Power Bank
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While it can charge a variety of gadgets and appliances, Bluetti created the X20 power bank mainly for laptop users. It comes with a whopping 12 different DC adapters, making it compatible with 90% of laptop models. It has a 48,000 mAh capacity, a 160 W DC port, a 100 W USB-C port, an 18 W USB-A port, and a 10.5 W USB-A port.

Retromodern Cassette Player Storage Unit

Retromodern Cassette Player Storage Unit

Love Hultén is a master at melding design and technology to create wonderful retro devices. His combo cassette player and storage unit started life as a Sony Walkman WM-EX655. The main section looks like something from the set of a 1960s sci-fi flick. It’s got clicky keyboard switches, dual speakers, an audio waveform meter, and a “now playing” tape slot.

Angry Miao AM Neon 80 Keyboard

Angry Miao AM Neon 80 Keyboard

Angry Miao is here to drain your wallet and light up your face. Their upcoming AM Neon 80 is a wired TKL mechanical keyboard that has an insane 389 RGB LEDs. The fully customizable lighting is spread underneath all switches as well as on the keyboard’s forehead and front. It also has adjustable leaf springs. Dropping on Indiegogo for $515+.

Bedtime Phone Machine

Bedtime Phone Machine

Like many of you, we’re guilty of falling asleep with a phone in our hand while scrolling through random videos and memes. But if you doze off with the phone in front of your face, you might get bonked on the nose. This hilariously unnecessary invention from Kazuya Shibata ensures your face is protected in the event you drop your phone while in bed.

iMicro Q3p Smartphone Microscope Lens

iMicro Q3p Smartphone Microscope Lens

This fingertip-sized lens turns any smartphone into a microscope. It offers 280x to 1200x magnification and works with an included stand to ensure images are focused and have enough light. The lens also has integrated polarizing optics, which helps bring out details, contrast, and color. Attaches to phones using nano-suction tech that won’t leave a residue.

ATLAS Gets to Work

ATLAS Gets to Work

Most of the videos we’ve seen of Boston Dynamics’ ATLAS show off the robot’s balance and movement abilities. In this clip, the humanoid bot demonstrates its smarts and gripping skills as it moves engine covers from one container to a dolly. ATLAS’ movements are autonomous, adjusting to its environment and detecting and correcting errors.

2024 Apple MacBook Pro

2024 Apple MacBook Pro
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The latest version of the 14″ and 16″ MacBook Pros are powered by the new M4, M4 Pro, or M4 Max all-in-one chips. The Pro and Max variants get Thunderbolt 5 ports and start with 24GB and 36GB RAM, respectively. The fast performance is still paired with insane battery life – up to 24 hours of web browsing and video streaming.

Nocs x Heliot Emil Monolith Speaker

Nocs x Heliot Emil Monolith Speaker
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Want to be a minimalist at all costs? Nocs Design has the perfect speaker. Designed with avant-garde fashion brand Heliot Emil, the Monolith lives up to its name. Handmade in Sweden, it has two 6″ woofers and three 3.5″ full-range drivers buried in a stainless steel case. We love how Nocs mentions that you can connect up to eight of these.

2024 Apple Mac Mini

2024 Apple Mac Mini
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The new version of Apple’s most affordable Mac measures only 5″x 5″ – less than half the size of its predecessor. It runs on the new M4 or M4 Pro chip and has a significantly improved cooling system. It has two USB-C ports, three Thunderbolt 4 ports (Thunderbolt 5 on the Pro), an HDMI port, and a 1GB or 10GB Ethernet port. The Pro packs up to 64GB of memory.

Robotic Leaf Blower

Robotic Leaf Blower

With prices starting under $3000, the Unitree walking robot seen in this video is much cheaper than Boston Dynamics Spot. So it’s not that unreasonable to use one for yard work. To that end, enginerdz took the dog-like robot and strapped a DeWalt leaf blower to its back so it could clear the freshly-fallen leaves from their lawn.

Making a Mini Volumetric Light

Making a Mini Volumetric Light

If you spin LEDs fast enough, a persistence of vision effect can produce the illusion of a 3-dimensional object. Nick Electronics shows how he built a motorized volumetric display that uses a small grid of LEDs and wireless power to keep it illuminated. Some of the slow-motion patterns it makes are more pronounced on video than to the naked eye.

2024 Apple iMac

2024 Apple iMac
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The latest 24″ Apple iMac’s speedy M4 processor brings Apple Intelligence to the thin and colorful all-in-one. AI highlights include a generative AI assistant for writing that works on practically any app with text content and a smarter Siri that can complete more tasks with even simpler commands. A new textured glass option ($200) reduces reflections and glare.

AI Learns to Run a 100m Dash

AI Learns to Run a 100m Dash

Proving you must crawl before you walk or run, AI Warehouse tasked a group of five AI agents with completing a 100-meter dash. Each was trained using Deep Reinforcement Learning to reward them for correct behaviors and punish them for incorrect ones. Eventually, they get their boxy butts off the line and wobble their way through the course.

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