Collaborate Disseminate
You may not have noticed, but so-called “artificial intelligence” is slightly controversial in the arts world. Illustrators, graphics artists, visual effects (VFX) professionals — anybody who pushes pixels around are …read more Continue reading CorridorKey is What You Get When Artists Make AI Tools
Iomega’s Zip drives filled an interesting niche back in the 1990s. A magnetic disk that was physically floppy-sized, but much larger in capacity– starting at 100 MB, and reaching 750 …read more Continue reading Zip-Drive Emulator Puts Big Disks Back on LPT
Full-color 3D printing is something of a holy grail, if nothing else just because of how much it impresses the normies. We’ve seen a lot of multi-material units the past …read more Continue reading FullSpectrum is Like HueForge for 3D Models, but Bring Your Toolchanger
Anyone who saw Back to the Future II was disappointed when 2015 rolled around with nary a hoverboard in sight. There have been various attempts to fake it, but none …read more Continue reading Magnetic-Suspension Hoverboard is Only 11 Years Late
Platinum-group metals (PGMs) are great catalysts, but they’re also great investments — in the sense that they are very, very expensive. Just ask the guy nicking car exhausts in the …read more Continue reading New Aluminum-Based Catalyst Could De-Throne Platinum Group
If you weren’t around for the early PC era, or were a little more casual about operating systems, you could perhaps be forgiven for not knowing that DOS is not …read more Continue reading DR-DOS Is Back, But Not Quite as We Knew It
[My Engines] has been doing some sterling work on Stirling engines for some years now. Their thermoacoustic engine is now finally far enough along to open-source, so the magic of …read more Continue reading If You Like The Sound of a Thermoacoustic Stirling Engine, Check Out These Plans
Ford does sell an electric pickup, but not very many of them. We can’t say for sure, but it’s possible that if the F150 Lightning had the classic cool of …read more Continue reading Ford, Take Note: Classic Pickup Becomes the EV We Want
Fruit bowls have an unavoidable annoyance– not flies and rotten fruit, those would be avoidable if your diet was better. No, it’s that the bowl is never the right size. …read more Continue reading Perfecting the Shape-Changing Fruit Bowl
Last year, we brought you a story about the BhangmeterV2, an internet-of-things nuclear war monitor. With a cold-war-era HSN-1000 nuclear event detector at its heart, it had one job: announce …read more Continue reading Replicating a Nuclear Event Detector For Fun and Probably Not Profit