Tech stuff
In this video of Great Big Story we meet David Aguilar, a teenager from Andorra who is now better known as Hand Solo.With the help of LEGO parts he built an arm prosthesis that enables him to pick up objects, open doors and perform all kinds of other actions.Although he initially looked strange at school…
This 3-D printed electric car costs €7700 and took three days to make.The mass production of 3-D printed cars is coming soon. The first will be from start-up XEV and Polymaker, a developer of 3-D printing materials. The €7700 car, called LSEV, only took three days to make according to the company.All of the components…
If you buy Lego boxes with plants and trees later this year, chances are they are made of sugar cane.The green elements are technically the same as their plastic counterparts, but are produced in an environmentally responsible way.The intention is that all Lego parts will be made in this way in 2030, so that the…
It is beginning to dawn more and more that we have to be a lot more economical with regards to the way we deal with our planet.GE Renewable Energy contributes a bit with the Haliade-X, an unreal large windturbine for use in offshore wind farms.The windturbine has a height of no less than 260 meters…
The Swedish industrial designer Love Hultèn has made it his job to provide devices with a retro jacket and sell them for a lot of money as design items.A good example is his Commodore PET 2001, a variation on a computer that came out in 1977.The modern Commodore PET is equipped with a modern computer,…
Although modern televisions are regularly very tightly designed, it remains ugly to hang such a black hole on your wall. The high-end QLED TVs from Samsung change this thanks to the so-called Ambient Mode. With the help of sensors, the surface of the wall on which the television hangs is imitated, so that the device…
The Trash Robot launched on Kickstarter is a brilliant way to make polluted rivers cleaner: it can be controlled remotely by every internet user, where points are obtained if trash is fished out of the river. You log on to a page, after which you gain control over the robot. Then you send the Trash…
A few years ago we reported here about Miniatur Wunderland, Hamburg’s largest model train track in the world.With a length of more than 15 kilometers and a total distance of over 10 million kilometers covered by the trains, it is absolutely a highlight.The video in which this world record was unveiled brings the model train…
On the image above you see 64 motherboards with 128 computers – a great achievement from IBM that breaks the record of the smallest computer in the world.
In this video from the YouTubers from DD Electro Tech, they show you how to turn glasses into smart glasses for a very small price.The combination of an OLED display, a Bluetooth module, a small Arduino and an hour of your time are all you need.
