The Raspberry Pi platform has been wildly successful selling over 12-million units since the first launch. The $5 Rasberrry Pi Zero was quite a hit but had most users adding Wi-Fi or Bluetooth modules and antennas. The latest, Raspberry Pi Zero W, has both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, a Proant antenna,…
As if the Boston Dynamics Big Dog robots weren’t scary enough, out comes a smaller one that can climb fences, traverse stairs, and open doors (sorta). The end is near. This robot is built by Ghost Robotics and is called the Minitaur ($10,000). Watch the video below while I build…
Three and a half months after Samsung discontinued the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone they finally have a full autopsy of the causes. Yep, causes, there were a few things that went wrong. Heck, they even made a pretty infographic (after the break) to explain the problem. Samsung apparently used two…
First off, these files aren’t coming via the standard way (leaks), they have been declassified by the Central Intelligence Agency and put online. Anyone with an online connection can spend the next few years reading once classified CIA documents. Here is the link, have fun.
We keep hearing how graphene is going to change the world. Better substrates, building materials, and batteries because of this magical stuff. Not much actual product has made it to market but the demos keep getting better. This video from MIT shows graphene’s hexagonal lattices in action for something that…
As a kid I remember using a magnifying glass to start tiny fires and burn patterns into wood. Good times. Apparently the builder of this product, the Febo, had a similar love of focusing the suns power. The Febo makes engraving wood surfaces with magnified solar power easy and sorta…
The folks at CannaKorp have created a patent-pending vaporizer that lets users enjoy convenient, consistent, and efficient cannabis vapor. Their CannaCloud has a hygienic one-way valve that detaches for easy cleaning. Similar to the Keurig coffee machine it uses pods for delivering the product. The CannaCloud Pods come in indica, sativa, hybrid,…
If you are serious about your photography lighting an LED Ring Light might make life a bit easier for you. No more toting around multiple lights and stands. This 14-inch LED ring light comes with just about everything you need to step up your photo game. It includes a 36W 180 LED…
While digging a new subway tunnel in Fukuoka, Japan they accidentally created a 5 lane wide, 50-foot deep sinkhole. Pretty scary stuff. If this had happened in most countries the sinkhole would have take months to repair. Not in Japan. This massive sinkhole was completely repaired from beginning to end in…
The Apple MacBook Pro just got a major update which makes it lighter and thinner than all previous versions. It is available in 13-inch and 15-inch both of which are improved, the 15-inch is 67% brighter, and has 25% more colors. The 13-inch version is 17% thinner and weighs just…