One-upping your neighbors: it’s the reason exterior holiday decorations were invented in the first place. And to take home the coveted golden candy pail award this year is a projection mapped display from Seasoned Projections featuring the original Ghostbusters. Now that — that is next level. My decorations? My decorations

This is a hype reel for Limx Dynamics’ TRON 1 bipedal robot. The bot is multi-modal thanks to its three sets of interchangeable feet: flat feet, nubbins, and wheels. The wheeling up the stairs then jumping from the top was admittedly impressive. But can it use one foot and one

This is a video from San Francisco of a Waymo self-driving taxi encountering an open fire hydrant and being unable to assess the situation. It doesn’t want to drive through the water, but it doesn’t want to enter the protected bike lane either. Apparently in a situation like this the

Constructed by HackADay user mircemk using as many 3D printed parts as possible, this self-balancing cube uses an Arduino Nano microcontroller and MPU6050 gyroscope / accelerometer to control 3 motor-driven reaction wheels to keep itself balanced — even standing on one corner on a slope! Me? I can’t stand on

This is a video of a 3D printing technology that involves using a needle to extrude silicone objects directly into a water-based gel, so there’s no need for additional support while printing. In the video, a silicone handbag is printed by design house coperni for a show at Disneyland Paris.

Because scientists are an unending source of wild and crazy ideas, researchers at Cornell University and the University of Florence have developed a starfish shaped robot that’s controlled by the electrical signals generated by its onboard king oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus eryngii). I’m not going to lie, I did mistake those

Because you don’t know until you try (although you probably already had a pretty good idea), this is a video of maker of things (including poor choices) Allen Pan attempting to build a lawn mower that cuts grass with the power of burning lasers. Apparently Allen was inspired by California’s

This is a video of a dynamic bar graph detailing the most used instant messaging services as measured per monthly users from 1998 – 2024. God, I remember when AOL Instant Messenger was all there was. I am old. Before that we sent messages tied to a bird’s foot. So