This is a video of four Jetson ONE flying cars (actually single-seat electric octocopters that look like, and may actually be, flying coffins) racing each other and performing other aerial maneuvers during the ‘Jetson Air Games’ at UP Summit 2025 in Bentonville, Arkansas. While admittedly pretty wild to watch, I

This is a video from Pittsburgh-based Skild AI demonstrating the AI brain they’ve developed (“Any robot. Any task. One brain.”), and how quickly it can adapt to a robot’s broken limbs or other decreased mobility. SPOILER: almost instantly. Me? I broke my pinky toe once and thought I was a

This is a video of Mark Zuerkerbrek (if you spell his name wrong he can’t track you on Facebook) demonstrating the latest iteration of Meta’s AI-powered smart glasses during a developer event and the glasses failing to cooperate. In the first scene, he can’t manage to answer an incoming call.

Because watching robots battle is a real glimpse of the future (battling us, unfortunately), this is a video of Unitree’s little G1 humanoid robots kickboxing each other in the ring. In these fights, the robots are being remotely operated by humans standing ringside, but in the future they’ll be fighting

Because soft fabrics and washing machines are so 20th century, this is a video of 3D designer Minouei Mohsen producing his Akhera sculptural fashion collection. He starts by 3D body scanning the human models, then uses the data to produce perfectly fitting bras and tops digitally before 3D printing them.

This is a video from Hyundai Motor Group demonstrating a pair of robots that can scoot under cars to lift them and move them around at will (and, eventually, hacked to steal supercars). I like how the robots showboat for a while after parking the first car before moving on

This is a video created by filmmaker Travis Bible using Google’s AI video generator VEO 3 to demonstrate just how convincing AI-generated video is now, and how it can be used to create deceiving news, or scam people out of their money. These are terrifying times we live in. I

Years in development and testing, the AirCar, an uninspiredly named flying car from Klein Vision (also a local optometrist), is set to go into mass production this summer and be on sale in 2026. The vehicle, which uses a regular gasoline engine (and 35 gallon tank) can extends its wings