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Ultimate Headphone Station

Ultimate Headphone Station
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Audio enthusiasts, Beveled Edge Studios handcrafts this elegant solid wood stand for headphones and personal listening gear. It can hold two pairs of over-the-ear headphones and has six small shelves for DACs, amps, and other small devices. They can also customize the unit to fit your audio equipment’s exact dimensions.

AI Learns How to Walk

AI Learns How to Walk

Machine learning technology has come a long way in recent years and continues to get better. In this video from AI Warehouse, they show how an artificial intelligence named Albert goes from flopping along on the floor to walking as it learns to coordinate its joints via positive and negative reinforcement.

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Automatic Card Dealing Robot

Automatic Card Dealing Robot
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This magical machine from China takes on the duties of a playing card dealer. Set it in the center of your table, tell it how many players you have and how many cards they should each get, and it does the rest. It can also deal community cards. Holds two decks and deals to up to eight players.

Pepperoni Hug Spot: An AI-Generated Commercial

Pepperoni Hug Spot: An AI-Generated Commercial

With tools like GPT-4 and Midjourney, there’s a lot of talk about artificial intelligence taking over creative jobs. But after watching Pizza Later’s AI-generated commercial for an imaginary pizza restaurant, we’re not ready to give up our livelihood just yet.

Telephone Macro Keypad

Telephone Macro Keypad
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Isn’t this so adorable? This 9-key macro keypad looks like a tiny retro telephone. Steboards ships this USB macropad fully assembled with Gateron Red, Blue, or Brown mechanical switches. The keys come mapped to functions 13 to 21 but can be reprogrammed on request or using the included code and the Arduino IDE.

HUDWAY Glass Heads-Up Navigation Display

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This low-cost gadget adds a heads-up display to any car. It uses your phone’s screen as its projection source, which reflects onto a see-through screen you can attach to your dashboard. It works with a variety of smartphone GPS apps to display your speed and driving directions, so you can keep your eyes on the road ahead.

Mbeat MB-PT-28 Turntable + Speakers

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Enjoy a complete vinyl listening experience with Mbeat’s turntable system. It has a solid metal platter with resonance damping and a factory-installed cartridge, comes with a pair of 18W speakers, and can also send music wirelessly via Bluetooth. Save 20% off the regular price in The Awesomer Shop.

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Chainsaw Robot

Chainsaw Robot

After creating a robot that gives haircuts to humans, Shane from Stuff Made Here has bestowed one of his robots with a far more dangerous tool than a set of clippers. While his chainsaw-wielding robot arm is designed for carving shapes from foam blocks, we could see it taking off an arm if there’s any bug in his programming.

Satisfying Rotary Laser Engraving

Satisfying Rotary Laser Engraving

Lasers can do some pretty impressive things, and with the right computer-control system, they can be directed to produce incredibly precise engravings. This video from Triumphlaser shows a fiber laser as it engraves lines and digits onto a metal ring. The process is fast and accurate, and the sound it makes it even more satisfying.

Lightning Bolt Arrow Keycaps

Lightning Bolt Arrow Keycaps
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Give your keyboard a small but playful makeover with these unique keycaps. They replace the standard arrow keys with cartoony lightning bolts, along with some goofy faces on the sides of the keys. They fit standard MX switches and let backlighting shine through. Made from ABS plastic with durable double-shot printing.

Rebuilding Amiga’s Four-Byte Burger

Rebuilding Amiga’s Four-Byte Burger

The Commodore Amiga was one of the most graphically-capable PCs of the 1980s. Stuart Brown of Ahoy dives deep into one of the greatest pieces of digital art from the era – a gloriously colorful cheeseburger designed by Commodore’s Art Director Jack Haeger. Sadly, the original file wasn’t saved, so Ahoy reproduced it from scratch.

JLab Go Air Pop x Fruity Pebbles True Wireless Earbuds

JLab Go Air Pop x Fruity Pebbles True Wireless Earbuds
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Next time you’re enjoying the most important meal of the day, wake up your ears with the Fruity Pebbles limited-edition of JLab’s popular Go Air Pop True Wireless Earbuds. They’re as colorful and bright as the sweet breakfast cereal, with 32 hours of Bluetooth playtime, custom EQ3 sound, and touch sensors.

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Couchmaster CYCON² Fusion Gaming Lap Desk

Couchmaster CYCON² Fusion Gaming Lap Desk
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Nerdytec’s deluxe lap desk for gamers offers a large surface that accommodates a full-size keyboard and mouse. Its two large cushions can be moved independently for maximum comfort, and it has a built-in 6-port USB 3.0 hub and cable management so it can be connected to a computer with a single cable.

The Nintendo Combat Robot

The Nintendo Combat Robot

The 8-bit NES offered family-friendly games like Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda. But in the hands of Aussie builder Electrosync, the console is now a killer robot. After ripping out the console’s innards, he installed a remote-controlled drivetrain and a spinning sawblade to take down other beetleweight combat robots.

A Skateboard with 24 Legs

A Skateboard with 24 Legs

In 2011, Vagabond Works created a skateboard like no other. The Land Crawler eXXtreme is a robotic skateboard that walks using a mechanism based on Theo Janssen’s Strandbeests. It uses two motors and 24 legs to scurry along and has a load capacity of 300 kg or about 661 lb. We imagine its battery doesn’t last long.

Sony ELF-SR2 Spatial Reality Display

Sony ELF-SR2 Spatial Reality Display

The latest version of Sony’s Spatial Reality Display has a 4K screen that can show realistic 3-dimensional content without glasses or a VR headset. Its 27″ screen is much larger than the first model and has an upgraded vision sensor and improved depth of field and resolution. Now we need a version for gaming.

Govee Smart LED Light Bars

Govee Smart LED Light Bars
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This pair of light bars add vibrant colors to your room – mounted behind your TV or as standalone accent lights. They can sync with music and offer app-based, Google, and Alexa voice color control. They also sell a Pro version that detects the images on your TV screen with a camera and matches colors in real-time.

The Human Keyboard

The Human Keyboard

A while back, Fletcher from Everything Is Hacked came up with a way to control a computer with his face with your face. Now he’s created an input method to get his cardiovascular system going. He used a computer vision algorithm to detect the positions of his arms and legs to type letters and numbers using semaphore.

Alpha Bravo GX-1 Gaming Headset

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Veho’s gaming headset cranks out high-quality, immersive sound. It has a futuristic style and offers comfort for marathon gaming sessions. Its noise-canceling mic is great for co-op strategy or taunting enemies. Compatible with PlayStation, Xbox, PC, and Nintendo Switch.

Making a Magnetic Bike Transmission

Making a Magnetic Bike Transmission

A normal bike uses a set of gears to influence the amount of torque sent to its rear wheel. Tom Stanton wanted to see if it was possible to create a bike transmission that uses magnets to turn its wheel and create resistance. Put your thinking caps on for this brainy video that incorporates physics, math, and engineering.

Robotic Parking Garage

Robotic Parking Garage

Locking up your bicycle to a rack or pulling your car into a marked space seem like nice, low-tech approaches to parking. Tom Scott explains why some locations in Japan have adopted a much more complicated system, using underground garages and massive, robotically-controlled systems for parking bikes and cars.

The Dungeon Display

The Dungeon Display
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Upgrade your tabletop gaming with this digital display board from Crafty Kobolds. It features a 43″ Samsung 4K display wrapped in a handmade wooden frame and protected by clear plexiglass. Load it up with digital maps and animations, which can be easily found online. Choose from black walnut, oak, or cherry wood.

Chompi Looping Sound Machine

Chompi Looping Sound Machine

This neat little gadget is a sampler and looper with a chromatic keyboard. The Chompi has 7-voice polyphony, records up to 6 hours, and has knobs for selecting start and end points, pitch, attack and decay, and effects like reverb, filters, and saturation. Its tape-style looping engine is truly magical.

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