Awesome Tech - Page 5 Of 272 On The Awesomer

Become an expert in Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator with this extensive series of online courses in the world’s most popular photo editing, layout, and digital drawing tools. In all, there’s nearly $1200 worth of lessons here, so it’s quite a bargain.

Klein Tools’ 56029 Clamping Worklight is a versatile lighting solution. You can use it as a normal flashlight, but when you need both your hands you can set it on the ground or use its built-in clamp. Its head pivots 90º and rotates 360º. It’s also dust- and water-resistant.

The latest version of Marshall’s handsome headphones feature improved ear cushions, hinges and headband. There’s a Bluetooth version, while the wired version has a detachable cable with a built-in microphone and a second 3.5mm port for sharing audio.

Snowboarders, get the ultimate upgrade for nighttime runs. This add-on packs about 1000 colorful LEDs, and can display animated patterns programmed via a mobile app. The animations can even be affected by the on-board accelerometer and gyroscope.

The robots of Boston Dynamics continue to get more and more impressive – and remind us that the robot uprising is an ever more realistic possibility, as their ATLAS humanoid goes for an untethered jog in the park, then shows off his acrobatic skills.

Securmate is an entrance sensor that connects to your phone and home automation devices via Wi-Fi. It supports IFTTT, so you can make your lights, security cameras and other smart devices activate when your door or window is opened. It can also send alerts to your phone.

What was once one of the most costly arcade machines will soon be small enough and cheap enough to have on your desktop. The 6.4″ tall console has a 3.5″ LCD screen, HDMI output, arcade style joystick and buttons, and 40 classic games. Japan/ Int’l. versions are in the works.

IK Multimedia proves you don’t have to be big or expensive to create fat analog sounds. Their portable synth costs less than $200, and features a pure-analog audio path with 2 VCOs, noise generator, resonant multimode VCF and VCA, MIDI, and a 27-note multitouch keyboard.

In a world where high-end smartphones cost almost $1,000, OnePlus sticks to its guns with a flagship that costs less than $600. It has a 6.28″ 1080p nearly bezel-less screen, water resistance, a Snapdragon 845 CPU, 6GB or 8GB of RAM and more.

Garmin’s inReach Mini fits in the palm of your hand and weighs just 4.23oz. You can send preset messages on the device itself, or type longer messages using your phone and send them from anywhere in the world. It also provides GPS navigation and has an SOS feature.

LEGO builder Daniele Benedettelli created a working miniature car assembly line. It can pick and place the requested body colors, then snaps the car together. The tiny factory was designed as a test bench for Eclipse Papyrus, a language for automation and industrial processes.

Google’s AI is getting really, really real. Check out this clip from Google I/O ’18 where CEO Sundar Pichai shows off Google Assistant’s future Duplex capability – which can actually call and make an appointment on your behalf, complete with human conversational skills.

Ramp up your WordPress skills with this bundle of online training in The Awesomer Shop. The series of courses for designers and marketers get you up and running with the basics of web development, setting up and customizing a WordPress site, and even writing good content.

When combined with software that converts images into halftone or other artistic patterns, a computer-controlled engraving machine can produce some really impressive images by varying the depth of its carving bit. CNC user Jānis Šatrovskis shows off the technique.

Inventor and builder Colin Furze teamed up with eBay for a crazy challenge – to construct a working replica of Tony Stark’s Hulkbuster armor using only components purchased from the auction site. Not only did Colin succeed, he excelled. Build videos here and here.

Now that The Brick Wall has cleared the snow and swept the floors, he deserves a hearty breakfast. Good thing he’s an expert LEGO builder, and was able to fabricate a pair of machines to cook up and serve some crispy bacon and a sunny-side up egg.

Card’s Kablecard is for people who carry multiple gadgets at once. It’s a credit card-sized case that has a charging cable and adapters for USB-A, USB-C, Lightning and Micro USB. It also supports Qi wireless charging, has a 1W LED light and can be used as a phone stand.

Cord cutters rejoice! Load up your PC or TV with access to over 10,000 free movies, 250,000 TV episodes, and 50,000 radio stations for not much money at all. A SelectTV subscription gets you all this, and a unified search which finds the best prices on pay-per-view content too.

The LG G7 ThinQ has a 6.1″ 3120 x 1440 IPS display that takes up nearly all of the phone’s front face. It also has two 16MP rear cameras, one with a standard angle and one with a super wide angle. The G7 also has a headphone jack, a microSD slot and a Hi-Fi quad DAC.

During a recent event over the City Wall of Xi’an, China, a team of engineers from EHang launched a whopping 1,374 illuminated quadcopters, transforming the night sky into a dynamic and colorful airborne light show. We wonder if any of them bumped propellers.

Cable-mounted cameras are one of the tricks of the video trade that were traditionally limited to only to professional crews. But this portable system lets anyone capture seemingly impossible shots with a GoPro or any camera under 3.3 lbs.

Taiwanese EV maker XING Mobility is showing off a wicked prototype – a 1341 hp compact sports car capable of handling both on-road and off-road terrain. It’s got a four-wheel drive system with torque vectoring to help it corner like a go kart, and is expected to do 0-to-62 in 1.8s.

Victorinox’s new Jetsetter@work comes with a 16GB flash drive that has both a USB-A and a USB-C plug. The drive has a kickstand and is also removable for ease of use. You also get a pair of scissors, a screwdriver, a wire stripper and a bottle opener.

Some songs lend themselves better than others to being played by Paweł Zadrożniak’s Floppotron – a band made up of old mechanical computer hardware. We can think of no better fit than the synth-heavy, robotic sounds of Gary Numan’s 1979 hit Cars.

Rollei is bringing back the legendary twin lens camera as an instant camera. The Rolleiflex Instant Kamera uses Instax Mini film to print pictures on the go, while keeping most of the original’s advantages: 1:1 viewfinder, accurate focusing, depth-of-field effects and more.