Most battery electric vehicles require substantial energy, making solar charging pretty impractical. Drew Builds Stuff shows how, with a light and efficient design, it’s possible to create an EV that can recharge itself with the sun. His speedy little 4-wheeler can go about 100 km (62 miles) per charge and can nearly double that range on a sunny day.

A car-nut fantasy came true for Wayne Dick of Alberta, Canada, whose custom Chevrolet Corvair Rampside Truck won top honors at Hot Wheels’ El Segundo HQ in the toymaker’s coast-to-coast Hot Wheels Legends Tour quest to find real wild cars to recreate as genuine Hot Wheels toys.

After a failed attempt to do a backflip in real life, animator Nikita Diakur thought it would be safer to have a digital stand-in perform the maneuver. With the help of engineer Maximilian Schneider and machine learning tech based on the paper Deep Mimic, he attempted to nudge his avatar in the right direction to achieve his gymnastic goal.

Gin has been an anchor in Holland America Line’s history dating back to the cruise company’s start 150 years ago. To toast its big anniversary, HAL launched De Lijn gin to be exclusively served and sold on board its fleet. The result is a premium gin made in America and inspired by the Netherlands.

A lot has changed with music over the past 60 years, but memorable melodies will always be a thing. Music teacher Milo Andreo sat down at his electric piano and synthesizer to play the introductions to a single famous song from each year since 1963. Close your eyes and see how many you can name without looking at the titles.

One of two new additions to Projects Watches’ The Times collection is this captivating analog timepiece with a white-on-black dial, yellow accents, and hour markers repeated in concentric circles. The other new release is the disorienting Move with the Times watch. The price shown is for pre-orders, which ship starting 11.2023.

Sliding, swinging, garage, barn. There are lots of different kinds of doors. The Brick Experiment Channel shows us how to make various kinds of doors using LEGO Technic parts and how to automate them to open and close with the twist of a dial. That sectional garage door works a lot like a real one does.

This single-purpose appliance cranks out edible bowls. Just pour in your store-bought or homemade waffle batter, and it’ll make a 4″ thick Belgian waffle bowl in about four minutes. Go traditional with maple syrup and butter, or fill your waffle bowl with bacon and eggs, fresh fruit, or cooked veggies to create all kinds of delicious dishes.

Lexus vehicles are known for their luxury and performance, but there’s a deluxe Lexus you won’t find here in the U.S. The Lexus LM is an opulent minivan with a truly first-class cabin. Passengers enjoy reclining seats with heat, cooling, and massage, a 48-inch ultrawide monitor, privacy shades, tray tables, a refrigerator, and a Mark Levinson surround audio system.

Cariuma’s four low-top sneakers sporting classic Van Gogh paintings are masterpieces for your feet. Bright yellow sunflowers in white leather or off-white canvas, pink floral canvas, and wheat fields with crows shoes were created with Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum for its 50th anniversary. Buy a pair, plant two trees.

This new 360º version of The Known Universe takes us on a journey from the Himalayas, out of the Milky Way, and into the darkness of space. The immersive view lets you look around as you travel, and is now available in razor-sharp 4K resolution. Created by Deion Desir and Lee Stevens for the American Museum of Natural History using OpenSpace.

TiMate’s keychain-friendly titanium flashlight is waterproof, rechargeable, and easy to detach, thanks to its magnetic quick-release rear cap. It has a 120-lumen beam, a watertight USB-C charging port, and an emergency glass breaker tool. It can also attach to metal surfaces and has a detachable pocket clip.

Daft Punk made music that was decidedly more joyful and danceable than the industrial metal sounds of Rammstein. That didn’t stop Talkbox Gus from mashing up the two groups. His performance of Du Hast sounds like a bonus track from Random Access Memories. His Daft-ified version of KISS’ I Was Made for Love You perfectly suits the disco-rock track.

Celebrating 40 years of G-SHOCK, the GMWB5000PG offers a fresh take on the classic G-SHOCK DW5000 watch. It has a stainless steel case with a recrystallized gold ion plating that looks like gold leaf. Like the original, it’s light on features, but it does have solar power and Bluetooth app connectivity. The full-metal watch is also available in recrystallized silver.

Recently, engineer James Bruton put together a self-balancing vehicle using a hoverboard and omni-wheels. Now, he’s transformed that strange-looking machine into something that vaguely resembles a Star Wars speeder bike. It’s easier to steer now and can travel forward, but it’s not exactly something you’d fly between the trees on Endor.

Are you or someone you know a fan of classic TV shows? The book Behind the Screens: Illustrated Floor Plans and Scenes from the Best TV Shows of All Time features artist Iñaki Aliste Lizarralde’s hand-drawn floor plans and architectural renderings of iconic sets from 35 shows, including The Golden Girls, Friends, Seinfeld, and Sesame Street.