Change the fork and your hand becomes visible again
Table Manners disrupts forks, spoons and knives to reveal the tiny movements our hands normally perform without attracting any attention.
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No one sold the monitor his old machines needed, so he built one
The PixelVision AV1000 MkII combines HDMI, VGA and analogue video around an iPad panel. Its interesting part is not the screen, but the stack of interfaces made into one coherent tool.
The prototype boots. Production has to repeat it without mistakes
The Compute Module 5 jig turns manual provisioning into a repeatable cycle and can create device-specific security state along the way.
He wanted a Gaussian Splat 1,000× faster. Four weeks later, he had an iPhone app
Scantic trains Gaussian Splats directly on an iPhone. The useful number is not 1,000×, but what its developer actually moved from a desktop workflow into the phone.
The printer is fast. The earth refuses to keep up
3D printing can turn local soil into a building, but the robot only automates deposition. The difficult craft moves into mix design, drying, toolpaths and construction details.
Prusa opens its designs, but not the market
OCL v1.1 lets non-commercial users modify and share, but blocks commercial replication by default. Its new plugins only add more conditions. Under OSHWA’s definition, this is not open-source hardware.
To see VFX salaries, CreativeRates asks for your rate first
CreativeRates trades one anonymous rate for a year of access to pay data in the same discipline. The mechanism creates transparency, along with its own sampling biases.
PINE64 released 84 MB of PinePhone geometry. It is not the source code
PINE64 released the full PinePhone STEP assembly. IRZ opened its 84.2 MB: 265 products and 927 assembly occurrences, in a 2020 geometry export rather than the native parametric CAD.
Making a MXene in 30 Seconds Does Not Take 30 Seconds
Rice etched nine MAX families into MXenes in under 30 seconds. The raw data tell the more useful story: the reaction becomes almost instantaneous, while the full process keeps a second clock.
AI is buying the books the web never saw, then cutting off their spines
Anthropic and Amazon have tied AI to a new physical pipeline: buy books the web never saw, scan them, and sometimes destroy the copies.