Swiss startup Flappie says its “AI-equipped cat door with integrated prey detection” uses a camera to see if your cat is trying to smuggle its victims inside.
Although, the company told Engadget, a clever cat could just drop its prey and then pick it up again after the door opens. Its US launch has no date yet, the article says.
His custom-built floating turntable alone weighs 1,500 pounds and uses three separate arms for alternative audio tone. The Washington Post quoted someone who heard the stereo as calling it “very scary and very realistic.”
But the Post story also covers heavy personal costs extracted by the project. A 2021 documentary from his son offers plenty of detail about the stereo.
The company posted a couple of brief clips of a steering wheel with ABXY buttons and some pedals, along with a date: January 16th, 2024 — presumably the day the company is officially announcing the product.
Turtle Beach doesn’t have one of these in its product stable right now. The wheel would join the VelocityOne Flight yoke, the simulator peripheral it released in 2021.
Victoria Song highlighted a lot of beauty tech she saw at this year’s CES in a Verge video from this week. You could easily blink and miss Imprintu, the temporary tattoo printer. I want one. Or I did, until I saw that it’s $249.
GameStop will shut down the NFT marketplace on February 2nd “due to the continuing regulatory uncertainty of the crypto space,” reported by Decrypt yesterday.
That’s the same reason the company offered for shutting down its crypto wallet last year. The marketplace opened just a year and a half ago. The SEC was keenly interested in crypto throughout 2023, and took its first unregistered security enforcement against an NFT project in August.
The company’s valuation surpassed Apple during trading early Thursday, though Apple took the top spot at the end of the day. However, Microsoft won the day yesterday with a market valuation pegged at $2.89 trillion (versus Apple’s $2.87 trillion).
This all happened, as Tom Warren wrote for The Verge, against a backdrop of floppy iPhone sales and Microsoft’s aggressive moves with its Copilot AI features.
Chad the Bird, a comedy puppet, gives a surprisingly succinct high-level explanation for what happened when Willis Gibson, AKA Blue Scuti, became the first known person to crash Tetris.
This video is also... weirdly inspirational. For a slightly more technical and equally digestible explanation, check out YouTuber HydrantDude’s video.
The folks over at the Out of Spec Reviews channel started this Cybertruck look by comparing the pinch sensors (or lack thereof) of the doors and frunk of a Rivian truck, a Cybertruck, an F-150 Lightning, and a Tesla Model X.
Something to watch if you’re curious about what happens if you don’t get your snack out of the way in time.
