Lotus don’t just produce some of the most spectacular sports cars in the world, no they produce the cars that dreams are made of. They are a dream factory and the latest four wheeled dream machine to emerge from the mists of Lotus’ imagination is the purely electric Evija. With 1972 horsepower this is the eclectic hypercar that will represent Lotus in the looming electric hypercar wars due to begin in 2020.
When it comes to spectacular forms of illumination LED Cubes lead the way, but they are dime a dozen in today’s high tech world. Hungarian tech start-up PirateGames have recently been show-casing their take on the LED cube, the PiXXL, and it has a twist that may just re-invigorate the way we look at these brightly lit six sided cubes, its interactive.
As its name might suggest each of the giant cubes six sides are covered in a 32×32 grid of RGB LED pixels but buried underneath its skin is a Raspberry Pi with a full array of motion sensors that gives the PiXXL the ability to sense movement aloowing it to interact with its owner.
Dreams are at their most powerful when they are chased, when we do our best to convert them from imagination to reality. The Queen of Shitty Robots Simone Giertz had a dream, a crazy whacky dream to own the world’s first Tesla pickup truck, and the pursuit of this dream is cool on so many levels that it just has to be seen.
Continue reading Queen of Shitty Robots Converts Tesla Model S into a Kick Ass Pickup Truck, So Cool…Optical illusions are candy for curious minds and artist Sean Augustine March has crafted a full candy store of illusions. His latest piece of brain candy is the mind-bending lamp Fresnel Major. One of the slickest examples of Infinity Cube available it seems to bend the very properties of physics to create an infinity of space within a handy little glass box.
At their very core every infinity mirror is based on the power of pointing a mirror at another mirror, bouncing light between the two. Adding Dichroic glass to the equation adds an interesting twist that changes the colour of the light as it bounces between the reflective surfaces.
Pixel pushing powerhouse NVIDIA are well known for producing powerful video cards but they have another product that has been quietly selling by the millions for the last 4 years. The Tegra X1 SOC is that piece of silicon and it is the electronic brains inside two very impressive gadgets, the Nintendo Switch and the NVIDIA Shield TV.
First announced in 2015 the X1 is a mobile gaming powerhouse built onto a single tiny silicon chip. The X1 got its first big break in 2016 when Nintendo decided to use the chip in its new transforming console the Switch, which was subsequently launched March 2017. In the 2 years since the Switch has sold over 34 million units. At the same time NVIDIA has sold millions of their Shield TV’s.
Continue reading Next Generation Nintendo Switch and NVIDIA Shield TV, Tegra X1 Brothers in Arms…Here at Highpants we have been contemplating the purchase of a smart watch for a while now. However, until now we haven’t been able to find the right combination of looks and features that satisfied our desires and convinces us to pony up the dosh. That is until we stumbled upon the Diesel On Full Guard 2.5, a watch that had us slamming down our cold hard cash faster than gambler on a hot streak.
The Diesel design finally achieves a smart watch that looks just like an attractive watch. In a brutally rugged way it achieves what is arguably the best balance of design and smarts of any smart watch on the market. Even if smart watches are of no interest this watch gets the attention of watch fans with its chunky Industrial design and use of machined steel.
This especially applies to fans of Diesels traditional watches (non-smart), they will love what Fossil have achieved in gun metal grey steel. This is after-all a Fossil watch under the hood with Android Wear OS properly implemented. Fossil has gotten so good at this type of design that Google recently purchased the Fossil division responsible for producing the Diesel, Michael Corrs and Mont Blanc Wear OS watches.
Ken Block, the master of sideways madness has gathered his team of spanner wielding maniacs for Gymkhana Ten. To celebrate the release of this tenth Gymkhana the ‘The Hoonigans’ have assembled 10 extreme tyre slaying street racing machines. With so much horsepower assembled it should be no surprise that this epic Gymkhana video is also the longest so far at 19 minutes.
Continue reading Ken Block’s Gymkhana Ten, Tyre Shredding Madness…Billy the Big Mouth Bass has wiggled his way into the hearts of many people since the early 2000’s. This singing wall mounted ornaments become the greatest tacky gift you could give any mancave owning person with a little spare wall space.
Continue reading Big Mouth Billy Bass Possessed by Alexa, Hilarious…Lovers of Anime rejoice, Netflix this week announced that they are working on a new Ghost In The Shell. To be titled ‘Ghost In The Shell:SAC 2045’ the new production will continue the series’ long tradition ofanimated science fiction tales.
Continue reading Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2045, a Netflix Production…The PlayStation Classic may only be a week old but the creativity of the hacking community has already shone through with instructions for loading games onto the mighty little console appearing over the weekend.
Continue reading PlayStation Classic: The Hacks Begin, Loading Games onto the Classic…
