Designer Nik Bentel has unveiled The Orb Bag, a handbag inspired by the mathematical surface known as the ‘Dupin Cyclide’. The bag features a shiny chrome finish that acts like a handheld, distorting mirror, reflecting surroundings and allowing the user to see behind them in a warped fashion, similar to a rearview mirror.The creation of The Orb Bag...

Colorado has enacted one of the most comprehensive right-to-repair laws in the United States, as Governor Jared Polis signed HB24-1121, the “Consumer Right to Repair Digital Electronic Equipment” bill, into law on Tuesday. This legislation mandates that manufacturers must provide consumers and independent electronics businesses with the necessary tools...

In a recent success story, hardware hacker Joe Grand helped “Michael,” a European cryptocurrency owner, recover $3 million worth of bitcoin after an 11-year-old password was cracked. Michael had stored his 43.6 BTC in a password-protected digital wallet, using a password generated by the RoboForm password manager; He encrypted this password with TrueCrypt,...

Engineers at Mitsubishi Electric Corporation have created a robot capable of solving a Rubik’s Cube in an astonishing 0.305 seconds, setting a new Guinness World Record. This achievement, announced on May 23, highlights the robot’s extraordinary speed and the technological prowess of Mitsubishi’s motors.Historically, solving a Rubik’s Cube has been...

Chinese scientists have achieved a significant medical milestone by successfully curing a long-term type 2 diabetes patient using a novel cell therapy. This breakthrough, reported on April 30 in the journal Cell Discovery, represents the world’s first successful use of stem cell-derived islet transplantation for diabetes.The patient, a 59-year-old who...

An international team of scientists from Sweden, India, the US, and the UK has developed a method to search for advanced extraterrestrial megastructures, known as Dyson spheres. A Dyson sphere, a concept proposed by physicist Freeman J. Dyson in 1960, is a hypothetical solar-system-sized structure built to harness the energy of a star, indicating a...