For all the clean freaks in the house – meet your new best friend. If you’ve ever had the necessary task of cleaning your home, there are products you’re convinced have been designed to be difficult to clean. We scream for a better solution, in the product design itself or the product designed to clean them. Enter Skadu. The Skadu power scrubber may have been made with kitchen cleaning in mind, but that doesn’t mean you can’t use it in other parts of the house (or even the car). With its three scrubbers and a powerful motor behind them, you can purge the dirt and grime unlike ever before. Multi-tool…

Or rather, for a sports car, but it’s a start. As of the moment, Porsche has succeeded in 3D printing production-grade pistons for the engine of their newest 911 sports car, the 911 GT2 RS. Now you might wonder why Porsche didn’t try putting 3D printed pistons on a vehicle with less demanding speed capabilities. Something less… Porschey? Well, according to their Project Manager, Frank Ickinger, there’s no need to worry as they’ve done the exact same stress tests on the new pistons as they do with the traditional machines versions, albeit with a few differences. Making a 3D Printed Porsche Piston First, the 3D pistons undergo virtual simulation. By…

You’ve spent countless hours and thousands of dollars on it, but have you ever wondered about what goes on inside your car whilst you’re driving it? Thanks to modern technology, Matt Mikka of Warped Perception helps answer at least ONE question mechanics and drivers have pondered: “Just what happens inside a car tire while it’s in motion?” Armed with a GoPro Hero 7, an external battery pack, and a small light, Mikka sets out to install the tire spy-cam inside an old sedan tires. The biggest issue (and probably the main reason why no one has seen the inside of a moving car tire until the invention of smaller cameras)…

Have you ever wondered how people make sandcastles the size of small fortresses? Apart from time and the proper mix of sand and water, the biggest help comes from the tools they use. Most of them aren’t using those tiny plastic shovels you find at beach shops, but rather solid, industrial-grade tools you would find at a construction site. Pufferfish is bringing that to everyday beachgoers. The Pufferfish sand castle tool kit was created out of a passion for making sand castles and having awesome tools to make those sand-sculpting ideas happen. Designed and built by dads, the kit includes a giant shovel, a bucket, and a sturdier reinvention of…

Coral is a range of products from Google Research that allows you to create your own AI projects for prototype or production products. They share occasional projects they’ve cooked up in the lab, publishing most recently a teachable sorter project that uses machine learning to sort objects, specifically marshmellow cereal. Gautam Bose and Lucas Ochoa created the contraption to sort their favorite cereal, separating the marshmellows bits from the icky non-marshmellow bits. Overall, it’s a pretty clever (and simple) bit of AI mechanism making. There are four components to the device: the Singulator (where all the bits to sort are separated into each item), the Decider (that views each item…

There’s now at least one new app that takes advantage of Apple’s new LIDAR capability. A few months ago Apple unexpectedly announced a new iPad Pro model equipped with LIDAR. LIDAR is a range-sensing technology that is often used in high-end equipment for 3D scanning, particularly for landscapes. Seeing it appear in an affordable consumer tablet was quite a shock. Apple’s intention was to provide additional sensor information to aid their Augmented Reality operations. In other words, when you’re pasting that virtual IKEA couch in your living room view, the couch is positioned more accurately. LiDAR 3D Scanning App However, the presence of a new 3D scanning sensor in an…