As they say, “distance makes the heart grow fonder.” Not quite limited to love between people, some things undoubtedly get better with some time or space apart. When you come back to a book you loved in high school, it can feel exciting, like reading it for the first time. If you limit your trips to your favorite restaurant every other month, like a special treat, you’re more likely to savor each visit. If, in the Intel® RealSense™ Depth Camera D455, you widen the gap between the sensors to 95 mm, a considerable increase compared to the D435’s total length of 90 mm, then you get equally exciting results. A…

It’s wasn’t too many years ago that inspecting a bridge, evaluating safe passage, or planning a route took a brave soul to volunteer or a less brave soul to draw the short straw. Now, we just send a robot or, better yet, a drone to scope the area and if 2020 will be remembered for anything… *ahem*, on such a list will be advancements in drone technology. Skydio has been one leading the charge in advanced drone capabilities. Today, they announced the Skydio X2 drones, along with new apps and a new $100M Series C funding round. It is the culmination of 10+ years of autonomous drone R&D to address…

While the idea of an illuminated helmet is as common as brakes and pedals on a bike, not all lighted helmets are the same when it comes to safety. For instance, it’s a bit surprising but very few helmets have front lights to help oncoming vehicles see their riders. Some have reflectors that reflect light but do very little if a vehicle has a busted headlight or little visibility. Frontline visibility is just one of the problems the Lumos Ultra helmet aims to solve. By marketing itself as the new standard for bike helmets, it ticks out a lot of issues bike riders have when it comes to safety. Visibility…

If you’ve been waiting for the new line of AMD Threadripper processors, your wait is (almost) over. The new Ryzen Threadripper PRO will launch exclusively in the new ThinkStation P620 workstation from Lenovo this September. Today, Lenovo and AMD announced the new chips and the new workstation in a 1-2 punch to send power-hungry tech-heads spinnin’. The rig will be the first 64-core workstation, featuring the new Threadripper PRO 3000WX series processors. Other dual-socket Lenovo workstations max-out with dual 28-core Intel CPUs (or 56 cores) while the new Threadripper PRO 64-core systems will house a single CPU with AMD heat sink and tool-free design pushing ‘up to 37% higher graphics…

If you were around during the late 1980s (or if you just love old movies like I do), you might have heard of a little film called Short Circuit. In it, a military robot called Number 5 is struck by lightning and gains sentience. Short Circuit and its sequel, Short Circuit 2, chronicle the adventures of Number 5 (who renames himself “Johnny 5”) as he comes to grips with his newfound intelligence amidst those who would seek to use him for their own nefarious purposes. For more than a decade, the guys at Input-Inc. have been attempting to create an army of working Johnny 5 robots (possibly also for their…

If there’s one plant you can grow in your workspace with very little sunlight, weekends without water, and the occasional sneer from a co-worker with an aversion to plant-life, it’s a succulent. There is, however, one thing it does need. Warm, moist, humid-erifically, moist air. I’m fascinated by large water feature fountain and atrium designs that incorporate humidifiers/misters/foggers. But, how do you match that look and feel on your own desk or countertop? Create a Misty Desktop Garden or Fountain Well, there a few options for indoor fountain misters but it’s really easy to make your own and this week’s model is a design that incorporates a mister into a…