[Link] This Company Is Selling a Futuristic Gauss Gun for $3,375

Read: 30/11/2021 www.vice.com

Advanced weapons startup Arcflash Labs is selling an alpha version of a handheld gauss gun for $3,375.00. It’s called the GR-1 and it’s very similar to futurist weapons from video games like Fallout and Quake.

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[Link] Prototyping Your Way To Better Prototypes

Read: 14/11/2021 hackaday.com

If you’ve ever made a prototype of something before making the “real” one or even the final prototype, you probably already know that hands-on design time can’t be beat.

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[Link] Aerodynamic Buoyant Blimp Budges Into Low Cost Cargo Commerce

Read: 4/11/2021 hackaday.com

Before the Wright Brothers powered their way across the sands of Kitty Hawk or Otto Lilienthal soared from the hills of Germany, enveloping hot air in a balloon was the only way to fly. Concepts were refined as time went by, and culminated in the grand Zeppelins of the 1930’s.

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[Link] Game Publisher Unveils Gloriously Ugly iPod Prototype It Had In Its Closet

Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com

Video game publisher Panic has unveiled photos of the original iPod prototype it said was laying around in a closet. First released on October 23, 2001, the iPod catapulted Apple from an iconic but struggling computer company to a global behemoth.

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[Link] IC Shortage Keeps Linux Out Of Phone Charger, For Now

Read: 29/9/2021 hackaday.com

We’ve been eagerly following the development of the WiFiWart for some time now, as a quad-core Cortex-A7 USB phone charger with dual WiFi interfaces that runs OpenWrt sounds exactly like the sort of thing we need in our lives.

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