techeblog.com / Page 3

AOC sells the 16T20, priced at $47.49 (was $70), as a 16-inch portable monitor, though the panel itself measures 15.6 inches on the diagonal. Resolution sits at 1920 by 1080, the panel type is IPS, and the refresh rate tops out at 60 Hz. AOC lists a ...

Peter Knetter has spent years asking old machines to do a modern job. His series, YouTube in, treats a console or a dusty operating system as a whole production desk. A few days ago, he posted the one fans had been waiting on. 'YouTube in Game Boy' . ...

Penguin DIY started with a pair of ordinary true wireless earbuds and finished with two objects that barely read as audio gear. One half is a clear resin plug cast from a mold of his own ear, meant to sit fully inside the canal. The other half is the ...

Throaty Mumbo already spent an hour proving a vinyl record can cough up a SEGA game if you are patient enough and a little mean to the format. His follow-up, posted as Can We Port Video Games to VHS?, asks the meaner question. A cassette is linear. A ...

Living muscle cells, the same kind that pull on bone inside a body, now pull a paper-thin robot through water. Researchers at MIT built a gum-stick-sized aquabot whose two fins beat when light hits them, and they steered it through a simple maze in a ...

Astronomers working with South Africa's MeerKAT array have recorded radio waves coming from Beta Pictoris b, a gas giant about 63 light-years away, and pinned those waves to the planet rather than the star it orbits. Kevin Ortiz Ceballos, a doctoral ...

A laptop with an RTX 3050 is running Super Mario Bros. Wonder as a Windows program, and a clip from a developer called Belmante is the clearest look yet at how far that work has come. World 1-1 plays at close to 60 frames a second. Menus, character . ...

Marshall still builds its portable speakers to look like the cabinets that sit behind guitarists. Emberton III, priced at $99.99 (was $180), keeps the script logo, the metal grille, and a textured sleeve that feels closer to an amp cover than a ...

Steve Mould sticks a coin-sized vibration motor to a business card, presses the card flat against a ceiling, and lets go. The card stays. A gap remains between the paper and the paint, thin enough that light barely slips through, wide enough that the ...

Steven at 3D Printer Academy spent close to a year tearing up his own desktop pinball machine and starting over. The first one, sold as file packs after a spring Kickstarter that drew about 1,500 backers and roughly $120,000, already proved a strange ...