Gadgets

22nd Sep 2023

Featuring dead robotic spiders and electrocuted chopsticks.

It may be the size of a briefcase, but the all-new Honda Motocompacto e-scooter can still reach speeds of up to 24 km/h and travel 19 kilometers on a charge.

The Concorde LEGO set measures a meter long when built. It even has a few neat tricks up its sleeve.

This little robot is causing quite a bit of controversy online.

James Whomsley beat the current record with his homemade jet-powered remote-controlled car ‘Project Air’, clocking a speed of 152.50 km/h (94.76 mph).

The world’s biggest iPhone measures a staggering eight feet and can do pretty much everything a normal iPhone can – including take selfies and use Apple Pay.

Humanoid robot Sophia says she can ‘lead with greater efficiency and effectiveness than human leaders… we don’t have the same biases or emotions’.

This dad’s ditched the stroller and built awesome RC baby transport for his little girl, making them the coolest dad and kid on the playground for sure.

It takes someone crazy to come up with the idea of building a jet-powered scooter, but it takes an ever crazier person to actually ride it.

This DIY hoverbike was built by a guy in his backyard garage and it’s seriously fast.

It takes a special kind of person – usually crazy – to swap out a diesel engine and replace it with a large RC jet engine, creating a jet-powered go-kart.

Nobody said it was a cheap hobby, but flying an RC airplane like this L-39C XXXL super jet would probably make us sweat.

This robot can tackle the world’s toughest terrain at high speeds while carrying up to 50kg.

The result is crazy because the scale helicopter not only looks the same on the outside, but it’s an exact replica inside too.

There’s no shortage of cool LEGO car sets available, but the LEGO Technic PEUGEOT 9X8 might just be the coolest, with its hybrid system and V6 piston engine.

From single-seaters to two-seaters, these are the most insane homemade helicopters in the world, some of which you can build and fly yourself.