Hasta La Gadget!

This morning McLaren has just teased the world by releasing the first three official photos of their new McLaren P1 supercar. The McLaren P1 will be known as the successor to the wildly popular F1, and again be aiming for Automotive greatness. If you love cars the image below should surely get you excited for what’s coming soon.

Earlier today McLaren confirmed that they’ll be aiming for “Pole Position in Paris” where they’ll be officially showing off the new P1 for the first time at the Paris Auto Show. The images released today should stir up plenty of excitement just in time with the show scheduled for late this month.

Instead of going for all out top speed with the P1, McLaren is aiming for the all around perfect experience. The McLaren P1 will be the ultimate machine and geared as the best car in the world for both the road, and on the track. They’ve put tons of technology into this new machine and here’s what a few of McLaren’s execs had to say:

The McLaren P1 will be the result of 50 years of racing and road car heritage,’ says McLaren Automotive Executive Chairman Ron Dennis. ‘Twenty years ago we raised the supercar performance bar with the McLaren F1 and our goal with the McLaren P1 is to redefine it once again.”

Our goal is to make the McLaren P1 the most exciting, most capable, most technologically advanced and most dynamically accomplished supercar ever made

Unfortunately, that is all the details we have on this impressive new supercar for now. Next weeks Auto Show we’ll surely be hearing about all the amazing new advances and technology behind this car that is destined for greatness. Rumors suggest the new McLaren P1 could arrive in 12 months for around $650,000. More details coming up September 27th from the Paris Auto Show.

[via Motortrend]

McLaren P1 Supercar unveiled before Paris Auto Show debut is written by Cory Gunther & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Electrostatic ink based E-readers aren’t exactly the best devices for moving images, due to their slow refresh rates and black and white screens. But that didn’t stop somebody from porting a SEGA Genesis emulator to the $99 Android-based Nook Simple Touch reader anyhow.

YouTuber ndncnbvcuyuys (try and pronounce that!) posted this video of his rooted Nook Simple Touch running the Genesis emulator, and playing Sonic the Hedgehog 2. It’s clear from the video clip below that the Nook is more than up to the task of emulating the classic 16-bit console.

I’m actually impressed how well the side-scroller plays, given its fast action and movement – though it’s unclear if the emulator supports sound. You can check out detailed pics of the emulator in action over on Imgur, and some other fun emulators running on the Nook Simple Touch here.

[via E-Reader Info]

Biomimicry is almost a byword of the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Indeed, if any group has
discovered that ‘nature does it better,’ it’s DARPA, and you have to
admit the Agency is pretty adept at imitating it.  Here, are two of
DARPA’s latest robotic tributes to nature’s designs: the Cheetah Bot and
the Pack Mule Bot.

I’ve heard of cameras being rugged, but surviving a 12,500-foot drop is quite impressive. A skydiver apparently lost his GoPro camera on the way down and it managed to survive the fall, in fact, well enough to record its owner’s landing a few minutes later.

Lucas Damm was skydiving in Canada with some friends, and was using his GoPro camera to catch all of the action. It was mounted on his helmet in a protective case, but was knocked out when he clipped it on the plane’s door while leaving. It spun wildly and fell to the ground, but landed upright and into the right direction to catch the skydiver’s landing.

Lucas noticed that the camera was missing only after he had landed. However, one of his friends noticed a shiny object and they discovered the still-functioning GoPro. It may sound like a fake or a publicity stunt for GoPro, but Lucas swears that it’s legit.

[via DVice]

I’ve seen some impressive projection screens in the past, but I can honestly say this is the first time I’ve seen a screen that’s made up of thousands of moving styrofoam cubes.

The Hyper-Matrix Cube Wall was created by Korean interactive artist JônPaSang for an installation for the Hyundai Motor Group. It’s a massive grid of mechanised white 30cm x 30cm (appx. 1 foot x 1 foot) cubes which can move in and out to form images. Overall, the wrap-around display measures a whopping 45 meters (~148 feet) wide by 8 meters (~26 feet) high. According to my math, that means there’s about 3848 cubes.

As you can see from this video from the guys over at Mechatronics, it’s quite an incredible display:

Nifty. But where’s the projection, you ask? Well, since the Mechatronics guys were most interested in showing us the mechanical aspects of the rig, they cut off the presentation right before the projection portion. Here’s another clip which shows off the entire show:

Pretty cool, no? That part with an individual image on each cube is pretty sweet. Though there appears to be a single cube on the left wall of the screen that’s stuck in that second clip. It’s really bugging me, and if I have to know about it, so do you. If you want to know how this massive installation was built, here’s one more video clip for you to watch:

I’d love to see them do more projection mapping type effects on the screen. I can only imagine the cool pixel art shows one could do with all of those blocks. I’m up for a giant game of Super Mario Bros… or even Pong.