Gadget Master

Can a pencil – even an Apple Pencil Pro – ever be worth $130 of your money? Can a stylus have that much style? I saw the price of the updated device with disbelief, even allowing for Apple mania, and the gushing media coverage made me feel more cold. But – hey – this blog is meant to cover the ...

Welcome the new electric era of the Atlas robot from Boston Dynamics. Reports of the demise of Atlas, it seems, were greatly exaggerated… It turns out that the previous hydraulic Atlas, which has been retired, was but an evolutionary step towards a robotic Übermensch. The electric version of Atlas will be stronger, says the company, with a broader range of ...

Here's one worth flagging on Gadget Master: the Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ - which lets you connect M.2 M-key peripherals, such as NVMe drives and AI accelerators, to your Raspberry Pi 5 - is on sale.

It's been a while in development but the Alvik robot system is now here - Arduino's new STEM support for coding and robotics is available.

This one is an unusual smart home project - how to monitor a fish tank’s health with an AI-enabled ultrasonic sensor.

Eh, what? Blimey... This project, dubbed the ardEEG shield, aims to use an Arduino UNO R4 WiFi as a brain-computer interface!

The first "Viasat Beyond: Space", a STEM competition, was recently held at the space company's International Business headquarters in London.

I've found a further breakaway Alternate Top 10 units of measurement in the Gadget Master scale. These are the colloquial, sub-edital, and rather eccentric ways to measure cutting-edge items of current technology.

We often write about AI and STEM, and here is another interesting new Gadget Book worthy of our virtual library - She, DISRUPTS.

This is what a Moon mission control centre looks like, tasked with supporting operations for missions to a lunar space station, the lunar surface and also further beyond.