Invention articles
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AI hardware is like trying to invent the iPod after the iPhone
For some reason which utterly eludes me, 2024 seems to be the year of AI hardware. We’ve had the Humane AI Pin, the Rabbit R1, and even former Apple design chief Jony Ive reportedly seeking a billion-dollar bet for his own attempt. Reviews of Humane were brutal, with those who tried it as unimpressed by its performance as they were bemused as to its purpose – and the Rabbit R1 isn’t faring too much better, with Marques Brownlee describing it as “barely reviewable” more
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This sport was invented by Maui, Hawaiʻi’s demi-god
Up, up, up and away they go. Kites have fascinated young and old for millennia. In Hawaii, it is believed that the demi-god Maui invented the kite to teach water adventurers how to use the wind to their advantage.
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Who invented Scalextric? Was it the first electric race car set?
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