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Nintendo: Open-world Mario Kart
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—Steve 🏎️
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Rice Heart
Capable of hiding in your lunch, the world’s smallest pacemaker is smaller than a grain of rice. Unlike traditional pacemakers, this one:
Has no battery or wires, and is dissolvable
Implanted directly on heart, controlled by light
LED patch sends control signals through skin
The pacemaker works by using surrounding biofluids to convert chemical energy into electricity. Further development could enable multiple grain-sized helpers to work together and treat other internal trauma. Just gotta rinse the starch first.
Check out last week’s results in “Unnatural Selection” below
Solar EV
How far would you drive a solar go-kart? Aptera Motors recently completed a road trip-test of its three-wheeled EV, Aptera, ahead of this year’s launch.
300 miles from Arizona to California along Route 66
Solar panels add up to 40 miles per day
Max battery range = 1,000 miles
Aptera’s extremely aerodynamic design and carbon fiber chassis combine to offer range almost as eye-catching as its appearance. Keep an eye out low for the $40k teardrop EV as it hits roads later this year.
That poll got me hungry, so let’s look back at another wild rice story!
Rice Cows
What if cows made rice, too? Scientists used cow stem cells to grow high-protein rice, and it’s pink.
Rice grains act as stable scaffold for animal cell growth
Beef fat and muscle cells cultured for 9-11 days
8% more protein, 7% more fat than untreated rice
Beef-rice is estimated to generate generate 7x less CO2 emissions vs cow-meat production. Further hybrid-grain nutritional enhancement will aid the ongoing battle against global food shortages. Next up: bacon rice!
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Unnatural Selection
Last week: “If you could be a phenomenon, which would you be?”
Idk, if you ask me, you’re already phenomenal 😉.
Make sure you vote up top for next week’s “Unnatural Selection”!
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Nintendo has claimed st3v’s mega-green shell was too big for their circuits, until now! Your move Mario Kart World, your move.
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