Key findings
- Google AI can turn study notes into engaging podcasts that are easy to listen to.
- A Raspberry Pi project makes it easy to search physical collections using lights.
- Flipper's rumored security product Flipper One could officially be in development.
Now that IFA is finally over, which announcement did you like the most? In case you missed it, we've put together a best of IFA 2024 list, with a quick recap of everything we liked. But as usual, the presence of a major event didn't stop what was happening around the world, so we still saw a ton of cool stuff outside of IFA. In case you were so dazzled by all the new technology that you forgot to check out what else was happening, here's a quick recap of everything you missed.
Now you can study for your exam tomorrow in the podcast
Are you a big fan of podcasts? Maybe you like listening to something while you commute or do housework? If you're a fan of the audio medium and need to process information, Google has an interesting AI-based offering for you. You can feed the AI your study notes and it will generate a podcast-like audio file where two presenters discuss and explore your content. This way, you can put it on your headphones and have something more fun than listening to a monotonous text-to-speech system dryly reading your notes.
Just follow the light
If you're anything like me, you have trouble remembering exactly where you put something in your massive physical collection. Luckily, this clever hobbyist came up with a handy system that saves us all from checking the same spots over and over again. He hooked up his vinyl collection to an app and a set of lights, with each vinyl record assigned a specific lightbulb. When he asked the app to find a specific vinyl record, the system would light up the spot in his collection where the vinyl record was located.
I see something you don't see with my little Pi…
Don't want to spend money on a camera system? Don't like the idea of your data being stored in a third-party cloud? One inventive SBC fan got around both problems by building his own Raspberry Pi-based camera system and app. Best of all, the hardware only cost about $30, which is a small price to pay when you want to take control of your home security.
A damn brilliant announcement
The original Pinball One. Source: Flipper
Great news for security fans – it looks like the Flipper One might be coming to market after all. After the success of the Flipper Zero, people were understandably curious to see if the company would make a follow-up to it. A while ago, Flipper dismissed the idea that they would make a “Flipper One,” stating that any documentation suggesting otherwise was based on outdated information.
Fortunately, something seems to have changed at Flipper. The company has announced that “[its] The main focus will shift to developing a new product,” and the Flipper One has once again come to the forefront of people’s attention. Will it be a successor to the Flipper Zero or something completely different?
It's Doom, but not as you know it
Finally, we have this really cool project that lets you play Doom. It uses a volumetric display by taking a 2D panel of pixels and rotating it very, very quickly to create the illusion of colored dots floating in the air like a hologram. With that set up, the only logical next step was to get Doom running on it, and it looks fantastic.