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Explore Henry T. Brown's 507 mechanical movements as interactive 3D simulations.
Why not QWERTY? QWERTY was designed in the 1800s for two-handed mechanical typewriters. As a layout, the key optimization places common bigrams on opposing levers so adjacent strikes wouldn't jam....
Each of those teeny lens blades is around the same thickness as a human hair. | Image: iFixit iFixit's latest device teardown shows us the inner workings of the new variable aperture lens inside Apple's iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max, alongside some repair concerns to be mindful of. The adjustable mechanical iris opens and closes magnetically, controlling how much light should pass through to the sensor, featuring six leaf-like overlapping blades that are each about as thin as a human hair. You can see that scale comparison yourself below in a side-by-side image that iFixit took using a Evident DSX2000 microscope. Cramming that mechanism into the same main camera footprint as the iPhone 17 Pro series models is impressive, with iFixit … Read the full story at The Verge.