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05/28/2026

It’s been a while since any of us have used one of these. 👀
We CT scanned a 32GB USB stick to see what’s storing all of our old homework. When was the last time you used a USB stick?

05/21/2026

Jon and Alex get into why complex systems demand more attention through the lens of normal accident theory: as systems become more tightly coupled, accidents become inevitable. The Challenger is the textbook example. The O-ring had been damaged on previous flights without failing, and that history of getting away with it is what made complacency easier. Follow our link in bio or on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts to stay up to date when episodes are released. 🔗

05/21/2026

Counterfeit products are flooding the global market and tariffs are making the situation worse. In our survey of 210 manufacturing quality leaders, 62% said the volatile tariff landscape has made quality harder to ensure, and 27% reported suppliers outright lying about country of origin or original manufacturer to evade tariffs.

The full Lumafield Cost of Quality Report breaks down how leading manufacturers are getting ahead of the problem and benchmarks how much quality costs across industries.

Read it by going to our link in bio 🔗

The Artemis II crew tested manual controls of their spacecraft last month using controller designs that trace back to th...
05/18/2026

The Artemis II crew tested manual controls of their spacecraft last month using controller designs that trace back to the Apollo missions. We CT scanned two Apollo hand controllers to see how they work. (Thanks for letting us scan these !)

The Translation Hand Controller moves the spacecraft through push, pull, and side-to-side motion. A twist counterclockwise during launch triggered an abort and fired the Launch Escape System, while clockwise overrode the Apollo Guidance Computer and handed control to the backup system.

The Rotation Hand Controller handled pitch, roll, and yaw with a pitch axis that pivots at the center of your palm rather than down inside the stick. And there’s a trigger for push-to-talk for ground communications.

Swipe through to see the scans of these historical controllers. 🌕

05/08/2026

The first stereophone was built from cardboard and foam in 1958. Nearly 70 years later, the mechanical principle behind a driver hasn’t fundamentally changed, but everything around it has. Smaller drivers, lighter enclosures, and active electronics doing jobs that acoustics used to handle.

Our newest Scan of the Month covers four headphones from $80 to $550 to show what that trajectory has manifested into. Follow our link in bio to scroll through our latest Scan of the Month.

05/07/2026

The Artemis II crew tested manual controls of their spacecraft last month using a layout that traces back to the Apollo missions. This Apollo Translation Hand Controller handled position changes in space through push, pull, and side-to-side motion, but the twist mechanism had its own twist. Counterclockwise during launch triggered an abort and fired the Launch Escape System, while clockwise overrode the Apollo Guidance Computer and handed control to the backup system. Would you be able to remember the difference between twists?

05/04/2026

Scanning Blue Calcite had us thinking back to the impassioned kalkite monologue from Director Krennic in Andor. Who else in the Star Wars universe do you think is obsessed with rocks?

Happy May the 4th!

We can’t stop coming back to this CT scan. ❤️The Queen Protea belongs to one of the oldest flowering plant families on e...
04/29/2026

We can’t stop coming back to this CT scan. ❤️

The Queen Protea belongs to one of the oldest flowering plant families on earth, with roots going back tens of millions of years. It may look like one flower, but each of those thin strands is a complete flower of its own with hundreds on a single Protea. Each one has its own o***y, style, nectary, and pollen presenter for attracting birds and insects. Have you seen one of these before?

04/21/2026

This is one of our all-time favorite CT scans. 🤩

The Queen Protea is one of the oldest flowers in the world, part of a plant family with roots going back over 300 million years. It may look like one flower, but all of those thin strands are their own flower, with hundreds of them on a single protea flower head. Have you ever seen one of these?

Could you spot a fake Labubu? We CT scanned a real one next to its knockoff, the Lafufu, to find what’s hiding inside. F...
04/16/2026

Could you spot a fake Labubu? We CT scanned a real one next to its knockoff, the Lafufu, to find what’s hiding inside. From foreign material in the stuffing to a neck joint that spins all the way around, the shortcuts are hard to miss.

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