The Artemis II ‘Earthset’ Photo Is Now a LEGO Set and It Looks Incredible

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On Christmas Eve 1968, astronaut Bill Anders looked out of Apollo 8’s window and saw something no human had ever seen before: Earth, whole and luminous, rising above the lunar horizon. He grabbed a camera and took what became arguably the most reproduced environmental photograph in history. That single image reframed humanity’s relationship with our planet, a pale blue marble suspended in the absolute black of space. Fifty-eight years later, the Artemis II crew did something almost identical, pointing their cameras backward as Orion swung behind the Moon and capturing Earth in the act of setting below the lunar limb.

That photograph, taken April 6, 2026, existed for barely nine days before LEGO builder BuildingDreams submitted an Ideas project to immortalize it in brick form. The Earthset mosaic is a 48 by 32 centimeter wall-art panel that translates the soft curves of Earth’s atmosphere, the brown and blue patchwork of continents and ocean, and the pale grey sweep of lunar regolith into a grid of plastic studs with a faithfulness that genuinely stops you mid-scroll.

Designer: BuildingDreams

The build sits in the tradition of LEGO’s own Art series, that line of large-format mosaic panels designed to function as legitimate wall decor rather than shelf clutter. BuildingDreams has clearly studied the format carefully. The panel frame is clean and silver-edged, the depth a slim 2.8 centimeters, and the overall composition respects the original photograph’s balance: vast black space occupying the upper field, the Earth arc sweeping across the middle, and the lunar surface anchoring the bottom in tan and brown. What makes it work as a mosaic is the restraint. The builder resists the temptation to over-detail the Earth itself, letting the contrast between white cloud cover, deep ocean blue, and brown landmass do the compositional heavy lifting.

The detail that elevates this above a flat mosaic exercise is the Orion spacecraft, rendered in three dimensions and mounted to the left edge of the panel, solar panels spread wide, jutting out into the room. It breaks the picture plane in exactly the right way, a reminder that this photograph had a photographer, that four humans were inside that capsule watching Earth disappear below the Moon. Beneath the spacecraft, four minifigures stand on a small stepped platform labeled ARTEMIS II, representing Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen. The orange Orion Crew Survival System suits are printed with NASA and CSA mission patches. The minifig work is precise enough that you can tell which figure represents Hansen by the Canadian Space Agency insignia on his chest.

BuildingDreams has noted that Earthset is designed as a companion to their previous Earthrise project, the two panels intended to hang side by side as a kind of 58-year conversation between Apollo 8 and Artemis II. That framing is genuinely compelling, and for anyone who has the wall space, the pair would be remarkable.

LEGO Ideas is the community platform where fan-designed builds gather votes toward a 10,000-supporter threshold, at which point LEGO’s internal team formally reviews the submission for potential production as a retail set. Earthset is currently sitting at just over 530 supporters with nearly 586 days left on the clock. If you want to see this one make it to store shelves, head to the LEGO Ideas page and cast your vote.

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This $30,000 Tiny Home Puts the Bed on the Ground Floor and the Price Below Every Competitor

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At just $30,000, the Shanti by Simplify Further Tiny Homes might be the most honest tiny home on the market right now. No gimmicks, no inflated square footage promise, just a clean, well-built 20-foot home on wheels that does exactly what it says it will. For a space category that has a habit of creeping toward six figures before you’ve even added a kitchen, the Shanti lands like a breath of fresh air.

The Shanti measures 8’5″ wide, 20 feet long, and stands 13’6″ tall, translating to 133 square feet of main-level living space. Unlike most tiny homes where sleeping is relegated to a loft you have to climb into every night, the Shanti puts the queen-sized bed on the ground level — a decision that alone sets it apart. The loft exists, but it’s purely for storage, which makes the Shanti a natural fit for older residents, guests, or anyone who’s simply done negotiating with a ladder.

Designer: Simplify Further Tiny Homes

Inside, the layout is deliberately open. A kitchenette, a bathroom with a shower stall, a flush toilet, and a mini sink round out the essentials without overcomplicating the floor plan. Upgrade options include shiplap interior walls, a washer/dryer combo unit, and full furnishing — meaning a move-in-ready Shanti fully finished starts at $35,000, which remains remarkably low for a certified build. The entire structure is NOAH certified as an RV and sits on a hand-built chassis with thick gauge steel, double axles rated at 5,000 lbs each, trailer brakes, and DOT-approved highway lighting — built to travel, not just to sit.

Simplify Further, based out of Lake Butler, Florida, built the Shanti as their very first model, and it’s arguably still their most versatile. The company describes it as a blank canvas, and the use cases back that up: guest house, mother-in-law suite, home office, Airbnb rental, teen housing, healing arts studio, or emergency shelter. Several Shanti units have already been listed on Airbnb near Florida’s crystal clear springs, giving prospective buyers a chance to actually sleep in one before committing.

For a builder that has delivered over 100 tiny homes nationwide and holds a 3-time Best in Show award from the Florida Tiny Home Festival, the Shanti is a quiet statement. It’s proof that the best entry point into tiny living doesn’t have to compromise on quality — it just has to be honest about what space you actually need.

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Pixel 11 Leak: Tensor G6, 50MP Base Cam, and Nothing-inspired “Pixel Glow”

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Every year, without fail, Google’s flagship Pixel arrives in the public consciousness twice. Once through leaks, and once through an official keynote that a significant portion of the audience has already mentally attended. The Pixel 6 visor design was circulating months early. The Pixel 9’s departure from that visor was thoroughly documented before Google said a word. The Pixel 10 landed in spec sheets and renders well ahead of August 2025. The Pixel 11 is maintaining that proud tradition, with MysticLeaks dropping what the Telegram channel itself called a “nuke” of information on May 4th, roughly three months before Google’s expected announcement window. Either Google’s operational security is genuinely, historically bad, or someone in Mountain View has decided that pre-launch visibility is worth more than surprise.

What makes the Pixel 11 leak particularly interesting is that the most compelling detail has nothing to do with raw specs. Tensor G6, fabbed on TSMC’s 2nm N2 node with a 7-core ARM configuration and a MediaTek M90 modem finally replacing the Exynos hardware, is a meaningful generational step. A 50MP main sensor reaching the base model is overdue and welcome. A 5,000mAh battery in the Pro XL closes a gap that Pixel critics have cited for years. But the feature generating the most discussion is Pixel Glow, an RGB LED array occupying the camera bar space where the IR thermometer used to live, and its relationship to what Nothing has spent four years building is worth unpacking properly.

Image Credits: Sarang Sheth

The IR thermometer that debuted on the Pixel 9 Pro was one of those features that made complete sense in a press deck and considerably less sense in a pocket. Google positioned it as a health and home utility tool, useful for checking a fever or testing whether your coffee had cooled enough to drink. Most owners used it a handful of times before forgetting it existed, and the Pixel 10 Pro kept it anyway out of what felt like hardware inertia rather than genuine user demand. Pixel Glow is what fills that space on the Pixel 11 Pro, and based on current renders, it displays the Google “G” in the brand’s four-color palette rendered through an RGB LED array sitting flush inside the camera bar’s pill-shaped housing.

Looking at the Pixel Glow, you can’t help but compare it to Nothing’s Glyph Matrix from last year. Carl Pei’s team spent four years evolving their Glyph interface from simple notification strips on the Phone 1 into the Phone 3’s Glyph Matrix, a 489-LED monochrome micro-display with a dedicated hardware button, its own widget ecosystem, and enough programmability that Nothing shipped a public SDK alongside the phone. Seeing a similar feature on Google’s phones does beg a direct comparison because it feels inspired (a lot like how Qi2’s magnetic system feels inspired by Apple’s MagSafe). The only discerning difference right now seems to be the fact that the renders show an RGB pixel array, which means colorful widgets as opposed to Nothing’s white Glyphs.

The rest of the Pixel 11’s spec picture rounds out a phone that is upgrading in all the right places simultaneously. Tensor G6’s move to TSMC’s 2nm process brings better thermals and clock speeds hitting 4.11GHz on the lead ARM C1-Ultra core, and swapping the MediaTek M90 modem in for the long-criticized Exynos hardware is a change that efficiency-conscious Pixel users have wanted since Tensor’s inception. The standard Pixel 11 carries a 6.3-inch OLED at 2,200 nits, while the Pro XL steps up to a 6.8-inch panel at 2,450 nits with 240Hz PWM dimming and that 5,000mAh cell. Bear-themed internal codenames, Cubs for the base model, Grizzly for the Pro, Kodiak for the Pro XL, and Yogi for the Pro Fold, suggest Google’s engineers at least have a sense of humor about the annual leak tradition they seem constitutionally unable to stop.

August will fill in the software story, the pricing, and whatever Google has planned for Pixel Glow beyond what a leaked render can show. Given how completely the rest of the phone has already been mapped, that might end up being the only genuine surprise left on the table. Aside from, obviously, a few AI features that Google is surely working on.

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Someone Finally Gave Aluminum Cans the Resealable Lid They Always Needed

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The aluminum can has been one of the most successful packaging formats in history, but it carries a fundamental flaw. Pull that tab, and it’s open for good. You either finish it on the spot or accept that it’ll go flat, spill, or collect whatever finds its way in. For something this ubiquitous and this widely loved, that’s a surprisingly basic problem no one has managed to fix.

ReLid USA thinks it shouldn’t be that way. The company has developed a patented resealable lid that replaces the standard aluminum can end with a sliding mechanism, letting you open the can, take a drink, and close it back up again. The seal locks into place, preserving what’s left inside, and the whole thing stays 100% aluminum from start to finish, with no plastic involved whatsoever.

Designer: ReLid USA

The mechanism is about as intuitive as it gets. You lift the tab end the way you would on any standard can, then slide it back to open the drinking aperture. To reseal, slide the tab forward and press it down, and the can closes back up airtight. ReLid says the mechanism holds up for at least 14 reseals, covering a lot of sipping sessions before a can ever needs replacing.

What that means practically is that an unfinished energy drink can go back into a bag without soaking everything else. A half-consumed sparkling water can stay sealed and carbonated until you come back to it. Someone at the gym can set a can down between sets without worrying about spills or flatness. These aren’t exotic demands. They’re the basic expectations we’ve had from bottles for decades.

The sustainability angle is worth noting, too. Because the entire lid is aluminum with no plastic parts mixed in, it goes into the same recycling stream as any standard can, without any separation or special handling. There are no mixed materials to complicate the process, and since aluminum is infinitely recyclable, none of the material is lost when the can eventually reaches the end of its life.

The technology was originally developed starting in 2020 by Re-Lid Engineering AG, a Liechtenstein-based packaging design firm. ReLid USA, headquartered in St. Charles, Illinois, holds the exclusive North American license and engineered the product to slot into existing beverage-filling lines without any new equipment or changes to production. It works with standard 202 and 206 can end formats, covering the vast majority of cans already in use. The can format hasn’t changed much in decades, and this might be the most sensible edit it’s ever gotten.

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