Darts

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Don’t look now, but the centuries-old sport of darts is officially the hottest ticket in town — and on TV — thanks to a little-known 16-year-old who has taken the sport by storm. Luke Littler doesn’t turn 17 until later this month, but he has thrown his way into the 2024 World Darts Championship Final in the U.K. (and into the hearts of darts fans around the world)…

A global bar franchise believes it has hit the bullseye with a new location in downtown Denver. Flight Club, opening June 15, specializes in drinks and darts. The concept originated in London, and when the bar opens at 1959 16th St., the Mile High City will be home to its sixth location in the U.S. and the 18th worldwide. The 10,000-square-foot space includes 12 semi-private areas where groups can step up to the oche. However, devout darts enthusiasts won’t find the traditional bar games here. Instead, parent company…

Screenshot: Museum of Failure/GizmodoDo or do not, there is no try, and nowhere is that better exemplified than at the Museum of Failure. The Museum of Failure is a traveling showcase of over 150 of the worst failures in tech, medicine, food, and sex we’ve seen over the last few decades. Notable failures include 3D TV’s, Cyberpunk 2077, and many ventures from Elon Musk. The museum is the brainchild of Samuel West, a psychologist who is obsessed with the art of failure and currently serving as a design consultant for…

Using Darts to streamline your Python time series analysis developmentPhoto by Afif Ramdhasuma on UnsplashTime Series Forecasting is a unique field in Machine Learning. When working with time series in fact there is an inherent time dependency between the different points in the series and therefore the different observations are highly dependent on each other. If you are interested in learning more about the basics of time series analysis, additional details can be found in this my previous article.In the case of…

Even when you’re going into battle with garishly colored plastic blasters loaded with painless foam darts, the element of surprise can still be advantageous. Sneaking up on your enemy with a Nerf gun in hand isn’t exactly stealthy, but doing the same with a handful of cleverly engineered self-firing darts? No one will realize your true intentions.The last time we checked in with Joel Hartlaub of the YouTube channel Joel Creates, they had managed to upgrade a cardboard tube—every child’s imagination-powered stand-in for a…

It probably helps to be a darts fan to get a proper laugh out of this mockumentary from Simon Sprackling, who must have shot some of the scenes here at actual darts events. It all blends in so seamlessly (and had me reaching for my phone repeatedly to Google whether characters were real or invented).What we’re watching is a fake documentary about darts player Rocky Goldfingers (Geoff Ball); loud, nasty and flashy in his gold-sequined shirt, Rocky is as much a professional geezer as a professional darts player. For the…

The Game Boy was a groundbreaking device when it debuted over thirty years ago, and is still influencing the design of similar devices even today. But while the Lame Boy looks like a very deliberate knock-off of the handheld, it’s actually a cleverly designed dart blaster that anyone with a 3D printer, and some basic making skills, can build themselves.It was created by the people behind an Etsy shop called BoBoInnovation,who currently sell a handful of custom, but more traditionally designed, dart blasters, as well as…

Humans have for the first time proven that they can change the path of a massive rock hurtling through space. NASA has announced that the spacecraft it slammed into an asteroid on 26 September succeeded in altering the space rock’s orbit around another asteroid — with better-than-expected results. Agency officials had estimated that the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft would ‘nudge’ the asteroid Dimorphos closer to its partner, Didymos, and cut its orbit time around that rock by 10–15 minutes. At an 11…

Telescopes in space and across Earth captured the spectacular aftermath of NASA’s DART spacecraft crashing into the asteroid Dimorphos on 26 September. The smash-up was “the first human experiment to deflect a celestial body”, says Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s associate administrator for science, and “an enormous success”. “We’re all pretty stoked here,” says Andy Rivkin, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, who works on the mission. A ringside view came from…

The final full-frame image captured by DART prior to its collision with the Dimorphos asteroid. Image: NASA/Johns Hopkins APLNASA’s DART spacecraft was 6.8 million miles from Earth when it slammed into a football stadium-sized asteroid on Monday. Despite this immense distance, images from the impact and its aftermath are coming in, and they’re proving to be better—and far more bizarre—than we expected.Going into Monday’s test, it wasn’t clear how much of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test we’d get to see. At the very…