Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A little more than 30 miles from Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, another kind of church pays homage to movies, TV shows, and cultural touchpoints. Billing itself as "the temple of pop culture," Pop Central Museum in Étréchy is now selling off an impressive collection of original stunt cars. The vehicles up for sale were used in the franchise,,,, and . Others are replicas seen in classics like, (in all of its late 1960-era glory),, and movies.

German sports car maker Porsche and US aircraft manufacturer Boeing are teaming up to assess whether they can bring the dream, or nightmare, of a flying car to reality. The two companies announced this week that they're planning to make a concept vehicle with a "fully electric" vertical takeoff and landing (EVTOL) capability. The companies have created a mockup of a vehicle that looks like a sleeker version of the Batmobile from The Dark Knight Rises – exactly what you might expect from Porsche designers. The project will involve engineers from Boeing, Porsche, and Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences, which makes unmanned aerial vehicles. The companies are exploring whether there's a market for premium vehicles.

Even as STEM toys become more popular, Lego's construction sets remain the gold standard, with more recent products like Mindstorms and Boost expanding into the fields of robotics and coding. Now bread-and-butter sets like Lego city and licensed products like DC Superheroes get nifty additions like motorized parts and app connectivity, starting with Batman's iconic vehicle. This is the Batmobile from the current slate of DCEU films, complete with tiny cannons and a scowling Batman minifig. For the most part it's a pretty normal Lego set where you follow the instructions and snap it together with your hands. But maybe it was a little too normal: I still had to rely on a paper manual for help, as there are no instructions in the app. Maybe I'm a little spoiled at this point by products like Kamigami and Labo, but one of the advantages of making something app connected is the ability to have interactive diagrams that animate where to place each piece and even allow you to rotate the image for a better look.

Ford could soon make the futuristic Batmobile a reality. The carmaker recently filed a patent for a concept vehicle that has a detachable motorcycle stored inside it. Batman fans will be psyched to know that the car is similar to the Tumbler driven around by the superhero in'The Dark Knight' trilogy, which can deploy a Batpod motorcycle at a moment's notice. Ford recently filed a patent for a concept vehicle that has a detachable motorcycle stored inside it. The patent describes a'multimodal passenger transportation apparatus,' with the main vehicle appearing to be a Ford Focus hatchback.

Waymo and Lyft are teaming up. Warner Bros. vision of what the interior of a self-driving car with augmented reality could look like if configured to be like the Batmobile (Photo: Warner Bros./Intel) LOS ANGELES -- If your car is doing the driving, how will you pass the time while you travel? If the entertainment industry has its way, you'll be watching its latest movies and TV on a big screen inside your self-driving car. Maybe you'll engage augmented reality or play video games. Hollywood is starting to take a serious look at what could be a huge opportunity in a new age of self-driving cars: Seizing a big chunk of the time that people used to spend behind the steering wheel to get them to focus on entertainment.

Warner Bros. vision of what the interior of a self-driving car with augmented reality could look like if configured to be like the Batmobile (Photo: Warner Bros./Intel) LOS ANGELES -- One of the nation's most prominent technology companies announced a deal Wednesday with a major Hollywood studio to try to jointly figure out how to keep people occupied entertainment as they are driven. Intel, a company that has become a major player in self-driving technology through the acquisition of automotive sensor maker Mobileye earlier this year, will partner with Warner Bros. to convert a self-driving car into one that becomes an experimental entertainment pod. The announcement was made at the Los Angeles Auto Show here. What do Audi, Volvo, Tesla and GM have in common? Yes, they all make cars. But they're also all customers of Israel's Mobileye, which had an initial public offering this time last year.

At New York Toy Fair last week Lego unveiled most of its set for Spring, Summer and Fall of 2017, here are the best ones. Whether you are a Lego collector or family builders, the selection is somewhat overwhelming. Clear though was that Disney and movie licences were driving the line. Whether it was sets from Frozen, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Star Wars or Moana the attention to film-inspired detail was impressive. Along with these were a number of new Minecraft sets, new kits for Ninjago, The Lego Batman Movie. Then there were Lego's own brands, Elves, Friends, City and Nexo Knights.

You're heading to the store to get an Xbox One right now, and need to know which games to get. Or you're at work or in school, daydreaming about what you want to play next. Or maybe you're suiting up for a battle in the console war, cinching on your armor and trying to remember which games will best help you make the argument for Microsoft's new console. We are here to help. In the first year of its life, the selection of games on Xbox One was a bit limited.