Any ideas why the left cable gets hot while in use? It's a off-brand lightning cable, Apple original on the right for comparison, both scanned with Lumafield. You can see really nice strain relief as well as what is likely the c94 MFI chip in the Apple cable.

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What’s inside Apple’s $129 Thunderbolt cable? We CT scanned one to find out, and compared it to some cheaper cables… 🧵

The world is full of counterfeit Apple products. We CT scanned two fake AirPods and compared them to the real thing… 🧵

This is a CT scan of Heinz’s new ketchup cap. It represents a $1.2 million engineering investment over 8 years. Here’s why it’s significant… 🧵

New scan dropped from Jon Bruner!

We CT scanned an Apple Vision Pro! We also scanned two Meta headsets. Here’s what we found inside, and what it says about the two companies’ approach to AR/VR and to hardware development in general. 🧵

This looks like an ordinary USB-C connector, but when we CT scan it, we find something sinister inside…🧵

If you’re at #SXSW be sure to catch this cool conversation on AI, X-rays, and brain-computer interfaces, today at 2:30pm! schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/PP…

What’s your go-to charcoal for the 4th of July? Even if you’re not a pro, you know there’s a difference between a generic briquette and natural ones. But what’s going on inside to burn differently and hotter? We put four kinds of charcoal in our industrial CT scanner to find