Buying a gift for a creative professional is harder than it looks. These are people who obsess over kerning at midnight, who have strong opinions about paper weight, and who notice immediately if something feels cheap or generic. A scented candle or novelty mug sits unopened in a drawer. What actually works is something that […]
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I put my family on a private social network, and all I got was this lousy group chat. At least it’s secure.
Opal, the company famous for making a fancy webcam, has pivoted to making other consumer electronics. Fueled by big investments from OpenAI and Samsung, it’s working on an audio gadget first.
Microsoft announced the Surface Laptop Ultra this morning, which it described as the most powerful Surface laptop yet and the first to run on Nvidia's new ARM-based RTX Spark platform. It comes with a Blackwell RTX GPU and full CUDA support, and is pitched at creators, developers and anyone running large language models on their own machine. — Read the rest
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Summer in Japan can be brutally hot, but thankfully, Thanko is here to help. We’ve still got some time until the full force of the summer heat hits, but with the weather in Japan expected to get so hot that the government had to start deciding on new words to officially describe it, it’s already […]
Dell just announced the new XPS 13, a well-timed response to the wildly successful MacBook Neo. It starts at $599 through September, but only for students and educators, and everyone else pays $699. By matching the Neo's price with a premium ultraportable, though, Dell's giving Windows buyers what they're asking for and gives other PC makers something else to worry about. — Read the rest
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A United Airlines flight to Spain returned to Newark on Saturday and made an emergency landing there, with passengers reporting on Reddit that it turned back after cabin crew told everyone aboard to disable Bluetooth on their devices. Though the report is unverified, flight data confirms that Flight 236 declared a general emergency, reversed course and returned to the airport. — Read the rest…
Paul Lagier built a tiny note-taking device with an e-ink display, a couple of buttons, and no significant functionality except recording what you say to it, organizing and playing it back, and sending you the text of it.
"Just press a button, speak, and the device saves everything directly onto the SD card," Lagier writes. — Read the rest
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These display smart glasses can connect to a phone, laptop, or gaming handheld and project the screen to your eyeballs.
Sz´The Trump Phone was supposed to be made in America, but ended up being a white-label knockoff of something or other. If it finally exists (if not as a shipping product quite yet), the talent behind it might want to work on their security skills: a security flaw on the official website exposed personal information of those who filled out a pre-order form. — Read the rest
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A budget retro gaming handheld carrying Lenovo branding and loaded with thousands of copyrighted game files has surfaced on AliExpress, and the company has confirmed it is real. The Lenovo G02 [aliexpress] sells for roughly $73 and was initially mistaken for a counterfeit before Lenovo acknowledged the device was produced under license for the Chinese market. — Read the rest
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Trump phones were sent out to reviewers, but today _The Verge's_ Dominic Preston reports that they are the only models shown to exist. "The Trump phone is not here," he writes, despite the company having claimed it was shipping them. — Read the rest
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The Bellroy Transit Travel Pack Pro gave me enough room for all my tech gear while still working as a comfortable carry-on for long flights.
I’ve had SimpliSafe’s modular, no-contract setup for nearly a decade, and adding on to it has been a cinch.
Turn off the DAW and put down the tablet. David Hilowitz (previously) got his thumbs on the Bastl Kalimba, a peculiar and extremely fun-looking handheld that's currently live on Kickstarter. From the company's pitch: "Treat it like an acoustic Instrument, it will answer like one." — Read the rest
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Ploopy's 3D-printed "Bean Pointing Stick" functions as a compact four-button mouse and Thinkpad-style trackpoint. It even adopts the classic IBM color scheme and nipple texture. The buttons are Omron D2LS-21s "for snappy, responsive clicks" and it supports Via for customization. It's currently being preordered (And is $70 Canadian, about $50 U.S.), — Read the rest
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[Ver vídeo en X] La cámara graba vídeo La red neuronal reconoce a la paloma. La pistola de agua apunta hacia la paloma. Rocía a la paloma con una pistola de agua. Componentes: Pistola de agua eléctrica a batería (desmontada, naranja) cámara USB Orange Pi 5 2 servomotores (SG90 o MG90S) Resistencias y un transistor […]
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El primer mecha bípedo tripulado listo para producción del mundo. Puede transformarse en cuadrúpedo. Pesa ~500kg contigo dentro. [Ver vídeo en X]
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"Life has gotten too darned complicated," declared Russell E. Oakes in the January 1956 issue of Celebrity magazine. "Our scientists and inventors are just great at investigating the sex life of the polyp or building bigger and better positronic re-diffraction hypotelemeters — but they ignore the all-important everyday problems of the ordinary guy like you and me." — Read the rest
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ReMarkable's progress has been quite, well, remarkable. Despite being in the shadow of Amazon's Kindle ecosystem, it (and Kobo, Boox, Supernote…) have put out nicer and more useful e-ink devices than the tech giant, forcing it to keep pace. — Read the rest
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Man and machine versus nature. The fact that we call the items “hangers” is proof of how hard it is for us humans to imagine any use for them other than hanging clothes. And yet, despite their nudist tendencies meaning that they never have to hang laundry, the crows living in the neighborhood of our […]
Supposedly to be found on the Springfield, Missouri Facebook Marketplace, this unusual vintage Dell laptop has an Intel Core 2 duo processor, 2GB of RAM, a 120GB hard drive, and Windows XP. Justifying the $850 price tag, perhaps, is an unusual power supply: a 2-stroke engine. — Read the rest
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The Typeframe PS-85 is a cyberdeck crafted by Jeff Merrick, inspired by Epson portable computers and the design language of 1979 science fiction-horror classic _Alien_. In the movie, the MU/TH/UR computer had its own room; here's a terminal to ask it desperate questions and receive unhelpful answers. — Read the rest
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Coway's most popular air purifier gets an upgrade in looks and purification strength, though I wish it had wheels and an app.
A new developer program for LightOS allows anyone to create tools for the Light Phone, whether that’s a local public transit app for your city or a way to read ebooks.
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Neurable, which makes noninvasive brain-computer interfaces, is licensing its technology and promises a “flood” of new third-party hardware this year and next.
Un dispositivo cuenta las sentadillas y luego emite un ticket válido para un viaje en la red de transportes. [Ver vídeo en X] @Billem_DaFoe
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The Kickstarter-funded glasses from L'Atitude 52°N have AI features bundled for 1 year, but the company doesn't know yet how much it will charge for access after that.
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