Sellers in Aliexpress spent the past year listing a handset called the Gionee D999, and the first glance does most of the selling. Long, narrow, black, and topped with a stubby antenna, it reads as a direct copy of the brick phones that sat on car seats in the early nineties. Open the box and […]
Penguin DIY started with a pair of ordinary true wireless earbuds and finished with two objects that barely read as audio gear. One half is a clear resin plug cast from a mold of his own ear, meant to sit fully inside the canal. The other half is the tip of a pen. Both still […]
Emmet wanted a living room console that still asked for a disc, so he built one instead of buying a PlayStation 5 or an Xbox. The result sits on a ZimaBoard 2, a small x86 computer with an Intel N150, 32GB of onboard storage, DisplayPort, USB, and a pair of SATA connectors. A USB CD […]
Mike Tomlin left the Steelers sideline in January 2025 after nineteen seasons, a Super Bowl, and a record that never fell below .500. Eight months later he told Craig Melvin on the Today show that he had been working on one city in Minecraft creative mode for about twelve years, and that his oldest son, […]
Rolling down a hallway with a shirt slung over its neck, Goose looks less like a factory demo and more like a small appliance that decided to grow a personality. Prototype 1 from San Francisco’s The Robot Works is a white, low, rounded base with a long articulated neck, camera eyes set in a bonnet […]
Burl of Burls Art wondered how far you could strip a guitar before it stopped being one. He pulled the neck off, then placed the remains on tensioned aviation cable and attempted to play the creation. The experiment began as a side question when he was working on another project in his newly constructed garage. […]
Jonathan Rowny has been feeling nostalgic again, and this time the answer is a cassette that holds no magnetic tape. His player looks like a mixtape, fits a standard deck, and stays silent until the mechanism starts to turn. Songs live on a microSD card inside the shell. Sound leaves through a real tape head […]
Kia rolled out the PV7 this week at IAA Transportation 2026 in Hannover as the second all-electric model in its Platform Beyond Vehicle family, a step up from the smaller PV5 that went on sale last year. This one targets the midsize light-commercial segment that fleets actually live in, with a blunt one-box shape, short […]
James Dyson unveiled CameraJet in Paris on September 1, 2026, as the company’s first toothbrush and a $499 attempt to collapse brushing, flossing, and rinsing into one pass. UK buyers pay £419.99. Ceramic Ultra Blue and Ceramic Pink are the two finishes, sold through Dyson stores and dyson.com with a refill dock, two regular brush […]
Marc Porat sat with a red notebook in 1989, drawing what no one else could see. A little rectangular piece of glass with a touch screen, phone, fax, messages, video, games, ticket purchases, and apps delivered over the air. He named it the Pocket Crystal. It would feel like a piece of jewelry you carried […]