Zach Nelson of JerryRigEverything wasted little time putting Apple’s first foldable, the iPhone Duo, through the usual sequence of scratches, flames, dust, and bends the day after it went on sale. Outer glass held up in familiar fashion. Ceramic Shield 2 on the front panel showed only the faintest marks once the Mohs hardness picks reached level seven, with deeper grooves appearing at level eight, matching what earlier iPhones have delivered.
Researchers at the National University of Singapore finally built a touchscreen that behaves like ordinary fabric. Assistant Professor Tural Khudiyev and his team at the College of Design and Engineering threaded electronic fibers into the forearm of a sleeve, creating the first full-color, touch-sensitive display that can be woven the way yarn is woven. The work shows a garment that displays images and video, registers finger presses, and talks to other devices while remaining washable and breathable.
Padua’s Palazzo Moroni hosted the reveal of the Michelotto Gruppo 4 Tributo on October 10, 2026, fifty years after the Ferrari 308 received its Group 4 homologation. AC Motorsport, started by Padua entrepreneur Francesco Calzavara following his years at Michelotto, promoted the effort while Michelotto Group carried out the design, development, and construction.
Hearing the name Storm of Crows might bring to mind fantasy games or dark forests, yet the real item comes from Chinese military records of long ago. Tod Cutler at Tod’s Workshop took the idea of a cup arrow, the romantic label for a bundle of smaller shafts, and set out to launch it from his Tzusun siege crossbow. That machine copies the Ox Bow design, a triple-bowed frame that once required oxen to draw and sent broomstick-sized bolts downrange with hundreds of joules of force. Single large arrows could punch through armor or men, but they left groups of infantry largely untouched unless the targets lined up neatly. Chinese engineers therefore developed a way to send many short arrows at once, creating a spread of hits that covered more ground.
Shoppers looking for tablet value often end up comparing options that put practical strengths ahead of the thinnest possible chassis. Lenovo’s Tab Plus Gen 2, priced at $269.99 (was $400), takes that approach seriously by building a 12.1-inch device around a JBL nine-unit speaker system that includes four tweeters, three woofers, and two passive radiators. Tuned with Dolby Atmos, the array produces clear dialogue, solid midrange, and enough bass to fill a room during movies or music, something reviewers have called one of the stronger tablet audio experiences in recent years. A Bluetooth speaker mode lets another phone stream audio through the tablet when the screen is not in use, turning the rear circular housing into a functional extra speaker.