The LEGO Technic McLaren MCL39 F1 Car has arrived, paying tribute to a successful 2025 season. Set 42228 brings that championship-winning machine to life in a magnificent 1:8 scale, with 1,675 parts that will require the builder’s full attention and patience, but trust us, it will be worth it. Adults aged 18 and up can preorder now for $229.99, with the whole package available on March 1, 2026.
The Garmin Dash Cam Mini 3’s, priced at $99.99 (was $150), small size (approximately 2 inches by 1.2 inches by 0.8 inches) and weight of 30 grams allow it to nearly disappear from view once placed on the windshield. Users have reported forgetting about it after a few days. Garmin has taken this new design and flipped it sideways, whereas the third generation device is horizontal, which allows it to get out of the way and not interfere with what you’re viewing.
Astronomers pointed NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory at HD 61005, a star in the Puppis constellation that is approximately 120 light-years away. This star has roughly the same weight and temperature as our own Sun, but it is approximately 100 million years younger, a billion years or so younger than the Sun’s current age of 5 billion years. As one would anticipate from a young star, the surface of HD 61005 emits a far larger flow of charged particles; its wind is around three times faster and 25 times denser than our own solar wind.
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) have developed a clear, reusable liquid that captures solar energy directly and holds it as chemical energy for months or longer, then releases the stored energy as heat when needed. All of this is feasible without the use of batteries or the conversion of energy into electricity, according to a recent study published in the journal Science. This is known as a molecular solar-thermal system, and it is enabled by the clever chemical pyrimidone.
A 3000W power supply often conjures up images of huge metal boxes with noisy fans pumping air over massive heat sinks, but this Intel reference unit blasts that idea out of the water, or rather keeps it cool, due to a water cooling system that keeps everything nice and clean.
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The surprise arrival of the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra in some stores has got people really excited, with one very good unboxing video from a customer that allegedly shows the device in hand a good few days before the official Unpacked event on February 25, 2026.
Nintendo has resurrected a 1995 oddity and incorporated it into the Switch family, literally, as the original Virtual Boy sat on a table like a curiosity, a set of goggles perched on spindly legs offering 3D gaming without the need for glasses. Three decades later, almost to the day, a near-identical recreation of that table-top oddity is accompanying your Switch or Switch 2 console, launching the same old library via Nintendo Switch Online’s expansion pack.
Samsung released the Galaxy Tab A11+ late last year, and it quietly exceeded people’s expectations with what it does at a reasonable price for an Android tablet. Priced at $210 (was $250) for the 6GB RAM and 128GB storage edition, this 11-inch slate includes a slew of enhancements that feel like a game changer in a market where corners are typically cut.
