Photo credit: Home of Architecture | Chris Tate
Piha Beach stretches along New Zealand’s wild west coast where black sand meets pounding surf and sheer cliffs rise without warning. Chris Tate placed Bunker House, a compact two-bedroom home right there next to a public car park and surf lifesaving club. The structure rises as a solid black form that feels carved from the landscape itself.
Lexus has rolled out the TZ as its entry into the world of full-size electric family haulers. The vehicle arrives with six dedicated seats spread across three rows and focuses on everyday usability rather than flashy extras. Those who haul kids, gear, and groceries on a regular basis will find plenty to like here.
Brembo just launched the first fluid-free braking system to reach actual production cars. Called Sensify, the setup replaces every drop of hydraulic fluid and every traditional brake line with electric signals and motors at each wheel. Drivers still press a pedal, but the connection now runs through wires and software instead of pressurized liquid.
Nintendo made a surprise reveal today, with an unannounced Star Fox Direct showcasing a completely new game for the Switch 2. Fox McCloud and his team return to save the day (and the Lylat system) from the villain Andross… again, but don’t worry, this game adheres to the traditional formula of Star Fox 64, albeit with additional polish to make it shine on modern hardware.
The Garmin Venu SQ 2 smartwatch, priced at $149.99 (was $250), is designed to feature an uncluttered square-shaped display instead of those that bombard you with excessive information. The watch is lightweight at just 38 grams and can fit wrist sizes between 125 mm to 190 mm. The watch’s housing is made of reinforced plastic, while its strap is made of silicone material.
Cycling enthusiasts who spend their free time creating with LEGO bricks now have a model that replicates the sensation of a real road bike, down to the last detail. The new LEGO Icons Road Bike set (#11380) allows you to create a complete replica from 1,015 pieces. Standing at 24-inches long and 14.2-inches tall on its small pedestal, this item measures over two feet from end to end and is a 7.5-inches wide, making it just big enough to notice on a desk or shelf without taking over.
Back in 2015, Marcelo de Oliveira Souza was at his desk in Brazil, staring at a computer screen with some rather long numbers regarding near-Earth asteroids flashing by. He was making preliminary predictions of the courses these space objects would take, to help people determine whether they would pose a threat to our world. One in particular drew his attention, 2001 CA21, because the first calculations showed an orbit that virtually sliced straight through between Earth and Mars in a way nobody had picked up on before.
Lock Noob got his hands on the NPX-002 from Works by Design and wanted to put its security claims to the test to see how well they held up. The lock’s designers created this travelling key system, in which the key’s bow spins some internal gears and the actual key blade moves into place deep inside the cylinder. The key only fits perfectly in the exact position, at which point the keyway seals off, leaving no place for your standard picks or tension tools to reach the pins. To prevent the normal impressioning techniques, the brass ones had a plastic pin inserted.
Sixteen years after Apple discontinued production, a single 6th-generation iPod Nano currently stands in the center of a full workstation with three separate displays. The device, released in 2010 as the final iPod model Steve Jobs introduced, handles music playback, photo slideshows across every screen, and crystal-clear voice recordings all at once. A YouTube creator who runs the Will It Work? channel took on the challenge of stretching this tiny player into something far more capable.
Cars race down a nearly vacant stretch of highway. Two drivers grasp their phones tightly as a FaceTime video call continues between them. The speedometer reads 70 mph, but there are no cell bars in sight, nor do any familiar Wi-Fi networks appear. HaLow technology within each vehicle communicates with a handful of little boxes mounted on the dashboards. These units form a private wireless web that connects the vehicles, with each box essentially chatting to the one next to it, effortlessly passing data so the link never fails.