Foundation just put out a short video of its newest robotic hand closing around a baseball in mid-flight. The catch looks almost casual. The ball arrives, the fingers curl, and the grip holds. No frantic adjustments. No visible sensors twitching on the surface. The throw is timed and the motion is planned ahead of time, yet the repeatability is sharp enough that the team is already joking about the majors.
A brushed silver body frames a wide transparent panel that puts the circuitry right in front of you. Four automotive-grade cells, inductors, and chips sit visible behind the clear front, while a recessed 2.01-inch color screen sits above them and tracks every watt in real time. This is the Lenovo thinkplus FLUX 140W, a 20,000 mAh power bank, priced at $74.99 (was $100), built to push a laptop hard and look deliberate while doing it.
Photo credit: Karissa Hosek / RM Sotheby’s
Claudio Zampolli spent years fixing other people’s dreams in Los Angeles before deciding to build his own. A former Lamborghini test driver and development engineer, he wanted something that would make the Countach look ordinary. He found a partner in Giorgio Moroder, the three-time Academy Award-winning composer behind some of the biggest disco and film scores of the era. Together they put their names on a car that carried both: the Cizeta-Moroder V16T. Chassis 001 is the only one that ever wore both names at once. In two weeks it heads to RM Sotheby’s Monterey auction with an estimate between $1.4 million and $1.8 million.
Dan Wood sat down with the same kind of machine that once filled university labs and design studios, the blue-and-white Power Mac G3, and rebuilt the exact setup he remembered from the early 2000s. Nearly three decades later the computer boots, runs its original software, and still feels purposeful in a way modern machines rarely do.
Retroid opened shipping on the Pocket Nova at the end of July, and the early reaction from people who care about older consoles has been unusually consistent. This is the one they have been waiting for if their idea of a good handheld starts with a screen that matches the games instead of forcing them into a modern widescreen box.