The lights of the Las Vegas convention center floor were ablaze as Toyota pulled the covers off a machine nobody saw coming: Scion is back and this time it’s on a four seat off-road beast designed to take a beating in the sand, rocks and stillness of the wilderness. Make way for the Scion 01, a side-by-side that takes the Tacoma heart, wraps it in super tough steel and dares you to leave the pavement behind.
Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman sent a Tuesday newsletter, and the entire internet caught fire. Apple, the corporation that once offered an absurdly pricey $10,000 gold watch, is quietly working on a laptop that will cost far less than $1,000. Not a clearance sale Air or refurbished Pro, but the real deal: a brand-new MacBook with an iPhone brain inside.
Zack Nelson’s latest durability test goes inside the RedMagic 11 Pro, a gaming phone with water running through its veins. You know the one—it’s the first to put true liquid cooling on a slab of glass and metal no thicker than your daily driver. Nelson doesn’t just open it for show; he puts it through its paces first, scratching, bending and even setting parts on fire to see if the hype holds up in real world scenarios.
Nintendo kept their promise and just released the “Survive” trailer for Metroid Prime 4: Beyond with only a month till its release on December 4th. This early glimpse offers a good combination of old and new; if you look closely, you’ll find some nice small surprises, like Samus tearing across a desert on her beloved Vi-O-La bike.
Slide your hand into a 1977 dinner jacket, and you might find a silver cigarette case, a small lighter, or—tucked beside the silk lining—a rectangle barely larger than a deck of cards. When you open the snap, the leather wallet slides open to reveal a radio. Not a toy or a gimmick, but a full-fledged AM/FM receiver from Panasonic named Mister Thin (RF-015).
A peaceful workshop in the English countryside has gone off the grid, using the same plastic tubes that end up on every sidewalk – those disposable vapes you see littered all over the place. Chris Doel, a 29-year-old engineer who enjoys getting his hands dirty among the solder fumes and 3D printers, believed the world was throwing away millions of perfectly good batteries simply because. So the guy saved 500 of them, arranged them like soldiers/dolls, and somehow wired them all to a wall, which now powers his kettle, microwave, and editing system.
The Las Vegas lights flash over the convention center floor as throngs gather around a mid-size vehicle that appears to be built to conquer the desert yet runs on a gas so light it’s virtually air. Toyota’s latest innovation, the Tacoma H2-Overlander Concept, is ready for the 2025 SEMA Show, with silent power and almost nothing but water to exhale. No loud V8, no plugs to mess with, just a big 547 horsepower ready to carry you miles from where the power goes out.
Microsoft has spent years developing its cloud streaming service, and today is the big moment. After more than five years in beta, Xbox Cloud Gaming has transitioned from preview to full production. Subscribers can now stream games at higher resolutions, with improved visuals and smoother animation, without the need for a high-end console or PC. These improvements will primarily affect the top-tier Game Pass Ultimate subscription, but they will also extend cloud access to lower-tier plans.
When you put the Apple Watch SE 3, priced at $199.99 (was $249), on your wrist, the first thing you notice is how light it is—27 grams for the 40mm version, so light that you forget it’s there until your phone vibrates and the screen goes on without your touch. That always-on display, which was previously reserved for more expensive models, now glows at 1,000 nits, bright enough for a sunny sidewalk and dim enough for a midnight scroll through tomorrow’s weather.
When you open the Anbernic RG DS, you’ll see two 4 inch IPS panels, each with a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels. And let me tell you, that resolution makes the original Nintendo DS screens appear tiny in contrast – 2.5 times larger, no less. The end product is clear and clean, with no jagged edges to speak of, and no need to squint and guess what’s happening. Close the lid, and the entire device shuts down, thanks to a secret Hall sensor that saves the day (and your battery life).