Bose SoundLink Plus landed last summer as the middle size in the current portable family, listed at $269 and frequently closer to $199 (now). About 9.1 inches wide, 3.9 inches tall, and 3.4 inches deep, the speaker weighs 3.3 pounds and includes a nylon rope loop for hanging from a chair, bag strap, or hook.
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Travis Pastrana has jumped from a plane with no parachute, landed the first double backflip on a motorcycle, collected 11 X Games gold medals, and raced the Daytona 500. On a day at Dunsfold Aerodrome in England, the same airfield used as the old Top Gear test track, he still found something that reset his scale. He climbed into a McMurtry Spéirling prototype and later said he had gone faster than in any vehicle of his life.
Hangzhou’s Unitree Robotics posted a clip last week that looks familiar until you watch who is missing. A G1 humanoid in red boxing gloves squares off against a padded human trainer inside a ring. Stance changes, slips, straight punches, and body kicks arrive on their own. Unitree calls the software UnifoLM-X2-1.0 and labels the demo the first real-time world-model-driven fully autonomous humanoid combat. No VR headset operator appears, and no gamepad rests just off frame.
Cattle herders have been punching small holes in the sound barrier for centuries. A bullwhip’s sharp crack is a miniature sonic boom, created when the last few inches of the lash accelerate past the speed of sound. Doing it by hand still demands practiced timing and a fluid arm motion most people never master. Craig Turner, the Australian maker behind Turnah81, wanted a device that delivered that same boom on demand, aimed where he pointed, with no prior skill required.
Most drivers clock them once from a freeway overpass and never ask again. Those bright spheres clamped to long spans of transmission line have a proper name, aerial marker balls, and a single assignment: make a nearly invisible wire obvious to anyone flying low enough to hit it.