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Gamer Brings WipEout Out of the Screen and Into the Real World

By Bill Smith November 9, 2025

Gamer Joseph Hallam spent years fixated on a single all-consuming goal: bringing the rush of WipEout’s anti-gravity racing to life in a way he could get his hands on. Those computerized ships flying through neon-lit tracks had a hold on him unlike just about any game he’d ever played. As a long-time slot car enthusiast, he’d always loved Scalextric and the vintage Carrera models, but the stiff tracks just didn’t capture the same sense of wild unpredictability he got from the original Wipeout. But all that changed when the Carrera Hybrid came on the scene.

China’s CR450 Bullet Train Rewrites the Rules of High-Speed Rail Travel by Hitting 281MPH During Testing

By Jackson Chung November 9, 2025

Last month, on the Shanghai-Chongqing-Chengdu high-speed railway line, something amazing happened…a silver bullet train zoomed by at 281 mph. That single run on October 21 means that the CR450 is now the fastest conventional wheeled train ever tested. Engineers measured one prototype at 453 km/h, as well as two trains passing each other at 896 km/h.

Honda EV Outlier Concept Takes a Bold Leap Into Electric Motorcycle Design

By Bill Smith November 8, 2025

Honda unveiled the EV Outlier Concept at the 2025 Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo, a motorcycle that goes beyond just swapping gas engines for batteries. Designers wanted to build something unconstrained by conventional rules, using ideas from Honda’s global teams. The project leader, Yuya Tsutsumi, said they wanted to deliver surprises through characteristics only electrification allows.

iPhone Air 2 Leak Reveals Apple’s Purported Quiet Fix for a Phone That Missed the Mark

By Jackson Chung November 8, 2025

Almost two months have passed since the iPhone Air debuted on store shelves, and the rumour mill is already buzzing with speculation about what’s next. Those who were among the first to pay nearly a $1,000 for the thin flagship had one significant complaint: they thought they were getting a rather basic camera system on a phone that was intended to be a premium product. Apple appears to have finally listened. According to insiders, the iPhone Air 2 will include a second rear camera, a tweak that has the ability to significantly improve a product that has been extremely polarizing.

Google Pixel 10 Pro XL Aims to be the Flagship That Delivers Without Premium Pain

By Jackson Chung November 8, 2025

Flagship smartphones have really gotten out of hand, and the iPhone 17 Pro Max is one of those devices that feels like it’s charging you an arm and a leg for every single feature. But Google comes in with the Pixel 10 Pro XL, a phone that can easily give the iPhone a run for its money – and it costs less to boot. At $899 (was $1,199) for 256GB of storage – though you can usually get it for a bit less with a trade-in depending on the carrier.

GM’s 1969 512 Electric Experimental was the Orange EV That Ate Detroit

By Bill Smith November 8, 2025

Photo credit: GM
Fifty-six years ago, General Motors dared to do something truly different. They parked a tangerine bubble at a trade-show turntable and asked people to take a good hard look. At Transpo ’72, visitors walked right up to the 512 Electric Experimental, noses just inches from its sleek fiberglass skin, wondering whether this thing was a car, a cockpit, or just some kind of wacky dream on wheels. Standing at a mere 86 inches long, the little GM looked for all the world like a Smart Fort Worth that had been sat upon – but as you looked closer, you could see that every curve was deliberate, every inch carefully thought out.

This is Not a PlayStation 5, Just One of the Coolest Linux Gaming PCs Yet

By Jackson Chung November 8, 2025

Budget-Builds Official never intended to get his hands on a PlayStation 5; instead, he wanted its internals, notably the graphics chip. Then, on a peaceful Friday in October, he receives a little parcel from Shenzhen and has no idea what to anticipate. Out comes a bare motherboard the size of a small book, wrapped in bubble plastic and topped with a gigantic copper heatsink the size of a dinner plate. The label reads AMD BC250, and it costs £96. The delivery letter simply reads “PS5 graphics card” – not exactly what he expected, but it did the job.

World’s Most Comfortable Computer Mouse Looks Like a Melted Stormtrooper Helmet

By Bill Smith November 8, 2025

Play Conveyor never meant to win beauty contests, as he stared at the lump on his desk—an ordinary wired mouse—and decided the whole industry had been lying to him. Every curve, every rubber grip, every “vertical” or “ambidextrous” label still left his wrist aching after three hours of editing. So he cracked the thing open, kept the guts, and threw the shell away.

SpaceX Teases Interior of Starship HLS, the Moon Ship That Looks More Like a Warehouse

By Bill Smith November 8, 2025

SpaceX just flung the doors open on the Starship HLS lunar lander and the view that greeted us is just stunning. Four astronauts are sitting in a circle of chairs, with their backs to the curved wall, which is as wide as a city bus. The sunlight streaming in is making the metal ribs underfoot look like polished silver. Above them, a massive 30-foot-high dome looms large – big enough to park a house in. With NASA breathing down their neck and demanding the schedule get cut down by months, SpaceX made the decision to rip out the seats, shelves and half the cargo racks.

Unitree Just Turned Your Living Room Into a Robot Dojo with Embodied Avatar

By Jackson Chung November 7, 2025

Unitree, a robot manufacturer based in Hangzhou, released a new video yesterday showing a person clad in black straps and sensors standing on a gym mat. Just across town, a G1 robot is in the exact identical attitude. At first appearance, there is no discernible difference between a human punch and a robot punch. They refer to this setup as an Embodied Avatar.