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Apple Watch SE 3 Finally Makes Always On Display and Advanced Sleep Tracking Affordable in 2026

By Jackson Chung October 11, 2026

Apple Watch SE 3, priced at $199.99 (was $249), arrives with the S10 chip that powers the higher priced Series models, bringing double tap and wrist flick gestures along with on device Siri responses that no longer require an iPhone nearby for basic requests. A 40mm aluminum case in Starlight wraps an Always On Retina display that stays visible at a glance, peaking at 1000 nits while dropping as low as 2 nits, and the Ion X glass covering it resists cracks four times better than the glass on the previous SE, while storage doubles to 64GB.

MIT’s SANDO Keeps Drones on Safe Paths by Planning Around Moving Obstacles in Unknown Spaces

By Jackson Chung October 11, 2026

Drones flying search and rescue missions or package runs through crowded neighborhoods regularly encounter objects that move without any advance notice. A new planning system from MIT called SANDO addresses that problem by generating flight paths that stay collision free even when the area has no prior map and obstacles can shift position at any moment.

Sierra Space Ghost Completes Balloon Drop Tests Toward 90-Minute Global Cargo Delivery

By Jackson Chung October 11, 2026

High above the Utah desert a high-altitude balloon released Sierra Space’s compact reentry vehicle carrying a bottle of whiskey and a software-defined radio. Both items reached the ground intact after falls from 35,000 feet and 68,500 feet, and recovery crews located them quickly. Those flights in May formed the first live tests in nearly two years for Sierra Space Ghost, a decelerator built to move cargo from orbit to any point on Earth in roughly ninety minutes.

Prop Department Transforms Ford Festiva Into the Widest Street Legal Car at Ten Feet

By Bill Smith October 11, 2026

Tyler Fever of Prop Department already cut a Ford Festiva into the thinnest street-legal car possible. For the follow-up he reversed the idea and produced a version that measures exactly ten feet from one side to the other. Three more of the little 1988 hatchbacks served as donors, each purchased for roughly $250, so the whole starting collection stayed cheap while still supplying enough parts and metal.

James Channel Unpacks the Cheap Famiclone Sold as the Latest Windows System

By Bill Smith October 11, 2026

James Channel recently got hold of a small box that promised the latest Windows system, complete with a keyboard, mouse, and enough software to turn any living room into a home office. What arrived instead was a Famiclone, one of the countless unauthorized copies of Nintendo’s original Family Computer that flooded markets across Asia and beyond during the late 1980s and 1990s. These machines used a single chip to recreate the hardware that once powered Super Mario Bros., and manufacturers kept producing them long after the patents expired because they were cheap to build and easy to sell to families who could not afford a real computer.