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LGR Fires Up Hasbro’s 1999 Easy-Bake Kitchen Keyboard Playset

By Bill Smith September 11, 2026

Storage still coughs up late-90s leftovers for Clint Basinger of LGR, and the latest one is a molded kitchen that sits on a PC keyboard and pretends to bake. Easy-Bake Kitchen, sold by Hasbro Interactive in fall 1999 for about $40, arrived as a CD-ROM plus a strap-on playset aimed at ages three and up. Box copy promised to turn a Windows 95 or 98 machine into a kitchen full of fun with no waiting and no mess. LGR found his copy years after a viewer named Ryan Kitty mailed it in, then pulled it back out after a hurricane soaked the downstairs collection room in what he calls storm juice. A scrub later, the plastic was ready for another shift.

Waterloo Students Fold a Shirt Overnight Using a Laundry-Folding Robot

By Jackson Chung September 10, 2026

Steven Gong and his University of Waterloo engineering classmates needed a capstone that actually finished a chore companies have chased for years. Folding laundry looks simple until cloth bunches, sleeves hide, and every shirt arrives in a different mess. Their answer was a pair of follower arms that copied two leader arms driven by human hands, a pile of recorded demonstrations, and a single night of training.

Hohem Eyepic Combines Wearable Camera With a Pocket Gimbal

By Jackson Chung September 10, 2026

Hohem collected over a decade of experience selling phone gimbals to millions of people before it built a camera of its own. At IFA 2026 in Berlin the company previewed Eyepic, a compact three-axis rig whose camera module unclips and becomes a tiny wearable shooter you can hang on a hat, a lanyard, or any ferrous surface. Docked, it looks and works like the pocket gimbal cameras most people already know. Pulled free, it tries to cover the same ground as an Insta360-style mini cam without forcing you to pack a second device.

Mac Nano Cyberdeck Consists of an M4 Mac Mini That Slides In Like a Game Boy Cartridge

By Jackson Chung September 10, 2026

Shing Solutions already had a name for a gutted M4 Mac Mini. Once the retail shell came off and the board sat in a printed sleeve with Apple’s original heatsink and blower still bolted on, that package became the Mac Nano. The new project puts that sleeve inside a second body, a handheld deck that treats the whole computer like a giant Game Boy cartridge you can pull and replace.

PowerA Enhanced Wireless Controller Puts Rear Buttons and 30 Hours on a Licensed Switch Pad

By Bill Smith September 10, 2026

Nintendo’s official Pro Controller is still somewhat expensive for a full-size wireless pad. PowerA’s Enhanced Wireless Controller for Nintendo Switch, priced at $35 (was $70) answers that with an officially licensed Bluetooth gamepad that keeps the familiar button layout, adds two programmable buttons on the back, and runs for up to 30 hours on a built-in 900mAh battery.