LEGO bricks and city building now share the same sandbox. LEGO Skylines was revealed by Paradox Interactive, Iceflake Studios, and the LEGO Group during Gamescom Opening Nite Live, and the timing appears to be perfect. A cozy customized city builder is on its way to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC via Steam. There is no specific launch date, but the wishlist is already available.
Soft silicone dots rise and fall across an eight-by-eight grid, forming shapes and simple patterns without a single glowing diode or liquid crystal. Soiboi Soft, the maker behind the project, built this entire display from air pressure differences, 3D-printed plastic, and thin membranes that act like valves and memory cells. Atmospheric pressure stands in for a binary zero. A vacuum stands in for a binary one. Once a pixel settles into place it stays there on its own, no continuous power required.
Apple just announced two new Mac Studio models based on the M5 Max and the all-new M5 Ultra. These machines keep the sleek, compact silver box that has long sat beneath monitors and next to keyboards. What changed is within, and the modifications are geared squarely at people who spend their days rendering, training LLM models, grading footage, or creating massive codebases without ever leaving their desk.
Gray plastic, bold red accents, and rounded lettering sit on the desk like a piece of hardware that somehow escaped the late 1980s. 8BitDo’s Retro Mechanical Keyboard N Edition, priced at $50.99 (was $100), takes the exact color scheme and visual language of the original American NES and turns it into a full working tenkeyless board. The result feels less like a modern accessory and more like something Nintendo might have sold alongside the console itself.
James Clough set out to make a gift for a fellow YouTube machinist, but the end result looks like it belongs in a museum of unusual watches. He designed a clock with six massive numbered wheels for Toolroom Takeover 2026, an annual secret Santa exchange among artists who spend their days cutting metal. Stepper motors silently spin those wheels into place, while a GPS receiver automatically locks everything to the correct hour, minute, and second.