A brushed silver body frames a wide transparent panel that puts the circuitry right in front of you. Four automotive-grade cells, inductors, and chips sit visible behind the clear front, while a recessed 2.01-inch color screen sits above them and tracks every watt in real time. This is the Lenovo thinkplus FLUX 140W, a 20,000 mAh power bank, priced at $74.99 (was $100), built to push a laptop hard and look deliberate while doing it.
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Claudio Zampolli spent years fixing other people’s dreams in Los Angeles before deciding to build his own. A former Lamborghini test driver and development engineer, he wanted something that would make the Countach look ordinary. He found a partner in Giorgio Moroder, the three-time Academy Award-winning composer behind some of the biggest disco and film scores of the era. Together they put their names on a car that carried both: the Cizeta-Moroder V16T. Chassis 001 is the only one that ever wore both names at once. In two weeks it heads to RM Sotheby’s Monterey auction with an estimate between $1.4 million and $1.8 million.
Dan Wood sat down with the same kind of machine that once filled university labs and design studios, the blue-and-white Power Mac G3, and rebuilt the exact setup he remembered from the early 2000s. Nearly three decades later the computer boots, runs its original software, and still feels purposeful in a way modern machines rarely do.
Retroid opened shipping on the Pocket Nova at the end of July, and the early reaction from people who care about older consoles has been unusually consistent. This is the one they have been waiting for if their idea of a good handheld starts with a screen that matches the games instead of forcing them into a modern widescreen box.
Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy of The Slow Mo Guys have spent years filling giant balloons with water and then filming the results at ridiculous speeds. Their latest outing takes the familiar setup and adds a slope. Dan, who stands six feet tall, climbs into a matching six-foot water balloon perched on a roughly five-foot ramp. Once inside, the balloon starts rolling. High-speed cameras running at 2,200 frames per second turn the brief tumble into something you can study for minutes.