David Zaslav awoke this morning with the weight of Warner Bros. on his shoulders, a media giant woven together from the vestiges of a bygone era of cable television and the relentless tugging of streaming. By midday, he had inked a path forward that hands Warner Bros to Netflix, thus cutting ties with the old world of linear networks.
DJI has built drones for photographers, racers, and even law enforcement, but the FlyCart 100 takes the company’s hardware in a new direction. The FlyCart 100 truly opens up previously inaccessible areas by allowing us to transport huge cargo loads over long distances and transform those inaccessible locations into proper supply depots.
Sony’s new DualSense controller, known as Chroma Teal, priced at $59.99 (down from $79.99), offers a deep dark blue green that is as oceanic as it gets, and it appears to capture light in a way that few other peripherals can. This new version keeps all of the original design elements while wrapping them in a finish that changes color depending on where the light is coming from; it looks very different when held up under a desk lamp and warms up to a sort of verdant edge than when held out in the daylight and cools down to a lovely forest pond kind of tone.
Lexus revealed the LFA Concept BEV Sports Car tonight in a way that felt like a wink to the fans who refused to let go of the original. This elegant, two-seater coupe runs entirely on batteries, a far cry from the roaring V10 that powered the 2010 model, but it has the same obsessive concentration on balance and the driver’s relationship to the vehicle.
Hyundai has just debuted the MobED, an all-new robot platform on four wheels that is ready to leave the lab and start earning money in the real world. The machine made a big splash at this week’s iREX robotics conference in Tokyo, and it’s based on a concept they presented at CES three years ago.
Mike Winkelmann enters the spotlight of Art Basel Miami Beach with a pack of metal mutts that combine the uncanny valley with a biting punch at contemporary power brokers. Regular Animals, a squad of eight robotic canines wandering a gated enclosure in the fair’s new Zero 10 digital art section, was launched this week by the digital artist from Charleston, South Carolina, known as Beeple. Each has a lifelike silicone head sculpted after a titan of industry or creativity, including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, and even two versions of Winkelmann himself.
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A few days before Thanksgiving, GnarDead took a big risk by placing an order that was expected to significantly improve their gaming setup. The ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 5080 was lying in their Best Buy shopping basket for a reasonable $1,200; its specifications were impressive, capable of handling even the most demanding games. It arrived on November 28, but things quickly took a turn for the worse.
Drake Anthony, the mastermind behind the wildly successful StyroPyro YouTube channel, has a reputation for turning household oddities into objects of raw, utterly unexpected power. In his most recent jaw-dropping project, he takes an ordinary incandescent bulb and transforms it into an electrical powerhouse that give even a small power station a run for its money. This 24,000-watt monster is one of the biggest bulbs you’d ever want to try to use in your home.
Back in 1990, Honda’s first NSX was a sight to behold, with sharp lines that made the car feel like it was slicing through the air as lightly as a scalpel. Over three decades later, the same style and soul are given fresh life as the Tensei NSX. This car is the result of a collaboration between Pininfarina’s design team and JAS Motorsport’s engineers, who have done wonders with a donor chassis from the first-generation NSX, dressing it up in a carbon fiber body that is equal parts tribute to the old car and a step forward.
