Onyx BOOX has spent years fine-tuning its devices to allow you to read without being distracted by notifications. Their most recent effort, the Palma 2 Pro, expands on that notion by adding color and a connectivity to the world beyond your nearest Wi-Fi hotspot. Announced today in New York and is set to land in the US for $400, with shipping beginning on November 7.
DeepSeek has just released a new tool, DeepSeek OCR, which attempts to extract text from photos of pages while maximizing efficiency. This open-source project from the Hangzhou-based team converts complex papers into something AI can process without running out of memory or power. Developers can download it from GitHub or Hugging Face and integrate it into their applications.
Toyota just revealed the Land Cruiser FJ, a fresh take on an icon that has languished in garages and trails for decades. This small SUV is the little sibling that no one knew they needed. At 180 inches long and scarcely wider than a city sidewalk, it reduces the big-brother attitude of full-size models to something you can park next to your everyday driver without hesitation. The Japanese launch date is mid-2026, with the globe getting a closer look at the Japan Mobility Show, which begins October 30.
Twenty-two years have passed since The Simpsons: Hit and Run hit store shelves, and it’s about time that a group of super-fans got their hands on a project that captures the same type of wild, Simpsons-esque fun in a flying saucer-filled future. Slurm Team, a group of nine die-hard fans, began sketching out their idea in 2019 and recently released a demo for Futurama: Hit and Run, a total conversion mod that flips the original game’s Springfield streets on their heads to bring them to life in the chaotic world of New New York.
Audi unveiled the Concept C just over a month ago at the IAA Mobility Show in Munich and the two-seater stole the show with its sleek lines and poised stance. Engineers didn’t stop at the reveal – they put the prototype through a full testing program to make it roadworthy with German plates so it could hit the public roads. As the first real look at Audi’s next electric sports car due in 2027, the Concept C hints at a future where battery power delivers the thrill of a classic roadster.
For over two decades now, NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been coming back NGC 3370, a spiral galaxy 90 million light-years away in Leo, for another look, and their latest image shows off the galaxy’s stars in hypnotic fashion as they gradually fade from bright yellow in the center to those vivid blues at the edges.
Holiday decorations have a way of bringing people together but then they’re often over and done with come the new year. Govee Curtain Lights 2, priced at $85.99 (was $149.99), is one product that actually seems to bring things together – we mean this literally, by design to basically merge decor from several rooms and even patios into one beautiful display. The whole thing looks like a set of strands of LED lights draped over something, pulsating with a whole range of different patterns.
LG just revealed a beast of a screen called the MAGNIT Active Micro LED, a 136-inch monster that’s basically a private IMAX for your living room. Announced today in Seoul, it hits stores in Korea tomorrow and comes to North America soon after. At 3 meters wide and 1.7 meters tall, it makes your average TV look like a postage stamp.
A high-speed, color camera able to capture 16,000 frames per second has snapped a vivid glimpse of nuclear fusion inside Tokamak Energy’s ST40 – a spherical tokamak. The footage shown by the UK based startup, lets you see a glowing pink edge of deuterium plasma, along with streaks of greenish/yellow lithium ions careening through a magnetic cage.
A computer desk is frequently a hive of activity, but one maker chose to take the concept literally. Full Stack Woodworking created an L-shaped desk that simulates the life of a beehive. This desk is a woodworking, technology, and art mix, featuring 74 hexagonal frames, unique electronics, and a Raspberry Pi 5 running a beehive simulation.