A Krups Cook4Me smart cooking pot is now capable of not just cooking but also gaming, thanks to a dedicated modder who worked out how to transform this kitchen equipment into an unexpected DOOM device.. Aaron Christophel, the mastermind behind this project, discovered that most smart devices have good technology hidden beneath a thin layer of basic functions, and the Cook4Me was no exception.
Many low-cost tablets feel like half-finished devices, bound within Amazon’s ecosystem with limited app availability and a general sense of sluggishness. The Lenovo Idea Tab (2025) with the Lenovo Tab Pen and Folio Case, priced at $179.99 (was $249.99), is an entirely different beast.
A father of four looked at his gleaming new Tesla Cybertruck and couldn’t help but think the same thing every time he packed the kids in: it’s simply not designed for a family of six, with only five seats after all. Tesla abandoned the idea of a front bench layout in 2019, but when production vehicles arrived, they included a fixed center console instead. Rather than waiting for things to change, he decided to create his own six-seater.
Off the distant coast of Western Australia, where the water stretches out into the enormous expanse of the Indian water, there is a natural beauty so exact and awe-inspiring that you can’t help but wonder if it was computer-generated, all digital creation to one set of eyes. Four separate wave peaks crash into a shallow reef at the same moment, curling in from all angles and then slamming into each other perfectly symmetrically, spraying water up to 70 meters or more into the sky.
Modder Woodboy90 spent months rebuilding Quake 3 Arena, giving it a modern look. His mod uses NVIDIA’s RTX Remix to add route tracing to three classic maps: Q3DM1, Q3DM6, and Q3DM10. Most of the textures have been much improved, surfaces now reflect light more realistically, and shadows fall deep across venues that previously only had simple glows.
Lenovo and Motorola have recently introduced Qira, a personal AI assistant that connects their laptops, cellphones, and everything in between. Qira debuted at CES 2026 in Las Vegas and is essentially their solution to the existing jumble of AI interactions dispersed over a variety of devices.
The DJI Avata 2 Fly More Combo, priced at $789 (was $929), is at the top of the list for first-person-view flying, and it’s no wonder given its great blend of ease of use, strong performance, and sensible design. As soon as you put on the DJI Goggles 3, you are engaged in the action. The headset provides a crystal clear, low-latency image directly from the drone’s eye, and its 155-degree field of view allows you to shoot some pretty sweeping panoramas in pin-sharp detail.
Arkansas vehicles traveling through highway construction zones will soon face an entirely new level of scrutiny, and it has arrived a little earlier than intended. Work zone cameras that are now catching speeders will begin checking to see if someone is distracted while driving by a cell phone or other handheld gadget in mid-January 2026.
