Valve has always developed gear with a purpose in mind, and the Steam Frame is no exception. This portable VR headset promises to bring the whole Steam library into your living room without a tangle of cords or a PC tethered to your waist. The developers discussed the design in a recent video session with Gamers Nexus, revealing the choices they made to balance power, comfort, and transparency.
Motorcycles have a way of pushing the limits and Honda just showed the crowd why they’re at the forefront. They unveiled the V3R 900 E-Compressor Prototype at EICMA 2025 in Milan, an incredible machine which takes their signature V3 engine and teams it up with an electric compressor. This isn’t some far-fetched fantasy of the future; Honda engineers have been experimenting with the concept since last year’s show, wow everyone with a bare engine before revealing the finished product. If you’re one of those riders who craves quick torque, the kind that gets you going from a standstill, this thing has a lot to be thrilled about.
Black Friday waits for no one, but Amazon clearly couldn’t either. The Meta Quest 3S Cardboard Hero Bundle landed on the site this week for $249.99, down from $299.99 and it’s already selling like hotcakes.
Star-themed coffee tables have long been a staple of design catalogs. But just a few of them have attempted to fit a whole planetary arrangement within, replete with a sun that simply erupts into view on demand. This one goes all out, transforming an ordinary piece of furniture into a small cosmic drama with stellar implosions and endless orbits.
Joby Aviation has just completed a surprisingly quiet revolution in the skies over a California airfield. On November 7, their latest model, a turbine electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, took off for the first time from their Marina facility. This aircraft has combined the clean lift of electric motors with the constant leg-up of a gas turbine, resulting in longer flights and heavier loads than anyone could have dreamed.
Just over a week ago, film teams arrived in Wellington, New Zealand, and an area of ferns and pine trees in the bush was converted into the lush environment of Hyrule. You can only image the situation as a camera records Bo Bragason, playing Princess Zelda, standing among the trees with two horses close.
Matt Denton, a legend when it comes to transforming tiny models into full-size sit-ins, has spent years making the unthinkable a reality. His new creation, a monstrous version of the 1981 LEGO Technic Dune Buggy (8845), is no exception. What began as a simple kit of 174 plastic parts has been expanded to accommodate a large adult behind the wheel.
The OnePlus 15 was announced today and the timing couldn’t be better. With phones in an arms race to be thinner and brighter, this one is a deliberate counterpoint – a phone for people who want reliability without the constant hunt for a charger. It comes with a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor and a battery that will last you two full days of normal use.
Austin’s evening traffic can be a real pain in the neck, turning a routine errand into an endurance test as you’re stuck in traffic with a slew of other disgruntled drivers. The incessant beeping of horns as people cut through lanes, combined with a short lack in judgment at a merge point, can lead to disaster. That’s the backdrop for Tesla’s latest Full Self-Driving update, 14.1.7, which showed up on a Model Y’s screen last week. Anyone who’s spent hours behind the wheel of a Tesla, watching the software try to learn to read the road like a local, knows the impact this update is going to have.
Hong Kong’s Direct Drive Technology has spent years perfecting motors that spin without gears and now those efforts have borne fruit as the D1, a machine that folds two walkers into a single four-legged hauler. Each half weighs 24.3kg, light enough to slip through tight spaces on its own, yet when they snap together via a magnetic latch in the middle, the pair weighs 48.6kg and is ready for heavier work. That combined form can haul 100kg over rough terrain, and 80kg when standing on end without straining. A 43.2v 9ah lithium battery powers each section for more than 5 hours after a 2 hour top up, and over 25km unloaded in wheel mode.