Sony WH-CH720N headphones, priced at $88 (was $180), tend to slip past attention in a market full of flashy flagships, yet they quietly cover the basics for anyone after a pair that simply works without demanding a premium outlay. Released a while back as a step up from earlier budget models in the CH line, they sit well below the WH-1000XM series while sharing some of the same processing ideas.
Hyundai pulled the covers off the Elantra N Monochrome on October 19, 2026, as a special edition built for people who want the car’s full performance without drawing extra eyes on the road. Company planners developed it after hearing from owners who liked the driving experience but preferred fewer bright accents in daily use.
Japan’s Martian Moons eXploration spacecraft, known as MMX, lifted off from the Yoshinobu Launch Complex at Tanegashima Space Center in the early hours of Tuesday morning local time, riding Japan’s H3 rocket on its tenth flight. The vehicle, in its most powerful H3-24L configuration with four solid boosters, left the pad at 4:41 a.m. Japan Standard Time on October 20, which corresponds to 19:41 UTC on October 19.
Adam Savage sits down with Lorne Peterson, one of the original model makers hired at Industrial Light and Magic in 1975, and the conversation quickly turns to the practical choices that gave the ships their worn, functional look. Peterson shows off a rare Darth Vader service award he received after forty years with the company, then explains how he and a friend arrived for their interview carrying a dusty Kennedy toolbox instead of the cardboard boxes most freelancers used.
Most refrigerators depend on an electric compressor to move heat around, but Greenhill Forge built a working cooler that gets its energy from a wood fire and a solution of common road salt instead. Water serves as the refrigerant. When water boils it soaks up heat from whatever is around it, and the same principle holds here. The difference is that the system keeps part of the water under a strong vacuum so the liquid can boil at a temperature close to freezing rather than at the usual 100 degrees Celsius. That low-pressure boiling is what produces the cold.