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Golden Balloon Lifts Diddy Kong Racing Onto PC at Last

By Bill Smith August 2, 2026

Diddy Kong Racing arrived on the Nintendo 64 with a different rhythm than Mario Kart. You collected golden balloons to unlock worlds, switched freely between car, hovercraft, and plane, and chased a genie named Taj across tracks that felt bigger and stranger than anything else on the system. Nearly three decades later a fan project called Golden Balloon has turned the game into a proper PC and browser title. It is built from the community decompilation that only recently reached completion, and it asks only that you supply your own legal ROM.

Foundation’s Robotic Hand V2 Catches Baseballs Blind

By Jackson Chung August 2, 2026

Foundation just put out a short video of its newest robotic hand closing around a baseball in mid-flight. The catch looks almost casual. The ball arrives, the fingers curl, and the grip holds. No frantic adjustments. No visible sensors twitching on the surface. The throw is timed and the motion is planned ahead of time, yet the repeatability is sharp enough that the team is already joking about the majors.

Lenovo’s thinkplus FLUX 140W Power Banks Puts Clear Power on Display

By Jackson Chung August 2, 2026

A brushed silver body frames a wide transparent panel that puts the circuitry right in front of you. Four automotive-grade cells, inductors, and chips sit visible behind the clear front, while a recessed 2.01-inch color screen sits above them and tracks every watt in real time. This is the Lenovo thinkplus FLUX 140W, a 20,000 mAh power bank, priced at $74.99 (was $100), built to push a laptop hard and look deliberate while doing it.

World’s Only Cizeta-Moroder Prototype Has Sixteen Cylinders, One Name, and a Second Chance at Monterey

By Bill Smith August 2, 2026

Photo credit: Karissa Hosek / RM Sotheby’s
Claudio Zampolli spent years fixing other people’s dreams in Los Angeles before deciding to build his own. A former Lamborghini test driver and development engineer, he wanted something that would make the Countach look ordinary. He found a partner in Giorgio Moroder, the three-time Academy Award-winning composer behind some of the biggest disco and film scores of the era. Together they put their names on a car that carried both: the Cizeta-Moroder V16T. Chassis 001 is the only one that ever wore both names at once. In two weeks it heads to RM Sotheby’s Monterey auction with an estimate between $1.4 million and $1.8 million.

Apple’s 1999 Power Mac G3 Pro Tower Still Feels Like a Different World

By Jackson Chung August 2, 2026

Dan Wood sat down with the same kind of machine that once filled university labs and design studios, the blue-and-white Power Mac G3, and rebuilt the exact setup he remembered from the early 2000s. Nearly three decades later the computer boots, runs its original software, and still feels purposeful in a way modern machines rarely do.