Anker may be known for their power banks but the Soundcore 2 is a portable Bluetooth speaker that has people coming back for more. At $27.99 on sale (down from $44.99) this palm-sized brick sounds so good you’ll question every overpriced Bluetooth speaker you’ve ever bought.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has pulled off a spooky gift for Halloween . A star is on its last legs in the constellation Sagittarius – thousands of light years away. Stars like our Sun follow a rather predictable path. They burn hydrogen for billions of years before eventually running out of steam. As the outer layers expand, the center begins to contract.
Japanese Honda dealers sell the Civic Type R for around $40,000 at invoice, while Porsche starts the 718 Boxster at $53,000. On paper, the mid-engine roadster wins the prestige battle. Then Mugen releases its Group.B catalog. When all the options are added up, the Honda’s price is over $103,000 (including the Type R itself), almost double the base price of the Boxster and enough to buy a loaded GTS 4.0 with change to spare.
Sharon Aluma stands in the center of what appears to be a typical loading dock in America, but there are no forklifts in sight. As the product manager for Stretch at Boston Dynamics, she understands that this is not for show. It’s a complete warehouse squeezed inside a test facility, with banging metal doors and the faint odor of cardboard dust. The engineers here spend their days watching Stretch, the company’s box-hauling robot, grapple with the same freight that powers e-commerce titans.
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Bangooh stunned the internet with a Game Boy Advance SP carrying a DeWalt power-tool battery on its back. The setup claims 404 hours of playtime—enough to finish many RPGs without needing to recharge.
Flight simulators need precision, but ordinary joysticks isolate pilots from the action. Zeroshot, a creator who goes deep into virtual skies, was painfully aware of the gap. Commercial choices for force feedback exist, however they are expensive and difficult to get. Instead of compromising, he designed his own from scratch, integrating 3D printed parts, stepper motors, and ingenious circuitry to create a controller that resists every movement.
Almost 13 years after the P1 redefined what a road car could do, McLaren has spent the last five years developing its replacement. The W1 continues the same mantra, but with modifications gleaned from decades of track time. Production begins next year, with all 399 sold out before the first wheel rotates. They cost roughly $2.1 million each and offer to combine everyday usage with lap times that would embarrass Senna. Recent testing in Arizona’s scorching sun has pushed these prototypes to their limits to say the least.
Tito Perez of Macho Nacho Productions spent months staring at a grainy photograph of Microsoft’s 2000 Xbox prototype. A 40-pound X carved from solid aluminum, polished so it mirrored the room like a dark mirror, and topped with a glowing green diamond. The original is kept away at Microsoft headquarters, a relic that no one could touch. So he created his own, a version that could actually play games.
Power outages can come at the worst times, catching you flat-footed and scrambling for extension cords and gas cans. Luckily, the EF ECOFLOW Delta 3 Classic portable power station comes to the rescue – and at a much more affordable price now that it’s down from $599 to $399. This nifty little device is always there when you need it, whether you’re bracing for a blackout or just headed out on a weekend adventure, and it won’t take up much space in the trunk either.
