AYANEO built their name on retro handhelds that push limits, but are soft on the wallet. Now they turn to something smaller, simpler: the Pocket AIR Mini. This thing fits in your jeans pocket and pulls up classics from decades past for prices that barely break three figures.
Forty years have passed since Back to the Future debuted in theaters and transformed a tattered old DeLorean into a time-travel legend. To commemorate the film’s big – well, not-so-big – anniversary, Casio has dug up one of those watches from the vault – the CA-500WEBF-1A – and given it a few subtle tributes to the film that made the original a cult favorite on Marty McFly’s wrist.
Photo credit: Kasing Lung
Apple CEO Tim Cook just added a new piece to his collection. During his quick trip to Shanghai last week for the iPhone 17 Air launch, he met with the creators of one of China’s most popular collectibles. Kasing Lung, the artist who designed Labubu, gave Tim a custom doll with his own face.
Bismuth crystals have an otherworldly beauty, shimmering with iridescent colours that seem to dance across their stair-step surfaces when light hits them. Mistaking them for some kind of high-tech creation is easy, but they’re actually 100% natural. Their unique geometry – a real maze of spiraling edges and colors – has people wondering: what is it about these crystals, made from molten metal as they are, that gives them their otherworldly looks?
Amazon, the company that changed retail, is now dipping its toes into the vast expanse outside of Richland, Washington. Here, among the sagebrush and Columbia River, the company is getting into nuclear with a project that will power its data centers. The Cascade Advanced Energy Facility is the centerpiece, a collection of small modular reactors (SMR) that will produce power without fossil fuels.
Toyota’s micro solar EV, the FT-Me, has moved a step closer to reality thanks to a grant from the UK government. The £15 million award, announced on October 15, will go through the Drive35 initiative and be overseen by a Toyota-led team to evaluate every component of this strange little vehicle. It was unveiled in Brussels in March, but now the hard work begins: transforming drawings into something you might see whizzing through Derby traffic.
Inventor James Bruton is known for his big builds and this one is a doozy: a miniature electric car steered by the movement of his face. He used the new Arduino UNO Q, a single board computer with a microprocessor, to create a vehicle that combines cutting edge tech and hands on engineering.
Watching a movie on a big screen TV is already a treat, but Govee’s Envisual TV LED Backlight T2 with Dual Cameras ($74.99 after automatically applied 25% off coupon at checkout) takes it to a whole new level.
