In 1991 hip-hop had moved from the margins into living rooms and shopping malls. MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice filled charts, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air played on television, and kids everywhere wanted to sound like the records. Casio answered with a plastic keyboard that claimed to do nearly everything a working rap group needed. They called it the Rapman, model RAP-1, and marketed it as the world’s first keyboard built specifically for rap.
Emily The Engineer wanted something flashy for her smile and decided a store-bought set would never do. She set out to make her own removable gold grillz entirely with 3D printing, starting from a messy putty mold of her actual teeth and ending with two finished sets she could wear.
Nearly three decades after Alucard first stepped into that inverted castle, a small team of fans has handed the original PlayStation version of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night a native home on Windows, with builds also reaching Linux and macOS. BlackLabelHQ’s SymphonyRecomp is still marked as an open beta, yet the full game already runs from the opening monologue to the final credits without needing an emulator.
Dell’s MS700, priced at $19.98 (was $40), starts life looking like any other small Bluetooth mouse, then does something few others manage. Half the body rotates a full 180 degrees around a solid central hinge. One firm twist and the arched shape collapses into a nearly flat slab that slides into a laptop sleeve, jacket pocket, or the narrowest gap in a travel bag. The same motion powers the mouse on and off, so there is never a separate switch to hunt for or forget.
Jon Prosser’s latest Front Page Tech (FPT) lays out the most complete picture yet of what he calls the iPhone Ultra. He presents it as a book-style foldable that arrives this September alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, and positions it as the clear premium model of the year. Base iPhone 18 and Air models wait until later, with two color options being offered at launch: black / grey, and white / silver.