Apple has a talent for removing the annoyances from our everyday routines and replacing them with a refined sense of style. Consider earbuds: for years, you had to select whether you wanted them to be incredibly comfortable or super quiet. You choose open designs that allowed the world in, or sealed tips that kept you completely out of touch, even in a packed subway. With the AirPods 4, which have active noise cancellation, now available for $99 (was $179), all of that sounds like old history.
Toyota has recently revealed details about the GR GT, a two-seater that appears to be straight out of the company’s performance playbook. A front-engine supercar at a time when Toyota’s Gazoo racing squad has spent years fine-tuning cars like the Supra and GR Yaris, the GR GT takes it to the next level. It strikes a balance between being able to drive to the stores and having enough grip and speed to necessitate the presence of a nearby track.
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In a small quiet lab tucked away in the Swiss countryside, a team of engineers has figured out a method to repurpose discarded langostino lobster shells into grippers that can pick up pens or tomatoes with amazing ease. These aren’t the conventional metal claws you see attached onto assembly lines; instead, they employ the leftovers from seafood dinners, combining biology’s trash with a few basic mechanical adjustments to make tools that bend and hold like something very much alive.
David Zaslav awoke this morning with the weight of Warner Bros. on his shoulders, a media giant woven together from the vestiges of a bygone era of cable television and the relentless tugging of streaming. By midday, he had inked a path forward that hands Warner Bros to Netflix, thus cutting ties with the old world of linear networks.
DJI has built drones for photographers, racers, and even law enforcement, but the FlyCart 100 takes the company’s hardware in a new direction. The FlyCart 100 truly opens up previously inaccessible areas by allowing us to transport huge cargo loads over long distances and transform those inaccessible locations into proper supply depots.
Sony’s new DualSense controller, known as Chroma Teal, priced at $59.99 (down from $79.99), offers a deep dark blue green that is as oceanic as it gets, and it appears to capture light in a way that few other peripherals can. This new version keeps all of the original design elements while wrapping them in a finish that changes color depending on where the light is coming from; it looks very different when held up under a desk lamp and warms up to a sort of verdant edge than when held out in the daylight and cools down to a lovely forest pond kind of tone.
Lexus revealed the LFA Concept BEV Sports Car tonight in a way that felt like a wink to the fans who refused to let go of the original. This elegant, two-seater coupe runs entirely on batteries, a far cry from the roaring V10 that powered the 2010 model, but it has the same obsessive concentration on balance and the driver’s relationship to the vehicle.
Hyundai has just debuted the MobED, an all-new robot platform on four wheels that is ready to leave the lab and start earning money in the real world. The machine made a big splash at this week’s iREX robotics conference in Tokyo, and it’s based on a concept they presented at CES three years ago.
Mike Winkelmann enters the spotlight of Art Basel Miami Beach with a pack of metal mutts that combine the uncanny valley with a biting punch at contemporary power brokers. Regular Animals, a squad of eight robotic canines wandering a gated enclosure in the fair’s new Zero 10 digital art section, was launched this week by the digital artist from Charleston, South Carolina, known as Beeple. Each has a lifelike silicone head sculpted after a titan of industry or creativity, including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, and even two versions of Winkelmann himself.
