Rubber is everywhere—tires, seals, gloves, even the soles of our shoes. It’s flexible, strong and essential but it has a problem: it cracks easily. Once a crack appears it grows and ruins the material. A team at Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has created a new natural rubber that’s 10 times tougher and better at stopping cracks than anything we’ve seen.
Arcade cabinets with their glowing screens and chunky joysticks hold a special place for anyone who fed quarters into Time Crisis or Point Blank. Tassei Denki’s G’AIM’E, a plug-and-play console from Japan with Bandai Namco’s blessing, Put simply, it brings back that arcade magic, designed to work with modern TVs.
Panasonic’s KX-TF400 is a no nonsense 4G feature phone for people who want to make calls, send texts and not deal with extra fluff. It’s all about being dependable and durable, a break from all the complicated gadgets. At €49.90 ($58.35) and with a battery that goes and goes, it’s a solid choice for anyone looking for a reliable sidekick.
Smartphones are getting scarily good at taking photos and videos but storage is still an issue. iPhone users, especially those shooting 4K ProRes video, know the frustration of running out of space when it matters. Transcend’s ESD420 portable SSD solves that problem with a clever magnetic design and lots of storage.
GoveeLife’s Smart Air Purifier 2 Pro (H7129) will ensure you breathe in clean air this summer, and you can get one for $80.26 shipped today, originally $129.99. This air purifier is for big spaces, up to 1,163 sq ft with 150 cfm of solid airflow. That’s enough to keep a large living room or open apartment fresh with a 3 stage HEPA filter that captures 99.97% of particles as small as 0.3 microns. Product page.
Mornings are a sprint against the clock, especially when you’re sipping coffee and dreading the commute. Traffic jams can turn a short drive into a headache and checking apps beforehand isn’t always on your radar. Michael Rechtin, an inventor, has reimagined the coffee table, turning it into a live traffic map for Cincinnati.
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A pickup truck beating supercars feels like a plot twist from another dimension, but at the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed, Ford’s F-150 Lightning SuperTruck made it happen. Romain Dumas drove this electric beast up the 1.16-mile hillclimb in 43.22 seconds and took the Timed Shoot-Out crown.
Stars are like grains of sand, each holding a piece of the universe’s history. The latest image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope takes us to NGC 1786, a dense star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a smaller galaxy orbiting our Milky Way, about 160,000 light-years from Earth.
