Action Retro just sat down with Pico Micro Mac v3, and the little board did the rare thing cheap retro kits keep promising. Power went in, a smiling Macintosh face appeared, and a real System desktop came up ready for a USB mouse. His video calls it a tiny 90s Macintosh. Software-wise it is closer to the 128K and Plus years. The charm is that the desktop is genuine, clickable, and running on a microcontroller you can cover with two fingers.
Nintendo 64 owners spent 1996 lining up hang gliders over Little States and hoping the analog stick would forgive a late flare. Nearly thirty years later, Pilotwings 64 Recompiled puts that same flight school on Windows and Linux as a native program you launch like any other PC game.
Battersea Power Station has loomed over the Thames since Giles Gilbert Scott finished the last of its brick towers in 1955, a coal plant so large it later sat empty for decades and still owes half its fame to the inflatable pig Pink Floyd parked between the chimneys for the 1977 Animals sleeve. Apple already keeps its its UK headquarters and a store inside the redeveloped complex. On September 28, 2026 the company adds Apple Music Hall, a 600-seat room built to stage a concert, lock a Spatial Audio mix, and send a multicamera feed around the world from the same night.
Amazon billed the newest Echo Show 11, priced at $149.99 (was $250), as a mini entertainment center you can park anywhere in the house, even on the road. Rooms with a wall outlet get the better half of that promise. This late-2025 smart display sits on the same rounded, fabric-wrapped base as the current Echo Show 8, then hangs an 11-inch Full HD touchscreen in front so the glass appears to float. Graphite and Glacier White are the two finishes. At about 10 by 7.2 by 5 inches and 2.9 pounds, you can slide it from kitchen to guest room. A 30-watt brick is the only power source, and the only port on the back is that power jack, so a weekend trip means packing a cord and hunting for an outlet.
Mitxela wanted noise. Years of fluid simulations on LEDs had given him mercury-like sloshing on screens and a tiny wearable pendant, yet every version stayed silent. Flip-dot panels solve that problem by themselves. Each pixel is a physical disk with magnets that slaps from black to yellow and back, and a few thousand of those slaps at once sound like water moving in a shallow tray. The name sealed it. FLIP already stood for Fluid Implicit Particle. Putting that algorithm on flip dots was too cool to ignore.