Photo credit: Evan Blass
Lenovo has a history of making laptops that look like they just stepped out of the set of Prime Video’s upcoming Blade Runner 2099 series. From see-through panels to scrollable displays, the company’s experimental streak is clear. Lenovo is going to show off its new creation at IFA 2025: the VertiFlex (courtesy of Evan Blass), also known as Project Pivo internally, a concept laptop with a screen that rotates 90 degrees from landscape to portrait.
Sony’s BRAVIA Theater U, a wireless wearable speaker, is $198 (down from $299.99) and feels like a quiet revolution in how we experience sound at home. It sits lightly on your shoulders and delivers surround sound that rivals a full home theater without cutting you off from the world around you.
Super Mario 64, released in 1996, is a nostalgic classic for many, but there’s a shocking truth beneath the surface: the game is memory hungry. Thanks to the work of modder Kaze Emanuar, we get to see how this legendary Nintendo 64 game used its 4 megabytes of RAM in ways that were, at times, surprisingly wasteful.
Mount Fuji, Japan’s 12,300ft stratovolcano, has been dormant for almost three centuries and is a popular backdrop for photos as well as cultural worship. But on August 26, 2025, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Japan’s Cabinet Office issued a chilling reminder of its fury. They released AI-generated videos showing a catastrophic eruption and plunging Tokyo’s 37 million people into an ash-choked hell.
In the heart of Colorado’s Chaffee County, where wildfires threaten nearly half the state’s population, two homes have risen as an experiment in homebuilding. The VeroVistas, two 1,100 sqft homes in Buena Vista, were built with a giant 3D printer that lays down concrete walls layer by layer. One of these homes went from blueprints to finished home in 16 days.
The iMac G3 was a cultural icon in 1998, thanks to its Bondi Blue exterior, curved design and rejection of the floppy drive. Fast forward to 2025, and Terauma’s LEGO Ideas proposal has the same attitude in a 700 piece set that’s charming as unlikely it is to make the cut.
A 21-inch motocross bike tire is rolling wild down a massive sand dune in Argentina’s Fiambalá Desert. The drone is struggling to keep up, weaving through the air to catch every bounce and tumble. This is the Tuk South team’s attempt to break the world record for the longest tire roll, adventure, physics and spectacle.
