Microsoft’s latest move pulls one of its oldest visual hits straight from the screen and onto your feet. These Crocs, built around the Windows XP Bliss wallpaper, hit the company’s online store this week at $79.95 a pair. The bundle packs in more than just shoes—there’s a drawstring backpack patterned after that same famous hill and sky, plus a set of six charms that clip onto the clogs and summon up chunks of early computing life.
Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky just introduced the Nomad family of drones, a series designed from the ground up for lengthy flights and remote locations. These vehicles rise straight up like helicopters, hover in the air to explore or deliver, and then tilt forward into smooth, rapid glides that lengthen their time aloft.
A $20 point-and-shoot film camera from Walmart sounds like a good deal, a throwback to the days when analog photography was king. The ONN 35mm camera is a little plastic bodied thing that promises to bring film photography to the masses, but does it deliver for the price?
Ferrari’s Maranello offices were buzzing with excitement as the Italian supercar maker unveiled the powertrain of its first ever electric car, the Elettrica. This isn’t the full car reveal – that’s coming next year – but what we’ve been given is enough to get any car enthusiast’s heart racing. The Elettrica, with its quad motor layout, massive battery and F1 architecture, promises to deliver Ferrari’s signature thrills in a silent electric package.
Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot can flip, run and lift heavy objects with human-like ease. But the real magic happens in a part of the robot that’s often overlooked: the grippers. Atlas’ mechanical hands, full of clever engineering, can handle everything from coffee cups to car parts.
While the latest from GoPro and Insta360 get all the headlines, the DJI Osmo Action 5 Pro sneaks in like a quiet power play or friend who shows up with better stories than expected. The Essential Combo, priced at $269 (was $339), gets you the camera, a spare battery, protective frame, quick-release adapter mount and a locking screw.
In 1974, Hungarian architect Ernő Rubik sat down with a handful of wooden blocks and a problem concerning 3D movement. Now, 50 years later, the same puzzle has a different shape. The Rubik’s WOWCube takes the classic design and fills it with screens, transforming idle rotations into entire games. Cubios, the firm behind this, collaborated with Spin Master, the current owners of the Rubik’s name, to make it official.
Sony and AMD have revealed Project Amethyst, a joint venture into the heart of graphics hardware that will change how games look and run on the PlayStation 6. Mark Cerny, the man behind the PS5’s architecture, sat down with AMD’s Jack Huynh to go into the details at a recent tech event. Right now, everything is in software models – no silicon yet – but the direction feels like a deliberate step forward for a console years away.
