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Marshall Emberton III Packs Stage Style and a Full Weekend into One Small Speaker

By Bill Smith October 2, 2026

Marshall still builds its portable speakers to look like the cabinets that sit behind guitarists. Emberton III, priced at $99.99 (was $180), keeps the script logo, the metal grille, and a textured sleeve that feels closer to an amp cover than a smooth plastic pebble pulled from a beach bag. Black and brass is the familiar pairing. Cream, brown, sage, midnight blue, black and silver, and a couple of darker finishes sit on the same body. At 6.3 inches wide, 2.7 inches tall, and 3 inches deep, the whole unit weighs 1.5 pounds, light enough to slide into a day bag without rearranging everything else already in there.

Steve Mould Makes a Business Card Stick to the Ceiling With Vibration

By Jackson Chung October 2, 2026

Steve Mould sticks a coin-sized vibration motor to a business card, presses the card flat against a ceiling, and lets go. The card stays. A gap remains between the paper and the paint, thin enough that light barely slips through, wide enough that the two surfaces never meet. An eggshell does the same once a motor is fixed to it. So does a half-millimeter aluminum disc, once the motor gets loud enough to matter.

Pinball Machine 2.0 Builds a Full Desk Game From 3D-Printed Square Tiles

By Bill Smith October 2, 2026

Steven at 3D Printer Academy spent close to a year tearing up his own desktop pinball machine and starting over. The first one, sold as file packs after a spring Kickstarter that drew about 1,500 backers and roughly $120,000, already proved a strange point. A playable pinball table can come off a normal home printer, run with no wires, and live on a desk. Version 2.0, shown in his latest build video and lined up for a new Kickstarter, treats that first machine as a draft with real limits.

RugOne Xsnap 7 Pro Launches, Puts a Detachable Action Camera on a Rugged Phone

By Jackson Chung October 2, 2026

RugOne, the outdoor arm of rugged-phone maker Ulefone, showed the Xsnap 7 Pro at IFA in Berlin on September 5 and opened Kickstarter orders two days later. Early backers can still claim a limited run at €799. Full retail follows this month at $999 in the US and €1,099.99 in Europe, in Sand Dune or Black. A small cube sits flush in a recess on the back, and that cube is meant to leave the phone when the shot needs a helmet, a handlebar, or a chest strap.

First LEGO Icons Dragon Ball Shenron and Goku Set Coils an Eternal Dragon in Bricks

By Bill Smith October 2, 2026

LEGO and Toei Animation have put Shenron on an official box. Set 11390, sold as LEGO Icons Dragon Ball Shenron & Goku, is the first product from a new partnership between the brick company and the studio behind the anime, and it goes straight at the summoning that starts almost every wish in the original series. Designers studied animation frames and the classic poses, then built a display model around that one moment: the dragon rising, the kid on the cloud, the seven balls already gathered.