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Lenovo’s Project AeroBlade Packs a Silent 14-Inch Laptop Into 830 Grams

By Jackson Chung September 6, 2026

Lenovo rolled Project AeroBlade onto the IFA Berlin floor this week as a ThinkBook-class concept that treats cooling as the last piece of bulk still worth removing. Shown at Innovation World on September 3, the 14-inch machine stays under 10 millimeters thick and under 830 grams, a magnesium-aluminum shell with a high screen-to-body OLED panel, Thunderbolt 4, and Wi-Fi 7. Official copy frames it as full-performance computing for hybrid work, with every part of the board and chassis sized around travel rather than a traditional heat stack.

NES Radar Turns a 1985 Nintendo Into a Live Air Traffic Scope

By Bill Smith September 6, 2026

Levi Maaia’s NES Radar takes an original Nintendo Entertainment System and treats it like a small air traffic display. You load a custom ROM on a flash cartridge, type any airport’s four-letter ICAO code with a controller in port one, press Start, and real aircraft flying near that field appear as moving 8-bit targets on the television. It works for airports worldwide. A quiet local strip shows a few arrivals lining up. A code like KLAX fills the ring in a hurry.

Alive & Kicking Finally Lets the First Portal Run on Sequel Hardware

By Bill Smith September 5, 2026

Fifteen years after a small fan team started rebuilding Valve’s 2007 puzzle game inside its sequel’s engine, Portal: Alive & Kicking is on Steam. Rhubarb & Rhubarb shipped the project on August 28, 2026 as a free download that only works if you already own Portal 2 and keep both titles in the same Steam library folder.

Dairy Queen’s First Robot Blizzard Counter Opens on Wujiang Road

By Jackson Chung September 5, 2026

Crowds on Shanghai’s Wujiang Road have a new reason to stall outside the Dairy Queen at No. 169, across from Louis Vuitton’s ship-shaped flagship. On August 29, Sharpa’s wheeled humanoid, North, started a daily shift behind a dedicated counter in that store, making Oreo Blizzards for paying customers on the same machines, cups, toppings, and blender a human crew already used. CFB Group runs the franchise. Sharpa and DQ call the setup the first live commercial kitchen where a humanoid works a full branded workflow without new fixtures, custom conveyors, or a rebuilt room.

Great Scott in 357 Bricks, LEGO Speed Champions Time Machine from Back to the Future (77256)

By Bill Smith September 5, 2026

Holiday gift lists fill quickly with licensed toys, yet few manage to serve both the parent who still quotes the clock tower scene and the kid who just learned what 88 miles per hour means. LEGO Speed Champions 77256 Time Machine from Back to the Future does that job in 357 pieces for $22.49 (was $28), aimed at ages 9 and up. Finished size stays compact at just over 6.5 inches long, 4 inches high and 2.5 inches wide, so it fits a shelf, a desk or a mix of other 8-wide Speed Champions cars without dominating the space.