In an age where high-speed internet is as common as water, it’s easy to forget the days when connecting to the internet meant listening to your modem wail like a digital banshee. Dial-up internet, with its slow speeds, seems like a relic of the past. But a group of makers at The Serial Port decided to recreate this old nightmare to…watch a YouTube video via dial-up. Yes, YouTube, the bandwidth-hungry behemoth, is using a connection that can barely load a single webpage.
On Vietnam’s 80th National Day earlier this month, Vinfast handed over a fleet of these beasts to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including 2 armored units and 10 standard ones to transport international guests around Hanoi. The Lac Hong 900 LX is named after an ancient Vietnamese mythology about dragon and fairy offspring.
Before we get into it, know that Jony Ive, the founder of LoveFrom, spent two years getting every joint and curve just right so the thing in front of him could withstand the salt and wobble of open ocean without flinching. This is the Sailing Lantern, born from Ive’s frustration with the options available for his yacht.
Holiday crowds turn parking lots into war zones, drivers cramming into spaces that barely fit. One distracted poke and bumpers kiss in ways no one intended. Meet the REDTIGER F7NP, $85.49 (was $149.98), a dual-camera solution that records front and back without requiring anything from your dashboard.
A spiral galaxy in the Scorpius constellation, 100 million light-years away, is a beauty to say the least. NASA/ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured images of NGC 6000, which has a golden core and blue arms, providing a glimpse into stellar evolution, supernovae, as well as an unexpected visitor from our own Solar System.
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On September 25, Sandro Dias stood on top of a 22 story government building in Porto Alegre, Brazil, looking down a ramp that would make even the most fearless skater hesitate. At 50 years old, the Brazilian skateboarding legend was still attempting to make history. Dias turned an urban legend into reality with the Red Bull Building Drop, breaking two Guinness World Records: the highest drop into a quarter pipe and the fastest speed ever recorded.
September has been crazy for anyone who follows phone trends. After Apple’s latest release, OnePlus brings out the 15—a phone that avoids the hype and lets the features speak for themselves. In a nod to cultural norms in parts of Asia, the company skipped 14 and went straight to 15. China gets it at the end of October, while the global launch is November 13.
Samsung’s Moving Style smart TV is a weird combination of portability and polish, with a 27-inch screen that doesn’t need a wall outlet and dares to go where most TVs can’t. This is a mobile TV, with a built-in battery, a kickstand that’s also a handle and a wheeled stand for easy rolling. But does it deliver enough to justify the almost $1,000 price tag in Korea?
In the far future, there is only war—and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV is coming to throw you back into the fray. The first in-engine trailer for this long awaited real-time strategy (RTS) sequel dropped this past weekend and has set the internet ablaze, promising to go back to the series’ roots while delivering the kind of bloody spectacle only Warhammer 40,000 can.
Sony has a habit of quietly adding new hardware to its lineup and the new PS5 Slim, which is now in European stores, is no exception. This one, model number CFI-210, cuts the fat in ways that show a company fine tuning the recipe in the face of rising costs. When you open one of these up you’ll notice the difference straight away: the storage inside clocks in at 825GB, down from the full terabyte of the previous Slim models.