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HTC U11

HTC U11

The main gimmick of HTC’s new flagship Android phone is a squeeze gesture – you can map one action each to a short and a long squeeze of the phone’s sides. Other than that, it’s got all the specs of a modern phone. It also comes with active noise-cancelling earbuds.

SolarGaps Window Blinds

SolarGaps Window Blinds

Window blinds with integrated solar panels. SolarGaps claims that its product can save you up to 70% of your electric bill, generating up to 150W per 10sq.ft. The slats are motorized so that they will automatically move to maximize their exposure to sunlight.

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DIY Cortana Holographic AI Assistant

DIY Cortana Holographic AI Assistant

Web developer unt1tled made his own virtual assistant based on Windows’ Cortana. What makes it stand out is that he built an accompanying holographic image by reflecting a custom-made 3D animation from a monitor to three panes of glass.

Miniot Wheel Turntable

Miniot Wheel Turntable

This incredibly minimal record player isn’t much bigger than a 12″ vinyl disc, concealing its tone arm, needle, and electronics underneath its platter. It even can play records while mounted vertically on a tabletop or on the wall. Has both RCA and headphone outputs.

Spyslide Webcam Cover

Spyslide Webcam Cover

It’s quite pricey for what it does, but the Spyslide is a stylish and simple way to cover your monitor, laptop or tablet’s front camera. It’s so thin – thinner than a paperclip! – and small that it will fit on practically any computer you have.

LED Kitchen Backsplash

LED Kitchen Backsplash

Are you tired of the plain old tile behind your kitchen sink? Then look no further than All Things LED’s slick setup, which can display video along the walls under cabinets, providing both a source of accent light, and a cool display worthy of a sports arena.

SculptureAcoustics Speakers

SculptureAcoustics Speakers
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These high-end speakers handcrafted in Spain are designed not only to look amazing, but for audiophile sound. We love the undulating, organic forms, and rich wood construction. The Chrysalis measure 38″ tall, while the Chrysalis Magna are 59″ tall, and rock a 15″ woofer.

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Star Wars Helmet Speakers

Star Wars Helmet Speakers
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These full-size replicas of Imperial helmets double as Bluetooth speakers, each packing a 15-watt woofer, and a pair of 3-watt full-range drivers. They’re crazy expensive, so for those on more modest budgets, there’s also mini stormtrooper and mini K-2SO models.

Pink Trombone Voice Synthesizer

Pink Trombone Voice Synthesizer

Neil Thapen’s fantastically weird time-waster web app lets you control the the shape of a virtual nose, palate, mouth, lips, tongue, and voicebox, in order to create your own humanoid sounds. With enough practice, you can make it say stuff, sorta.

Amazon Echo Show

Amazon Echo Show

Amazon’s latest virtual assistant has a built-in 7″ touchscreen display and a 5MP camera. The Echo Show lets you watch short videos from Amazon, YouTube etc., control and interact with smart gadgets, video call with other Echo Show users and more.

Electrick Touch Sensing System

Electrick Touch Sensing System

Future Interfaces Group shows off Electrick, an intriguing way to convert virtually any sort of object into a touch-sensitive surface using conductive materials or sprays, and connecting an array of electrodes. It’s not as precise as a touchscreen, but it can sense X/Y positions.

Fender Mustang GT Amplifiers

Fender Mustang GT Amplifiers

Fender’s new digital amplifiers have thousands of presets and effects that you can operate through a built-in display, and you’ll get even more thanks to their Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity. The Mustang GT amps also have a speaker function and USB and XLR outputs.

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Forza Metallo Wireless Earphones

Forza Metallo Wireless Earphones
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Another stellar in-ear model from V-MODA, the Metallo Wireless offers exceptionally clean, crisp, distortion-free sound, great frequency response, and a smartly designed neck band that keeps controls just where you need them. Read our full review on Technabob.

LG 43UD79-B 4K Monitor

LG 43UD79-B 4K Monitor
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It’s hard to remember this monitor’s name, but it certainly leaves an impression. LG’s new 43″ 4K monitor has a ton of inputs: two HDMI 1.4, two HDMI 2.0, a DisplayPort 1.2, a USB-C port and two USB 3 ports, so you can have up to four 21.5″ 1080p displays at once.

Working LEGO Printer

Working LEGO Printer

JK Brickworks shows off another awesome mechanical build – a fully-functional printer/plotter that uses a pen to draw words and images on a sheet of paper that it feeds using the wheels from a LEGO vehicle, and a Mindstorms’ EV3 controller.

Jenga-playing Robot

Jenga-playing Robot

It may look a little bit like a sideways stargate, but this robot is designed to carefully position itself around a Jenga stack, methodically pluck out a wooden block, and move it to the top of the stack. We’d be curious to see if it could play an entire game, but we’re guessing not.

CNC Machining a Bust

CNC Machining a Bust

There’s something just so satisfying about watching this Thermwood 5-axis milling machine gradually transform a nondescript block of low-density foam into an intricately-carved sculpture. We wonder how long it took to complete the entire model.

AeroBull XS1 & HD Speakers

AeroBull XS1 & HD Speakers
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These bespectacled bulldogs not only look cool, but they sound awesome too. The 12″ tall Aerobull XS1 a pair of 1.2″ mids and a 2.5″ subwoofer, while his big dog brother the 26″ tall AeroBull HD rocks two 2″ full-range drivers, a 5.25″ sub, and a bone-shaped remote.

M.A.D. Gallery Nixie Machine II

M.A.D. Gallery Nixie Machine II
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For the 5th anniversary of MB&F’s M.A.D. Gallery, industrial designer Frank Buchwald teamed up with nixie tube specialist Dalibor Farny for an updated version of Buchwald’s incredible Nixie Machine. The steel and brass clock can be tuned manually or online via Wi-Fi.

BendSketch 2D to 3D Modeling

BendSketch 2D to 3D Modeling

There’s some complex math and science behind BendSketch technology, but basically what it lets you do is impressive – draw a freeform sketch to indicate the shape and depth of an object, and it automatically creates a smooth 3D model of it of the design.

Planar Elliptical Runner Robot

Planar Elliptical Runner Robot

Engineers at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition developed this two-legged robot which can run at speeds up to 12 mph. It may not be as fast as Boston Dynamics’ cheetah ‘bot, but we still wouldn’t want to chased by one.

Workhorse W-15 Electric Pickup

Workhorse W-15 Electric Pickup

Designed as a more fuel efficient, reduced maintenance truck for fleets, the W-15 packs impressive specs. Its AWD electric drivetrain pushes out 460hp, and can go 0-to-60 in 5.5s. Pure-electric range is just 80 miles, but its gas engine can generate power for up to 310 miles.

Gigabyte Aero 15

Gigabyte Aero 15

Gigabyte’s 15″ workhorse laptop. The Aero 15 has a nearly bezel-less 1080P/4K display (the exact same panels used in the Dell XPS 15) that’s been pre-calibrated to Pantone certifications, a 5GB GTX 1060 GPU, 10h battery life and user upgradeable RAM and SSDs.

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