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Olight IMini2 Quick-access Flashlight

Olight IMini2 Quick-access Flashlight
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This tiny flashlight from Olight turns on automatically when detached from its ring. Keep its base attached to your keychain or belt loop, and pull on it to activate. It also has a built-in magnet to attach it to metal surfaces and a charging connector that plugs right into a standard USB-A port.

Figure 01 AI Robot Reasoning Demo

Figure 01 AI Robot Reasoning Demo

Advancements in voice recognition, large language models, neural networks, and robotics come together in this impressive demonstration. An unnamed human asks the Figure 01 robot to recognize objects, perform tasks, and explain its reasoning. While it takes a moment for the AI to compute its responses, it’s a glimpse of things to come. (Thanks, Myriam!)

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Hoka Hopara 2 Hiking Sandals

Hoka Hopara 2 Hiking Sandals
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The new Hopara 2 hiking sandals combine comfort, green materials, and rugged construction. They have an adjustable heel strap and quick-toggle lace for ease of use, a water-repellent recycled knit upper, a recycled Cordura mesh overlay to block debris, and a grippy outsole paired with a comfortable sugarcane topsole.

GLORB Color-Changing Light Fixture

GLORB Color-Changing Light Fixture

This LED accent lamp features color-changing facets you control with your phone. The GLORB is 9.8″ across, or about as big as a basketball, and includes a tabletop stand and a ceiling hook. It’s got a USB-C port, so it can run on a wall charger or a battery pack, can react to music, and can sync multiple units together. Sign up to be notified when it launches.

If AI Was Honest

If AI Was Honest

Honest Ads offers a darkly humorous take on what could happen if our worst fears about artificial intelligence come true. Along the way, fake CEO Roger Horton exposes the kind of machine-generated garbage that passes for “content” these days and how large language models are just really good at guessing what the next word might be in a sentence.

Uncrate x Wayne Enterprises Collection

Uncrate x Wayne Enterprises Collection
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Uncrate and DC Comics teamed up with some of the best clothing and accessory brands to create the Wayne Enterprises collection. They feature subtle branding in the form of Bruce Wayne’s company’s logo and emphasize style and class over vengeance. Standouts include a leather folder, a brass and leather punching bag, and translucent gray sunglasses.

Pena X-Series Pry Bottle Opener

Pena X-Series Pry Bottle Opener
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Peña Knives’ single-piece tool combines three useful features in one: a bottle opener, hex bit driver, and prying edge. Measuring just 2.75″ long, it’s equally at home on your keychain or in your pocket. Made from titanium with a rugged stone-washed finish.

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Acebeam Terminator M2-X RGB Flashlight

Acebeam Terminator M2-X RGB Flashlight

Acebeam’s palm-size Terminator M2-X flashlight is incredibly versatile. It has white spot and flood beams and RGB accent lighting in seven colors. It offers six brightness levels, red and green signal flashes, and a color-changing mode. Available with a 3200-lumen cool white or 2000-lumen high CRI90 light source powered by a replaceable 18650 lithium-ion battery.

Why Diet Coke Is So Popular

Why Diet Coke Is So Popular

Coca-Cola sells billions of cases of Diet Coke every year. How did the drink that replaced Tab in the 1980s become a sweet and fizzy juggernaut? Weird History Foods looks at the origins of carbonated beverages and low-calorie soft drinks and how Diet Coke achieved its cult-like status to leapfrog its competition.

Nordsman Teton Flannel Shirt

Nordsman Teton Flannel Shirt
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Roark’s heavyweight flannel shirt is the perfect outer layer on chilly spring mornings and after the sun goes down. It has an intricate geometric pattern in a Southwestern motif, brass snap closures, and a reinforced collar and elbows. Made from 100% organic cotton and available in sizes S to XXL.

John Malkovich on His Characters

John Malkovich on His Characters

John Malkovich is known for his distinctive voice and intense, quirky character portrayals. In this interview with GQ, the award-winning actor revisits his roles from Being John Malkovich, Con Air, Rounders, Dangerous Liaisons, Burn After Reading, and others. We love how Spike Jonze told him, “John Malkovich wouldn’t do it that way.”

Awekeys Copper Eagle Full Metal Keycaps

Awekeys Copper Eagle Full Metal Keycaps

Beautify any mechanical keyboard with these lovely real metal keycaps from Awekeys. They’re made from recycled aluminum with copper plating. The keycaps produce an extra-clicky sound and are cool to the touch. They fit a variety of MX key switches and come in a base 116-key set, with add-ons like etched eagle-themed keys by artist Daniel Mitchell.

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Super Realistic Mario

Super Realistic Mario

Adam from North of the Border made realistic versions of some Super Mario Bros. monsters, so it was only a matter of time before he got to Mario himself. His less-cartoony Mario imagines Nintendo’s plumber as a gritty, stubble-faced human with proportions based on the Norse god Thor. Instead of a hammer, Mario carries a pipe to take down his enemies.

UCO 3-in-1 Camping Utensil Set

UCO 3-in-1 Camping Utensil Set
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These versatile camping utensils from UCO combine a spoon, fork, and knife. They’re made from lightweight, food-safe nylon and stack neatly thanks to holes for lashing the included tether. They are sold as a set of four in an earthy Venture or bold Classic color scheme and are also available in UCO mess kits.

JOAT Titanium Multitool

JOAT Titanium Multitool

Unlike most compact multitools, Fetos Studio’s JOAT (Jack of All Trades) can be completely disassembled. This lets you decide which parts to take with you. You can even bring just the key loop. Its titanium modules include a screwdriver with two magnetic bits, a wrench, a pry bar, a blade, and a bottle opener.

Tesla Gigafactory Berlin Fly-through 2.0

Tesla Gigafactory Berlin Fly-through 2.0

Electric vehicle maker Tesla takes us on an updated tour of Gigafactory Berlin. The drone’s-eye view of the factory puts viewers as close as they’ll ever get to metal stamping presses, industrial robots, and other massive machines. Tesla expects the facility to crank out hundreds of thousands of its Model Y crossovers and millions of battery cells.

Paracord Projects Book

Paracord Projects Book
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There are a few items you should always carry in your pack when camping or hiking, among them a multitool, duct tape, a firestarter, and paracord. Bryan Lynch’s book offers 60 projects that can help you survive, along with creative ways to carry paracord wrapped around tools, worn as a bracelet, or woven into a pouch, and more.

Tractor Pulls Snow Tubes on a Frozen Lake

Tractor Pulls Snow Tubes on a Frozen Lake

Here’s a fun winter activity – a tractor that pulls 28 people on innertubes around a frozen lake. This ride can be enjoyed in Heihe, China, a popular destination for tourists from nearby Russia. We see no reason the same can’t be done anywhere you have a tractor, a frozen lake, and a bunch of rope – the more powerful the tractor, the more people you can pull.

Adam Savage’s Hardware Storage Setup

Adam Savage’s Hardware Storage Setup

After prototyping a system for organizing the hardware in his workshop (aka “The Cave”), Adam Savage put his nose to the grindstone and built the entire setup. The rolling storage system has a plywood frame and custom-built metal shelves that slide out and hold Sortimo boxes for easy access to parts. It was immensely satisfying to see it all come together.

Berlin Tower 360º Hyperlapse

Berlin Tower 360º Hyperlapse

Felix from BerlinLapse captured this wild 360º hyperlapse video of the Fernsehturm, one of Europe’s tallest free-standing structures. To shoot the footage, he mapped out a walking route around the tower and snapped photos along the way. He then color-graded the photos in Lightroom and used After Effects to track the tower’s position, size, and rotation.

Michael Jackson + Judas Priest = Judas Jackson

Michael Jackson + Judas Priest = Judas Jackson

You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’, Billie Jean. Mashup maestro Bill McClintock took these two very different songs and combined them with Steely Dan’s Do It Again to create the heaviest pop song imaginable. We think Rob Halford’s spiked leather sleeves would look great paired with MJ’s sequined glove.

How Comics Were Made

How Comics Were Made

Tech journalist and print historian Glenn Fleischman teamed up with other experts to create How Comics Were Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Page. The book takes readers through 130 years of newspaper cartoons with the help of high-resolution original art, newspaper reproductions, and interviews with cartoonists.

Dirt Bike with Sawblade Wheels

Dirt Bike with Sawblade Wheels

We already know it’s possible to drive a car on a frozen lake using sawblades instead of wheels. The guys from CboysTV attempted the same feat with a dirt bike. To pull off the crazy stunt, they fabricated 100-pound steel sawblade wheels for both a dirt bike and an ATV. The blade wheels work shockingly well, though falling off could be deadly.

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