Posts Written by Lambert Varias

The Aulumu M01 looks like a cyberpunk gadget, but it’s not all style. It has a MagSafe wireless charger at the top, a 5W Qi wireless charger, plus a 10W USB-C charging port on its base. It also has a slick LED nightlight with three brightness levels. The M01 folds flat, and its MagSafe charger rotates 148° so you can prop your phone at different angles.

The Amida Digitrend stood out right from its unveiling in 1976. Its space-age design, unorthodox display, and mechanical movement bucked the then-emerging LCD trend. Amida was recently reborn, and its first product is a redesigned version of the Digitrend. It’s a 39mm steel and sapphire crystal watch powered by the Soprod Newton P092 movement.

DIY Perks has finally done it. After stashing a gaming PC into a desk and a monitor into a matching shelf, he’s come up with a solution that elegantly hides the entire computer setup: a liquid-cooled PC, a 45″ OLED display, a mouse, and a keyboard, with lots of room to spare. Just to flex even more, the entire thing sits on motorized standing desk legs.

(PG-13: Language) “This is a company, not a family. And not all roles get to party.” To most of us, MoviePass was just another example of a company prioritizing growth and mind share over a sensible business plan. But HBO’s upcoming documentary reveals the racial dynamics and unchecked greed that fundamentally rotted the business. Premieres 5.29.24.

While we’re seeing handheld gaming PCs becoming a thing, console modder Didsomebodysayretro went the opposite way. He made the WoodBoy, an arcade machine powered by the original Game Boy hardware. Yep, it plays games from cartridges. It’s probably the kindest reminder that those of us from the Pokémon generation are now adults with aging eyes.

These over-ear noise-canceling headphones were clearly inspired by Apple’s AirPods Max, but they have enough going on their own to warrant a look. The Sonos Ace has a dedicated button that lets you quickly swap the audio from a Sonos soundbar to the headphones. It can also use the soundbar to analyze your room and mimic a surround sound system.

If GeoGuessr is too hard for you, check out BenjaminTD’s Unzoomed. It’s a free, quick, and, most of all, forgiving location guessing game. You start off with a zoomed-in top-down view of a city. Each time you make an incorrect guess, the map zooms out to (hopefully) give you more clues. We’d probably do better with maps from video games.

Kosmik combines a web browser with an infinite canvas where you can drag and drop images and text from websites as well as PDF files. It automatically tags the images you drag with the site where they came from. It’s a great way to start researching, get inspired, or just make sure you don’t forget that cool thing that you saw just on The Awesomer.

Is your day going too well? Let YouTuber Clumsy Jackdaw turn things upside down. They made A Very Normal Captcha Game, a web-based game that asks you to solve increasingly silly and frustrating captchas. If you managed to complete the game, check out Clumsy Jackdaw’s making-of video, subscribe, and then unsubscribe. That’ll show ’em.

Kurzgesagt recaps some of the scientific speculations about black holes. They then explore a few thought experiments about these mysterious cosmic locations, leading up to a mind-blowing possibility. If physicists are correct and a black hole creates a universe inside it, then we could be inside a black hole, that’s inside a universe, that’s inside a…

PVMs are pro-grade CRT TVs highly sought after by retro gamers today. Retroldtech’s functional miniature replicas should be just as precious within that circle. These have IPS LCD screens, but the detail on their housing is impeccable. They have HDMI, VGA, and AV inputs. The Mini PVM has a 5″ display, while the Micro PVM has a 3.5″ display. Unfortunately, they’re already sold out.

Turn your space into an autocratic space station with the officially licensed Death Star Wall Panel Light from Entertainment Earth and Paladone. This half-scale replica of the hallway fixture from Star Wars’ iconic structure can light up in a static color or dynamically react to sound and music. It measures about 10″ W x 49″ H x 1″ D.

Microsoft and other Windows-based laptop makers are following Apple’s lead. The Surface Laptop 7th Edition is powered by the new Snapdragon X all-in-one ARM chip. Disregard all the AI gimmicks: for now, all you have to know is that it should be just as powerful but significantly more power-efficient than laptops running Intel or AMD’s x86-based CPUs.

Released in 1980, the Best Mecha Collection 1/144 RX-78-2 Gundam was the first ever Gunpla. It was, of course, based on the simple art of the original anime. For Gundam’s 45th anniversary, Bandai came up with an updated version of the model kit. It will have pre-colored parts, better articulation, and a snap-fit assembly. It drops Q4 2024 for around $7.

The Xperia 1 Mk. VI has an upgraded zoom camera with an impressive 85mm to 170mm (3.5x to 7x) optical zoom range. It also comes with the AI autofocus tracking from Sony’s Alpha cameras. Its 1080×2340 OLED display with variable refresh rate, 5000mAh battery, and Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip should make for a phone that can last 2 days between charges.

Many inventions make you wonder how their creator came up with them. That’s not the case with Scott Salzman’s Desk Nest Cat Bed. It’s very clearly a cat bed stuck to a monitor arm. Can you make your own for half the price? If you have the skills, absolutely. But for everyone else, this might keep kitty off your keyboard. The bed rotates 360° and holds 25 lb.