Awesome Tech

The FL300 is a 300 lumen USB-rechargeable light that can be used as a bicycle’s head light or as a rear light. It has high, low and two blinking modes, is waterproof, and comes with a universal mount. Fabric also has a 150 lumen variant.

Mophie’s battery case for the new Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ increases your new smartphone’s running time by nearly 100%. It supports wireless charging, and will fill up your phone’s battery first before itself when recharging.

Quick Peek is a photo-based inventory system. Use the app to take pictures of your belongings and assign the photos to a Quick Peek stick-on label. Now you’ll know which boxes contain which items. You can also browse all your stored stuff within the app.

Coming soon to Google’s Assistant and Photos applications, Lens offers information or actions based on a photo or what your device’s camera is seeing. It can identify objects, detect Wi-Fi passwords, offer to show you a restaurant’s reviews and more.

La Fabrique DIY’s quaint binary clock. The City Clock looks like a model of a traditional Parisian building, but the lights on its windows actually tell the time. You can also get just the clock’s electronics and make your own enclosure.

We’re so used to hearing computers sound like Siri and Alexa, but the earliest days of synthesized vocals dates back all the way to 1939, and Homer Dudley’s invention, which combined buzzes and hisses with varying intonations to produce humanoid voices.

This tiny drone is designed to make racing easy for beginners, offering up high-speed flight, but with easy-to-use controls. It streams a 720p live video feed to your smartphone via Wi-Fi, offers 3 flying speeds, and automates flips and rolls for easy showboating.

The latest version of Olympus’ rugged compact camera has a new 12MP sensor that works better in low-light compared to the one in its predecessor. The TG-5 also adds 4K video recording, 1080p slow motion 120fps, up to 20fps sequential shooting and more.

An affordable alternative to the Optimus Popularis. The Stream Deck is aimed at Twitch streamers, but you can program its 15 keys with shortcuts for practically any application. The LCD display in each key makes remembering your shortcuts a snap.

Techmoan digs up all kinds of strange and wonderful “high-tech” stuff from the past. One of the crazier items has to be this cassette tape which defeated the entire purpose of a cassette, making you load in tiny reels of tape. Perhaps this was the precursor to the fidget spinner.

Devon of the Make Anything channel shows us a neat trick you can do with a 3D printer. By slicing your model just right, you can make just about any object into a springy, bendy, Slinky-like plaything. Separating the layers looks like a pain, but the finished models are super cool.

From retro gadget maker Love Hulten comes a modular audio system consisting of a pair of speakers and an amplifier, all with handmade African mahogany cases. The speakers have 6.75″ Pioneer drivers, while the amp has a 100W TI chip with Bluetooth and aux inputs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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’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.

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.