Awesome Tech

This slick computer desk is ideal for PC gamers with its stealthy black metal surface and legs. Its 59.1″ x 27.6″ desktop is large enough for multiple monitors and has plenty of room for mousing. It includes a covered cable management tray, and can be upgraded with RGB lighting, a magnetic desk mat, and other accessories.

The Air75 is the slimmest mechanical keyboard we’ve seen to date. It features a 75% ANSI layout, low-profile PBT keycaps, hot-swappable switches, RGB lighting, and an aluminum frame. It supports 2.4Ghz, Bluetooth, and wired connections, and is compatible with the NuFolio V2, a carrying case, tablet, and phone stand.

The latest LaserPecker is a tabletop laser engraver that can place designs on all kinds of materials, including wood, acrylic, stone, metal, ceramics, dark glass, and even food. It has both a diode laser and a pulsed fiber laser for working with different materials. With its slide module, it can engrave items up to 6.29″ x 11.81″

The Apple Pencil, Samsung S Pen, and Microsoft Surface Pen are all pretty great, but they’re also expensive to replace if you lose them. The ZoopLoop solves that problem. The 20.75″ silicone tether loops around your tablet’s case and securely grips styluses from 0.27″ to 0.37″ in diameter. It comes in black, teal, and grey.

Boston Dynamics’ ATLAS robot continues to amass new skills. We’ve seen how agile the bipedal automaton has become; now ATLAS has grippers, so it can pick up objects while walking and performing acrobatics. This demo video shows off some of the ‘bot’s newfound capabilities as it helps out on the job site – and does it with swagger.

Get ready for the most immersive gaming experience ever with LG’s enormous curved OLED display. The 21:9 ultrawide screen has a dramatic curve that surrounds you with action. It has a 3440 x 1440 resolution, a crazy fast 240Hz refresh rate, 0.03 response time, HDR, G-SYNC, 1,500,000:1 contrast, and inky blacks.

This palm-sized gadget is a Bluetooth MIDI controller for creating electronic music. It works wirelessly with apps like Koala Sampler, Ableton, AUM, and many others, providing a dozen input buttons, a seven-bank slider, and an effects knob. It has a USB-C rechargeable battery that lets you perform for up to 12 hours per charge.

Two years after Apple discontinued its HomePod speaker, it’s back with a new model. It has a high‑excursion woofer 4-inch woofer, five beamforming tweeters, and five microphones, and automatically adjusts to your room. It’s now compatible with the Matter smart home protocol and supports spatial audio with Dolby Atmos.

Be prepared for power outages or juice up in remote locations with this 1260Wh battery-powered generator. It has six 110-volt AC outlets, four USB-A ports and two USB-C ports, and can power up to 13 devices at once. It can recharge to 80% in an hour, or 4 hours with solar panels. Save $400 off the MSRP in The Awesomer Shop.

(PG-13: Language) Michael Reeves is really bad at boxing. Regardless, he signed up for the Creator Clash, then came up with the worst possible method of training – a set of TENS machines programmed to shock his muscles into action by zapping his nerves with electricity. He also turned his friends into Rock’em Sock’em sparring robots.

Yeah, we know a spider has eight legs and not six, but Hacksmith’s rideable hexapod robot looks like a giant spider to us. It took a crazy amount of time and effort to create the massive mech, which they built from six excavators provided by Princess Auto. The year-long project served up a serious schooling in mechanical engineering.

We’ve seen a handful of keycaps made from wood or metal, but most of them are made from plastic. Cerakey is making the first production ceramic keycaps. They’re designed for a smooth feel, pleasant sound, and durability, thanks to their alumina ceramic construction. They come in a variety of artful glazes.

The ByteBoi is a great way to learn about electronics and have fun doing it. The kit includes all the parts needed to build your own handheld gaming console and works with Make Code Arcade to create and load games. It’s also available with a complete tool kit for assembly.

Typical 3D printers can output one or two colors at a time, but this 3D printer from Mimaki can print objects from a palette of more than 10 million colors. 3D Printing Nerd got look at its capabilities during Formnext USA. It creates objects by printing layers of UV-curable CMYK resins encased in a water-soluble support material.

These days, it’s pretty easy to find a clock that tells time with words. But this clock from Twisted&Tinned is the coolest variant we’ve seen. Behind each of its 114 letters is an individual servo motor that moves the letters into focus as they light up, adding a sense of depth to the display. A DIY kit is available on Tindie.

Typewriters might be obsolete, but devices that can print on paper are still useful. One problem with typewriters is that they’re big and heavy. Attoparsec engineered a typewriter that fits in your pocket. He took the striker bars from a typewriter and linked them together in a machined metal case with a built-in ink pad.

This retro digital watch from Tokyoflash Japan packs Hewlett-Packard LEDs from the 1990s and visible circuitry beneath a red mineral crystal lens. In addition to time and date functions, the stainless steel watch can be factory-programmed with a four-letter digital monogram. Save $20 through 1.14.23 with code AIRO.

Razer ups their speaker game with the Leviathan V2 Pro soundbar. It uses beamforming tech, head-tracking AI, and THX Spatial Audio to immerse you in precise surround sound. Its five full-range drivers and downward-firing subwoofer produce impressive volume, while 30-zone RGB lighting adds dynamic in-game effects.

Lenovo’s unique laptop features two 2.8K OLED displays which can be used in either a stacked landscape or side-by-side portrait mode. Its wireless keyboard can be docked on the bottom panel or placed on a table for maximum screen real estate. It also has a smart pen stylus and a 360-degree rotating Bowers & Wilkins soundbar.

Here we are now; entertain us. The One Hacker Band features no humans except the one programming its servo-powered, robotic members. Crank up the volume and do the pogo dance as the animatronic musicians perform a cover of Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit.

Razer’s 4K Kiyo Pro Ultra has the largest image sensor in any webcam and an f/1.7 aperture lens for DSLR quality images and excellent low-light performance. It has HDR support, face-tracking autofocus and auto-exposure, and lets you customize zoom, pan, tilt, ISO, and shutter speed.

The idea of a machine optimized for throwing blades as quickly and accurately as possible seems like a terrible idea. But this is the internet, so someone had to go and make one. Quint BUILDs shows off his dangerous invention, which can launch and fire up to 10 knives with precision and from different distances.

This low-cost gadget adds a heads-up display to any car. It uses your phone’s screen as its projection source, which reflects onto a see-through screen you can attach to your dashboard. It works with a variety of smartphone GPS apps to display your speed and driving directions, so you can keep your eyes on the road ahead.