This showy Bluetooth speaker has a cylindrical screen that displays song lyrics and other animations. The trick is a rapidly spinning LED bar that produces a persistence-of-vision illusion. Its see-through display can be viewed from any angle, and its audio system incorporates two full-range drivers and a subwoofer.

OpenAI’s new ChatGPT language model GPT-4o can respond to and with text, audio, images, and video. But perhaps more scarily amazing is that in Voice Mode – which allows it to respond using an AI-generated voice – it’s as snappy and natural-sounding as a human. GPT-4o is available even to free users, but using it in Voice Mode is limited to paid subscribers.

It’s been a while since we saw the early concept for Squirrel with a Gun. The finished game is almost here, and it’s just as deranged as the title sounds. The sandbox shooter lets players use their squirrel’s jumping and climbing abilities while wielding firearms to shake down the neighborhood for treats. Coming to PC, Xbox, and PlayStation 5 Fall 2024.

This tiny, palm-size pocket knife measures just 2.24″ long when closed and weighs just 0.19 oz. Its handle is made from titanium with carbon fiber inserts, and its flip-out mechanism accepts replaceable scalpel-style blades. It also has a loop for attaching to a lanyard or keychain. Great for opening packages, cutting paracord, or shaving wood.

Red Bull skydivers Marco Fürst and Marco Waltenspiel arrived in London, England, in the most dramatic way. They jumped from a helicopter over the River Thames and headed right for the city’s iconic Tower Bridge. After flying through their target, they used the winds to increase altitude so they could open their parachutes and safely land on floating platforms.

This minimalist stainless steel tool from Gear Spool has a tapered end that’s great for prying things apart as well as removing labels, turning flat blade screws, opening cans, and cutting through packing tape. It can even be used to split logs when hit with a hammer. Measuring just about 3″ long, it’s a great addition to any keychain.

Ships of all sizes need propellers to move through the water. Process X takes us on a tour of Japan’s Mikawa Propeller Co., Ltd., a factory that makes precision marine propellers by casting bronze in sand. After the melting and casting process, workers remove excess sand, painstakingly grind away excess metal, and polish propellers to a smooth finish.

This cool retro LEGO kit is based on the design of a 1970s portable AM/FM radio. The 906-piece kit has working power and tuning dials, a movable antenna, and a carrying handle. It includes a Sound Brick with fun vintage radio sounds, and you can place your smartphone behind its speaker grille to listen to your own tunes. Drops 6.1.2024.

Decorated with rainbows and unicorns, this wild-looking vehicle serves a practical purpose. CB Media takes a look at the tractors some farmers in Thailand use to harvest rice. These custom-built turbo-diesel machines ride on tank tracks, can turn on a dime, and keep their driver elevated above marshy rice fields. They’re not exactly environmentally friendly.

Wuben’s new T4 tactical flashlight is substantial despite its compact size. The heavy-duty light packs an OSRAM LED that cranks out 850 lumens. In addition to steady light mode, it has momentary-on and strobe capabilities. Available in a black 6061 aluminum or bronze in 7075 aluminum. The optional tactical grip ring has a built-in tungsten glass breaker.

The best way to cut styrofoam is with a hot wire cutter. These tools usually have a single wire, but someone arranged a bunch of hot wires into a grid to produce a superbly satisfying video. Each time they set a sheet of styrofoam on top of the heated grid, it slides through like butter, creating dozens of foam cubes. We can only imagine the melted plastic fumes.

This modular storage system from Klein Tools lets you build your perfect toolbox. Its small, medium, large, compartment, and cooler boxes stack and click together. The biggest box rolls on heavy-duty rubber wheels for easy transportation. Side-mounted add-ons include hooks, racks, bins, and a magnetic tool holder. There’s even a cupholder option.

George Lucas got his inspiration for Star Wars from a variety of sources, among them, vintage serials like Flash Gordon. Abandoned Films used generative AI to imagine what a Star Wars movie might have looked like had it been created 40 years earlier. The ship design and voiceover are spot-on, but the creepy AI-generated characters are nightmare fuel.

G-SHOCK’s slim-bodied GD-B500 case design melds beautifully with its strap. At 46.3 mm in diameter and 11.0 mm thick, it’s smaller than other G-SHOCK models. The digital watch features date, stopwatch, countdown timer, alarm, step tracker functions, and a bright LED backlight. Choose from fluorescent yellow, light grey/translucent, black, or white.

There’s a subgenre of country music that’s all about beer, dirt, trucks, and women. There I Ruined It created what he says is “what bro-country sounds like to people who don’t like bro-country.” The track, Got a Beer in My Beer, features a dog that drives a pickup while wearing cutoff jeans. We hope he’s not drinking that beer while driving.

This handsome bamboo valet tray is the perfect spot to empty your pockets. The right tray features a built-in Qi-compatible wireless charger for your phone, while the left side offers plenty of space for your wallet, keys, watch, and other everyday items. It supports 15-watt charging, and its base has non-slip pads.

There’s a real camera out there that’s the size of a grain of sand. But for this video, the guys from Corridor didn’t strap one of these technological marvels to a bee. Nope, they used a drone and their visual effects skills instead, giving us a fun bee’s-eye perspective on the world as the apian buzzes around. See how they made the clip in the Behind-the-scenes video.

If you’ve got to take prescriptions, it’s good to store them in a pill caddy. CountyComm’s limited-run Med Weekly PillSafe is way cooler looking than typical pill organizers. Each box is machined from a single brick of Ultem, known for its durability and translucent amber hue. It has a sliding lid with a topo engraving and date markers in each pill compartment.

We recently watched an educational film on what to do when you encounter people walking in the opposite direction on a sidewalk. This wacky CG-animated short posted by TecoMalu shows an alternative method that involves a horizontal booster pack that helps you quickly maneuver around other pedestrians.

This mechanical keyboard from Das Keyboard helps you blend in – assuming your office is in a warzone. The DeltaForce 65 has a compact 65% form factor, a machined aluminum body, and keycaps in jungle, desert, urban, and cyber camouflage patterns. It comes with hot-swap Gateron red switches and RGB backlighting and is compatible with QMK/VIA.

If you spent any time on the Web in the early 2000s, you surely encountered some of those over-the-top song covers performed by Crazy Frog. Musician Luca Stricagnoli classes up the joint with a fingerstyle acoustic guitar medley of the Frog’s Eurodance remakes of Axel F, Popcorn, and Blue.

This mechanical pencil forgoes the normal plastic body for one made from maple hardwood. That means each pencil has a unique wood grain and is one-of-a-kind. It accepts any 0.5 mm pencil lead and has a simple click-to-dispense mechanism. It also comes in a dark-stained version.

This Nite Ize gadget makes quick work of tying down objects. It has a carabiner clip on one side and a ratcheting cam mechanism for tightening a length of rope. It can work in a fixed-end or looped configuration and has a working load limit of 250 lb. The kit includes 10 feet of smooth-gliding 1/4″ rope.