Awesome Tech

We’d tell you the specs of the SL-1200M7B, but we all know what it’s all about. Technics teamed up with Lamborghini to create this slick-looking turntable. It comes with a Lambo badge slipmat and a vinyl record that contains engine growls of the supercar maker’s flagship models. The record is designed to look like a wheel from the Revuelto.

Hozo Design’s compact NeoRulerGO digital ruler can measure just about anything. Its tip rolls across straight, curved, or irregular surfaces, sending precision data to its built-in display. It also works as a scale ruler, with conversions for numerous Imperial and Metric scales. Pair it with the optional NeoPencil case for a longer grip and a long-lasting graphite pencil.

Anker’s upcoming Bluetooth speaker is for people who often make calls in noisy environments, such as at home or in public places. The S600 uses AI to learn the sound of your voice and prioritize it in calls. Anker claims the S600 recognizes and cuts down over 300 kinds of background noise. Lifehacker tried a demo unit and came away impressed.

YouTuber bijru reminds us of the passage of time and just how influential the iPhone has been. Watch him take an entertaining look back at the crazy form factors of cellphones in the early to mid-2000s. There were lots of hinges, odd shapes, and janky attempts at features that we now take for granted, like gaming or simply web browsing.

There are kits you can buy that add colorful ambient lighting behind or around your TV. We’ve played with a few, but none of them have the pinpoint color matching of Chris Maher’s DIY setup. In this video, he shows how he built his edge-lit system using addressable LED light strips, a WLED light controller, and the insanely powerful SignalRGB control software.

This premium USB-C controller provides a trio of programmable rotary knobs. The dual-direction knobs are machined from aluminum alloy and offer a click function. Atop its aluminum and acrylic case, you’ll find six buttons for assigning key presses or macros. It also features RGB lighting, an OLED layer selection screen, and compatibility with QMK/VIA.

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.

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.

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.

Prior to this video, the fastest recorded flight speed for a battery-R/C drone was 224 mph. Luke Bell and his dad, Mike, built a custom drone that set a new Guinness World Record of 298.47 mph and an unofficial top speed of 317 mph. But the feat wasn’t without its challenges, including multiple battery fires. Stick around til the end for some cinematic shots.

Edelkrone’s StandPLUS is like a portable monitor arm but for cameras, smartphones, and anything you can mount with a standard tripod mounting screw. It’s easier to adjust than a tripod and makes more angles and positions possible. It also folds flat and has a built-in handle. The standard model holds up to 3 lb., while the Pro holds up to 6 lb.

FSP’s CUT593P is mostly a standard gaming-oriented mid-tower PC case. But it has one feature that we wish would take off more than RGB on everything. It comes with braided power cables for the motherboard and CPU that are already pre-routed and organized with combs. A simple but much needed convenience for PC building and maintenance.

This numeric keypad from MelGeek pairs perfectly with their Mojo68 and Mojo84 mechanical keyboards. Its clear plastic body and white, grey, and orange keycaps with crisp graphics look straight out of a Ground Control center. It connects via USB-C or 2.4GHz wireless and comes with Gateron Pro Brown, White, or Kailh Box Plastic switches.

WaterField Designs gets ready for Apple’s new iPads with its Shinjuku Messenger bags. These lightweight bags hold an iPad, accessories, and even a small water bottle inside. They come in Compact and Full sizes for 11-inch or 12.9-inch iPads. The larger one can also carry a 15-inch MacBook Air. The bags come in X-Pac canvas or waxed canvas with full-grain leather.

This cordless power screwdriver is great for taking apart items with lots of screws. It can turn up to 340 screws per charge and comes with 16 bits, including slotted, Phillips, Torx, hex, and square types. Choose from three motor-driven torque settings as well as a manual torque mode when you need a little boost. Fanttik also makes a high-end precision driver kit.

Filmmaker Paul Trillo used OpenAI’s generative video tool Sora to help create the music video for The Hardest Part from singer-songwriter Washed Out. Rather than attempting to replicate reality, the video takes us on a surreal and dreamlike journey through the lives a young couple. We think it’s a smart use of AI to bring a creative vision to life.

The Vividstorm S is a projector screen that rolls out of its short and thin freestanding base. The screen itself is made of rows of prisms that block out 97% of ambient light for a shockingly vivid and bright display. The S Pro is for short-throw projectors, while the S ALR is for standard projectors. It comes in 75″ to 120″ sizes. Projector not included.

Workspace Hero’s DeskRail is a 3D-printed modular desk organizer system. The base rail comes with a strip of 3M adhesive. With the rail installed, you can now mount its various attachments, such as a phone holder and a cable holder, and slide them along the length of the rail. You can also purchase just the 3D files for the rail and its attachments.

Robosen stunned Transformers fans with the self-transforming Optimus Prime. Now, they’ve given the leader of the Decepticons the same treatment. The Flagship Megatron independently converts from robot to tank form and back, along with many other actions. As if that wasn’t awesome enough, it’s voiced by the original voice actor Frank Welker.

To celebrate the launch of their awesome Mini-Saber Gen 2 torch, Logan from The Hacksmith created a larger-than-life model of the butane-powered beauty, complete with packaging. Their 7-foot-tall Mega Saber runs on propane and uses a set of seven nozzles to focus its jet-like flame. It’s overkill for roasting marshmallows or popping popcorn, though.

Swagkeys reminds us just how far custom keyboards – and their prices – have come. The company’s upcoming Transition Lite TKL will take you back to the ’90s with its transparent polycarbonate case. It’s a kit, so you’ll have to get stabilizers, switches, and keycaps separately and then put it all together yourself. But for only $50, this is an awesome deal.

Craving coffee at your desk? It’s easy enough to pick up a Keurig that brews on demand. But that wasn’t good enough for Martina from Nerdforge. Her idea? Make a PC with a built-in coffee maker. What she fabricated was a working gaming PC that grinds beans and brews a single cup off coffee. She built it into the enormous Corsair Obsidian 1000D tower case.