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Thunder Duo X puts Dolby Atmos and surround sound around your neck
August 28, 2026
| Joe Salas
On paper, the OXS Thunder Duo X sounds too good to be true. At a glance, I thought it might be a little gimmicky. After I plugged the system in and fired up Modern Warfare 3, I finished the campaign with some thoughts ...
Extra-wide tiny house brings log cabin comfort to small living
August 25, 2026
| Adam Williams
This log cabin-style tiny house looks more like it belongs in the woods rather than being towed behind a truck. It combines a rustic exterior with a spacious interior that sleeps up to four in comfort.
Spanish bikemaker rebadges Chinese retro scrambler
August 27, 2026
| Utkarsh Sood
Spanish motorcycle company Rieju seems to have made rebadging Chinese-made bikes its primary business model. This one is called the Scrambler 607, and it is basically a Marshal Scrambler 600 with a different name. So much for the “607”.
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Fitting in a small family without sacrificing portability is a challenge, but this tiny house strikes a good balance. It features two bedrooms, including one on the ground floor, while remaining relatively affordable.
This personal air defense system that tracks and shoots mosquitoes with a blue laser is officially available now. The runaway crowdfunding hit has been scaled up by its makers and is available for preorder from the company Photon Matrix's website.
For years, SylvanSport specialized in skeletal tent trailers. Then it leaped straight to launching one of the boldest, boxiest campers of its class. Now it's circling back to fill in some of the space in between with the new Vire adventure trailer.
The future of Scandinavian military aviation was rolled out by Saab at the Swedish Armed Forces Jubilee Air Show, with the unveiling of a full-scale mock-up of the company's A3-001 supersonic Loyal Wingman autonomous combat aircraft concept.
The Fairphone 6+ is the first of the brand's repairable, sustainable handsets to arrive officially in the US, pairing a modest spec bump with 12 GB of RAM, an eight-year software promise, and parts you can swap yourself with one screwdriver.
AI-generated content, which has proliferated the internet, has become so good that it's becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish, raising transparency and security concerns. To address this, Claude has begun marking its output for detection.
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August 27, 2026Meet COZEWARE FreshFlow, a drill-free window air system that brings filtered outdoor air indoors. Designed for bedrooms, apartments, rentals and home offices, FreshFlow launches on Kickstarter with early-bird pricing from $149. -
August 27, 2026 | David SzondyWhat looks like a sailboard but packs a punch like a warship? Thanks to Saildrone and Lockheed Martin, it's the Saildrone Surveyor Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV), which recently fired two Joint Air-to-Ground Missiles (JAGM) during a naval exercise. -
August 27, 2026 | C.C. WeissThe RTE FireFold from overland accessories specialist Rough Trails Equipment is one of the slimmest, fastest packing fire pits out there. It folds more completely than other fire pits, packing slim enough to carry in a laptop bag. And whether there are strict campfire bans in place or not, the FireFold is ready to serve as the flickering centerpiece of base camp.
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August 27, 2026Five years of AdGuard VPN costs just $34.97 through Sept. 3, and includes private browsing, unlimited data, 70+ server locations, and support for 10 connected devices for new users. -
August 27, 2026 | Maryna HolovnovaDelivery robots are a smart alternative to human labor when it comes to repetitive, short-distance trips. Meet R-dog – a four-legged delivery robot that can operate (almost) without human supervision, handle stairs and curbs, and even display ads. -
August 27, 2026 | Abhimanyu GhoshalA new pocket knife we've spotted promises to give you the best of both worlds: a strong blade that's large enough for demanding cutting tasks, and a compact size. The Z8 features a titanium build and an M390 steel blade in a keychain-ready design. -
August 27, 2026 | Maryna HolovnovaHot-air drying is important in pretty much all the modern industries you can think of. It’s used to dry fruits and vegetables, preserve grains and spices, and make everything from powdered milk and instant coffee to fertilizers, fabrics, and medicines. Evaporating all that moisture with hot air takes a lot of energy. Most of that energy still comes from burning natural gas, and there are a few serious issues with that. -
August 27, 2026 | Utkarsh SoodSWM was a name once plastered across Italian-built dirt bikes. Under the umbrella of Chinese industrial giant Shineray, it has just launched an adventure touring bike that stares at one very damning possibility: nobody might even know it exists. -
August 27, 2026 | Abhimanyu GhoshalIf you use Comcast's Xfinity broadband service, you might be eligible for a pretty interesting freebie: a layer of home security that doesn't require cameras or any additional hardware. But with that comes a privacy concern worth thinking about. -
August 27, 2026 | Mike McRaeFor the first time, scientists find that the male brain is wired to motivate men to drink when they're lonely, while the opposite appears true when it comes to women. It highlights how sex-specific neural pathways inform our behaviors.
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A new video takes you inside Dyson's impressive vertical farming operation, which is home to 1,225,000 strawberry plants and shows you how the company is applying its manufacturing knowledge to producing homegrown food for British consumers.
Having a Swiss Army knife is all fun and games until you find yourself wanting to see in the dark, start a fire, drink water straight from a stream, or heck, even charge your phone. Enter the Lifesaber.
There's a new contender for the US Navy's F/A-XX Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter program to replace the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, and it looks like something out of Batman's hangar thanks to a peculiar triple-fuselage design.
Ultra-deep tech startup Nirvanic put on a fairly humble-looking robotics demo at Jeff Bezos's private MARS 2025 conference – but it may go down as a landmark moment both in AI robotics, and in our understanding of consciousness itself.
For ages, Earth has been known as a blue planet, a vision largely shaped by the vast oceans that cover three-quarters of its surface. But what if this wasn't always the case, and our oceans used to be green?
Back in 2014, e-mobility company AEMotion set out to "combine the agility of a motorcycle with the safety profile of a four-wheeled vehicle." After much prototyping, its two-person tilting creation is up for pre-order ahead of production next year.
Roboticists today are wrestling with the question of whether AI needs a body? If so, what kind? And then there’s the “how” of it all; if embodied intelligence is the way forward to true artificial general intelligence, could soft robots be the next step?
Dragon Tiny Homes' Fairfax model is one of the most affordable tiny houses on the market. With a length of just 16 ft, it won't suit a large family, but it could be a good fit for a vacation home, or as a guest house.