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The latest in tech: the newest products, most exciting innovations and biggest releases.

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Black Book: 14 Products Our Editors Loved in July 2026
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The Cool Shop

What I'm buying, wearing, and using, this week.

By Lanny Fuller
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The Rise of Prediction Culture

From sports to pop culture, Polymarket is changing how we engage with what happens next.

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I Watched USA vs. Bosnia Through the Lens of a Prediction Market

Checking Polymarket throughout the round of 32 game added an interesting perspective to my watching experience. Here are my notes.

By Lanny Fuller
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Recreated Cocktails from “The Simpsons”

Cocktail Chemistry is a fantastic site and YouTube channel where you can learn about everything from making a boulevardier to a snowglobe cocktail. For the newest series, Recreated, they're tackling some of the iconic and hilarious cocktails from The Simpsons. Cocktails like the Flaming Homer. Going frame by frame to…

By Cooper Fleishman
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A Fictive Flight Above Real Mars

Using anaglyph images of Mars taken by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as a starting point, Finnish photographer/inventor/designer/director/artist Jan Fröjdman set about creating a three dimensional rendering titled A Fictive Flight Above Real Mars. It's mesmerizing, breathtaking, astonishing and mind-blowing. Fröjdman is quick to point out that…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Lab-Box Daylight Film Developing Kit

If you were ever interested in analog film photography, you know what a pain it can be to have your film developed. With the Lab-Box Daylight Film Developing Kit you don't have to worry about a darkroom or wait for your film to come back from a lab because you…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Analogue Nt Mini Plays All Your Old Nintendo Games

Forget all those plug n' play "retro" video game systems with only a handful of classic titles that always seem to appear on store shelves around the holidays. The Analogue Nt Mini is a modernized NES. The revamped Nintendo Entertainment System was built from the ground up by Analogue to…

By Cooper Fleishman
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ColorWare Retro iPhone 7+

ColorWare, the Minnesota-based paint shop that's been customizing electronics for almost two decades, just dropped details on their latest creation, the Apple iPhone 7+ Retro. Decked out to look like a Macintosh computer from the 1980s, ColorWare's Retro iPhone features an overall light beige paint job with darker stripes on…

By Cooper Fleishman
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