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

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The Rise of Prediction Culture
By Cool Material
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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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Black Book: 13 Products Our Editors Loved in June 2026

The products our editors have been obsessed with in June 2026.

By Cool Material
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On Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, 20 Years Later

And how horror went from critically hated to the latest Cannes "it" genre.

By Andy Crump
Entertainment
iPad Pinball Game Console

Until we've done enough deadlifts that strapping a pinball machine to the front of our body isn't impossible, we'll go with this iPad Pinball Game Console for pinball on the go. The device attaches wirelessly to your iPad and allows you to have the tactile fun of a spring launcher…

By Mike Newman
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Audio
aFrame Artwork Speaker

Even if you buy some small Bose unit or a sleek audio set up, your speaker system is still going to stand out as a speaker system. With aFrame acoustic artwork your music blasters can go all undercover ops as a nice piece of wall art. The aFrame is a…

By Mike Newman
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Cameras
Looxcie HD Camera

If your middle name happens to be "Danger," first of all, props to your parents because that's hilarious, and second you may be in the market for a new mobile video camera. The Looxcie HD is a viable candidate to consider along with your standard GoPro. The HD video camera…

By Mike Newman
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Audio
Boomphones Boombox Headphones

There's always that one person on the plane, train or automobile that feels like it's necessary to take their new Carly Rae Jepsen to volume level 11 and let everyone around them enjoy it too. The problem with that, though, is that it's never really loud enough to actually enjoy.…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Videos
The Birth of a Barrel

Jack Daniels is the only major distiller in the world that still makes their own barrels. Travis Robertson went behind the scenes at Brown Forman Cooperage in Louisville, Kentucky to document the entire birthing cycle start to finish. We'd tell you more, but then we wouldn't be able to pay…

By Cooper Fleishman
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