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

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Ferrari’s Most Underrated Racing Event Is Happening in Austin This Weekend
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The Most Hands-Off Way To Keep Your Floors Clean

CES 2026 can’t get enough of Roborock’s one-pass smart home cleaning solution.

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The Coolest Tech Gifts for 2025

Be sure to use ChatGPT to write the card.

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How PITAKA’s Sunset Collection Is Shaping the Future of Emotional Design

High-performance tech gear meets pure visual poetry.

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Messengers Documentary

Dodging cab doors and slow walking tourists might seem like the only concerns a bike messenger has while riding through the streets of NYC, but be prepared to delve far deeper into the world of two-wheeled delivery men thanks to Messengers. The documentary, which was filmed over the last 10…

By Mike Newman
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The History of Headphones

Surprisingly, not everyone wants to hear our music. When we were pumping our LCD Soundsystem mixtape, others in the office said they couldn’t “concentrate” and they “wished we were fired.” For this, and for many other reasons, headphones are an absolute necessity in our daily lives. It was long before…

By Mike Newman
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The Camera Strap Necktie

There comes a point in every wedding when we're a few Old-Fashioneds in and we decide to undo our tie and proceed to tear it up on the dance floor (and by "tear it up on the dance floor," we mean pass out in the corner). Okay, while we watch ourselves…

By Mike Newman
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Cardboard Bike Project

What are you doing with all those empty cardboard boxes you have strewn across your garage floor? Probably breaking them down and tossing them on the curb every other Tuesday, right? Why not take a bit of inspiration from this vid and put those empties to good use. Building a…

By Mike Newman
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Tombox

There are plenty of ways to listen to your music when you’re not within arms’ reach of a wall outlet. Most of them don’t look, or perform, anywhere near as good as the ones from Tombox. The Germans take discarded loudspeakers and repurpose them as portable amplifiers. Each Tombox is…

By Cooper Fleishman
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