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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
Cameras
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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Transportation
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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Audio
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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Videos
Degenerate Art: Trailer

Glass pipe artists get a bad rap. Can you wield an open flame like a paintbrush to create something beautiful AND functional? We can't. The artists in this film risk prosecution and jail time just for making art that may or may not be used for something the man considers…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Phones
Chameleon Clock

Wallpapers and backgrounds have a short shelf life. You can only look at the same thing so often until it becomes boring and bland. It's just like a viral video that you've seen a million times, at some point it loses its hilarity (grape lady aside). With the Chameleon Clock…

By Mike Newman
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