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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
Phones
HAND Stylus

Touchscreen devices are fantastic... until you try to get detailed with a finger drawing. It's too fat. It's always too fat. You just can't get the precise lines you want with pointer and we don't like it. So we bought a stylus. It's still fat, or the nib broke off,…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Cameras
Sony NEX-F3 Camera

DSLR cameras only have two downsides: price and size. Even if you can afford the car payment size pill that is the cost, they're a pain in the ass to lug around. Sony's new NEX-F3 camera alleviates some of that by strapping a big ass 18-55mm lens on a point…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Phones
AppTag – Laser Tag for iPhone & Android

Laser tag gets a bum rap. It's either thought of as a kid's game or a cheesy date idea, when in reality, it's actually pretty damn fun. Instead of going to some black light saturated battlefield though, we'd rather play on our own turf. With AppTag, you can start up…

By Mike Newman
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Phones
JaJa Pressure Sensitive Stylus

The last time we tried to use a pressure sensitive device on the iPad we ended up with ink everywhere and a broken iPad. No notes, no appointments and no sweet car drawings were created in the process, only a stupid experiment gone awry. Ok, so we didn't actually use…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Phones
Jimmy Fallon’s Wake Up Call App

Do you have trouble waking up in the morning to go to work? Do you replace alarm clocks like Hulk replaces tank tops? Has the person that shares the bed with you contemplated smothering you with a pillow on more than one occasion because your fucking alarm clock never works?…

By Cooper Fleishman
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