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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
Impossible Project SX-70 Black Label Camera Kit

Instead of everyone hovering around a small LCD screen to see how they look in the latest snapshot, there was a day when partygoers waited for the picture-taker to finish shaking out the image on a Polaroid. (Or not shaking, depending on which school of belief you fell into.) Thanks to the kind…

By Mike Newman
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Tech
Pear Digital Personal Trainer

In the spirit of complete honesty, we've put on a few pounds since the end of January. It's actually a lot cheaper (and more fun) to curl pint glasses of Fat Tire than it is to curl with a trainer and it shows in the area of our midsections that,…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Videos
Paper by FiftyThree

It's getting harder and harder for us to defend dropping some of our hard-earned loot on mountains of notebooks.  The latest blow to our Field Notes/Moleskine/Postalco/(enter another brand you love) obsession, is Paper by FiftyThree for the iPad.  It's stunning.  If you're looking for a way to show off your…

By Mike Newman
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Phones
The iPhone Boom Mic

Do you frequently find yourself watching the videos you've recorded on your iPhone and wishing you had better, higher quality sound to suck you back into the moment? Do you mind a mildly-obtrusive boom mic sticking out from your iPhone when you record your "home movies?" The iPhone Boom Mic…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Audio
Berlin Boombox

Even if you're not John Cusack, boomboxes are cool. We gotten past the point of cassette tapes and D-batteries (if they even make these anymore) though, so we need one that works with phones and mp3 players. Unfortunately, finding a boombox that looks as good as the ones from the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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