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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
Videos
The Amazing Spider-Man Trailer

Yeah, we know it's a little soon for a reboot, but there were only a few years between Hulk movies, and Ed Norton definitely made up for the green steaming pile from 2003. So hopefully this Andrew Garfield kid will make up for emo Peter Parker from Spiderman 3. (Which…

By Cool Material Guest
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10 Brilliant Rube Goldberg Machines

We normally like to keep things simple and do things the easy way, but we’re completely fascinated by Rube Goldberg machines. They require a level of skill and patience we doubt we’ll ever posses and they’re the ultimate expression of doing something just because you can. (Plus, they’re really fun…

By Cool Material Guest
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Phones
Rich Neeley Designs iPhone Book Docks

Do you long for a time when books actually had pages you had to turn, could be read in the sun and didn't require a power source? Yeah, so do we. Digesting the classics digitally is convenient, but it's not anywhere near as satisfying as the tactile and sensory experience…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Avid Studio for iPad

When Apple first rolled out the iPad, we immediately knew we'd be shelling out the extra cash for the 64 gig model. Sure, there was a very good chance that was far more storage than we'd need, but we were quite aware we'd be cramming that thing with a ton of…

By Mike Newman
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Cameras
Cam Crate

If you've dropped a pretty penny on a nice DSLR, odds are the next purchase you made was some sort of bag to tote it around in. While whatever you chose probably can hold a few lenses and keeps everything nice and orderly, if your drop that sucker in some water…

By Mike Newman
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