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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
Audio
Spar Zephyr Portable Speaker

These days, portable speakers that connect to your cell phone are kind of like energy drinks - everyone with any amount of star power has their name on one, and most of them suck. The Spar Zephyr breaks that mold. Yeah, it does the stuff all the other guys do:…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Videos
Wonder Object

You remember the last time you were in a Science Fair and you built that crazy Rube Goldberg machine that had all kinds of cool aspects and mechanisms but ultimately did nothing? Gary Schott is kind of like that—except way more polished and with a purpose. The metalsmith creates everything…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Cameras
Camera Table Dolly

It's amazing we all didn't die from nausea (possible?) growing up watching videos shot on our dad's or our friend's gigantic camera. Seriously, those videos were like watching The Blair Witch Project only instead of the disappearance of some campers we watched our Grandmother eating birthday cake. Seeing as how technology…

By Mike Newman
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Brixton x Fender Guitar & Record Case

The milk crates left in the world haven't held bottles of milk for quite a while.  Now you'll find them in Brooklyn apartments surrounded by empty cans of PBR and loaded with vinyl from bands "you probably haven't heard of."  If you're a music purist who doesn't want the quality…

By Mike Newman
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Videos
The Hunger Games Trailer

The Hunger Games is supposedly one of the most anticipated movies of 2012. We never read the books, so we didn't really get it until we saw the official trailer. You remember that short story that almost everyone was forced to read in school about the kids who gather rocks…

By Cooper Fleishman
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