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The latest in tech: the newest products, most exciting innovations and biggest releases.

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Black Book: 14 Products Our Editors Loved in July 2026
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The Cool Shop

What I'm buying, wearing, and using, this week.

By Lanny Fuller
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The Rise of Prediction Culture

From sports to pop culture, Polymarket is changing how we engage with what happens next.

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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
Videos
Mother of All Hot Wheels Tracks

Our favorite Hot Wheels when we were kids were the ones that had the side panels that flipped over to reveal damage like they had just been t-boned, and, based how we played with them, that made perfect sense. When we made a track, we'd fling those pieces of metal so…

By Mike Newman
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Jotly

Verbifying nouns used to be reserved for the pretentious percentage of the population with multiple seasonal homes, but it isn't anymore. Now you can Google it and Facebook it and Yelp it and Twitter it. Each of these (over)sharing services have options for geo-location, so the 500 people you haven't…

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Phiaton PS 20 BT’s

Any time we wear a pair of headphones that aren't wireless, we feel like one of those kids on a backpack leash you see at the mall. They get tangled, knotted and—with a quick turn of the head—can come flying off like that kid when he catches a whiff of Cinnabon. The…

By Mike Newman
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Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera

If you want something done right, do it yourself. If something you want doesn't exist, make it yourself. This is the story of the throwable panoramic ball camera which started as a thesis project by Jonas Pfeil. You can't actually capture your world in three dimensions yet, but it's only…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Lytro Camera

Look, there’s only so much Photoshop can do to fix a crappy photo. Even with that new un-blur thing Adobe just announced it still can’t account for your inability to focus. Basically that means if you’re too drunk to hold the camera steady you’re fine, but if you were too…

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