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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
The iPhone SLR Mount

If we are going to make our iPhones our most used camera it's time we got serious about it. We don't like doing anything half-assed—if we built a table and it wobbled we'd fix it—so let's stop pretending our iPhone shots are "good enough." With the iPhone SLR Mount you…

By Mike Newman
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Cameras
Sony HDR-PJ50

Too often we capture some self-described "amazing" footage and need to show it off at once. Whatever poor fools are around us are required to gather around the tiny screen of our camcorder and fabricate some sort of amusement while they squint their eyes as tight as possible. With the Sony HDR-PJ50…

By Mike Newman
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Audio
Zumreed Hybrid Speaker Headphones

How many different ways do you have to get your music off of your cell phone into your ears? How about out of your computer? Between the earbuds or headphones with all the hyperneodidium dynamamic-super-hyperactive whosits and the speakers with the built-in bass whatsits, the number is astronomical. They're all…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Cameras
Beta Shell Lens Cases

These cases look like they're straight out of an action movie where some villain unscrews the top to reveal a glowing green piece of some highly radioactive element the likes of which "the world has never seen" and the mere dropping of which would result in the utter destruction of…

By Mike Newman
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Kikkerland Music Branch Headphone Splitter

We strongly discourage the practice of becoming ear-buddies with your friend. It's the term we've made up for when you want your friend to hear a new track you just downloaded onto your iPhone and you lend him one of your earbuds. What results is a returned earbud full of your now…

By Mike Newman
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