Bumpboxx has been in the party speaker business for over a decade, with a number of models styled like 'ghetto blasters' that you can carry on your shoulder all old-school like. Its latest product is a proper throwback boombox, complete with cassette decks and a CD player – along with thoughtful features that make it easy to live with.

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Speakers, Bluetooth Speakers, Retro, Boombox, Cassettes, CD Player

Consumer tech giant Hisense unveiled a high-end tri-laser projector at CES 2026 that put out 6,000 lumens and could throw visuals at 300 inches. It's a beast, and we now have more details and, most importantly, pricing.

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Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Hisense, Projectors, Laser, 4K UHD

This compact tiny house doubles down on one of the major benefits of small living: freedom. The home runs off-grid and combines an easy-to-tow configuration with an open layout that's arranged on one floor.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home

Safety on a motorcycle is a double-edged sword. On one hand, safety is paramount when you’re riding on two wheels. But on the other hand, how far are you willing to go to safeguard yourself without interfering with the riding experience?

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Scooter, Yamaha, Trike, Airbags, Safety, Airbag, Road Safety

South African camping trailer specialist Invader is developing the all-new Viator as a roomier, more luxurious alternative to its smaller fold-out trailers. Like its other models, the Viator packs low and rugged for on/off-road travel and expands at camp. But it features a longer body and transformable furnishings that combine for a more complete floor plan that includes a bathroom, retractable dining area, queen bedroom and oversized multi-slide outdoor kitchen.

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Category: Outdoors

Tags: Caravan, Camping, Trailer, trailers, Off-road, RV, Outdoors and Camping

The heated race to achieve the extreme cold that quantum technologies demand may have a frontrunner. Chinese scientists have developed an alloy that almost reaches absolute zero, the coldest possible temperature, without using the scarce isotope, helium-3.

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Category: Materials, Engineering, Technology

Tags: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Cooling, Helium

EDC hardware brand Orioner says this new folding knife is the smallest piece of kit it's ever made: it's about half the length of your pinky. But there's more to it than its diminutive proportions.

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Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors

Tags: EDC, Knife, Blades, Kickstarter

It was one of those April Fool’s jokes that PR departments love to make.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: BMW, Performance, Station Wagon, Nurburgring

The ViewDock Gen2 is a mini PC that combines Ryzen-powered performance with a built-in display, wireless charging, and a full I/O in a compact vertical design.

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Category: Computing, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Kickstarter, Mini-PC, Interface, Display, All-in-one, Dock

Elon Musk has previously promised the arrival of fully autonomous Teslas and ultrafast Hyperloop transport – both of which are yet to materialize. For his next trick, the galaxy's richest earthling plans to build an enormous chip manufacturing plant that will positively dwarf every other such facility on the planet.

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Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology

Tags: Tesla, SpaceX, Elon Musk, Artificial Intelligence, Chips, Manufacturing

The last of Christie’s four auctions of the Jim Irsay Collection has closed, setting 28 new world record prices, most notably the largest memorabilia auction in history (US$94.5 million), the first two guitars to sell for more than $10 million (here and here), the world’s most expensive trumpet, the world’s most expensive saxophone, the world’s most expensive drum kit (twice), the world's most expensive music concert poster and a near miss on the world’s most expensive piano. In total, the sale included nine of the top 21 guitars ever sold at auction.

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Category: Collectibles, Technology

This off-grid cabin-style tiny house is seriously small, with a floorspace of just 20 sq m (215 sq ft). However, despite its compact dimensions, it has been expertly designed to provide everything needed for a short stay.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home

Mad-as-a-hatter British inventor Colin Furze recently set out to create a real-life version of the hoverboard from Back to the Future II. Technically, he failed. But what he built along the way has its own considerable merit: a double-deck skateboard where the top platform floats above the lower one through the repulsive force of neodymium magnets.

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Category: Urban Transport, Transport

Tags: Skateboard, Hoverboard, Experimental, Magnetism, YouTube, DIY, Suspension

Resembling something more like green grapes with thicker and darker skin, the kiwiberry may be one of the healthiest and most underrated fruits around. It's also ancient, dating back more than 20 million years. But until the last century or so, they weren't even considered a valuable fruit – instead, their ornamental vines and flowers were the selling point.

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Category: History, Technology

Tags: Crops, Plants, Commercial, Discovered, Market, Historic, World Trade

The US Navy has tapped Anduril's Dive-XL autonomous submarine for its Combat Autonomous Maritime Platform (CAMP) project, which aims at rapidly develop a fleet of underwater motherships capable of deploying smaller autonomous vehicles and torpedoes.

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Category: Military, Engineering, Technology

Tags: Anduril, Submarine, Autonomous, US Navy

Storm chasing, a branch of photography that requires tenacity and perseverance in order to capture lightning strikes, was something I gave all of 20 minutes to before losing interest.

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Category: Photography, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Kickstarter, Lightning, Weather

Raising a family in a tiny house typically means you'll be making some serious compromises on privacy and space. The Starling tackles these challenges with a flexible layout that squeezes in three sleeping areas and a multipurpose living area.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home

This one’s big. Honda has just announced that it's pulling the plug on one of its most aspirational projects: the 0 series electric vehicles (EV). But the 0 SUV and saloon are not the only ones down the chute; the Acura RSX has also been dropped from the Japanese carmaker’s plans.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Honda, Electric Vehicles, Acura, Toyota, Ford, Hyundai, Kia

Ever looked at a project that seemed so out there and fantastical you thought, "That will never materialize beyond pretty computer renderings on my touchscreen?" We do so multiple times on any given week, but some such projects actually do make it to the real world. The nimble, high-speed Super Sub creator U-Boat Worx calls the fastest, most advanced private sub ever built arrives as the latest. Not only has this impressive subaquatic projectile made it to production, it's officially on its way to the first buyer, giving a fortunate fractional-percenter what's sure to be an addictive, highly immersive new hobby.

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Category: Marine, Transport

Tags: U-Boat Worx, Submarine, Luxury

Do you know that feeling of coming home exhausted after a long day at work, and the last thing you want to do is neatly fold your clothes? So instead, they just pile up on a chair. And even though a lot of people might be embarrassed to admit it, let’s be honest: most of us do this. And actually, it might not be as bad a habit as it seems at first.

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Category: Around The Home, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Kickstarter, Laundry, Chair, Furniture, Clothing, Inventors