Apple’s first dedicated cases for its folding phone reached store shelves today, the same day preorders opened for the device itself. Buyers who secured an iPhone Duo for delivery next week can walk out with protection already in hand, even as phone stock thins and shipping dates stretch into January for many configurations. Two options sit on the racks: a $79 Case two-part shell and a $129 Folio with a built-in stand.
A second screen can change how a laptop feels during long sessions of writing, spreadsheets, or video calls, and the InnoView 15.6 inch IPS portable monitor, priced at $49.99 (was $60), delivers that change in a package thin enough to slide beside a notebook in most bags. Measuring roughly a quarter-inch thick and weighing a couple of pounds with its included cover, the unit travels without demanding its own separate case or adding noticeable bulk to a daily carry. Once open, the matte IPS panel sits at 1920 by 1080 resolution with 178 degree viewing angles, so text stays readable and colors hold steady even when the screen sits off to one side of a laptop or leans back at an angle on a small table.
Preorders for Apple’s first foldable iPhone opened at 5 a.m. Pacific time this morning through the company website and Apple Store app, and the available stock disappeared almost at once. Buyers who managed to complete an order in the first few minutes received delivery estimates for Friday, October 23, the official launch day in more than 70 countries. Everyone who arrived even slightly later watched the dates jump forward by three full months.
Most earbuds end up in a drawer once their batteries start fading after a year or two of daily use, forcing owners to buy a whole new pair. Fairphone designed the Fairbuds 2 so that worn batteries never have to end the product’s life. iFixit’s teardown video confirms the approach works exactly as claimed: the process for pulling the battery from one earbud begins at the 27-second mark and finishes before a full minute has passed. That demonstration, combined with accessible spare parts and clear design choices, earned the Fairbuds 2 a perfect 10/10 repairability score.
Users who have lost a hand can now move individual fingers on BrainCo’s prosthetic by reading a mix of signals that still travel through the remaining arm. Sensors in a simple cuff against the skin detect the electrical activity that muscles produce when a person tries to move, along with the weaker neural impulses that accompany those intentions. Software then converts the combined readings into separate commands for each finger, with a lag of about 0.38 seconds and positioning accuracy down to a tenth of a degree.
Astronomers recently trained NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory on a strange radio formation that sits behind the dense band of stars, gas, and dust along the Milky Way’s plane. From our vantage the structure looks almost exactly like the musical symbol known as a treble clef, a resemblance that led researchers to call the whole scene the Treble Clef. Chandra and Germany’s eROSITA telescope both recorded the presence of gas heated to millions of degrees, the clear signature of a galaxy cluster, one of the largest objects in the universe. Further scrutiny of that gas showed the cluster is actually two separate clusters that ran into each other.
Sony still builds Walkman players long after most people stopped carrying dedicated music devices, and the new flagship arrives with a price of $5,899.99. Pre-orders opened in mid-October 2026 for the NW-WM1ZM3, a Signature Series model whose body is precision-milled from oxygen-free copper of 99.99 percent purity and then gold-plated. The rear chassis uses the same copper, and even the screws receive a gold treatment chosen for low electrical resistance and a more stable ground path. That combination adds real mass: the finished player measures roughly 86 by 157.6 by 23.2 millimeters and weighs about 670 grams.
Amazon today announced the Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse, the first new hardware from the company since it acquired the Bee startup last year. Both devices use microphones to capture conversations in real time, then turn the speech into summaries, insights, reminders, and to-do lists that appear in a companion app. Raw audio is processed and deleted rather than stored, with transcripts encrypted using keys that stay on the device itself.
Bidding closed after twenty eight minutes of competition between two collectors when the Hatfield Apple One reached $1.148-million including the buyer premium at Bonhams in New York. That figure established a new world auction record for any commercially sold production Apple One and cleared the pre sale estimate of $500,000 to $800,000 by a wide margin.
Devyn Johnston has spent years chasing smaller and smaller gaming machines, and this latest effort pushes that habit into territory that feels almost stubborn. Inside the ZCOOI Mugitya FE9, an RTX 5090 Founders Edition sits in a chassis that measures only 56 mm thick across the top and 79 mm at the base, all while still packing a full desktop processor and a 1000-watt power supply. The case arrives as a set of thick CNC-machined aluminum pieces, each finished in black or silver anodizing with a few gray-gold accents on the nameplate and front panel, and the whole collection ships inside its own aluminum carrying case.