Screwing in a light bulb is about as simple as home maintenance gets. Now, Wyze has taken that everyday act and turned it into a gateway for smart home security with the Wyze Bulb Cam. This device combines a smart light bulb with a 2K security camera, blending seamlessly into any standard E26 light socket.
A new Marvel game just stole the show, and it’s a dazzling, high-octane fighter that feels like a fresh remix of a beloved recipe. Unveiled at Sony’s State of Play, Marvel Tokon Fighting Souls is a 4v4 tag-team brawler hitting PlayStation 5, Steam, and Epic Games Store in 2026. Crafted by Arc System Works alongside PlayStation Studios and Marvel Games, it channels the wild spirit of Marvel vs. Capcom but forges its own lane with a vibrant, anime-soaked look that’s pure eye candy.
Loughborough University’s physicists have pulled off something wild: a violin so small it could sit on a human hair without breaking a sweat. Clocking in at just 35 microns long and 13 microns wide, this platinum stunner isn’t headed for Carnegie Hall but a microscope slide, showcasing the mind-blowing precision of a new nanolithography system that’s got big ambitions.
A new James Bond game is barreling toward us, and it’s not the suave, martini-sipping spy you’re picturing. IO Interactive, the folks who made Hitman a stealthy masterpiece, just unveiled 007 First Light, a third-person action-adventure set to drop in 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC. Forget rehashing old Bond flicks or chasing GoldenEye 007 nostalgia—this is a gritty origin story about a 26-year-old James Bond, rough around the edges and miles from his polished 00 badge.
Enhance, the studio that spun Tetris Effect into a hypnotic masterpiece, just pulled back the curtain on Lumines Arise at the June 2025 State of Play, and it’s shaping up to be a dazzling mash-up of music, visuals, and puzzles that’s as easy to pick up as it is tough to put down. If you missed the Lumines craze when it hit the PlayStation Portable back in 2004, it was a rhythm-puzzle lovechild that blended block-dropping with a pulsing soundtrack. Now, 21 years on, Enhance is giving it a modern glow-up that’s ready to mess with your senses in the best way.
Matthew Perks, the inventor behind DIY Perks on YouTube, has a habit of making wild ideas feel real, and his latest project—a desk that wirelessly powers everything from monitors to speakers with zero visible cables—might just be his most innovative project yet. Teaming up with Etherdyne Technologies, Perks has built a workspace that looks ripped from a sci-fi flick, marrying a clean aesthetic with some seriously clever tech.
The HOVERAir X1 selfie drone is great for capturing aerial shots when on vacation, and you can get one for $298.99 shipped, originally $399. Weighing just 125 grams—lighter than most smartphones—and folding down to the size of a small notebook, it slips into a jacket pocket or backpack with ease. Product page.
LG Electronics just dropped a beast of a monitor that’s got finance pros and IT fanatics interested: the LG UltraFine 40WT95UF, a 40-inch 5K2K display that’s the world’s first to rock Thunderbolt 5. This isn’t just a screen—it’s a productivity powerhouse built to handle sprawling spreadsheets, dense code, and everything in between with a mix of crisp visuals, blazing-fast connectivity, and a workspace that feels like a digital playground.
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The internet’s been chugging along, powering 4K streams, cloud gaming, and AI’s number-crunching frenzy, but its fiber optic backbone is starting to sweat under the load. Enter Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), which just smashed records with a mind-boggling 1.02 petabits per second data transfer over 1,808 kilometers (NYC to Minneapolis or Berlin to Lisbon). That’s enough juice to download Netflix’s entire catalog in one second flat.
June 5, 2025, kicks off a new chapter for handheld gaming with the Nintendo Switch 2 hitting shelves, and before reviews could even drop, YouTube’s ProModding ripped it apart in a 17-minute teardown video that’s a testament to the console’s revamped design.