
Marques Brownlee spent time with Meta’s upcoming VR Glasses and came away convinced they represent the direction Apple’s Vision Pro might have taken if the company had kept refining the original design. Apple appears to have stepped back from further headset development in favor of simpler eyewear, leaving Meta to push both lightweight glasses and full headsets forward at the same time. These new Meta devices sit in a middle space, heavier than everyday frames yet far lighter than anything that straps across the head.

Maker Ancient built Vortex as a swept volumetric display that hangs a genuine three-dimensional image in midair. Two flat LED panels sit back to back inside a clear plastic globe roughly three hundred millimeters across. Both panels turn together around a vertical axis at high speed while a Raspberry Pi 4 rides along with them and updates every pixel in time with the rotation. Persistence of vision turns the moving lights into a solid looking object that stays fixed in place no matter which way you circle the globe.

Ferrari built the 499P Modificata so a handful of its best customers could drive something that shares almost every important piece of engineering with the prototype that took overall victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2023, 2024, and 2025. Chassis number 21, finished in its original red livery, has never turned a wheel beyond the factory shakedown runs that confirmed everything worked. Gooding Christie’s is offering it on November 8 in Geneva with an estimate in excess of CHF 7,500,000 ($9.2 million), the first time any Modificata has reached a public sale.

Lutra, a small South Korean startup, just introduced its Humans of Authenticity brand with a camera that looks more like a handheld window than a typical point-and-shoot. The HOA A1 places a 26mm f/1.75 prime lens and 16-megapixel Sony sensor right in the middle of a large rectangular frame you hold up to your face. Both eyes stay open and look straight through the empty space around the lens, so the person in front of you sees your eyes while you see them. That arrangement keeps the interaction direct instead of forcing everyone to wait while someone checks a rear screen.

Shane Wighton of Stuff Made Here grew tired of the same backyard routine. His dog would find the one muddy spot in the yard, then shake hard enough to coat everyone nearby. Hand washing only moved the mess from the animal onto the people holding the hose. So he built a car-wash style machine that scans a set of nozzles along the dog while keeping owners out of the spray zone.