Apple HomeView landed this morning as a dedicated screen meant to sit in a kitchen, on a nightstand, or fixed to a wall, handling music, video calls, and the controls for lights, locks, and cameras all at once. Both the tabletop version and the wall-mounted version cost $299, with pre-orders open today and units shipping on November 13 in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and a handful of other countries.
Most people shopping for a desk chair in this price range are not looking for a racing bucket or a showroom piece. They want something that holds them up through a long evening of games or a full day of work, and the N-GEN GAMING high-back does that job for about $80. Amazon lists the all-black model around $79.95, down from a list price near $89.
Avery Flies spent roughly 200 hours sewing a nylon bag the size of a small bus, hung a barbecue burner under it, and flew the result around a park. The ship is called Pandora. Inflated, it runs 27 feet long and 11.5 feet wide, holds about 2,100 cubic feet of air, and leaves the ground on heat alone.
Amazon billed the newest Echo Show 11, priced at $149.99 (was $250), as a mini entertainment center you can park anywhere in the house, even on the road. Rooms with a wall outlet get the better half of that promise. This late-2025 smart display sits on the same rounded, fabric-wrapped base as the current Echo Show 8, then hangs an 11-inch Full HD touchscreen in front so the glass appears to float. Graphite and Glacier White are the two finishes. At about 10 by 7.2 by 5 inches and 2.9 pounds, you can slide it from kitchen to guest room. A 30-watt brick is the only power source, and the only port on the back is that power jack, so a weekend trip means packing a cord and hunting for an outlet.
Mitxela wanted noise. Years of fluid simulations on LEDs had given him mercury-like sloshing on screens and a tiny wearable pendant, yet every version stayed silent. Flip-dot panels solve that problem by themselves. Each pixel is a physical disk with magnets that slaps from black to yellow and back, and a few thousand of those slaps at once sound like water moving in a shallow tray. The name sealed it. FLIP already stood for Fluid Implicit Particle. Putting that algorithm on flip dots was too cool to ignore.
Rolling down a hallway with a shirt slung over its neck, Goose looks less like a factory demo and more like a small appliance that decided to grow a personality. Prototype 1 from San Francisco’s The Robot Works is a white, low, rounded base with a long articulated neck, camera eyes set in a bonnet so you can see where it is looking, and a bright orange beak that doubles as a gripper. A blue polka-dot wrap gives the machine a costume instead of a chassis. Founders posted the first public clip this week with a simple brief: tidy, play, live.
Japanese company Tamura Electric sold the Lumitime as a stylish desk or wall clock throughout the mid to late 1970s, giving buyers the futuristic look of digital numerals when affordable LED and LCD panels were still dim, tiny, or simply not ready for living rooms. Mark Furneaux opened one of these machines and found no counters, no decoder chips, and no real-time clock module. A synchronous motor tied directly to the 60 hertz household line supplies both power and timing, spinning at a fixed rate so the clock stays accurate as long as the grid stays stable.
Two thousand feet of half-inch PEX already slept six to eight feet under Craftsman Chris’s yard when his first homemade cooling plan came up short. Four parallel five-hundred-foot slinky loops and a Taco 009 pump pushed water through a heat exchanger in the furnace plenum, yet the dirt had baked in the sun after excavation and the loop stayed warmer than he needed. Direct ground water barely cooled the house. He needed a machine that could pull heat out of indoor air and dump it into that soil instead of into hot summer wind.
Luke Creatives spent more than eight months on a soda machine that listens to a spoken request and mixes a drink from a bank of concentrated flavors. Ordinary fountain buttons give you one listed option. This cabinet aims at anything you can say out loud, from strawberry lemonade to a summer night, and it draws on roughly half a million possible mixes to do it.
