Amazon placed a spherical device known as Echo Time with a 3.2-inch circular touchscreen on the nightstand and left the camera out entirely. The form sits low and rounded, finished in Graphite, Glacier White, or Coral Pink, with a woven mesh covering most of the body.
A small white cube sits on its motorized base and quietly sweeps left, right, up, and down at your command. The Blink Mini Pan-Tilt Camera, priced at $23.99 today (was $40), plugs into any wall outlet, connects to 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi in minutes through the Blink app, and gives you control over nearly an entire room from a phone or tablet. Its 110-degree lens sits on a base that pans roughly 350 degrees and tilts about 125 degrees, so you can check the far corner of a living room, glance at a hallway entrance, or look down at the floor without walking over to move the camera yourself.
Blink Mini 2K+, priced at $16.99 today (was $40), measures just two inches on each side and weighs about 65 grams, small enough to rest on a shelf or mount discreetly without drawing attention. Video streams at 2560 by 1440 resolution and up to 24 frames per second, delivering enough detail that a four times digital zoom on a phone still shows readable faces or package labels.
Cranktown City spotted an eight-foot dish online and decided the usual starter kit of a small Yagi or a handheld weather dish simply would not do for a first serious look at signals coming down from space. What followed was a full-scale articulating mount planted on a large post set into a concrete pad, with a custom metal base fabricated underneath to hold the electronics that both receive the incoming radio and command the dish’s motion. That base carries a big metal gear driven by a wheelchair motor for the side-to-side azimuth sweep and a linear actuator that handles the up-and-down elevation, giving the whole assembly enough travel and speed to follow satellites as they cross the sky.
Most refrigerators depend on an electric compressor to move heat around, but Greenhill Forge built a working cooler that gets its energy from a wood fire and a solution of common road salt instead. Water serves as the refrigerant. When water boils it soaks up heat from whatever is around it, and the same principle holds here. The difference is that the system keeps part of the water under a strong vacuum so the liquid can boil at a temperature close to freezing rather than at the usual 100 degrees Celsius. That low-pressure boiling is what produces the cold.
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.
