Plenty of people scroll past cheap desk gadgets online without a second thought. One particular alarm clock shaped like the original 1984 Macintosh caught the eye of builder Wells Riley. Sold on AliExpress for around twenty dollars, the Maclock looks shockingly close to the real thing from the outside, complete with the distinctive beige case, floppy disk slot detail, and even a small screen area. Inside, though, it held nothing more than basic clock circuitry and a speaker for alarms.
Fans of survival horror and classic shooters now have a unique way to experience the latest Resident Evil title. A fresh mod called Requiem for Ravenholm arrived in early access and it transforms Resident Evil Requiem using assets pulled straight from the Half-Life series. Created by FlamingosPeak Workshop the project replaces key elements throughout the game.
Mathieu Stern spotted an oddity one afternoon at a French flea market. Inside a simple blue canister sat a compact Foth 50 millimeter f 2.5 lens from the late 1920s. Three euros later it was his. The optic had come from a Foth Derby folding camera built for 127 roll film, a model once positioned as a rival to early Leica designs. It even showed up in a few motion pictures from that period, including work tied to Alfred Hitchcock.
Grand Theft Auto V can run with ray tracing enabled at a silky smooth 60 frames per second on a PlayStation 5, and this is not your typical PS5 experience, since it is taking place on a Linux desktop via Steam. Andy Nguyen, often known on the internet as TheFlow, is a security specialist who created an open source loader that he released into the public domain.
Makers are constantly coming up with fresh and imaginative solutions to address everyday challenges on a large scale. One inventor realized that the normal number of ports found on a charger simply wasn’t going to cut it anymore, with phones, tablets, and other devices all wanting to be charged without anyone having to wait their turn. He set out to build a single unit capable of powering a whole room’s worth of gadgets, and the end result is a unique USB-C station with 100 ports all operating together under one solid frame.
When it comes to building a new gaming computer, PC enthusiasts must make a difficult decision. They often go for processors and graphics cards from the same three companies (Intel, NVIDIA, and AMD) that have dominated this market for years, but one man wanted to deviate from that tried-and-true approach. He was intrigued to see if it was possible to build a complete gaming PC capable of running recent Windows games without using any of the main three household names.
Gamers who remember the old days understand why CRT screens are so popular. Instant responsiveness to every command, no screen tearing, and images that feel alive in a way that newer flat screens cannot match. Found Tech has taken that magic and pushed it all the way to nearly 4K on something you wouldn’t expect, a dusty old IBM 275 monitor that’s been around since the turn of the century.
Nearly 20 years after the original ZSNES was essentially retired, the team behind it has revived it with a fresh new emulator known as Super ZSNES. The brains behind this project, zsKnight and Demo, decided to start from scratch and rebuild the entire thing from the ground up, resulting in Super Nintendo games that look and run great on today’s computers, phones, and tablets.
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Justin White spent 13 months working in his Australian garage on a project that evolved from humble beginnings to something far greater than anyone had anticipated. He had set out to build a half-scale duplicate of the Toyota GR Yaris Rally1. This was not a model, however; it was a single-seater built to travel down real roads rather than rest on a shelf. The finished design piqued Toyota Gazoo Racing’s interest, and they quickly flew both White and his innovation to the Rallye Monte Carlo, the season opener for 2026.
David Liu sat down at his computer, his wrist still aching from whatever had ailed it, and picked up a Kensington SlimBlade Pro trackball in the hopes that it would provide some much-needed relief from all the mouse clicking. Four months later, this became a completely new way to manage 3D applications. Simply roll the ball back and forth like you would on a desk to rotate and move objects with natural ease.