Merlin Entertainments and Mojang Studios used Saturday’s Minecraft Live stream to confirm Minecraft World Hotel will open in 2027 at Chessington World of Adventures in south-west London, inside a new £50 million land called Minecraft World. The stay sits beside the first official Minecraft theme park land, a project first sketched in March 2026 and now far enough along that construction footage shows coaster track already going in.
NOT A HOTEL and Pokémon Sleep have set a glossy red and white sphere on a wooded lakeshore in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, about an hour south of Sapporo, and opened it for a short run of overnight stays. The guest room is a three meter sphere, close to ten feet across, formed from two molded acrylic hemispheres so the finished object reads as a life size Poké Ball sitting among trees with lake water just beyond the glass. Promotional nights run in brief windows from October 8 through 18, 2026, timed to the franchise’s 30th year and the third anniversary of the Pokémon Sleep app.
Most compact printers still trap you on receipt rolls or force a desk machine into a suitcase. ETIKEZ sized the D90E, priced at $64.59 (was $80), like a thick ruler that spans a letter page: about 10.4 inches wide, 2.3 inches deep, and 1.3 inches tall, so a sheet of 8.5 by 11 thermal paper feeds straight through a body that slides into a backpack or briefcase. Listings put the printer itself near a pound, and the kit adds a soft travel case plus a short stack of starter sheets. Heat does the work. No cartridges, toner, or ribbons sit in the bag, and the only consumable is coated thermal paper made for this machine. Ordinary copy paper will not print.
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Pocket Tips looks like an ATM and works like a one-minute clothes press. SJOY, a Tokyo apparel startup founded in 2019, built the machine so travelers fold garments into a mold, set them inside, press a button, and take back a compact cube as small as one seventh the original bulk. A thin long-sleeve shirt can shrink to the size of a palm. Bulkier pieces and towels land closer to a hardcover dictionary. One cycle handles about eight items, and the fabric itself is pressed, so no vacuum bag and no extra plastic leave with you.
Scottish rider Danny MacAskill has wanted to experience Norway’s granite slabs for years. This summer he gathered friends, pointed a camera crew north, and spent days on the rock around Narvik while the midnight sun hung in the sky and refused to leave. Bosch eBike Systems backed the short film that came out of that trip, titled Endless Light.
AOC’s 16T20, priced at $49.99 (was $70), is a 15.6-inch Full HD IPS panel built to ride along with a laptop instead of staying on a desk. Resolution is 1920 by 1080 at 60Hz, response time is listed at 4ms, and the viewing angles are 178 degrees in both directions, so documents and video still look even when you share the screen across a table.
Anker Prime 26K 300W, priced at $179.98 (was $230), arrives at a useful moment. New iPhones (18 Pro, 18 Pro Max, Duo, etc.) want faster wired charging, and plenty of laptops still expect a wall brick that can push 100W or more. This pack tries to cover both without forcing you to haul a second charger.
BLAVOR squeezed a 20,000mAh cell, four built-in cables, a Qi pad, a solar slab, and a pair of lights into an orange ABS-and-PC shell that weighs about 1.7 pounds. You clip the included carabiner to a pack strap and the whole solar charger power bank, priced at $39.94 (was $57), hangs there like extra camp gear instead of another loose brick in the bottom of a bag. Ports sit under silicone flaps, the body is rated IPX5, and the company lists overcharge, over-discharge, over-current, and short-circuit protection so the pack is meant to live in damp weather rather than on a nightstand.
North Face priced the Vault Everyday Laptop Backpack in the mid-range ($52.50 [was $70]), and still packed it with the FlexVent harness, a padded 15-inch laptop sleeve, and a frame that lets the bag sit upright on a table or floor. Measuring 11 inches wide, 8.5 inches deep, and 18 inches tall, the 27-liter pack weighs 1 pound 11 ounces and uses 600-denier recycled polyester with a non-PFC water-repellent coating. Two webbing grab handles sit on top so you can lift it without the bag swinging into your hip. A sternum strap slides on a rail for height adjustment, and daisy-chain loops run down the front for clipping extra gear.
