Prison tablets offer a few basic purposes: to provide approved entertainment, messaging, and limited services to those jailed while limiting access to anything else. Manufacturers go to great pains to reinforce these boundaries through hardware and software decisions.
Mosquitoes turn pleasant summer nights into itchy ordeals for anyone spending time outdoors. One inventor refused to accept the usual sprays, candles, and frantic swatting as the only options. Instead he created a full-body electric grid that delivers a direct shock to any insect that gets too close. Russian maker Dani Cruster, who runs the DiWHY YouTube channel, drew inspiration from ordinary bug zappers. Those devices use two layers of mesh or grid with high voltage running between them. When a mosquito flies into the space, it completes the circuit and ends its life with a sharp crack. Cruster simply asked what would happen if someone wore that same grid.
Small enough to disappear into a pocket or clip onto a keychain, the M5StickC Plus from M5Stack feels more like a finished gadget than a bare development board. Its bright orange plastic shell measures just 48 by 24 by 13.5 millimeters and weighs under 17 grams with the internal battery installed. A 1.14-inch color TFT screen sits on the front, surrounded by two programmable buttons and an M5 logo on the side. Flip it over and the back carries clear pin labels plus a Grove expansion port that accepts a wide range of cheap add-on modules.
Yueban, a Tuobang-owned brand that focuses in accessible solutions, debuted their latest innovation , Xiaoban, at the 2026 Shanghai International Aged Care, Assistive Devices, and Rehabilitation Medical Expo. This is essentially a mobile smart toilet built specifically for people who have mobility challenges or rely on others for daily care.
Huntsville serves as home to one of the most unusual training sites in federal law enforcement. The Kinetic Cyber Range occupies 22,000 square feet indoors on the FBI’s North Campus at Redstone Arsenal. Agents and analysts walk into a complete small town built from the ground up to feel and function like the real thing.
Cast iron skillets from the kitchen rarely meet bullets outside fiction. The team at Yee Yee Life set out to change that on their private range in Texas. They lined up fresh pans in a row and fired round after round to find out exactly how many it takes to stop each type of ammunition. Slow motion cameras rolled while safety gear stayed on and results stayed unpredictable.
Marine researchers have recorded a goblin shark moving through its natural surroundings for the first time. Cameras placed in two distant parts of the Pacific Ocean caught the animals gliding past in the darkness, healthy and undisturbed. The clips come from separate expeditions and mark a shift from what scientists had seen before.
Flights within a country’s boundaries can cover a long distance, but there are a few itineraries that genuinely test the definition of non-stop domestic service. Both are extraordinarily long journeys from a mainland center to an island in the middle of the ocean, which are technically classified as domestic under government standards.
Retro gaming finds often arrive with layers of dust and stories. This Spider-Man plug-and-play TV game from Jakks Pacific, released in 2004, fits that pattern perfectly. James Channel recently pulled one from an online marketplace and gave it the full treatment: cleaning, testing every mode, and opening it up to see what made it tick. The result shows a licensed product that leaned hard into its character theme while delivering the kind of simple, self-contained entertainment common in that era.
Sony’s PlayStation carved out an enormous place in Japanese living rooms during the late 1990s and early 2000s. While the rest of the world focused on racing games, fighters, and RPGs, Japan also received an entire line of educational titles built around a television channel called Kids Station. Bandai stepped in with a matching piece of hardware that most people outside the country never encountered.