The Royal Albert Hall attempted to pull off a fun April Fools’ Day prank this year about a fictional “Immersive Nokia 3310 Experience” supposedly happening in May, tapping into early 2000s nostalgia, but people were quick to catch on.
Card radios, like the Casio RD-10, are basically compact, portable radio receivers designed to be roughly the size of a credit card or a small stack of cards, making them highly convenient for on-the-go use. These devices emerged during a time when miniaturization was a big trend in consumer electronics, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s, as companies pushed the boundaries of making gadgets smaller as well as more portable.
Here’s something you don’t see everyday, or at least stateside, a Cinderella-carriage inspired 2000 Toyota WiLL Vi. This subcompact sedan was part of the WiLL brand, a collaborative project by Toyota and several other Japanese companies like Panasonic and Asahi Breweries, aimed at appealing to younger buyers with quirky, lifestyle-focused products
This tank track-equipped Volkswagen Beetle, nicknamed ‘Battle Bug’, could be yours for $25,000 USD. It’s located in Nashville, Tennessee, and looks to be straight from SNK’s Metal Slug series of video games.
Have $14,000 burning a hole in your pocket and lots of land? You can actually buy a 2-story luxury flat-pack container home on Amazon, complete with a garage. However, there are some major drawbacks including not having a bathroom, or at least the way it ships. Put simply, their descriptions leave a lot to be desired, unlike this real Airbnb shipping container home.
Chad Kapper and Josh Bixler of Flite Test may have built the world’s first 3D printer that can actually fly, more specifically the Elegoo Centauri Carbon. Put simply, it was affixed to a custom R/C plane to attempt an interesting mid-air printing experiment.
You could either buy a 2025 Tesla Model Y Launch Series with money leftover for $87,840 USD, or get the world’s only Cheetozard, a Charizard-shaped Pokemon Cheeto. One person chose the latter, and is now the proud owner of a 3-inch-long Flamin’ Hot Cheeto that resembles one of the most popular Pokemon characters ever.
Jacob R acquired this bizarre PS2 Super Slim from Aliexpress, and it requires a memory card to play games, as there is no disc drive. This console is roughly half the size of a PS2 Slim, but adds an HDMI port as well as a microSD card slot.
Japanese tuner Value Progress unveils The Beast, a custom, one-off Lamborghini Diablo-based show car. What you’ll notice first is the bird-like pointed front end, vertically stacked headlights, high-mounted fog lights, and vented hood.