Unitree H2-X Is a Kung Fu Robot Bodyguard That Flips Off Cars
Unitree’s H2-X “Kung Fu Legend: Guardian” backflips off cars, kicks in doors and lifts a car in a wild promo. Here is what is real, what is staged and what we still do not know.
China’s Four-Drum Washers Give Your Socks, Undies and Sneakers Their Own Rooms
Somewhere in China, your gym socks, your baby’s onesies and your muddy sneakers no longer have to share a bath. Four-drum washing machines are a real thing there: one tower, four separate drums, each with its own water in and water out. Everyday clothes get the big drum, underwear and baby clothes get tiny private […]
Apple HomePod mini 2: Sound Glow, Mac Speaker Mode and Surround Sound for $149
Six years. That is how long the HomePod mini went without real new hardware. The wait is over: HomePod mini 2 keeps the cute orb shape, swaps the old S5 for an S10 chip, and turns its top into a light show called Sound Glow. It is $149, pre-orders are open now, and it lands […]
Amazon Alexa Tablet 12 Pro: Google Play, Nanomatte Screen and Alexa+ for $499
Fire tablets were the cheap seats. This is Amazon buying a ticket to the front row. The Amazon Alexa Tablet 12 Pro is a 6.5mm aluminum slab with a 12-inch, 2.8K, 120Hz screen, a 4nm 8-core chip, up to 16GB of RAM, Alexa+ baked into the OS and, for the first time, the full Google […]
Apple HomeView: A $299 Siri AI Smart Display That Knows Who Is Looking
Apple finally built the kitchen-counter screen. Apple HomeView is a 7-inch square Liquid Retina smart display on a domed speaker base, running the new Siri AI on an A18 chip. It recognizes up to six people by face and flips to each person’s own Home Screen, messages and calendar. Price: $299 for either the tabletop […]
Alfa Romeo Cuorerosso Concept Is a Red-Hot Preview of Every Future Alfa
Alfa Romeo just rolled into the Paris Motor Show with a red, four-door, four-seat fastback called Cuorerosso – Italian for “red heart” – and the internet collectively said “mamma mia.” It is not a production car. Alfa calls it a design manifesto: the template for how every future Alfa is going to look. If that […]
This Flat Robot Slides Under Badly Parked Cars and Re-Parks Them
Parked like a jerk? In one Hangzhou parking lot, nobody calls a tow truck. A guard pulls out his phone, a flat robot cart slides under your car, grabs all four tires, lifts it off the ground and drops it neatly into a proper parking spot. No hook, no chains, no drama. In China, rather […]
Tesla’s New Roadster Hops Over a Cybertruck on SpaceX Thrusters
Nine years after Tesla took its first $50,000 Roadster deposits, the new Roadster finally showed up. It did not just show up. It went up. Tesla revealed the second-gen Roadster tonight at SpaceX’s test site in McGregor, Texas, and the headline feature is a SpaceX-built thruster system that lets the car hop, hover and spin. […]
China’s Smart LED Crosswalks Glow, Count Down and Yell STOP in Red
Painted white stripes and a tiny walk signal across the street? Cute. In China, some crosswalks now light up the whole road. The zebra stripes glow green when it is your turn, a giant countdown appears right at your feet, and the moment time runs out the entire crossing flips to red and starts telling […]
Kindle Scribe Colorsoft: Big Notes, Now With Actual Color
Amazon finally put color on the big write-on Kindle. The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is an 11-inch paper-ish slab for reading, annotating, and scribbling notebooks without pretending grayscale highlighters are a personality. List pricing lands around $630 for 32GB and $680 for 64GB – which is “mortgage a coffee habit” money, not “impulse at checkout” money. […]