This 28-Foot Tiny Home Fits a Living Room Into Its Staircase

The living room in the Wildscape doesn’t stop at a place to sit. Its terraced timber seating climbs toward the loft, combining a lounge, storage, and a staircase within one substantial piece of joinery. Designed and built by Australia’s Tiny Tect Tiny Houses, this existing model approaches small-space living through changes in level, fitting different activities above and beside one another rather than lining everything along a narrow corridor.

Wildscape measures 8.4 meters long, 2.4 meters wide, and 4.25 meters high, approximately 27.6 by 7.9 by 13.9 feet. The photographed exterior pairs dark metal cladding with timber accents around a tall, glazed end wall. That window arrangement is especially important to the raised lounge, giving its stepped platforms an outward view rather than turning the seating into an inward-facing stack of boxes.

Designer: Tiny Tect Tiny Houses

Inside the terraced configuration, lift-up seat lids reveal storage, while a compact ground-level sleeping nook accommodates a double mattress. The arrangement gives the furniture a considerable workload without introducing separate pieces for every function. It also asks something of its occupants: this is a home organized around climbing and shifting between levels. Anyone drawn to a conventional sofa and an uninterrupted floor should look carefully at how this particular layout works.

Upstairs, a sleeping loft shares the upper portion of the house with a dedicated study area. A suspended net extends the usable space above the kitchen without replacing the opening with an opaque floor. It’s a playful addition with a spatial purpose: someone can occupy the space overhead while the kitchen remains visually connected to the upper level. Tiny Tect identifies both the loft study and net as features of its showcase design.

The kitchen makes fewer concessions to miniature living. Turnkey specifications include a 600mm oven, a four-burner cooktop, a sink, and under-counter cabinetry. A nearby dining nook gives meals their own place within the plan. The bathroom contains a shower, toilet, and vanity, while plumbing provisions accommodate laundry equipment. Appliances such as a dishwasher and washing machine appear among the available upgrades rather than universal inclusions.

Wildscape isn’t restricted to this exact interior. Tiny Tect’s architectural plans include the original terraced lounge and a second version with a larger living platform extending across the room’s width. Buyers can also choose a shell or turnkey build. That flexibility matters because the strongest visual elements are not necessarily standard: custom seating, storage platforms, study joinery, and netting all appear in the builder’s optional extras. Pricing starts at US$71,500, but the showcased fit-out requires its own quote. Wildscape’s attraction lies in that carefully composed interior, so the sensible comparison is the cost of the configuration you’d actually want to inhabit.

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8bitdo celebrates three decades of Tomb Raider with two controllers built for nostalgic gaming

I still remember the thrill of playing Tomb Raider as a child, following Lara Croft through ancient ruins, solving puzzles, and navigating dangerous environments. The original action-adventure game made exploration feel like a real expedition, and its distinctive world remains memorable three decades later. Now, 8BitDo is celebrating that legacy with two special-edition controllers that bring Lara’s adventures into modern gaming setups.

The official Tomb Raider 30th Anniversary Collection comprises the Ultimate 3 Controller for Xbox and the Pro 3 Bluetooth Gamepad. 8BitDo takes two of its existing controller designs and gives them visual treatments inspired by different parts of the franchise’s history. Both retain their core gaming features while adding themed finishes and matching accessories.

Designer: 8BitDo

The Ultimate 3 wears a gold-coloured finish decorated with silhouettes representing Lara Croft across different eras of the franchise. Black controls provide contrast, while a gold-plated zinc-alloy D-pad adds a metallic detail. Its matching charging dock carries the anniversary branding, making the controller feel like a collectible rather than another standard gaming accessory.

The Pro 3 takes a different approach, drawing inspiration from Lost Valley, the jungle setting from the original 1996 game. Its sandstone-coloured shell features vegetation, ancient symbols and geometric patterns. The matching dock continues the theme, while interchangeable joystick caps let players customise the controller’s appearance.

Beyond the nostalgic artwork, both controllers feature TMR (tunnel magnetoresistance) joysticks and Hall-effect triggers. These magnetic sensing technologies avoid the conventional electrical contacts used by traditional potentiometer sticks and can reduce wear-related problems, including one common cause of stick drift. They do not, however, eliminate every possible source of mechanical failure.

The Ultimate 3 adds adjustable joystick tension and Hall-effect impulse triggers with two selectable travel-stop settings. Players can choose shorter trigger movement for faster inputs in shooters or longer travel for more gradual control in racing games. It also includes two programmable rear buttons, additional L4 and R4 shoulder buttons, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a reported polling rate of up to 1,000Hz on compatible Windows PCs. Its 1,000mAh rechargeable battery is rated for up to 20 hours of use.

The Pro 3 offers a symmetrical joystick layout, magnetic interchangeable ABXY buttons and selectable trigger modes. Six-axis motion controls are available on compatible Nintendo Switch and Steam platforms, while additional rear buttons and shoulder inputs allow further customisation. Its included accessories comprise a themed charging dock, 2.4GHz wireless adapter, USB cable, button puller and interchangeable joystick caps. Both models support configuration options through 8BitDo’s software, with specific features varying by platform.

The Ultimate 3 supports Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and Windows through wired USB or 2.4GHz wireless connections, with Bluetooth available for compatible Android and Apple devices. The Pro 3 supports Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, Windows, SteamOS, Android and Apple devices, with connection options depending on the platform. Neither is listed as natively compatible with PlayStation 5.

The 8BitDo Tomb Raider 30th Anniversary controllers are available in the US, priced at $119.99 for the Ultimate 3 and $79.99 for the Pro 3. The anniversary versions cost $20 and $10 more, respectively, than their standard counterparts. UK availability is scheduled for November 13, 2026, with prices listed at £94.99 and £74.99.

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Minisforum N5 Air 7640 makes room for upgrades with a slide-out motherboard

Your photo archive doesn’t stop growing just because its storage box has run out of room. The Minisforum N5 Air 7640 approaches that familiar problem with five drive bays and a motherboard that slides out for upgrades. This network-attached storage device, or NAS, gives owners a way to revisit what’s inside without treating the enclosure like a puzzle they’re supposed to leave unsolved.

There’s little on the outside to advertise that mechanical trick. Rounded corners soften a dark plastic shell measuring 7.8 by 8.0 by 9.9 inches. A broad front cover conceals the drive trays, while the power button, status lights, and USB ports occupy a narrow strip below. The arrangement keeps everyday connections accessible without leaving five drive handles competing for attention on your desk.

Designer: Minisforum

Open it up, however, and the distinction between storage access and computer maintenance becomes clearer. The hard drives have their own front-facing trays, while the motherboard travels forward on a separate sliding assembly beneath them. Minisforum carries this layout over from the earlier N5 Air. Its appeal is straightforward enough: memory and SSD upgrades don’t require dismantling the entire box around them.

That matters when a simple family archive starts taking on other jobs. Two DDR5 memory slots accept up to 96GB of replaceable RAM, giving owners room to expand as they add applications or virtual machines. The six-core AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS processor handles the computing, with 12 threads available for concurrent tasks. You aren’t locked into the memory configuration you chose initially.

Storage follows a similar division of labor. Five SATA bays accommodate larger drives for accumulated photos and footage, while three M.2 slots provide space for solid-state storage. Minisforum advertises up to 174TB across both groups. That’s a raw capacity ceiling, not usable space after redundancy. The included 64GB system drive also occupies one M.2 slot, so those three positions aren’t all empty.

The rear connections leave room for the setup around it to grow, too. Separate 10GbE and 5GbE network ports offer faster wired links, although your computer and network equipment need to support those speeds. There’s also OCuLink for external expansion and an internal PCIe slot. Despite its x16 size, that slot runs at PCIe 4.0 x4 bandwidth, an important distinction before choosing an upgrade.

The software brings those hardware options back to household routines. Minisforum’s MinisCloud OS offers photo organization, device backups, and separate personal and shared spaces, so family pictures needn’t share the same permissions as work documents. Docker support lets owners install additional applications. There is a caveat, though: Minisforum labels the operating system as beta software, something worth considering before entrusting it with irreplaceable files.

Minisforum lists the barebones model at $495, including that 64GB system drive but no RAM or data drives. The 16GB RAM version is listed at $679. Immediate stock and dispatch aren’t independently confirmed. Those additional hardware costs belong in the budget, but at least installing your chosen parts is something the enclosure was designed to accommodate, rather than quietly discourage.

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