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This $214 Modular Backpack System Zips Apart Into 3 Separate Bags You’ll Actually Want to Use

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Everyone knows the problems a single travel pack brings. If you get one that will work for an epic around-the-world adventure, it’s too big for the 3-to-5 day trips you take most of the time. If you get a smaller bag, you’re stuck with not enough space if you pick up things along the way. And, the one bag has only one mode of carry, and has to double as both a carry-everything pack on the plane (where it may not meet carry-on requirements if it’s too big) and at your destination, where you’d really like to be able to explore with a lighter weight daypack. Modular bag systems try to address these problems; however, most modular bags optimize for the combined state and treat separation as an afterthought. You could get a brilliant 65-liter travel beast that zips apart into a couple of mediocre bags you would never choose to carry on their own.

Enter Onli Travel’s Modevo Modular Travel Pack: a unique three-bag system, composed of the Core Pack travel backpack at the rear, the Link (an expandable shoulder bag/brief) in the middle, and the expandable Go Daypack on the front. Modevo takes the opposite approach, designing each of it’s three components as a fully functional standalone bag first, then engineering the connection points to make the combined configurations work without compromising the individual pieces. The Core Pack needs to work as a real 28-liter travel backpack with proper suspension. The Link needs to function as a usable briefcase or messenger bag. The Go Daypack needs to stand on its own for day trips or quick errands. Only after those requirements get satisfied in an appealing way does the design consider how they zip together.

Designer: Onli Travel

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Man in a beige jacket and sunglasses walks along a sunlit urban street, carrying a large blue-and-black hiking backpack.

This philosophy shows up in details like the Core Pack’s suspension system, which includes load lifters, a padded and vented back panel, and a removable hip belt that actually transfers weight to your hips rather than acting as decorative webbing. The Link has retractable handles and a shoulder strap with quick-release buckles, making it genuinely useful as a standalone carry for laptops and documents, or when you need extra space. The Go Daypack expands from 12 to 27 liters and includes a luggage pass-through strap, giving it real utility beyond just being the third piece of a modular system. When you zip all three together, you get a 58 to 73-liter travel system that works great as a unitary backpack, but the crucial bit is that you can separate them mid-trip and actually want to use the individual components.

At 28 liters, the Core Pack sits in that sweet spot where you can carry a week’s worth of clothes plus a laptop without the bag feeling oversized for daily use. The clamshell opening makes packing straightforward, and the dedicated laptop pocket fits screens up to 17 inches. Onli included compression straps on the sides that do double duty securing tall items such as tripods or walking sticks in the side pockets, along with a hidden pocket on the back panel for passports or valuables. The suspension system uses contoured shoulder straps with enough padding to handle weight comfortably, and the removable hip belt actually does something useful when you load the pack heavy, and has vertical adjustment to fit your torso. Side stretch pockets accommodate water bottles or umbrellas without eating into the main compartment space. The vented back panel helps with airflow, which matters when you are wearing the pack for extended periods or in warm climates. Discreet cord loops allow you to add on extra items if needed.

The 18-liter Link zips onto the front of the Core Pack when you need extra space or organization, but it works independently as a briefcase, shoulder bag, or crossbody carry. Retractable handles let you grab it like a briefcase when you are heading into a meeting, and the adjustable shoulder strap with quick-release buckles converts it into a messenger bag for commuting. Inside, there is an internal laptop sleeve that runs the length of the bag to handle over size laptops, a quick-stash front pocket for things you need to grab frequently, and enough room for documents, chargers, and the other miscellaneous items that usually end up loose in the bottom of a backpack. The design is clean enough that you could carry it into a professional setting without looking like you are lugging around camping gear. When attached to the Core Pack, it acts as a front organizer panel with easy access to essentials without needing to open the main compartment.

The Go Daypack adds 12 to 27 liters depending on whether you expand it, and it zips onto the front of the Core Pack or the Link (yes, you can configure it both ways depending on the needs of your trip!) to create the full travel configuration. On its own, it functions as a compact daypack with top-loading laptop access, dual front organizer pockets, and a grab handle for quick carry. The expandable design means you can keep it compressed for light days and open it up when you need to haul groceries or souvenirs back from a market. A pass-through strap on the back lets you slide it onto rolling luggage handles, which is genuinely useful when you are navigating airports and want to consolidate your carry. The expansion zipper runs around the perimeter, adding 15 liters of capacity when you need it without making the bag look bloated when compressed.

Put all three together and you get a system that adapts to your journey, and gives you the flexible capacity and carrying options that make travel fun. . The combined configuration reaches 58 liters unexpanded or 73 liters when you open up the Go Daypack’s expansion zipper, giving you enough capacity for extended trips without needing to check a bag. The attachment system uses YKK zippers running around the perimeter of each bag, creating a mechanical connection that distributes load across the entire interface instead of relying on clips or straps that create stress points. When you want to separate the bags mid-trip, you just unzip the connections and each piece comes away ready to use independently.

Onli Travel has been refining this concept since 2018 across multiple product iterations. This is their fourth campaign, and the design language suggests they have learned from previous versions. The bags use water-resistant fabric with Bluesign and OEKO-TEX certifications, which means the materials meet environmental and safety standards for manufacturing. YKK zippers and hardware throughout indicate attention to durability, and the construction quality reflects years of user feedback from earlier models. The system also works as a two-bag setup if you skip the Link and pair the Core Pack directly with the Go Daypack (a feature only Onli Travel offers). This “Duo configuration” pairs the Core Pack with the Go Daypack, gives you 40 to 55 liters of capacity and covers most travel scenarios without the additional briefcase component. This makes sense if your trips tend to be shorter or more casual or if you already have a dedicated work bag you prefer.

For people who want overflow capacity without committing to the full three-bag system, Onli also offers the Penta 5-in-1 packable duffel separately. It functions as a duffel, backpack, shoulder bag, belt bag, or crossbody, and it packs down small enough to stuff into the Core Pack until you need the extra space. The Penta works particularly well for those unexpected situations where you buy more than you planned or need a separate bag for dirty laundry or beach gear. It adds 27 liters of capacity when deployed but weighs almost nothing and takes up minimal space when packed.

Woman helps man adjust a large teal hiking backpack outdoors on a wooden railing overlook.

The Modevo Trio is available now for $224 through the pre-order window, with the Duo configuration running $174, if you skip the Link. Adding the Penta duffel to the Duo brings the total to $249, while the full Trio plus Penta bundle sits at $299. Colors come in black or teal, with selection happening after the campaign closes. Delivery is scheduled for June 2026, with domestic and international shipping available.

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DJI FPV Goggles Concept Uses Foldable Antenna Panels to Fix Signal Reception

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FPV flying is phenomenally fun and almost completely non-transferable. You’re seeing through the aircraft’s perspective, feeling every input through the video lag, reading the environment in ways that only make sense when you’re in the feed. But to everyone around you, you’ve just put on a box that makes you unavailable for the next however-long. They can’t see what you’re seeing unless you’ve brought extra gear specifically for that purpose. Flying becomes this weirdly solitary activity even when you’re surrounded by people, which is partly why FPV remains niche despite being objectively amazing.

This concept headset tackles radio frequency challenges first and foremost. Those fold-out panels house high-gain antennas that deploy for better signal reception and fold flush for transport, following DJI’s industrial design language closely enough to suggest these could be internal explorations for future Goggles iterations. But one variant shown in the forest shots takes things further: outward-facing displays embedded in those same antenna panels, broadcasting the pilot’s FPV feed to anyone standing nearby. It’s the kind of feature that transforms the headset wearer from someone who’s checked out into the center of a shared experience, addressing one of FPV’s biggest adoption barriers while solving legitimate antenna placement problems.

Designer: Baozi Brother

Radio frequency propagation operates on physics that industrial designers can’t negotiate with. The 5.8GHz band used for FPV video transmission behaves predictably but unforgivingly. Obstacles attenuate signal. Distance degrades quality. Antenna polarization and orientation determine whether you get clean video or digital snow. DJI’s early FPV Goggles buried antennas inside the housing for clean aesthetics and struggled with reception compared to competitors running external stick antennas that looked awkward but performed better. The Goggles V2 improved things. The Goggles 2 and Integra finally achieved competitive range by respecting rather than fighting antenna requirements, but they still used conventional mounting approaches that pilots have relied on for years.

Baozi Brother’s concept makes antenna placement the core organizing principle rather than a constraint to work around. Those wing-like panels extending from either side create physical separation between antenna elements, which matters tremendously for diversity reception. When one antenna’s signal weakens due to aircraft orientation or obstacles, the receiver switches to whichever antenna currently has the stronger feed. Spacing them wide apart on opposite sides of the headset maximizes the likelihood that at least one maintains clean line of sight to the aircraft, even during aggressive maneuvers or when flying behind structures.

The mechanical deployment system uses what appears to be a friction hinge with detents, letting pilots snap the panels into position without tools or fumbling with locks. When folded, the headset’s profile stays compact enough for standard gear bags. When deployed, the panels extend at roughly 45 degrees, positioning antennas away from the head and creating better unobstructed reception angles than current goggles achieve. DJI’s design vocabulary runs throughout: gunmetal gray housing, matte black elastomer padding, sculpted ventilation channels. A BOA-style micro-adjustment dial handles head strap tension at the rear. Port placement on the right side shows USB-C, likely HDMI, and what might be an audio jack.

Now about those screens. The variant shown in the forest environment embeds displays on the outward-facing surfaces of the antenna panels. When deployed, they broadcast the pilot’s FPV feed to spectators, instructors, or anyone nearby. Your instructor watches your training flight without needing separate gear. Your friends see why you’re excited about that gap you just threaded. Content creators capture genuine reactions without additional equipment. Whether PUXIANG moves this beyond rendering remains unclear, but as far as rethinking FPV headset architecture around actual RF performance while making the experience more accessible, this gets closer than most attempts at reinventing goggles.

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This Sculptural Lamp Treats Light as Secondary and its Decorative Shell as Primary

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Floor lamps typically exist in your peripheral vision. They illuminate a corner, frame a reading chair, or cast ambient light from behind the couch, and beyond choosing between brass or matte black, their design language is predictable. You get a pole, a shade, maybe a tripod base if the designer is feeling mid-century. Lacuna flips that entire playbook by treating the lamp as a sculptural centerpiece first and a lighting instrument second.

Designed by Kenji Abe, this large-scale floor lamp takes its name from the Latin word for cavity or void, drawing direct inspiration from the porous structures found in skeletons, honeycombs, coral reefs, and foraminifera. The result is a lighting object that feels simultaneously organic and architectural, as if someone carved a lamp out of petrified bone.

Designer: Kenji Abe

The hexagonal lattice structure that defines Lacuna is where the design earns its sculptural credibility. Most floor lamps hide their light source behind fabric or frosted glass, treating the shade as a functional diffuser. Lacuna does the opposite. The perforated shell becomes the entire visual identity, a rust-toned exoskeleton that exposes the warm glow radiating from within. Light escapes through the voids in the structure, casting intricate shadows across surrounding surfaces and creating a layered interplay between solid and negative space. The design feels intentionally unfinished, weathered in a way that bridges natural erosion and deliberate craft. That rust-like coating gives the lamp a presence that reads more like an artifact than a consumer product, something that could belong in a contemporary art gallery as easily as a living room.

Abe’s material choice reinforces the organic narrative. The structure appears to be manufactured through some form of additive process, given the continuous, flowing geometry and the lack of visible seams or fasteners. The surface texture has a granular, almost sintered quality that enhances the weathered aesthetic. This is a lamp that wants you to notice it when it is off, which is a rare ambition in lighting design. The scale pushes it into statement-piece territory. This is a floor lamp with genuine heft and visual mass, portable enough to relocate but substantial enough to anchor a space.

The warm internal light source, visible through the hexagonal voids, provides ambient illumination rather than focused task lighting. You are not reading by this lamp. You are setting a mood with it, using the interplay of light and shadow to transform how a room feels at night. The honeycomb geometry creates a diffuse glow that softens as it filters through the lattice, avoiding the harsh directional quality of exposed bulbs while maintaining enough warmth to feel inviting. Lacuna proves that floor lamps can be sculptural without sacrificing their functional purpose, turning an often-overlooked category into an opportunity for genuine artistic expression.

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Apple Wants To Put A Camera In Your AirPods… To Improve Siri’s Visual Intelligence

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Your earbud can read your body temperature, heart rate variability, and sleep quality. No, I’m not joking, there are TWS earbuds on the market that can gather medical-grade data aside from playing music or your favorite podcast. Now, Apple wants to put a camera on them too. The AirPods Pro 3 already ships with a heart rate sensor. Brands like Amazfit and Soundcore have been quietly building health-monitoring earbuds for a couple of years now. The earbud has become a sensing platform in its own right, and Apple’s next move is to take that considerably further with infrared cameras baked into a premium new model, reportedly called the AirPods Ultra, that would sit above the existing AirPods Pro lineup and bring computer vision to the most personal wearable most people actually wear every day.

According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who has been tracking this story for months, the cameras won’t capture photos or video. They are infrared sensors, closer in nature to the Face ID array on iPhone, designed to scan the environment around the wearer and feed contextual data to Siri in real time. The goal is a smarter assistant that knows what you’re looking at and what’s happening around you, without you having to describe any of it. Gurman has described the product as a “major new product category,” and the branding alone tells you something: AirPods Ultra would sit above the AirPods Pro 3, which currently retails at $249, making it the most expensive AirPods Apple has ever sold. The concept has been circulating since Ming-Chi Kuo first floated it in mid-2024, but the story has crystallized considerably in recent weeks, with multiple sources converging on an expected September 2026 launch window.

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The Apple Watch Ultra and the M-series Ultra chips established “Ultra” as Apple’s signal for extreme capability and premium positioning within a product family, and the AirPods Ultra branding carries exactly that weight. 9to5Mac noted that what was previously reported as a high-end AirPods Pro variant has shifted in the rumor landscape toward a genuinely new product tier. The reported pricing reflects that: these will cost more than the AirPods Pro 3, which sits at $249. Apple is also reportedly developing an iPhone Ultra and MacBook Ultra for 2026, meaning the earbuds would join a broader product family refresh built around the tier. Apple is constructing a new ceiling for its entire hardware lineup, and the AirPods Ultra sits at an intersection of audio, AI, and ambient sensing that no earbud has occupied before.

The infrared camera’s job description, as currently understood from Gurman’s reporting, is to make Siri situationally aware. Visual Intelligence on iPhone 15 Pro and newer already allows the camera to identify objects, read menus, and pull up contextual information about whatever it points at. Moving that capability to an earbud means the system could, in theory, understand your environment passively, without you reaching for your phone or issuing a voice command first. Apple’s next-generation Siri, expected to arrive alongside iOS 27, is reportedly being rebuilt around exactly this kind of ambient, context-first intelligence. The AirPods Ultra cameras would feed that system continuous environmental data, turning a passive audio device into something closer to a spatial awareness layer running alongside your daily life.

Kuo’s original 2024 report framed the camera feature around in-air gesture control, the idea that waving a hand near your head could manage calls or control playback without touching the earbuds. It was a compelling angle, and it made for a more immediately legible pitch than “cameras for Siri.” Gurman has since walked it back, stating he does not expect the AirPods to support hand gestures at launch. A 2025 Apple patent did explore gesture recognition through the earbud camera system, so the underlying research exists even if the shipping product won’t lead with it. The gap between what Apple patents and what it actually ships in a first-generation product is well-established history, and gesture control reads like a capability that may surface in a second-generation AirPods Ultra rather than the first.

Visual Intelligence on iPhone has proven genuinely useful in contained scenarios, but earbuds introduce a layer of ambient, always-on sensing that is harder to control and considerably harder to explain to the person standing next to you. The privacy implications are real, and the design challenge of making an IR camera in your ear feel considered rather than intrusive is one Apple will have to solve in both hardware and communication. The AirPods Ultra, if it lands in September 2026, will be one of the more consequential product launches Apple has attempted in years, because it represents the company’s clearest statement yet about what a wearable is actually for. The earbud went from audio device to health monitor quietly enough that most people barely noticed. Adding computer vision to the mix is considerably harder to ignore.

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Meet Ultrahuman Ring Pro: Up to 15 Days Battery, No Subscription, and a Dual-Core Processor

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Charging wearables has become muscle memory for many of us, and most people have accepted that their smartwatch requires almost nightly charging. But the best health tracking is done while we sleep. First, good sleep is foundational to our health. But it’s also where heart rate signals are stable and constant, making for insightful analysis. But many people don’t wear their smartwatches to sleep, partly due to comfort, but also because their watch won’t make it through the next day. Ultrahuman’s Ring Pro doesn’t ask you to accept that compromise anymore – and is designed for truly continuous health insights, with battery life so long, the biggest challenge will be remembering where you put your charger.

The Ring Pro delivers up to 15 days of battery life on a single charge, and holds 250 days of on-device data without needing a phone connection, making it fairly independent as a wearable, rather than a phone-bound tech accessory. Add a dual-core processor with on-chip machine learning, a redesigned PPG sensor, and a real-time biointelligence AI called Jade, and you’re looking at the most technically coherent argument the smart ring category has put forward.

Designer: Ultrahuman

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The Ring Pro is built on a unibody titanium architecture, with the same fighter jet-grade material that has defined the Ultrahuman Ring from the beginning. It is crafted to be worn 24/7 through every condition life throws at you. It comes in four finishes: Raw Titanium, Aster Black, Bionic Gold, and Space Silver, all of which lean into a restrained, utilitarian premium rather than flashy lifestyle aesthetics.

Ring PRO is built for it all. Sizes range from 5 to 14, with a free sizing kit dispatched before your Ring PRO ships. ProRelease Technology enables Ring PRO to be cut apart in the event of swelling or injury to the finger, a safety feature that reflects thoughtful long-term wearability engineering. Water resistance holds at 100 meters, from swimming to surfing to showers.

The battery architecture operates in two modes: Turbo Mode delivers approximately 12 days, and Chill Mode offers up to 15 days. Ultrahuman CEO Mohit Kumar called the battery performance “3 to 4 times that of the competition,” framing it as a fundamental breakthrough rather than an incremental spec bump.

The Ring Pro achieves this without trimming features. The sensor array includes a redesigned PPG for heart rate, HRV, and blood oxygen; a non-contact skin temperature sensor; and a 6-axis IMU for motion tracking, all rebuilt specifically for improved signal quality during sleep and recovery.

A dual-core processor with on-chip machine learning replaces the single-core processor from the Ring AIR, with on-chip ML enabling complex health algorithms to run directly on the ring, delivering faster results with greater precision.

For everyday use, the Mini Charger is all you need. The Mini-Charger is Ring PRO’s compact everyday charging companion. Lightweight and pocket-friendly, it is designed to go wherever you go, your gym bag, your carry-on, your desk, without taking up space or adding weight. Simply plug it in via the Type-C cable included in the box, place your Ring PRO on the dock, and you’re charging. No fuss, no complexity.

The Ring Pro comes with Jade, Ultrahuman’s biointelligence AI platform, described as the world’s first real-time health AI .Jade pulls live biomarker data from the ring and acts on it (like triggering breathwork sessions based on current HRV readings).

Jade connects ring data across Ultrahuman’s broad health ecosystem, blending lifestyle data with 120+ Blood Vision biomarkers, M1 CGM glucose trends, and even Ultrahuman Home environmental data..

Use Standard mode for quick answers on your data, such as how long you slept or recent trends,, or flip to Research mode for comprehensive analysis that connects the dots across complex health data.

Jade’s capabilities extend through PowerPlugs, a platform for individual apps and plugins built on top of Ultrahuman’s health and wellness data stack, designed for highly personalized health insights. You can tailor health tracking to your unique needs and goals, supercharging your Ring PRO experience with a library of micro-tools.

The Ring Pro is available in multiple configurations, starting at $299 for the Super Early Bird tier and ranging up to $699 for the Couples Pack (which includes two rings and three Powerplugs each). Each package includes the Ring PRO itself, a charging case, and three Powerplugs (worth $150, free for one year): Respiratory Health (detects snoring, coughing, and irregular breathing via smartphone audio), Cycle & Ovulation Pro (advanced fertility tracking with 90%+ ovulation accuracy), and Cardio Adaptability (analyzes overnight heart rate variability using tachograms and Lorenz plots).

A lifetime subscription to all Ultrahuman Ring PRO features and content is included with no hidden fees or recurring charges. Shipping is free worldwide, with estimated delivery beginning in June 2026 for early configurations and July 2026 for later tiers. A sizing kit ships before the ring itself to ensure the right fit, and the Ring Pro is available in Raw Titanium, Aster Black, Bionic Gold, and Space Silver finishes.

Click Here to Buy Now: $299 $530 ($231 off). Hurry, only a few left!

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Meet Ultrahuman Ring Pro: Up to 15 Days Battery, No Subscription, and a Dual-Core Processor

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Charging wearables has become muscle memory for many of us, and most people have accepted that their smartwatch requires almost nightly charging. But the best health tracking is done while we sleep. First, good sleep is foundational to our health. But it’s also where heart rate signals are stable and constant, making for insightful analysis. But many people don’t wear their smartwatches to sleep, partly due to comfort, but also because their watch won’t make it through the next day. Ultrahuman’s Ring Pro doesn’t ask you to accept that compromise anymore – and is designed for truly continuous health insights, with battery life so long, the biggest challenge will be remembering where you put your charger.

The Ring Pro delivers up to 15 days of battery life on a single charge, and holds 250 days of on-device data without needing a phone connection, making it fairly independent as a wearable, rather than a phone-bound tech accessory. Add a dual-core processor with on-chip machine learning, a redesigned PPG sensor, and a real-time biointelligence AI called Jade, and you’re looking at the most technically coherent argument the smart ring category has put forward.

Designer: Ultrahuman

Click Here to Buy Now: $299 $530 ($231 off). Hurry, only a few left!

The Ring Pro is built on a unibody titanium architecture, with the same fighter jet-grade material that has defined the Ultrahuman Ring from the beginning. It is crafted to be worn 24/7 through every condition life throws at you. It comes in four finishes: Raw Titanium, Aster Black, Bionic Gold, and Space Silver, all of which lean into a restrained, utilitarian premium rather than flashy lifestyle aesthetics.

Ring PRO is built for it all. Sizes range from 5 to 14, with a free sizing kit dispatched before your Ring PRO ships. ProRelease Technology enables Ring PRO to be cut apart in the event of swelling or injury to the finger, a safety feature that reflects thoughtful long-term wearability engineering. Water resistance holds at 100 meters, from swimming to surfing to showers.

The battery architecture operates in two modes: Turbo Mode delivers approximately 12 days, and Chill Mode offers up to 15 days. Ultrahuman CEO Mohit Kumar called the battery performance “3 to 4 times that of the competition,” framing it as a fundamental breakthrough rather than an incremental spec bump.

The Ring Pro achieves this without trimming features. The sensor array includes a redesigned PPG for heart rate, HRV, and blood oxygen; a non-contact skin temperature sensor; and a 6-axis IMU for motion tracking, all rebuilt specifically for improved signal quality during sleep and recovery.

A dual-core processor with on-chip machine learning replaces the single-core processor from the Ring AIR, with on-chip ML enabling complex health algorithms to run directly on the ring, delivering faster results with greater precision.

For everyday use, the Mini Charger is all you need. The Mini-Charger is Ring PRO’s compact everyday charging companion. Lightweight and pocket-friendly, it is designed to go wherever you go, your gym bag, your carry-on, your desk, without taking up space or adding weight. Simply plug it in via the Type-C cable included in the box, place your Ring PRO on the dock, and you’re charging. No fuss, no complexity.

The Ring Pro comes with Jade, Ultrahuman’s biointelligence AI platform, described as the world’s first real-time health AI .Jade pulls live biomarker data from the ring and acts on it (like triggering breathwork sessions based on current HRV readings).

Jade connects ring data across Ultrahuman’s broad health ecosystem, blending lifestyle data with 120+ Blood Vision biomarkers, M1 CGM glucose trends, and even Ultrahuman Home environmental data..

Use Standard mode for quick answers on your data, such as how long you slept or recent trends,, or flip to Research mode for comprehensive analysis that connects the dots across complex health data.

Jade’s capabilities extend through PowerPlugs, a platform for individual apps and plugins built on top of Ultrahuman’s health and wellness data stack, designed for highly personalized health insights. You can tailor health tracking to your unique needs and goals, supercharging your Ring PRO experience with a library of micro-tools.

The Ring Pro is available in multiple configurations, starting at $299 for the Super Early Bird tier and ranging up to $699 for the Couples Pack (which includes two rings and three Powerplugs each). Each package includes the Ring PRO itself, a charging case, and three Powerplugs (worth $150, free for one year): Respiratory Health (detects snoring, coughing, and irregular breathing via smartphone audio), Cycle & Ovulation Pro (advanced fertility tracking with 90%+ ovulation accuracy), and Cardio Adaptability (analyzes overnight heart rate variability using tachograms and Lorenz plots).

A lifetime subscription to all Ultrahuman Ring PRO features and content is included with no hidden fees or recurring charges. Shipping is free worldwide, with estimated delivery beginning in June 2026 for early configurations and July 2026 for later tiers. A sizing kit ships before the ring itself to ensure the right fit, and the Ring Pro is available in Raw Titanium, Aster Black, Bionic Gold, and Space Silver finishes.

Click Here to Buy Now: $299 $530 ($231 off). Hurry, only a few left!

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This Tiny Sunrise Alarm Clock Replaced My Phone, My Lamp, and My White Noise Machine

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Imagine a small coastal diorama sitting on your nightstand, a sculpted seascape of rocky shores and a lone sailboat frozen in miniature, and then imagine it coming to life every morning as warm amber light builds from nothing inside it, flooding the scene like a real sun cresting the horizon. That single image is enough to explain why the sunrise alarm clock category has been waiting for something like the SOLUME Sunrise Wake Light for a long time. The science behind it has been settled for decades: circadian rhythm research consistently shows that graduated light exposure at dawn regulates cortisol and melatonin in a way that leaves you alert without the cortisol spike of an acoustic alarm, the kind evolution wired us to associate with immediate physical threat. SOLUME takes that research and builds a product around it that you actually want on your nightstand.

The enclosure uses a wood-grain finish with a wedge-shaped profile, housing that sculpted coastal scene behind an angled opening that glows through warm amber and orange during the sunrise sequence. A fabric-wrapped base below carries a clean LED clock display, a Bluetooth speaker, and controls for 12 built-in nature sounds and programmable sunset timers at 45 or 90 minutes, handling both ends of the sleep equation in a single object. Designed in the United States and grounded in over 35 years of phototherapy research, the SOLUME packages serious sleep science into something that reads, at a glance, more like a piece of tabletop art than a wellness gadget. The Philips Wake-Up Light held this category for two decades on function alone; SOLUME is making the same argument with considerably better aesthetics.

Designer: Solume

Traditional sunrise clocks solve the light therapy problem with a bare bulb behind a diffuser panel, which works but leaves nothing interesting to look at during the wind-down phase. SOLUME’s sculpted seascape gives the light somewhere to live, so as the sunset timer counts down in the evening, the amber glow retreating across those miniature rock formations actually mimics the quality of late golden-hour light in a way a flat panel never could. It turns a passive light source into something with depth, shadow, and a bit of theatre, which matters more than it sounds when you’re staring at it from a pillow for 45 minutes waiting to fall asleep.

Pairing your phone over Bluetooth means your usual sleep playlist or podcast winds down alongside the fading light, both cues working together rather than competing. The 12 built-in nature sounds cover the expected ground, rain, ocean, forest, and serve well enough for nights when reaching for your phone feels like too much friction. The fabric grille housing the speaker also does quiet acoustic work, softening the clock display’s LED glow so it reads cleanly without punching through a dark room at 3am.

Most sleep gadgets optimize for one end of the night or the other, a sunrise clock wakes you up, a sound machine helps you fall asleep, and never quite reckon with the fact that these are two halves of the same problem. SOLUME treats the full cycle as a single design brief, which is the right call, and the hardware reflects that clarity. The Classic and Pro versions sit at $68 and $75 respectively, with the Pro adding a handful of premium features for the small premium. For a device that credibly replaces your alarm clock, your bedside lamp, and your white noise machine simultaneously, that math works out fairly cleanly.

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600 LEGO Bricks, One Gorgeous Victorian Telescope, and Four Hidden Scenes Inside the Lens

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Every great adventure story needs a telescope. Horatio Hornblower snapping his glass open on the quarterdeck. Long John Silver tracking the Hispaniola from a cliff. Jack Sparrow squinting at the horizon for a ship worth plundering. The handheld nautical telescope has been a shorthand for discovery, danger, and romance since the age of sail, and its grander cousin, the brass tripod-mounted observatory scope, carries the same energy at a considerably more impressive scale.

Bricked1980 has tapped directly into that feeling with a LEGO Ideas submission that looks like it belongs on the desk of a Victorian gentleman scientist. The Functional Vintage Telescope clocks in at around 600 pieces, stands 40 centimeters high, and stretches 53 centimeters in length, with a color palette of deep reddish-brown and pearl gold that makes it look genuinely antique from across the room.

Designer: Bricked1980

The build is modeled on a classic brass refractor telescope mounted on a fully articulated tripod, and the attention to period detail is remarkable. The barrel is rendered in warm dark brown with subtle surface texture suggesting wrapped leather or lacquered wood, banded at intervals with pearl gold rings that evoke the ferrules of a real antique instrument. The tripod legs splay convincingly outward in reddish-brown, connected at the apex by a cluster of black Technic hardware that doubles as the azimuth mount, letting the barrel rotate and pivot in all directions. A small gold chain hangs from the objective end, terminating in what appears to be a lens cap, and it is exactly the kind of fussy, historically accurate touch that elevates this from a cool-looking model to something that feels genuinely researched.

The eyepiece assembly is where the build gets interesting. Bricked1980 has positioned a secondary spotting scope above the main barrel, a common feature on serious Victorian-era refractors used for rough alignment before fine adjustment. My favorite detail, though, is the pair of adjustment wheels flanking the mount, their spoked design rendered using LEGO wheel elements that read convincingly as the kind of slow-motion tracking hardware you’d find on an equatorial mount. The overall silhouette is so convincing that you could photograph this against a dark background and genuinely fool someone.

Now, about that “functional” claim. The build includes four bespoke printed scene discs, a spaceship, a tropical island, a crescent moon and stars, and a tall-masted pirate ship, each of which clips behind the objective lens. A hidden light brick, activated by pressing a button on the barrel, illuminates the interior, and you peer through the eyepiece to see the scene glowing inside the tube. It is a charming, theatrical effect, the kind of thing that would delight anyone who picks it up, though don’t go expecting it to resolve Jupiter’s moons. Think of it as a Victorian magic lantern wearing a telescope’s coat, and it is all the more delightful for it. Sharp-eyed LEGO fans will notice that at least two of the scenes appear to contain nods to classic LEGO history, which is a wonderful layer of Easter egg for the community.

The Functional Vintage Telescope has already earned a LEGO Ideas Staff Pick, and currently sits at around 7,500 supporters with 511 days remaining on the clock. It needs 10,000 votes to be submitted for official LEGO review. Click here to cast your vote and help this gorgeous Victorian relic earn its place on a shelf near you.

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Everyone Said Hydrogen Was Dead. Then 2026 Happened.

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Toyota Tacoma H2-Overlander

The hydrogen fuel cell vehicle has been declared dead so many times that the obituary writers have a template saved. Battery EVs won, the infrastructure never materialized, and Toyota’s Mirai became the punchline for a technology that arrived a decade too early and never quite recovered. That was the consensus heading into 2025. Then, in roughly a six-week window, Toyota rolled a hydrogen-electric Tacoma concept onto the SEMA floor, dropped a 2026 Mirai refresh, and unveiled a liquid-hydrogen Le Mans racer, and Hyundai answered with a redesigned NEXO and a striking FCEV concept that previewed an entirely new design language for the brand.

What makes this moment different from previous hydrogen revivals is the context it landed in. A world freshly reminded of oil’s political weight is a world considerably more receptive to the hydrogen pitch, and these announcements, made before any of that, now read as remarkably well-timed. Toyota and Hyundai weren’t reacting to geopolitics. They were already building. The current moment simply handed their work a much larger audience than it might otherwise have found, and the design language pouring out of Toyota City and Seoul tells a story the analyst reports keep missing: hydrogen’s most interesting chapter is being written right now, in metal and carbon fiber and recycled aero panels, on a SEMA show floor and a Le Mans pit lane.

Designer: Toyota

Toyota Tacoma H2-Overlander

The most conceptually ambitious piece in Toyota’s recent hydrogen push is the Tacoma H2-Overlander, built by TRD teams in California and North Carolina for the 2025 SEMA Show in November. Built on the proven TNGA-F truck platform, it replaces internal combustion with a second-generation Mirai fuel cell stack paired with three frame-integrated hydrogen tanks holding 6 kg of fuel. Two electric motors — 301 horsepower up front, 252 at the rear — deliver a combined 547 horsepower, which on paper makes it one of the most powerful Tacomas ever conceived. But horsepower is the least interesting thing about this truck. The fuel cell exhausts a single byproduct from the process it uses to produce electricity: water, and Toyota engineered a patent-pending water recovery system that captures and filters that H2O for camping and outdoor use. Distilled water from a tailpipe, in a truck that can simultaneously charge two EVs through dual NEMA 14-50 outlets via a 15-kW power takeoff. That is a design argument, not just a spec sheet.

Toyota Tacoma H2-Overlander

The argument Toyota is making with the H2-Overlander is the most important one hydrogen advocates have ever attempted: that the infrastructure problem, which has strangled FCEV adoption in urban markets for two decades, simply ceases to matter once you take the vehicle off the grid. A Tacoma disappearing into backcountry terrain where there are no hydrogen stations is not a problem for hydrogen. It is hydrogen’s strongest use case. The concept’s exterior features a custom overlanding camper built from recycled carbon-fiber aero panels, and the whole truck reads as a coherent design thesis rather than a show-floor stunt. Toyota Racing Development built this under an extremely compressed timeline, relying on advanced CAD modeling and multi-site collaboration to retrofit an entirely new powertrain into a platform never designed for it. The pressure showed in the ambition of the result, which is a phrase you rarely get to write about concept vehicles.

Toyota Gazoo Racing GR LH2 Racing Concept

Toyota did not stop at SEMA. At Le Mans in June 2025, Toyota unveiled the GR LH2 Racing Concept, an evolution of a static design study the marque had presented at the same event in 2023, now underpinned by the chassis from its FIA World Endurance Championship-contending GR010 Hypercars. The GR LH2 runs on liquid hydrogen rather than compressed gaseous hydrogen, which requires storing the fuel at approximately minus 253 degrees Celsius and introduces a completely different set of engineering and packaging challenges. Toyota describes it as a testbed for not just the propulsion system itself but also the infrastructure and refueling requirements it will demand, and team principal Kazuki Nakajima confirmed that a first public on-track test is approaching without committing to a specific date. The Le Mans organizers have tentatively committed to a hydrogen-powered class potentially as early as 2026. Toyota, which has been running hydrogen-combustion Corollas in Japan’s Super Taikyu series since 2021, is the obvious frontrunner for that grid. Motorsport as a hydrogen proving ground is a strategy Toyota has been executing quietly for years, and the GR LH2 is what that strategy looks like when it graduates to the main stage.

Toyota Gazoo Racing GR LH2 Racing Concept

Hyundai’s approach runs in parallel, and deliberately so. Where Toyota has been stress-testing hydrogen across use cases — luxury sedan, off-road truck, endurance racer — Hyundai has been doubling down on hydrogen as a premium SUV proposition with a design language confident enough to treat the powertrain as an asset. Introduced at the Seoul Mobility Show in April 2025, the all-new NEXO is based on the INITIUM concept unveiled in October 2024 and embodies Hyundai’s new “Art of Steel” design language, built around the inherent tension and formability of steel as a material statement rather than a neutral manufacturing choice. That design language will be applied exclusively to hydrogen-powered vehicles within Hyundai’s lineup, which is a meaningful brand decision. Hyundai is not just refreshing a car. It is building a visual identity for hydrogen as a category, separating FCEVs from BEVs at the design language level so that a buyer can read the powertrain from across a parking lot. The HTWO lamp signatures, derived from the molecular formula for hydrogen and Hyundai’s hydrogen brand name, appear front and rear as dedicated FCEV-specific design cues. That kind of systematic visual differentiation takes conviction, and conviction is something hydrogen advocacy has historically lacked.

Toyota Mirai 2026

The 2026 NEXO targets a driving range of up to 447 miles on a single fill, refuels in approximately five minutes, and becomes the first FCEV to offer towing capability in European markets, a specification that quietly dismantles one of the lingering criticisms of fuel cell vehicles as impractical luxury objects. A hydrogen SUV that can tow is no longer a commuter car wearing premium clothes. It is a direct competitor to diesel utility vehicles in markets where towing capacity is a purchase decision, not an afterthought. The interior has been reimagined as what Hyundai calls a “Furnished Space,” with Relaxation Seats, a Bang and Olufsen 14-speaker audio system, vehicle-to-load capability up to 3.6 kW, and a curved dual 12.3-inch display system. The cabin ambition is clear: Hyundai wants the NEXO to compete on interior quality with premium German SUVs, and it wants the hydrogen powertrain to feel like a selling point rather than a compromise the buyer tolerates.

Toyota Mirai 2026

BMW and Honda both have hydrogen programs running in parallel, and the commercial truck sector has been deploying hydrogen fuel cells at scale for longer than most passenger car advocates acknowledge. But Toyota and Hyundai are the two companies whose recent design output makes the strongest collective argument for hydrogen as a coherent, multi-use-case technology with real visual language and real engineering ambition behind it. The obituary writers got the timing wrong. Hydrogen in 2025 looks less like a technology in retreat and more like one that has been quietly doing its homework, waiting for the moment when the world would finally pay attention. That moment, for reasons nobody in Toyota City or Seoul planned for, appears to have arrived.

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Stop Buying a Separate RV Heater. This 16,000 BTU RV Air Conditioner Does Both

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There’s a moment every RV owner knows: you’ve been hiking all day in 95-degree heat, you’re covered in dust and questionable decisions, and you open the door to your trailer expecting relief. Instead, you get a wall of stagnant air that somehow feels hotter than outside. Your rooftop AC has been running for three hours and achieved exactly nothing. The problem isn’t usually the BTU rating on paper. Most 13,500 or 15,000 BTU units can theoretically cool the space. The problem is airflow distribution, compressor efficiency under load, and the reality that your RV is essentially a greenhouse on wheels with minimal insulation and windows everywhere. By the time cooled air reaches the back bedroom, it’s already been defeated by physics.

FOGATTI’s InstaCool Ultra approaches this with 418 CFM of airflow pushed through dual synchronous motors that sweep 85 degrees, creating whole-RV coverage in roughly 4 minutes according to the company. The 16,000 BTU cooling capacity targets spaces up to 600 square feet, which translates to RVs up to 36 feet long. The unit doubles as a heat pump delivering 12,500 BTU of warmth, giving it legitimate four-season capability without installing separate heating hardware. Heat pumps move thermal energy rather than creating it, which makes them roughly 3-4 times more efficient than resistance heating. The 9.2cc high-displacement compressor achieves an 11.8 EER rating (the Department of Energy considers anything above 10.7 high efficiency), operates at 43 decibels, and fits standard 14.25-inch roof openings without modification. At $1,399 (down from $1,759), it undercuts premium units while outspeccing budget alternatives.

Designer: FOGATTI

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The heat pump architecture sits at the center of what makes this unit different from the Coleman-Mach and Dometic systems that dominate most RV roofs. Traditional RV climate control treats heating and cooling as separate problems requiring separate solutions. The InstaCool Ultra runs a reversible refrigerant cycle, which means the same compressor and heat exchanger hardware that cools in July also heats in October. The system operates across an ambient temperature range from 23°F to 115°F, covering most of the continental United States outside of genuine Arctic expeditions or desert extremes that would make you question your life choices anyway.

The airflow system uses dual synchronous motors driving three fans to push 418 CFM through the cabin. For context, most 15,000 BTU RV air conditioners move 325-350 CFM. The extra volume comes from the triple-fan configuration rather than just running the motors harder, which keeps noise down while increasing air circulation. The motors drive an 85-degree sweep mechanism that oscillates the airflow rather than blasting it straight down in a single column. You can also lock the vents in place for targeted cooling when you want maximum airflow in one zone.

The reversible heat pump system automatically switches between cooling and heating modes, using compressor-based thermal transfer rather than combustion-based heating. Five segments run during milder conditions or when you’re just maintaining temperature overnight. This variable output prevents the temperature swings you get with single-stage systems that either blast full power or shut off entirely. The heat pump delivers 12,500 BTU of heating capacity, which sounds less impressive than the 16,000 BTU cooling until you account for the efficiency difference. A heat pump operating at a 3.4 coefficient of performance moves 3.4 watts of thermal energy for every watt of electricity consumed. Resistance heaters convert electricity to heat at a 1:1 ratio.

The control ecosystem offers three entry points: a physical remote, a touchscreen ADB panel mounted inside the RV, and a WiFi-connected smartphone app. The app lets you pre-cool or pre-heat the RV before you return from a day hike, which sounds like a luxury feature until you experience stepping into a 72°F trailer after spending six hours in the sun at Arches National Park.

The physical installation targets the standard 14.25-inch by 14.25-inch roof cutout that Coleman, Dometic, and Furrion units use, which means most RVers can swap this in as a direct replacement without modifying the roof structure. The streamlined profile measures 12.2 inches tall, which keeps it in low-profile territory. For comparison, the Dometic Brisk II sits around 14 inches tall, and the Coleman-Mach 15 runs closer to 13.5 inches. Those couple of inches determine whether you clear that 13-foot bridge on the backroad to your favorite dispersed campsite.

The 43-decibel noise rating puts this in the quiet category for RV air conditioners. Coleman-Mach units typically run 65-72 decibels. Dometic’s quieter models hit 50-59 decibels. The InstaCool Ultra’s 43-decibel claim would make it one of the quietest rooftop units available, though that figure likely represents the lowest speed setting rather than full-power operation.

The InstaCool Ultra ships for $1,399, down from the original $1,759 price point. That positions it between budget-tier units from Advent or RecPro (which run $700-900) and premium models from Dometic’s FreshJet or GE’s Profile series (which approach $1,400-1,600). The unit currently ships in white, fitting standard non-ducted installations. What you’re really buying here is year-round climate control without installing two separate systems or draining your battery bank every time the temperature drops. Heat pump, real airflow, quiet operation, and an efficiency rating that lets you boondock longer. For RVers chasing fall colors in the Rockies or spring wildflowers in the desert, that combination finally exists at a price that doesn’t require financing.

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