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This $129 Portable Jacuzzi turns any bathtub into a personal spa

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Installing a jetted tub usually means a new tub, a plumber, a dedicated electrical circuit, and some tile you never planned on replacing. That’s a lot of renovation for the simple pleasure of moving water. WAVORA’s Z1 shrinks the whole idea into a cordless puck that fits in your palm and suction-mounts inside the tub you already own. It’s roughly a hockey puck’s chubbier cousin, and it runs on a rechargeable battery, so there’s no cord dangling over the edge or near the water. Think of it as a jetted tub’s greatest hit with the remodel left out.

WAVORA, a Louisville, Kentucky brand, sealed the Z1’s motor away from the bath water entirely, so there’s no spinning shaft poking through a rubber seal and waiting to leak. Most compact pumps use a rotating shaft that passes through the housing, guarded by a dynamic seal that rubs and wears every time the motor spins. The Z1 separates the drive from the transmission and closes everything up with static seals, which have no moving surfaces to grind down. The surrounding water doubles as coolant, pulling heat off the housing while it runs, which is a neat bit of free engineering. Your bath, in other words, is also the radiator.

Designer: WAVORA

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A Grapefruit-Sized Jet That Mounts on the Wall or the Floor

The Z1 measures 4.3 by 3.5 inches (109 x 89mm) and weighs about 19 ounces (545g), which puts it in medium-sized citric fruit territory. Its form is a soft, cream-white drum with a slatted grille where the water exits and two control buttons on its flank. Small indicator LEDs glow through the shell, so you can check the setting without fishing the thing out. Most cordless bath jets on Amazon are taller cylinders with swiveling nozzles, and they tend to look like pool equipment. The Z1 reads closer to a diffuser or a candle, which helps when it’s sitting on a shelf between soaks.

A double-sided suction mount does the holding, sticking to the tub on one face and the Z1 on the other. It grips best on smooth, non-porous surfaces, which covers acrylic, enamel, glass, polished stainless steel, and glazed tile, so most American tubs qualify. Mount it on the side wall and you get a directional stream that sweeps across the tub like a classic jet aimed at your back. Set it on the floor and the water pushes upward through the bath instead, closer to a spring welling up from below. Swapping between the two takes seconds, which means you pick where the movement starts every night, something a built-in jet can never do.

Three Flow Modes and Up to Five Hours Per Charge

Gentle Flow keeps a soft, steady current moving around you, perfect for a bath with a book in one hand. Power Flow cranks up circulation and shoves water and existing bath foam around the whole tub, which is the setting for sore legs after a long run. Spa Rhythm pulses the intensity up and down in waves, mimicking the ebb and surge of a proper spa jet. One button cycles through all three, so switching moods doesn’t require reading a manual with wet hands. The Z1 moves water rather than injecting air, so the fizzy, aerated feel of a whirlpool comes from your bath bombs, which the launch bundle conveniently includes.

Gentle Flow runs for up to five hours on one charge, Power Flow for about two, and the pulsing Spa Rhythm for around an hour. Five hours in the gentlest mode covers several evening soaks before you need to think about a cable, unless you’re the type who refills the hot water three times. Charging happens over the included USB cable outside the tub, so the only thing near the water is a sealed puck on battery power. Being cordless also frees the Z1 from the nearest outlet, which in most bathrooms sits over by the sink. Corded rivals solve that with a 13-foot cable, which is a lot of wire to drape around a tub of water.

An Outlet You Can Rinse in the Sink, and a $129 Launch Price

Built-in jets have a reputation, and anyone who has fired one up after months of disuse has seen the flakes that come out of the plumbing. The Z1’s outlet section detaches completely, so hair, petals, and bath bomb debris get rinsed out at the sink instead of building up inside. Smaller snags come off by hand without removing anything. The entire water path lives inside a body you can hold under a faucet, so there’s no hidden pipework for gunk to colonize. Budget bath jets on Amazon run about $30 to $70, and their swiveling nozzle assemblies offer more nooks for that gunk to settle into.

The Z1 launches at $129 in a Spa Ritual Set, against a $235 MSRP, bundled with a USB charging cable, the double-sided suction mount, and a manual. WAVORA throws in six botanical bath bombs, six bath liners, and a mesh pouch, which turns the box into a ready-made gift. A single cream-white finish appears across the launch materials, with no other colors announced. Orders ship worldwide, including the US, with delivery estimated for January 2027. WAVORA hasn’t listed warranty terms yet, so check the product page before ordering. That’s a jetted tub’s worth of moving water for the price of a nice dinner, and the tile gets to stay exactly where it is.

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This fan-made LEGO McDonald’s combo comes with everything except the McFlurry

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In 1999, LEGO sold an official McDonald’s restaurant brickset through its Shop at Home catalog in the US, and it was adorably tiny. Set 3438 used 98 pieces to build a little drive-through window, a car, and an umbrella table, with stickers doing most of the branding work. The employee was basically a standard LEGO chef with the logo slapped on his chest. One collector paid $75 for a sealed copy back in 2011, for a set that cost around ten bucks new. Twenty-seven years later, a fan builder thinks the next LEGO McDonald’s should skip the building entirely and go straight for the food.

Called McDonald’s Menu, brickbybrick_’s LEGO Ideas submission rebuilds a classic combo big enough to hold its own on a shelf. There’s a red tray with giant Golden Arches in the middle, a cheeseburger, a red carton overflowing with fries, and a white cup loaded with transparent ice and a striped straw. Zero minifigures, zero drive-through, all lunch. The project went up on October 29 and is already sitting at 1,440 supporters, which tells me a lot of AFOLs (adult fans of LEGO) are hungry. I’m one of them, and I’m writing this before lunch.

Designer: brickbybrick_

Red plates form the tray, finished with a raised, rounded rim and a handle at each end, so it reads as molded plastic instead of a stack of bricks. A big yellow set of Golden Arches sits dead center, breaking up what would otherwise be a whole lot of red. The food is arranged in the classic triangle: burger front left, cup at the back, fries off to the right. It’s the exact layout you’d find on any table at your local McDonald’s around noon. That framing makes the build look like a meal someone just set down, which is half the fun of it.

The cheeseburger starts with a dome of tan curved elements, smooth on top like a plain hamburger bun. Under it sits a red layer that reads as tomato, then bright green leaf pieces fanning out as lettuce, a slice of yellow cheese, and a dark brown patty. Those leaves are a nice bit of NPU (nice part usage, for the uninitiated), taking foliage meant for LEGO gardens and jungles and turning it into a salad. Each layer sticks out at slightly uneven angles, giving the burger that freshly squished look of something just pulled from its wrapper. Real fast food never comes perfectly stacked, and this one looks like it survived a lunch rush.

A pile of yellow plates and bricks spills out of the red fry carton at every angle, some standing tall and some flopped over the edge the way the last few always are. The carton gets the real thing’s shape right, the one McDonald’s introduced in 1970 with a wide mouth for quick scooping and a profile that keeps the fries from falling out. The Golden Arches appear on its face in yellow, the same red-and-yellow combo that has been selling fries for over five decades. Building fries in LEGO is easy, but making them look casually messy takes real effort. My only complaint is that I can’t salt them.

My favorite detail, though, is the drink. The white cup’s top is left open, showing a load of transparent pieces packed in as ice, with a red-and-white striped straw sticking out at a jaunty angle. That straw does three jobs at once. It gives the composition its tallest point, adds a splash of red to an otherwise white element, and nods to a real McDonald’s quirk, since the chain says its straws are slightly wider than average so more Coke hits your taste buds. The ice tells its own story, because McDonald’s pre-chills its syrup and sets the ratio expecting the ice to melt. Leaving the lid off is what lets you see all of it.

Back in 2021, adammark’s McDonald’s Franchise 1955-1969, a walk-up burger stand with a Speedee System kitchen, hit 10,000 supporters and reached the Third 2021 Review. It was one of 36 projects in that round, and Hocus Pocus ended up as the only one approved. brickbybrick_ takes a different route, shrinking the subject from a restaurant down to a single meal sized for a shelf. The build is unlicensed, so those Golden Arches are a fan’s tribute, and any official version would need McDonald’s on board. The two companies have teamed up before, going back to LEGO’s first Happy Meal promotion in 1983, so the precedent exists.

McDonald’s Menu currently has 1,440 supporters and 599 days left to reach its next milestone of 5,000. LEGO Ideas runs on community momentum: fans submit their builds, supporters rally behind the ones they love, and projects that hit 10,000 get reviewed by LEGO for a shot at becoming real sets. It’s a long climb for a lunch order, but every Ideas set on store shelves started at zero votes. If you’d like to see this combo in a box, head to the LEGO Ideas page and give it your vote. Personally, I’m holding out for a Super Size edition, which McDonald’s retired in 2004 but LEGO is more than welcome to bring back.

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Tesla is ending Cybertruck production in Texas, hinting at discontinuing the model entirely

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Tesla is pulling the plug on the Cybertruck, and the official reason involves real estate. Elon Musk posted on X on November 6 that production at Gigafactory Texas will wind down around the middle of 2027 to make room for more Cybercab production. That would be a reasonable explanation if Giga Texas were a studio apartment. The factory has more than 10 million square feet (roughly 929,000 square meters) of floor space, and the Cybertruck line has been running at a fraction of its installed capacity. Call it the most polite breakup text in automotive history.

The less polite version is that nobody’s buying it. Electrek estimates Tesla is moving around 30,000 Cybertrucks a year on a line built for 250,000, and Cox Automotive counts just 11,586 US sales through the first nine months of 2026. This is the same truck that debuted in 2019 with a promised $39,900 price tag and a pair of freshly shattered “Armor Glass” windows. Back then I called it a Toblerone on wheels, and being right seven years later brings me zero joy. Okay, maybe a little. The truck peaked on a stage in 2019, and nothing it did on the road ever topped that.

Price cuts, price hikes, and a convenient excuse

A cheaper rear-wheel-drive Cybertruck launched in 2025 and vanished within months, setting the tone for two years of Tesla trying one pricing strategy after another. A more affordable dual-motor trim reached customers this summer, then Tesla raised prices by $5,000 in August, putting that version at $74,990. Some of the most dependable demand came from inside the family, with S&P Global Mobility data showing SpaceX bought 1,279 Cybertrucks in the last quarter of 2025. Musk’s companies accounted for roughly 19% of US Cybertruck registrations that quarter. When your rocket company is one of your best customers, the truck has a demand problem.

Tesla used the same “make room” framing earlier this year, when it ended Model S and Model X production to free up its Fremont factory for Optimus humanoid robots. Retiring a product sounds a lot better when it’s framed as making space for the future. The Cybertruck’s exit also leaves plenty unanswered: no firm end date, no word on outstanding orders, and nothing yet on parts and service for existing owners. Tesla hadn’t responded to Gizmodo’s request for comment, either. The closest thing to an official goodbye came from lead engineer Wes Morrill, who posted that the truck “lives on through Cybercab.” Engineers write better eulogies than CEOs, apparently.

A mood board of movie cars met a real winter

The Cybertruck’s problems started on the mood board. A photo Walter Isaacson shared from Tesla’s design studio shows a wall of film and game vehicles, including James Bond’s submarine Lotus Esprit and the Back to the Future DeLorean, and Musk has openly credited Blade Runner as a major influence. Movie cars only have to look incredible for the length of a shot. Chief designer Franz von Holzhausen later conceded that most of the studio hated the final faceted shape, and Musk shot down every attempt to soften it, famously declaring he doesn’t do focus groups. One man’s taste beat an entire design team, and the market eventually sided with the team.

In early 2024, owners in rain-soaked California started posting photos of orange rust specks on their stainless panels after just a couple of days of driving. Morrill blamed surface contamination that cleans right off, which is technically reassuring and terrible marketing for a truck sold as indestructible. A year later, Tesla recalled 46,096 trucks because a stainless trim panel called the cant rail, bonded with structural adhesive, could delaminate and detach. Owners had reported failures in cold weather. In between, 3,878 trucks were recalled because an unapproved dab of soap during assembly let the accelerator pedal pad slip loose and get trapped in the trim. Armor, it turns out, still depends on glue.

The Cybertruck became a statement about its creator

No other Tesla carried Elon Musk’s fingerprints like the Cybertruck. The Model 3 is a mainstream sedan, while the Cybertruck was one person’s vision, pushed through over his own design studio’s objections. That made it the most personal object Tesla ever sold, and its meaning shifted with its creator’s public image. As Musk became one of the most polarizing figures in American politics, buying a Cybertruck started reading as a political statement. One Yahoo Finance commentator put it bluntly, calling it a middle finger on four wheels. Tesla even tried controlling who owned one, briefly threatening early buyers with a $50,000 penalty for flipping their trucks.

A Yale study put a number on that effect, estimating Musk’s “polarizing and partisan actions” cost Tesla between 1 million and 1.26 million US sales from October 2022 to April 2025. Rival EV and hybrid makers saw their sales rise 17% to 22% over the same stretch. CleanTechnica argued the headline figure was far too high, while agreeing that the partisan effect was real. Federal Election Commission data also shows Musk as the 2026 midterm cycle’s biggest individual donor, at roughly $446 million to Republican-aligned groups. That money came from his own pocket, and the Cybertruck got its end date three days after Election Day. A car built as a personal statement eventually gets judged as one.

The engineering lives on in Cybercab, and so does the playbook

The Cybertruck did introduce some significant engineering changes for Tesla, starting with the company’s first 800-volt architecture. Higher voltage means less current for the same power, which can allow thinner cables and faster charging. It also swapped the industry-standard 12-volt low-voltage system for a 48-volt one, reducing wiring requirements. Its steer-by-wire setup eliminated the mechanical steering connection entirely, a first for a production car and something even the Infiniti Q50 retained as a backup. Morrill’s farewell points straight at the Cybercab, the gold two-seat robotaxi with no steering wheel, pedals, or mirrors that Tesla started building in April. The truck basically served as a very large, very shiny test bench.

Last month, Tesla unveiled a new Roadster with cold-gas thrusters, asking for $50,000 deposits for the Performance version and $250,000 for the Thrust version, under a reservation agreement that says Tesla can’t guarantee when, or if, the car will be delivered. That’s nine years after Tesla first took deposits on a next-gen Roadster that never shipped. The Semi, unveiled that same year with production promised for 2019, only reached volume production this September, and the Cybercab is already facing two NHTSA reviews. Back in 2019, I wrote that the only number that would matter for the Cybertruck was its sales. I’d like to think Elon’s announcement is the proof I was looking for.

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Midea’s award-winning blender concept can both heat and cool your mixture down

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Picture a blender with a stovetop hidden in its base, so it can turn soybeans into hot soy milk or rice into congee without you touching a pot. Heated blenders like this are a breakfast staple across China, and most share one annoying flaw: the drink comes out scalding, leaving you to blow on it like it owes you money. Midea’s Fully Automatic Air Flow Blender targets that wait with an airflow system designed to help with both cooking and cooling. Midea claims it brings drinks down to 131°F (55°C) within five minutes of finishing. That’s roughly where breakfast stops being a dare and starts being breakfast.

The machine comes from Guangdong Midea Consumer Electric, with a design team led by Peng Xi and Wang Jin, and it received a Red Dot Award: Design Concept 2026 in the Ready for Market track. That track recognizes near-finished products that haven’t reached shelves, judged partly on whether they can realistically ship within a year. Midea says the airflow lets the motor blend at full power without soy milk foaming over. A built-in water tank sits alongside the blending jar, and the linen-textured shell looks ready for a Scandinavian café. The Chinese-language interface suggests a launch in China first, though there’s no word yet on US availability.

Designers: Peng Xi, Wang Jin, Li Qianlun, Jo Jeongmin, Ru Guanhong & Wang Xingzhe

Soybeans contain saponins, compounds that contribute to soy milk’s bubble-bath foam when heated. Heated blenders typically manage this by blending in short bursts and pausing the heat to keep the foam from reaching the lid. That stop-start rhythm helps explain why a batch of soy milk on Midea’s existing machines takes around 30 minutes. The company credits its airflow system with cutting prep time in half, though it hasn’t detailed how the system controls foam.

A freshly cooked batch of soy milk or congee can come out near 212°F (100°C), then sit in the jar cooling a degree at a time while you wait. Midea’s existing heated blenders hold drinks at 131°F (55°C) on keep-warm for up to six hours, so the target is familiar territory for the brand. The new machine’s trick is getting there fast: Midea says cooling takes about five minutes. That’s roughly the time it takes to find your shoes and your keys. Paired with overnight scheduling, it could have freshly made soy milk ready to drink when you wake up.

Visually, the appliance splits into two towers that share a figure-eight footprint. On the left, a linen-textured column holds a water tank that lifts straight out from the top, with a corrugated grip that echoes the ribbed base beneath the glass jar. On the right, the jar wears a copper-colored lid ring that appears to double as a status light. Midea’s description of the surface as a linen texture suggests a molded finish rather than real cloth, a sensible call next to a jar of hot congee. The touch panel flips up for easier reading and carries illustrated buttons for soy milk, juices and milkshakes, porridges, and cleaning, including one porridge program labeled for better sleep.

The closest thing US readers will recognize is the Ninja Foodi Cold & Hot Blender, which pairs an 800-watt heating element with a 64-ounce glass pitcher and sells for around $200 at Walmart. It can cook soup from raw ingredients, but you’re still the one pouring in water and waiting for everything to cool. Midea’s pitch is to automate more of that work, drawing water from the built-in tank and offering a high-temperature wash and drying cycle through the menu. The tank will still need refilling, of course. There’s no price or US release date yet, so this one stays on the wishlist.

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The Nubeo Ecliptic watch puts a tiny spacecraft control panel on your wrist

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Hollywood loves a sequel, and so does the watch world, though watch sequels trade explosions and cameos for colorways. Nubeo’s Ecliptic Retrograde Dual Time first landed in October 2024, and the square-cased space watch is back for 2026 in six new colorways, from the blue-strapped Firewater Blue to the moodily named Steel Phantom. The core recipe stays put: a 45mm steel case, a matte black dial, and a second time zone displayed by a hand that sweeps a retrograde arc before snapping back to zero.

That hand crawls from 0 to 24 across the lower dial, then flies back to the start like it just remembered it left the stove on. Nubeo pairs it with a big date, a 24-hour subdial, and a caseback engraved with the sun, Earth, and the ecliptic plane. That last detail explains the name, since the ecliptic is the path the sun appears to trace across our sky over a year. Every colorway runs on a Japanese quartz movement and lists for $250, with an advertised 20% launch discount bringing it to $200.

Designer: Nubeo

A Dial Built Like a Spacecraft Control Panel

Nubeo stacks this dial in layers, starting with a matte black honeycomb mesh at the base. A raised chapter ring sits above it with a printed 05 to 55 minute track, while an oversized applied 12 anchors the top. The 24-hour subdial sits near 9 o’clock, the framed date window is at 4, and the dual time arc wraps across the bottom third. Applied indices and hands carry Japanese lume for low-light visibility. Each colorway also changes the accents on a few of these elements.

Putting the second time zone on its own arc separates it from the main time display, a useful distinction on a dial this busy. A traditional GMT, like the Rolex GMT-Master, adds a fourth hand that points to a 24-hour scale around the edge. The Ecliptic moves that reading to the lower dial instead. On the blacked-out version, green lume emphasizes the hands and markers. The coil-spring details at the four corners are decorative, reinforcing the spacecraft-control-panel look. Honestly, this dial looks like it should come with a launch sequence.

Square, Steel, and 155 Grams of Attitude

The stainless steel case measures 45mm across (about 1.77 inches), 45mm lug to lug, and 16mm thick (0.63 inches). Square cases tend to wear larger than round ones of the same width because the corners fill out more of the wrist. The matching width and lug-to-lug measurements keep the case from extending farther along the wrist, but this is still a substantial watch at 155 grams (5.5 ounces), paired with a 26mm rubber strap. An anti-reflective mineral crystal covers the dial, and water resistance is rated at 5 ATM.

The square sports case has plenty of precedent, from Bell & Ross’s cockpit-instrument BR 03 to Hublot’s Square Bang. Nubeo takes a similar instrument-panel approach, adding recessed channels with exposed screws along the case flanks and a crown finished in each colorway’s accent shade. Inside sits a Japanese quartz movement, though Nubeo doesn’t name the specific caliber. Quartz makes sense for a dual time watch that might spend a week in a drawer between trips, keeping both time displays running without winding.

Six New Colorways, Same Cosmic Recipe

The 2026 lineup includes Firewater Blue, Cardinal Teal, Forest Veil, Royal Twilight, Dark Alloy, and Steel Phantom, all built on the same matte black dial. The differences are in the dial accents, crown color, case finish, and rubber strap. Across the lineup, you’ll find yellow straps, blue straps, gray straps with yellow details, and a blacked-out case for anyone allergic to shiny things. The original 2024 variants included Space Blue, Hazard Red, and Golden Black, which Nubeo sold as limited editions. The caseback in the press images carries a limited-edition marking too, though Nubeo hasn’t listed an edition size for the new run.

The Ecliptic fits into Nubeo’s catalog, which leans heavily on space and pop culture with collaborations like the Space Invaders Automatic and the Atari Asteroids watches. This one draws on astronomy rather than a licensed property and costs considerably less than those collaborations. Citizen’s Eco-Drive BR0120 offers retrograde dual time too, wrapped in a classic round case for the buttoned-up crowd. The Ecliptic is the more conspicuous option, with its square case, layered dial, and bright strap choices. Nubeo lists it at $250 before the launch discount, with free shipping and a two-year warranty.

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This Madrid restaurant built a greenhouse to sell the vegetables it cooks with

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I’ll admit it, I have never once looked at a supermarket tomato and wondered where it grew up. Filandón, a restaurant tucked into the woods of El Pardo on the edge of Madrid, wants to fix that habit with architecture. At its entrance sits a glass greenhouse used as a farm shop, selling the vegetables the kitchen cooks with. Every crate of potatoes and string of dried chilies comes from the restaurant’s own farm. You can eat the menu, then buy the menu, which is honestly a great business model.

Barcelona-based Trenchs Studio designed the structure, borrowing its silhouette from the classic European glasshouse, with an aluminum frame, pitched glass roof, and decorative cresting along the ridge. Founder Ricard Trenchs has spent the better part of two decades designing restaurant interiors. Here, custom bronze pedestals outside hold baskets of produce and can be rearranged as the seasons change. Inside, a wood-and-stone table serves as a counter and guides shoppers through the space without a single interior wall. The produce travels from Granja de los Monjes, the owners’ organic farm in northwestern Spain’s El Bierzo region.

Designer: Trenchs Studio (Ricard Trenchs)

Filandón is an old Leonese word for the winter gatherings when villagers sat around the fire to spin thread and swap stories. It comes from the Latin filum, meaning thread, and León’s writers still stage literary filandones in its honor. The restaurant’s connection to León extends to the García Azpiroz family behind it, whose roots trace back to the muleteers of the region’s Maragatería area. Diners can now walk out with the same tomatoes and peppers that landed on their plates an hour earlier. Doggy bags have officially been upgraded.

The produce comes from Granja de los Monjes, roughly 240 miles (385 km) northwest of Madrid by road. The name translates to “the monks’ farm.” The family bought Granja de Santullano, a 12th-century monastic grange in San Esteban de Valdueza long tied to farming and winemaking, and is regenerating about 148 acres (60 hectares) there. Restoration crews even found an 18th-century wine cellar hidden beneath the old buildings, which is the most Spanish renovation surprise imaginable. Tomatoes, potatoes, piparra peppers, artichokes, lettuce, and asparagus grow there organically. The harvest supplies the group’s Madrid restaurants, and the greenhouse lets diners carry some of it home.

The group in question is Pescaderías Coruñesas, founded in A Coruña in 1911 to bring seafood to Madrid. It runs El Pescador, O’Pazo, and Filandón, and in 2021 it rescued Lhardy, a Madrid institution dating to 1839, from insolvency. The greenhouse shelves also carry Pescaderías Coruñesas preserves alongside Lhardy’s liqueurs. Petersham Nurseries in London combines a greenhouse, restaurant, and store on one property, while Amsterdam’s De Kas grows produce in the same glasshouse where you eat. At Filandón, the glasshouse is the shop, while the growing happens 240 miles away.

The silhouette recalls the 19th-century European glasshouse, with its cast-iron frame and plate glass built to shelter exotic plants. Here, the frame is slim aluminum in a dark olive finish that blends with the trees of Monte de El Pardo, one of Europe’s best-preserved Mediterranean forests. Gooseneck lamps glow above the doors, and dried chili ristras hang inside the frame. The bronze pedestals out front display what’s for sale before you reach the door. Glass has one big weakness in Madrid, though, and it’s the sun.

Trenchs addressed that with alicantina blinds, the wooden slats strung on cord that hang outside windows across Alicante, Valencia, and Murcia. They roll up on a simple pulley, shade the glass, and let air slip between the slats, all without a motor. Architects around Spain have been reviving them as a low-tech way to limit heat gain. Here, olive-green wooden blinds stretch across the greenhouse roof. They can be adjusted throughout the day and across the seasons to help keep the shop usable year-round.

A dark herringbone timber floor runs through the interior, and an oak unit in a warm tobacco tone lines the back wall, displaying preserves and bottles under focused lighting. Ceramic lamps with linen shades sit on the stone-topped table like it’s someone’s living room. The effect is a jewelry store for vegetables, with tomatoes getting the spotlight usually reserved for watches. Trenchs once described the challenge of an all-glass Barcelona restaurant he designed as giving a transparent space its own identity and narrative. At Filandón, the produce gives shoppers plenty to look at. I suspect some diners will leave wondering, for the first time, where their tomatoes grew up.

 

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Holy Damn, Someone Built A Carbon-Fiber Ford Shelby with a 1,000Hp V8

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Back in 1967, Carroll Shelby took a perfectly good Mustang and bolted on a fiberglass nose, hood, and ducktail, because apparently steel was slowing him down. Almost sixty years later, Classic Recreations has finished that thought by building a 1967 Shelby GT500 with a body made entirely from carbon fiber. Every exterior panel is woven, cured, and left exposed, so you can stare at the weave like it’s a lava lamp. The reveal car also packs a supercharged Coyote V8 making 1,000 horsepower, nearly triple what the original was rated at. It’s officially licensed by Shelby too, so nobody gets to call it a kit car.

The car broke cover at the Concours at Wynn Las Vegas and is now sitting at FuelTech’s booth at SEMA 2026. It’s the brand’s first big outing since Velocity Restorations bought the company and moved production to a 135,000-square-foot facility in Pensacola, Florida. The carbon body first debuted in 2021 and is about 600 pounds lighter than a steel GT500CR. Underneath you get a Detroit Speed chassis, Nitron electronic dampers, and Brembo carbon-ceramic brakes roughly the size of a medium pizza. Orderable versions start at $549,900, which works out to about 131 original GT500s at 1967 sticker prices.

Designer: Classic Recreations

Carbon Skin Over Steel Bones, Shaped Exactly Like 1967

Classic Recreations developed the carbon body with SpeedKore Performance Group, blue-light scanning a steel GT500CR and rebuilding every surface in CAD. Those files became molds, and the panels were cured in an autoclave, the pressurized oven race teams use to bake composites. The carbon skin wraps a steel substructure, so picture carbon clothing over a metal skeleton instead of a full carbon chassis. Founder Jason Engel said at launch that this approach let the team get panels, seams, and lines spot on. Look at the shut lines around the ducktail and the hood scoops in the photos and that precision is easy to spot.

Every cue that made the 1967 car an icon survived the translation. The fastback roof, the twin-nostril hood scoop, the side intakes ahead of the rear wheels, and the full-width taillight bar all sit exactly where Shelby American put them. The racing stripes are red-tinted carbon, so the weave keeps showing through them like red cellophane laid over a checkerboard. Up front, LED driving lights fill the two center-mounted lamp positions in the grille, an update of the original’s center high beams. The dark weave does swallow some of the coke-bottle surfacing a white car would show off, though under studio lights those hips still pop.

1,000 Horsepower, With A Computer Holding The Leash

The reveal car’s company-rated 1,000 horsepower comes from a Wegner-built Gen 4X Coyote 5.0-liter V8 wearing a Whipple 3.0-liter inverted supercharger. A Suncoast-built 10R80 10-speed automatic sends that power through a Panhandle Driveline carbon driveshaft to a Ford 9-inch rear housing with a Gear FX 8.8 center section. Keeping it all sane is a FuelTech FT700 standalone ECU, which runs the engine and its traction control alongside a Vaporworx fuel controller. “A thousand horsepower only means something if the driver can use it,” says Cody Dabney, Director of Production at Velocity and Classic Recreations. For perspective, the original GT500’s 428 Police Interceptor V8 was rated at 355 horsepower, fed by a pair of Holley four-barrels.

Detroit Speed’s Aluma-Frame front subframe and QuadraLink rear suspension replace the original’s leaf-sprung rear end entirely. Nitron Elec-Tron electronically controlled shocks adjust the damping on the fly, which is handy when your 1960s silhouette is carrying supercar output. Brembo CCM-R carbon-ceramic discs measure about 15 inches (380mm) at all four corners, clamped by six-piston calipers up front and four-piston units out back. Forgeline Carbon Grudge wheels wear Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires, rubber usually reserved for track-focused supercars. A side-exit exhaust tucked ahead of the rear wheels nods to period racing Mustangs and gives the V8 a shorter, louder path to your ears.

A Cockpit Signed By Carroll, Priced For Collectors

The cabin keeps the 1967 dash architecture, a brushed-metal fascia with big twin dials flanked by smaller gauges, filled with red-faced Dakota Digital instruments. Red contrast stitching traces the dash top, a carbon insert dresses the console, and the seats carry Crow Safety Gear harnesses anchored to a roll bar. That combo is a sweet callback, since the 1967 GT500 shipped with a padded roll bar and inertia-reel shoulder harnesses borrowed from aviation. Vintage Air climate control, an Alpine head unit, Focal K2 speakers, and a Mosconi amp handle the modern comforts. My one edit would be the autographs, because Carroll Shelby’s signature appears on the dash, the gauges, and both seats, and one would land harder than four.

The GT500CR Carbon comes in three orderable stages: 500 horsepower for $549,900, a supercharged 700 horsepower for $624,900, and 900 horsepower for $724,900. Classic Recreations hasn’t priced the 1,000-horsepower reveal spec yet, and the company says 2026 build slots are nearly full, with 2027 reservations open. Every car gets a Shelby serial number and an entry in the official registry, which separates it from the endless parade of Eleanor tributes. Shelby American swapped steel for fiberglass in 1967 because lighter panels made a faster car. Classic Recreations simply picked the next material on the list.

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Camp Snap’s screen-free camcorder for kids records without Wi-Fi, and has a ‘TikTok’ setting

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In 1987, Fisher-Price tried to turn every kid into a junior Spielberg with the PXL-2000, a $179 toy camcorder that recorded grainy black-and-white video onto regular audio cassettes. It flopped as a toy, then became a cult favorite among art-school filmmakers, which is the most ’80s plot twist imaginable. Nearly four decades later, Camp Snap is taking its own swing at the kids’ camcorder with the CS-8 Mini. It’s a $149.99 screen-free video camera for ages 6 and up, styled after a 1970s Super 8 camera. Pull the trigger, record a clip, and wait until you get home to see what you shot.

The Mini is a shrunken-down take on Camp Snap’s $199 CS-8, and the brand says it’s less than half the size of the original. It measures about 5.6 inches (14.2cm) wide, small enough for little hands and small enough to look hilarious in mine. It comes in green, orange, pink, and blue, with a white body that looks like it wandered out of a Fisher-Price catalog. There’s no screen, no app, no Wi-Fi, and no way to delete the 47 takes of your kid’s slime tutorial on the spot. Five vintage filters and four aspect ratios live on chunky rotary dials, and footage moves to a phone or laptop over USB-C.

Designer: Camp Snap

A 1970s Super 8, Shrunk Down to First-Grader Scale

The silhouette is pure 1970s home movie, with a boxy body, a forward-jutting lens wrapped in a knurled ring, and a pistol grip underneath. Camp Snap uses glossy white plastic with color-blocked panels, a script “Camp Snap 8” badge, and a trigger finished in the accent color. The analog needle gauges for battery and storage survived the shrink, redesigned to fit the smaller side panel. Zoom moves to a pair of oversized T and W keys on top, sized for small fingers. The rear eyecup is generous for the body size, which makes sense for a viewfinder that will spend its life smushed against tiny cheeks.

The original CS-8 played it straight, with a black-and-silver body that could pass for something pulled from a grandparent’s closet. The Mini borrows its colors from the toy aisle instead, landing somewhere between a classic Fisher-Price toy and a Nintendo accessory. The grown-up CS-8 has since picked up a cold shoe and a mic jack for accessories, while the Mini’s spec sheet sticks to the essentials. Fewer controls and connections mean less for kids to fiddle with, and I suspect every parent reading this just nodded.

One Trigger Pull, One Clip, Zero Screens

Recording works the way Super 8 did, with a squeeze to roll and a release to cut. Every pull saves its own MP4 file, so a kid builds a story one take at a time without touching a menu. One dial cycles through five filters: true-to-life color, a faded ’90s camcorder look, a golden family-film glow, grainy 8mm flicker, and black and white. A second dial sets the aspect ratio to 4:3, 16:9, 1:1, or vertical 9:16. Camp Snap says the included 4GB card holds about 30 minutes, while a 128GB card stretches that to roughly 16 hours. A built-in mic records sound.

Filters get baked in at capture, and nothing can be reviewed or deleted until the camera plugs into a phone or computer, where it mounts like a flash drive. That delay makes reviewing the footage a potential couch session with a parent. The 9:16 option adds a funny tension, and Camp Snap’s own list of 20 suggested shoots leans right into it with Pokémon card openings, unboxings, and mini YouTube vlogs. Screen-free capture feeding a very online output feels like the most 2026 compromise possible. Camp Snap hasn’t published resolution or frame rate figures.

Pixelvision’s Spiritual Successor Costs $149.99

The CS-8 Mini sells for $149.99 directly from Camp Snap, about $49 less than the full-size CS-8 and a rounding error next to Kodak’s $5,495 Super 8 revival. It ships fully charged with the 4GB card and a USB-C cable. Camp Snap lists free shipping and currently estimates that orders will go out in one to two weeks. The company also warns that holiday stock is very limited. A matching $19.99 carrying case and a $4.99 lanyard are available for parents who know how often things get dropped. All four colorways cost the same.

Kodak introduced Super 8 in 1965 to make home movies easy enough for anyone. The PXL-2000 found its real audience years after its release, when filmmakers fell for the exact flaws Fisher-Price had tried to sell to kids. I’d put money on the CS-8 Mini having a similar second life, except this time the grownups won’t wait for it to be discontinued. The two-tone toy styling, the needle gauges, and the trigger grip are just as appealing to a 35-year-old with a film-camera habit as they are to a first grader.

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Who needs an hour hand when your watch has satellites?

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Wandering hours watches have a bit of a wealth gap. On one end, you’ve got Audemars Piguet’s Starwheel and pretty much everything Urwerk makes, priced like a down payment on a house. On the other sit playful budget takes that let you test-drive the idea. The DWISS S1 lands between them, a Swiss Made automatic at $2,730 that won a 2026 European Product Design Award. It comes from Rafael Simoes Miranda, who has spent 15 years building DWISS around one stubborn idea: there’s always another way to show the time.

This is DWISS’s third take on the complication, after the two-disc RW1 in 2020 and the three-disc M3W a year later. Miranda’s brief came from the night sky, with the hours meant to travel across the dial the way the Moon circles the Earth. That orbit shaped everything from the disc layout to a new cushion case. The movement changes too, switching from the Sellita in the M3W to a modified La Joux-Perret G100 Soigné. Each launch color is limited to 50 pieces, and DWISS never reissues a design.

Designer: Rafael Simoes Miranda

Two Discs, Twelve Hours, Zero Hour Hands

A minute scale running from 00 to 60 sweeps across the top half of the S1’s dial, and the current hour rides along it in a small window. The numeral’s position on the scale gives you the minutes, so a “10” hovering over the 15 means 10:15. Two satellite discs share hour duty, one carrying the odd numerals and the other the even ones. A central carrier turns once every two hours, presenting each numeral in turn and hiding the rest beneath the dial. Seconds get their own disc at the center, with a single white dot as the marker.

Using two discs trims the classic recipe. When Audemars Piguet revived wandering hours in 1991 with the Starwheel, it used three discs carrying four numerals apiece, a layout many brands have followed since. The idea itself goes back to 1656, when the Campani brothers built a silent, lamp-lit night clock for Pope Alexander VII, who couldn’t sleep through the ticking of a regular one. DWISS pares back that triple-satellite arrangement to keep the focus on the numeral crossing the minute scale. Give yourself a day to learn to read it, and maybe a week to stop showing it to everyone at dinner.

A Cushion Case Built Around an Orbit

Miranda says the complication shaped the case. The hour display needs horizontal room to travel, so the S1 uses a cushion shape that widens the dial, with rounded corners softening its outline. It measures 1.57 inches (40mm) across, 1.73 inches (44mm) lug-to-lug, and 0.54 inches (13.8mm) thick, with 330 feet (100m) of water resistance. A double-domed sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating bulges over the dial like a lens. DWISS also designed the central seconds disc to echo the case’s geometry.

Texture does more work than shine here, with a sandblasted main body, brushed lugs, and a high-polish bezel. Flip it over and an exhibition caseback reveals the movement, with the edition number out of 50 printed on the back. The crown carries an engraved DWISS shield, a small touch you’ll mostly notice while setting the time. Each S1 ships on a cut-to-size FKM rubber strap with a steel butterfly clasp, in a shade matched to the dial. FKM is a fluoroelastomer valued for its resistance to sweat and skin oils.

Where $2,730 Lands in the Wandering Hours World

Inside sits a La Joux-Perret G100 Soigné, modified by DWISS to drive the wandering hours module. La Joux-Perret has been owned by Citizen since 2012, and the G100 was developed as a modern alternative to the ETA 2824 that has powered a huge share of Swiss automatics for decades. The big gain is power reserve, with 68 hours versus roughly 38 to 42 from a 2824 or Sellita SW200. Take it off Friday night and it’ll still be running Monday morning. The Soigné grade adds Geneva stripes, perlage, and blued screws, all visible through the caseback.

The S1 sells for $2,730 (CHF 2,200) in blue, green, salmon, and black, plus two 15th-anniversary editions in silver and orange at CHF 2,300, roughly $2,840. Every color is capped at 50 pieces, 300 in total, sold through DWISS’s website with free worldwide shipping. That slots it between the Xeric Scrambler at $1,199 and Gorilla’s Vaucher-powered Outlaw Drift at $3,950. The European Product Design Award recognized the S1 as a finished production watch in its luxury watches category.

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LEGO’s Biggest Ever “Godzilla” Build Hits The Shelves, Defeating Even The Sagrada Familia In Size

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If you bought LEGO’s Sagrada Família 3 days ago and cleared a whole shelf for it, I have bad news. LEGO just revealed something taller. The LEGO Ideas Godzilla (21375) reaches 27.5 inches with his Heat Ray firing, edging out the 24.4-inch cathedral that currently holds LEGO’s all-time piece-count record. He’s built from 5,363 pieces, based on a fan design by Matthew Esposito, and LEGO says he’s the largest LEGO Ideas model ever launched. It’s the most on-brand thing Godzilla could possibly do: show up uninvited and tower over a beloved landmark.

Godzilla earns that height with about 44 percent of the cathedral’s piece count, which shows how big LEGO’s designers went on the silhouette. Esposito, known as MattE720 on LEGO Ideas, designed the original build around Legendary’s MonsterVerse Godzilla before LEGO’s team took over. The official version stands upright, throws his head back, and fires a blue atomic blast at the ceiling, which is exactly how he claims those extra inches. Without the Heat Ray he drops to about 21.5 inches, so the two sets can probably share a shelf peacefully. Esposito’s fan build hunched forward in a classic city-stomping crouch, so LEGO basically taught the King of the Monsters to stand up straight.

Designers: Matthew Esposito (MattE720) & LEGO Design Team

Two Years, 10,000 Votes, and One Very Large Lizard

Esposito submitted his Godzilla to LEGO Ideas in late 2023, drawing on the beefy design from Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Godzilla vs. Kong. The project crossed 10,000 supporters in fall 2024, which sent it into LEGO’s review process, and the review board approved it on June 17, 2025. Most Ideas sets reach stores about a year after approval, while Godzilla took 17 months, which feels fair for the biggest model the program has produced. Esposito says the head was definitely the biggest challenge, and that watching the project hit 10,000 supporters after more than two years was incredible. Anyone who has tried sculpting a reptile skull out of rectangles will nod along.

Back in 2024, I took one look at Esposito’s original build and guessed it used around 500 pieces, a comically low estimate in hindsight. Esposito’s own count for the fan version later landed somewhere between 2,500 and 3,000 pieces, and LEGO’s final set roughly doubles that. LEGO model designers Jim Clayton and Markus Rollbühler refined the official model alongside creative design lead Jordan David Scott. The set is a fully licensed collaboration with Legendary Entertainment, while Toho holds the Godzilla trademark itself. Amber Sheppo, Legendary’s SVP of Consumer Products and Partnerships, credits Esposito’s original vision as the starting point for the whole project.

LEGO Gave Godzilla a Glow-Up

The fan build wore a dark gray body with black spines, which looked menacing up close but read as one big monochrome mass from across a room. LEGO’s version lightens the torso to a brighter gray and lights the dorsal fins up in vivid blue, as if the atomic breath is charging through his spine. The eyes switched to blue too, replacing the printed or stickered studs Esposito used. Proportions shifted as well, with the head and arms shrinking relative to that colossal torso and those tree-trunk legs. The result is more bottom-heavy and noticeably closer to how MonsterVerse Godzilla actually looks on screen.

Textured bricks handle the scaly skin, jagged elements form the fins, and posable shoulders, elbows, wrists, and fingers let you set up whatever battle stance you like. The tail gets built curving to the left or right, so pick your side before you start. My favorite detail, though, is the Heat Ray, which swaps in where Godzilla’s tongue normally sits. That blue element recreates the iconic skyward roar from King of the Monsters, turns a standing figure into a full display scene, and hands him the 6 extra inches he needs to beat Gaudí. Three jobs for one swap is excellent value, even by LEGO standards.

Price, Release Date, and a Free Footprint

LEGO Ideas Godzilla (21375) launches November 27, 2026, at LEGO.com and LEGO Stores for $449.99 (£349.99 / €399.99), and it’s rated 18+. He measures 27.5 inches (70cm) tall with the Heat Ray, 10.5 inches (27cm) wide, and 15.5 inches (40cm) long, so measure your shelf twice. That makes him LEGO’s big licensed Black Friday release, following last year’s Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D. The LEGO Builder app carries the instructions, with 3D zoom, rotation, and progress tracking for a build this size. LEGO Insiders in select markets can also enter a sweepstakes for a signed set and an early look at the Godzilla poster reward.

Shoppers who buy the set between November 27 and 30 also get the Godzilla Logo and Footprint set (40888) free, while supplies last. The 359-piece build puts the blue Godzilla logo against a city skyline, with Mothra perched on one of the buildings, alongside a brick-built footprint. That footprint matches the size of the big set’s feet, so you can line them up and pretend he just stepped through your living room. At $449.99, Godzilla also costs $350 less than the cathedral he just out-towered, which might be the most persuasive argument a Black Friday deal has ever made. Gaudí, I’m sorry.

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