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Corsair’s Xeneon Edge is the Stream Deck you always wanted, but bigger and better

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Elgato unveiled a little box of 15 LCD buttons in 2017, priced at $149.95, and it quietly rearranged how streamers sat at their desks. The Stream Deck got so popular that Corsair bought Elgato’s gaming business in 2018. Then the obvious question hung around for years: what if the buttons were just a screen? A screen can be any button, any dial, any chart, or any chat window, and it never runs out of room for one more shortcut. Anyone who has maxed out a 15-key pad knows that pain. Corsair eventually got around to answering.

The answer is the Xeneon Edge, a 14.5-inch touchscreen with a 2560 x 720 panel and a 32:9 shape that sits under your main monitor like a very ambitious soundbar. It runs Elgato’s Stream Deck software, so your old button grid gets a much bigger canvas. Fourteen magnets, a detachable stand, and two ¼-20 threads let it live on a desk, a steel panel, or inside your PC case. It lists at $249.99 and is currently $199.99 at Corsair in the US, in all five colors.

Designer: Corsair

A 32:9 strip built for the stuff you only glance at

Think of 32:9 as two 16:9 monitors glued side by side, then shrunk until they fit beneath your main screen. The body measures about 14.6 by 4.7 by 0.8 inches (372 x 120 x 20mm) and weighs roughly 2.2 pounds (1 kg). That works out to about 183 pixels per inch, tighter than the 163 you get on a 27-inch 4K monitor, so small text stays crisp. At 720 pixels tall, the screen is shallow enough to tuck under a monitor without crowding your view. It also rotates to portrait, which turns it into a tall column beside your main display.

On a typical Tuesday, Spotify, Discord, a calendar, and your GPU temps all want a window, and your main screen is busy with actual work. Park them on the Edge and they stay put, one glance away, while you do your thing above. Video calls can live there too, so a meeting you only half-care about stays visible without eating your spreadsheet. Nothing needs alt-tabbing, and nothing gets lost behind a browser with 40 tabs. It’s the same idea as a phone propped next to your keyboard, except it’s wider, brighter, and plugged into your PC.

Fourteen magnets, two threads, and a 360mm radiator slot

Fourteen magnets sit under the plastic shell, so the Edge sticks to any steel surface without scratching it. That includes a steel desk, a PC side panel, a monitor stand, and yes, a fridge, if the cable is long enough. Inside a case, it takes the place of a 360mm radiator, a slot built for three 120mm fans, and it’s thinner than a regular case fan, so clearance is rarely an issue. Corsair also sells an LCD kit that mounts it into the side panel of the Frame 4000D and 5000D cases. Your build’s best view just got a clock and a temperature gauge.

Two ¼-20 threads on the back, the same screw size camera gear uses, let you hang the Edge from Elgato Multi-Mount hardware or any standard AV arm. That mount-anywhere thinking echoes the Elgato accessory support on Corsair’s Platform:6 desk, which we covered at its Gamescom reveal. Corsair also posts free 3D-printable accessories on Printables, including a taller stand that raises the screen behind a keyboard. The community has jumped in too, and Corsair has spotlighted a modular adapter mount from a creator named Naaackers. If you can think of a place for a screen, someone has either printed a bracket for it or soon will.

Widgets in iCUE and the Elgato Marketplace

Plug it in and Windows treats the Edge as an ordinary second monitor, touch included. Corsair’s iCUE software for Windows adds widgets on top: a clock, a calendar, weather, news headlines, a task list, and system sensors showing CPU and GPU temps. Each widget lands on a grid you arrange yourself, so your layout can look as busy or as clean as you like. Since May 2026, widgets live on the Elgato Marketplace, where anyone can download or build one. Corsair’s developer docs even point to AI coding tools as a shortcut, which means a custom widget can start as a plain-English wish.

The widget that matters most for old Stream Deck fans is the native Stream Deck widget in iCUE. It drops a full grid of tappable keys onto the Edge, and you add actions in Elgato’s Stream Deck software exactly as you would for a physical deck. Resize the grid and you get more keys than any 15-button pad ever offered. Launch a game, mute your mic, switch an OBS scene, or toggle your desk lights, each with one tap. Because the screen is still a screen, the same strip can show your calendar or GPU temps right next to the keys.

A bright 2560 x 720 panel and touch that behaves like a phone

The panel is AHVA, Corsair’s version of IPS, so colors and viewing angles hold up even when you’re looking at it from the side. It runs 2560 x 720 at 60Hz with 350 nits of peak brightness, plenty for a desk lit by a window and a lamp. Touch is 5-point capacitive, the same technology as your phone, so tapping, swiping, and pinching all feel familiar. A single USB-C cable with DP Alt Mode (video over USB-C) can carry picture and power when your PC supports it. HDMI 2.0 covers everything else, and Corsair includes cables for both in the box.

Not every shell is black, either. Colors include black, white, and the translucent Atomic Purple, Crystal, and Smoke, which channel the see-through plastic of late-90s gadgets. We’ve seen that look return in a fully transparent Game Boy Color mod and Analogue’s Game Boy Color-inspired Pocket, and it suits a desk accessory just as well. Translucent plastic also makes the stand look like part of the design, not an afterthought. Pick whichever matches your keyboard, or your mood, or your last impulse buy.

Price, rivals, and where the Edge fits on your desk

The Xeneon Edge lists at $249.99 and is currently $199.99 at Corsair in the US, across all five colors, with a three-year warranty and a zero-dead-pixel guarantee. For comparison, Elgato’s 15-key Stream Deck MK.2 lists at $149.99, and the 32-key Stream Deck XL lists at $249.99. The Edge costs the same as the XL and brings an actual display to the party. ASUS makes the closest rival, the ProArt PA147CDV, a 14-inch 32:9 touchscreen with a physical dial and pen support, but it runs a lower 1920 x 550 resolution and sells for roughly twice the Edge’s list price. Cheap no-name touchscreens exist too, but most skip the magnets, the threads, and the Stream Deck tie-in.

The Stream Deck taught desks that a small control room beside the keyboard beats hunting through menus. The Edge keeps that lesson and swaps the plastic keys for pixels that can become anything. It mounts where you want it, shows what you need, and gets better as the widget library grows. It’s available now at Corsair’s site for $199.99 in the US while the current sale runs, with $249.99 as the regular price. Fifteen buttons were a good start. A 14.5-inch strip of pixels is a much better sequel.

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RIP Tupperware. These titanium lunch boxes are microwave-safe (yes, really) and can last a lifetime

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Is there anything titanium can’t do? It holds jets together, replaces hips, and turns up everywhere else as pens, bottle openers, and spatulas. At some point you have to assume someone is just showing off. Yet one gig always stayed out of reach, because metal and microwaves have been feuding since the first foil-wrapped food item went in and the kitchen turned into a laser show. For decades it’s been either glass, ceramic, or that trusty Tupperware you’ve been using everyday… but not anymore.

Hong Kong-based OSIMT finally cracked the code to microwave-safe metal boxes with the Titanium Storage System – three nesting containers (450, 1000, and 1500 ml, or about 15, 34, and 51 fl oz) crafted from 0.5 mm thick titanium sheet. Here’s how it works… sparks need sharp corners and rolled rims to fly off of, so OSIMT rounded every corner to an R20+ radius and made the rim a seamless flare. The result? Metal that goes into the ‘wave just like your silicone or plastic food container would. Pop off the clear lid and the titanium base goes straight into the microwave. It also works fine with the oven, freezer, and dishwasher without breaking a sweat. The containers start at $49, which sounds like way more than a Tupperware would cost – but does your tupperware also go into the oven? Nope. And does it come with a lifetime warranty? I thought not.

Designer: OSIMT

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How rounded corners and a flared rim keep titanium from sparking

Sharp metal edges concentrate the electric field inside a microwave, and when the buildup gets high enough, it jumps as a spark. That is the physics behind every fork-in-the-microwave horror story. OSIMT’s fix is geometry. Every corner follows a continuous R20+ radius (0.8 in or larger), so there is no sharp point for energy to gather. The rim gets the same treatment, because most metal bowls roll their edges inward and leave tiny trapped gaps that act like capacitors. OSIMT draws its flared lip from a single sheet, laser-cuts it, and hand-polishes it, leaving no seam, crease, or hidden cavity.

One rule applies: the glass lid comes off before the container goes in the microwave. OSIMT’s sketch sheet lists up to 800 W for a limited time with the lid off, so think of the base as a very good bowl. I appreciate that the page says this out loud, since a brand that admits the limit is easier to trust on the rest. Give the container some distance from the oven walls, as you would with any metal, and retire it if it gets badly dented. The lid still handles the fridge, the bag, and the table.

Why TA1 titanium and 0.5 mm walls make these so light

OSIMT builds the containers from TA1, the Chinese designation for commercially pure Grade 1 titanium. The page lists 99.9% purity, while the Grade 1 spec starts at 99.5%. Grade 1 is the softest and most ductile of the pure grades, which makes it the one you pick when you want to deep draw metal into a seamless box. The softness suits OSIMT’s R20 curves, and the ribs and corrugation supply the stiffness the alloy does not. Your food gets an inert surface with no rust, no metallic taste, and no stain or odor memory.

Each wall is 0.5 mm (0.02 in) thick, and that number explains the weight. Titanium runs about 4.5 g/cm³ against roughly 8 for stainless steel, so OSIMT says its containers weigh half as much as stainless ones. Glass is actually less dense than titanium, but glass containers need walls a few millimeters thick, so the metal wins on gauge. As a former industrial designer, I find that oddly satisfying, because density loses the argument and thin sheet wins it. For scale, a Pyrex 3-cup rectangle with its lid weighs about 1.2 lb (545 g), while OSIMT’s 1000 ml container lists at 10.5 oz (299 g).

A ridged floor and a see-through lid

Every container has deep ridges pressed into its floor, and they do two jobs. They stiffen a very thin base against warping, whether it goes from freezer to oven or hits the kitchen floor. They also lift food off the surface, so juices, water, and oil drain into the valleys and your crispy things stay crisp. Nearly every titanium container on the market has a flat bottom, since pure titanium fights being stamped. OSIMT says its custom high-pressure mold raised tooling costs by 20%, which tells me somebody paid for a detail most buyers will only notice at dinner.

The glass lid fixes the oldest complaint about metal containers, which is that you cannot see what is inside. It sits in a cream-colored silicone frame, and glass does not hold stains, grease, or smells the way plastic lids do. OSIMT says a platinum silicone seal keeps the bag dry, and it shows the containers packed sideways to prove it. A small press-to-open-or-close valve on the lid relieves pressure. The result is a metal box with a window, which makes fridge hunting much faster.

Three nesting sizes, pricing, and availability

All three sizes nest inside one another, stacking with lids on and collapsing into one footprint with lids off. The small holds 450 ml (15 fl oz), measures 4.5 x 3.7 x 2.8 in (115 x 93 x 71 mm), and weighs 4.9 oz (140 g). The medium holds 1000 ml (34 fl oz), measures 7.4 x 4.4 x 3.0 in (189 x 113 x 75 mm), and weighs 10.5 oz (299 g). The large holds 1500 ml (51 fl oz), measures 8.3 x 5.3 x 3.0 in (210 x 135 x 77 mm), and weighs 13.7 oz (387 g). Snack, lunch, and meal prep batch, all covered.

Pricing starts at $49 for the Solo Luncher, one 1000 ml container with a glass lid (listed retail $69). The three-size set with three lids is $89 (listed retail $179). Five pairs of titanium chopsticks are a $29 add-on (listed retail $59), and any container reward includes a free titanium spoon and fork set. OSIMT ships worldwide from China, with shipping to be calculated based on the set you buy. Delivery is estimated for February 2027, and a lifetime warranty covers manufacturing defects.

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Bugatti’s Iconic C Line Just Got Replaced by a U in This Fan Concept

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Bugatti’s most famous design trick started life as a paint border. The company says the Bugatti line, that big C carved into the side of the Veyron and Chiron, was inspired by the color split lines on the Type 41 Royale. So a multimillion-dollar identity began with someone deciding where one color should stop. I find that charming, because it makes the brand’s signature move basically very fancy masking tape. The Tourbillon has since wedged the line forward, but it’s still a C at heart.

Designer Jenphy Zheng Jianhui looked at that C and wondered what happens if you trade it for a U. The result is Bugatti Concept-U, a personal project he posted on Behance on June 10, 2026. It started as a pile of sketches, moved into a Blender rough model, and ended up as a full set of glossy renders. Bugatti never asked for any of it. The fun part is that it still looks like a Bugatti from fifty feet away, which is the real test for a fan concept.

Designer: Jenphy Zheng Jianhui

Here’s my confession: I can’t find the U from the side. Look at the car from above and it clicks, with a smooth tub that wraps around an open rear and shows off the engine like a display case. The frame sketches back it up, with two U-shaped structures joined together. That open rear is the car’s best trick, since most hypercars hide their hardware under a lid. The U may hide in profile, but the engine display gets my vote.

From the side, this is pure EB110. The designer’s own caption says the stance comes from that 1990s Bugatti, with an extremely low front end and a very short rear overhang. The EB110 helped bring the brand back from dormancy, though it never became a sales hit. Concept-U keeps that low nose and tucked tail but melts everything into one smooth silver surface. Up front, the nose scoops down into little splitter fins, with slim light bars wrapped across the face. It looks fast while parked, which is rude.

The vintage cues come from the Type 57SC Atlantic. The designer says the raised front fenders, flowing back from the grille and hood, continue that car’s language, and the tail borrows its symmetry with a central split down the middle. The Atlantic’s riveted dorsal seam exists because the body material couldn’t be welded, and only four cars were built. One vanished around World War II, which inspired the black one-off La Voiture Noire. Concept-U skips the rivets and keeps the symmetry, which is a smart way to say the same thing.

The small stuff is where this project has the most fun. A black capsule inlay with the Bugatti name runs along the flank, like a very fancy name tag. The wheels get a four-layer breakdown with a low-drag transparent cover, using a 57SC wheel as the reference. The headlights are labeled a “double lightsaber module” and drawn as an exploded stack of lens, crystal, and frame. I’d happily read a whole comic book about that headlight. Even the tire sidewalls print the project name, which is a designer’s wink.

The final renders go full museum field trip. The car parks beside a black Type 57 coupe, then a blue Grand Prix racer, then shows up in French racing blue wearing number 34, a nod to the 1994 Le Mans EB110. A Centodieci owner commissioned that exact livery on a real car, so the idea has street cred. The photoreal scenes look AI-assisted to me, since the sponsor lettering turns into gibberish up close. Still, seeing the car sit next to its ancestors is a neat way to argue it belongs in the family.

Concept-U joins a nice little run of fan love for the marque, including Type Sigma, Edouard Suzeau’s take on the Atlantic as pure sculpture. Where Sigma goes smooth and floaty, this one goes for structure, with an engine on display and a frame you can actually read. I can’t say the U jumps out at me, but the car around it works. It pulls pieces from three eras and still looks like it rolled out of Molsheim. I guess the most important letter here is still the B sitting on the hood, am I right?

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Lenovo’s budget brand just dropped a 27-inch all-in-one PC for under $700

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Lenovo’s Lecoo brand started in 2018 selling smart cameras, a router, and a baby monitor. Nobody at that launch was picturing a 27-inch desktop computer. Eight years later, Lecoo sells laptops, tablets, mini PCs, and now a proper all-in-one. It’s a bit like a kid who began with a lemonade stand and now owns the whole street. My read is that Lecoo is Lenovo’s playground for affordable, good-looking hardware that doesn’t risk the bigger brand names.

The new Lecoo N27 Pro pairs a 27-inch, 2560×1440, 100Hz screen with a Core i5-13420H, 16GB of RAM, and a choice of 512GB or 1TB of storage. It arrives in Cloud Feather Black and Snow Feather White, with a wireless keyboard and mouse in the box. Prices run from ¥4,499 (about $671) to ¥4,999 (about $745). Lenovo has only launched it in China so far, and there’s no word on a US release. If it ever lands here, a lot of pricier 27-inch all-in-ones will start sweating.

Designer: Lecoo (Lenovo)

A Big Screen That Punches Up

Apple’s 27-inch iMac launched in 2009 with a 2560×1440 display, and the world gasped. That same resolution now shows up in an affordable all-in-one, at roughly 109 pixels per inch. The 100Hz refresh rate makes scrolling and window dragging feel smoother than on the usual 60Hz panel. Coverage of 99% sRGB keeps colors honest enough for photo edits and Netflix nights. The stand tilts back 15 degrees and forward 5, so you can angle it toward your slouch.

Since you can’t buy the Lecoo in the US, the nearest comparison is whatever Lenovo sells here. The 24-inch IdeaCentre AIO i with the same Intel CPU is listed at $999.99, per Notebookcheck. Apple’s 24-inch M4 iMac started at $1,299 and has a gorgeous 4.5K screen, though on a smaller canvas. Most 27-inch all-in-ones on US shelves still stop at 1080p. The Lecoo offers a bigger, sharper panel for about $671, which is the kind of math that makes you check the shipping options.

Looks Worth a Desk Spot

The N27 Pro sits on a tapering stalk with an oval foot, which gives it more personality than the usual slab-on-a-stick stance. In Lenovo’s renders, the black version’s stalk looks ribbed and twisted, while the white one reads soft and airy. Lenovo’s Chinese product copy roughly translates to “arcs that hold rhythm,” which is fancy talk for round shapes done nicely. Color is clearly the trend this year, and we covered Lenovo’s six-color IdeaCentre AIO lineup just last month. The Lecoo plays the same game with two shades instead of six.

The box includes a white wireless keyboard and mouse running on 2.4GHz, so a tiny receiver does the talking and there’s no Bluetooth pairing dance. The mouse tracks at 1200 DPI, and Lenovo says the keyboard shrugs off spills, which my coffee habit appreciates. On the ports front, you get five USB-A, one USB-C, HDMI, and Gigabit Ethernet. That’s enough for a printer, a webcam, a thumb drive, and the one ancient gadget everyone still owns. The cable nest on your desk gets evicted, with a single power cord left as the lone tenant.

Enough Power for Real Life

Under the hood is Intel’s Core i5-13420H, a 2023 Raptor Lake-H chip with eight cores (four performance, four efficiency) and twelve threads. That is plenty for spreadsheets, video calls, homework, and a browser with too many tabs. The integrated Intel UHD graphics, with 48 execution units (the little workers that crunch pixels), will handle light photo work but won’t impress your gaming friends. Sixteen gigabytes of RAM keeps multitasking from turning into a slideshow. There’s no USB4 or Thunderbolt, so external GPUs are off the table.

The N27 Pro costs ¥4,499 (about $671) with 512GB and ¥4,999 (about $745) with 1TB, and it’s on sale in China now. Lenovo hasn’t announced a US launch, though Notebookcheck says Lecoo all-in-ones often reach other markets under the IdeaCentre name. Weight and brightness figures haven’t been shared yet, so those details will have to wait. Still, the formula is clear: a big sharp screen, a friendly face, and a price that doesn’t make your wallet flinch. Not bad for a brand that started with a baby monitor.

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This Hisense Vidda 4K projector swings on a rose-gold gimbal that looks like sculptural jewelry

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Samsung pulled off a sneaky trick with The Frame. A TV spends most of its life switched off, which means the biggest object in your living room is often a giant black rectangle glaring back at you. So Samsung taught it to hang art, and suddenly the void had a day job. Other TV makers took notes, and now matte finishes and wall-hugging slim designs are everywhere. The whole industry quietly agreed that a screen should look good even when nobody is watching it.

Projectors dodge the void problem, since the picture vanishes the moment the beam does. The box itself is another story, because plenty of them still look like they escaped from a 2006 school AV room. Vidda, the youth-focused sub-brand of Hisense, just launched the Big Eye M2 Pro Flagship Edition in China, and it looks like someone finally told a projector it’s allowed to dress up. It has a white body, a rose-gold lens ring, and a matching metal stand that would not embarrass itself next to a good lamp. The price is about $820 (5,499 yuan), or about $738 on promo.

A Stand That Retires Your Stack Of Books

That rose-gold arm does real work. It is a 360-degree gimbal, so you can tip the Big Eye M2 Pro up at the ceiling for lying-in-bed movie nights or swing it toward a wall, with no mount required. Every projector owner has built a leaning tower of cookbooks to get the angle right, and this retires the tower. The original M2 Pro had a gimbal too, so the idea is proven. At about 3.5 kg (7.7 lb) per the launch coverage, it weighs about as much as a well-fed house cat, so it’s a parked guest, not a backpack passenger.

The setup magic lives in that little dark window beside the lens. A CMOS sensor (basically a camera chip) handles autofocus, keystone correction (squaring up a skewed picture), screen fitting, and obstacle avoidance, so the image dodges your plant instead of landing on it. It also dims the laser if a person walks in front of the lens, which saves your eyeballs and your dignity when you get up for snacks. The 1.3x optical zoom (throw ratio 1.0 to 1.3:1) gives you a 100-inch picture from about 7.2 feet (2.2 m) and 150 inches from about 10.8 feet (3.3 m). That works in a bedroom or a living room without shoving the couch against the back wall.

1,800 CVIA Lumens Hiding Under The Jewelry

Looks aside, this is a proper upgrade over the original M2 Pro, which launched in China last year at 4,599 yuan (about $635) with a QuaLas32 laser rated at 1,200 CVIA lumens. The new QuaLas42 engine pushes that to 1,800 CVIA, a 50% jump that should mean a punchier picture when the curtains are half open. One caution: CVIA is China’s brightness standard and ANSI is the US one, so don’t line 1,800 up against the US model’s 1,300 ANSI and declare a winner. The same 0.47-inch DMD chip (the mirror array that forms the image) carries over, with about 44.6% more imaging area than the common 0.39-inch kind. Color coverage hits 110% of BT.2020, a very wide gamut where reds actually look like reds.

Sound gets a glow-up too. The original had two 10W speakers, while the Flagship Edition runs 20W across four, with two full-range drivers and two tweeters, plus Dolby Audio and DTS:X support. That should cover casual movie nights without a soundbar camping out beside it. Add HDR10+ and HLG support and a 40,000:1 dynamic contrast rating (measured across a whole scene, so those numbers tend to look huge), and the spec sheet reads like a pricier machine. Vidda has some credibility here, since a Zhihu tester measured the original at 1,351 CVIA against a 1,200 claim.

Console Ready, With One Catch

Gamers get an HDMI 2.1 port with VRR (variable refresh rate, which stops screen tearing) and ALLM (auto low latency mode, which flips the projector into fast mode when your console wakes up). Drop to 1080p and the refresh rate climbs to 240Hz, though 4K tops out at 60Hz, so you pick between sharp and speedy. PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch presets come built in, along with monitor-style extras like on-screen crosshairs and dark-area boost. A MediaTek MT9679 chip and 3GB of RAM run JUOS, Vidda’s China-market OS with AI search and on-screen content identification. The Hisense M2 Pro sold in the US runs VIDAA instead, so the software will differ if this ever travels.

Availability is China only for now. Moonlight White is on sale for about $820 (5,499 yuan), or about $738 with the launch promo, and Space Silver is reservation only. No US release has been announced. Stateside, the original Hisense M2 Pro debuted at $1,299.99 and has shown up around $949.99 at Amazon, Best Buy, and B&H, while XGIMI’s Horizon 20 Max reportedly debuted near $2,400. If The Frame taught TVs that a black rectangle is optional, the Big Eye M2 Pro is a projector finally raising its hand to join the pretty half of the house.

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Vosteed’s $200 titanium folder is slim enough to forget, sharp enough to remember

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The porcupine is one of nature’s better-engineered designs. It’s compact, self-sufficient, and its entire defense system lives in its skin rather than in added bulk. Vosteed clearly had this in mind when they named one of their most capable folding knives after it. The Acid Wash variants of the TiSlim lineup make that connection literal: that organic, cellular pattern CNC-machined into the Grade 5 titanium handle looks uncannily like porcupine skin, like something that grew there rather than got machined into existence. It’s one of those rare cases where a product’s name, its material treatment, and its surface texture all tell exactly the same story.

The Porcupine TiSlim is a 3.04-inch drop point folder from Vosteed Cutlery, running CPM-S90V blade steel in Grade 5 titanium handles just 0.315 inches thick. It’s the third chapter in Vosteed’s TiSlim lineup, following the Parallel and the Raccoon TiSlim, bringing that slim-carry formula to one of their most established working designs. Deployment comes via dual-tone thumb studs and a caged ceramic ball-bearing pivot, with a Top Liner Lock keeping fingers safely clear of the blade path on the close. The lineup spans from $139 for 154CM entry variants up to $179 for the S90V Acid Wash Copper flagship, and neither figure will make your wallet flinch the way this category typically demands. The overall build is Vosteed’s tightest expression of their TiSlim philosophy yet, and everything from the thumb studs to the pocket clip reflects a level of hardware polish that sits above the price point.

Designer: Vosteed

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Thin in the Pocket, Solid in Hand

At 0.315 inches (that’s 8mm for the metrically inclined), the Porcupine TiSlim’s handle sits at roughly the thickness of a well-stocked card wallet. Vosteed CNC-machines the Grade 5 titanium scales with careful chamfering along the edges, reducing perceived bulk and keeping pocket entry smooth. An aluminum backspacer runs the spine, reinforcing structure without adding meaningful weight, while a CNC-finished stainless steel liner integrates cleanly into the handle without creating uncomfortable seams or steps. Strategic jimping on the spine and matching jimping on the handle near the spine give your thumb something real to grip when a task requires it. The result is a knife that genuinely disappears in the pocket while feeling solid and purposeful once the blade is open.

The whole knife weighs 2.97 ounces closed, which puts it firmly in the “you’ll forget it’s there” category alongside considerably less capable knives. The titanium pocket clip sits streamlined and low-profile, with a tip-up carry orientation that places the thumb stud right where your hand naturally meets the knife on the draw. Titanium-coated T8 screws handle all the fastening duties, offering corrosion resistance and the practical benefit of serviceability without a specialized tool. A recessed lanyard hole keeps the spine clean and uncluttered, so nothing is snagging on pocket liner fabric throughout the day. For a knife that opens to a full 7.22-inch working length, it packs remarkably compactly.

A Blade Built for Everyday Work

CPM-S90V is a high-vanadium martensitic stainless steel with exceptional wear resistance and edge retention, which is a long way of saying it holds its edge for a very long time before needing attention. Vosteed runs it in a drop point profile with 0.087-inch blade stock and a flat grind, the right call for a working EDC: flat grinds cut efficiently through a wide range of materials without binding mid-task. The broad belly supports slicing, while the controlled tip handles cord cutting, package opening, and food prep with equal ease. At 3.04 inches, the blade clears most urban carry restrictions while remaining genuinely useful. The Acid Wash and Stonewash blade finish on the A4811 also looks exceptional under office lighting, which is a perfectly valid reason to pick one colorway over another.

Deployment uses dual-tone thumb studs and a caged ceramic ball-bearing pivot, and every reviewer who has gotten their hands on one describes the action as genuinely willing. The bearing makes the blade rotate freely with a single thumb flick, with no stickiness or hesitation. A Top Liner Lock handles the close, and its placement on the spine distinguishes it from conventional liner locks in a meaningful way. Standard liner locks require pressing inward while the blade swings shut, briefly routing fingers across the blade path. The Top Liner Lock moves that engagement to the spine, so your thumb pushes down rather than inward, keeping your digits fully clear. Vosteed has made this lock a signature of the Porcupine platform, and at this price it represents a level of thoughtfulness you typically pay more for.

Fourteen Variants, One Very Clear Argument

The Porcupine TiSlim lineup offers over a dozen finish combinations across two blade steel tiers. The 154CM entry models at $139 come in colorways like Gray Ti with Satin, Black Ti with Copper Dune, Dim Grey Ti with Blackwash, Blue Ti with Stonewash, and Rebecca Purple. Step up to S90V and the options expand into Brasswash Ti, Blue Ti with Satin, and the Acid Wash series. The most visually interesting of the bunch are the Acid Wash handles, where the titanium develops a complex, shifting surface character between grey and warm bronze tones depending on the light. Certain variants also carry that cellular, organic machined pattern on the handle scales, the texture that gives the knife its name and makes it one of the more visually distinctive folders at this price point.

Pricing starts at $139 for 154CM models and reaches $179 for the Acid Wash Copper S90V flagship (A4811), and Yanko readers can apply code YANKO489 at Amazon checkout for 10% off most Porcupine TiSlim models. For competitive context, the Benchmade Mini Narrows 743 runs $500, the Quiet Carry Drift asks $320, and the TRM Neutron 2 in MagnaCut is $375. The Porcupine TiSlim undercuts all three while fielding Grade 5 titanium construction and a blade steel that holds its own in that company.

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Wing’s Walmart drones are coming to Denver and Seattle — and they won’t drop your parcels in the pool

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Lindsey Austen of Richmond, Texas, ordered cat food, light bulbs, and shoe insoles, then watched a drone hover over her backyard, open its hatch, and drop everything into her pool and hot tub. She had not realized drone delivery was selected at checkout, which might be the most 2026 sentence ever written. Her video of the splash went around the internet, and Amazon called the whole thing rare. I bring it up because that was an Amazon Prime Air drone, and it has very little in common with the Wing aircraft headed for Denver and Seattle. Same sky, completely different philosophy about where a package should end up.

Wing and Walmart announced on October 5 that Denver and Seattle join their drone network in 2027, part of a plan covering 270-plus Walmart stores. Wing’s Hummingbird hovers around 23 feet up and lowers the box on a tether, so a pool is only in play if you tell it to aim there. It cruises at up to 60 mph, and the bigger version carries up to five pounds (Wing’s own numbers). Walmart sells the whole thing as groceries in as little as 30 minutes, with Wing claiming a 23 minute average. I wanted to know what that promise looks like over your street, and what it means for delivery drivers.

Designer: Wing for Walmart

The Hummingbird is a hybrid, which means rotors for vertical lift and a fixed wing for cruising, so it launches like a drone and travels like a tiny airplane. Wing’s two versions weigh 14 and 24.3 pounds at max takeoff, per FAA filings, and the heavier one hauls up to roughly five pounds of payload. Both come out of Wing’s Aircraft Library, a parts-bin approach where shared components get remixed into different sizes. Wing built the bigger one after finding about 30 percent of deliveries needed multiple flights, according to The Register. Neither lands in your yard. They hover, lower the box on a tether, and release it at ground level.

Compare that with Amazon’s MK30, which weighs about 78 pounds empty (per DroneXL’s comparison table) and, according to Axios, comes down closest to the customer. Wing’s bet is the opposite: keep the heavy part high and put only a cardboard box within reach of your dog. It also skips a parachute, which Zipline’s 55 pound aircraft carries, so the safety case rests on being small and light. I love that as industrial design logic, because every ounce shaved is a risk shaved. Parachute research like the kirigami parachute concept chases safety by adding something, while Wing chases it by subtracting.

Wing’s own presentation puts average flight time at five minutes or less, which implies most of that 23 minutes happens on the ground. In the air, FAA filings authorize up to 400 flights per nest per day across 368 nests, which DroneXL tallies to 147,200 flights daily on paper. Wing has had a crash too: a drone on a return flight went down and caught fire in Kemah, Texas on March 1, with a power line suspected and nobody hurt. Part 108, the FAA’s routine beyond-line-of-sight rule, has sat at the White House since July 10. Meanwhile, Castle Rock and Parker froze hub permits, though towns control the parking lot and the FAA controls the sky.

Five pounds is a hard ceiling, so drones chase the small stuff first, and Walmart says customers use them for forgotten ingredients and cold medicine. DoorDash insists Dashers stay central as it launches its own drone service, while a Wing operations director has described drones as skipping recruiting, insurance, commissions, and no-shows. Concepts like the DJI Express UAV already imagine cargo hopping between cities without a dedicated driver, so the direction of travel is clear. I’d guess the first gigs to feel the squeeze are the quick, small, suburban runs. The Hummingbird’s whole trick is delivering small things gently, and Austen’s hot tub is a reminder that picking the drop spot is half the job.

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Vollebak Built a $50,000 “Rock Jacket” Out of 54,000 Actual Wearable Slate Tiles

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Rock has been around for billions of years. Humans have been around for a few million. In that time we figured out how to wear fur, leather, wool, cotton, plastic, and even iron, yet rock never made the cut. We used it for spears, houses, pyramids, and sculptures, but nobody looked at a boulder and thought it would make a great bomber. Fair enough, since rock is brilliant at sitting still and clothes are mostly about moving. Vollebak looked at that problem and decided to build the bomber anyway, out of actual slate.

The Rock Jacket is a one-off cropped Harrington covered in roughly 54,000 slate tiles (per Dezeen’s count), each 0.2 inches (5mm) square and 0.02 inches (0.5mm) thick, bonded to a neoprene backing. The material comes from French material technologist Steven Leprizé, who adapted his WooWood elastic marquetry, a technique he originally built around tiny wooden tiles. Leprizé says it takes 50 steps to make, and cutting the tiles is the hardest of them. The finished piece has taped seams, Cordura pockets, and a zip, so it looks wearable enough for a party. It is listed at $50,000, which is a lot for a jacket and a bargain for millions of years of geology.

Designers: Steven Leprizé & Vollebak

Vollebak got here by way of wood. The label first called Leprizé about a more wearable version of its Wooden Jacket, a prototype built from 250,000 pieces of laser-cut American walnut. Leprizé grew up between his grandfather’s sawmill and his father’s workshop, trained at École Boulle in Paris, and now leads a team of 12 in a studio that is half atelier, half laboratory. He had something else to show them, a slate version of WooWood with the same grid of 5mm tiles. Vollebak had already spent a year chasing a wearable rock jacket, so the timing could not have been better.

Slate is a layered metamorphic rock with natural cleavage planes, so sheets just 0.02 inches (0.5mm) thick can be peeled off a slab. Those sheets arrive at roughly 39 by 20 inches (100 by 50cm), and the hard part is cutting them into 0.2 inch tiles without losing one. Leprizé built a bespoke 11.5-foot (3.5m) cutting machine that he says beats a laser cutter, but it was designed for wood, so slate cost him several ruined sheets. The tiles are then glued under pressure to neoprene with an adhesive developed with 3M engineers in Switzerland. The rubber comes from a UK supplier whose core business is fetishwear, which earned Leprizé some funny looks at the office.

At 0.2 inches a tile, the surface reads like a pixelated texture, with light sliding across the folds in blocky gradients, as if a game engine were struggling with a boulder. Vollebak itself compares it to a glitching Minecraft texture pack, or brutalist smart casual for a Coruscant cocktail party. Where the sleeve bends, the tiles lift and overlap like woven leather, and I kept thinking of Bottega Veneta’s intrecciato. Stitching slate was never an option, so the seams are taped, which ended up outlining the diamond pockets and shoulder panels like a graphic. The tiles ruled out tight fits, so the cropped, boxy Harrington is basically the rock’s idea of a good fit.

Vollebak has already turned Dyneema, the fiber used to haul ships, into an Indestructible Jacket, worked stainless steel into a blazer, and released a $3,995 jacket called FWAHBL in a run of ten. The Rock Jacket tops them all on price and ambition, with a commercially viable version planned in about two years. Co-founder Nick Tidball mentioned that once you make a jacket out of rock, everything else seems easy, which is quite a flex. Vollebak admits this version is not practical, which I respect in a $50,000 jacket. Leprizé is already developing granite, marble, sandstone, and schist versions, and I badly want to see someone in a marble bomber.

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MERACH’s new W60 Plus walking pad boasts 12 incline levels, RGB lights, and a built-in Bluetooth speaker

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The under-desk treadmill had its moment, arriving as the perfect sidekick for our sudden work-from-home lives (can you believe it’s been six whole years?). It was the simple, brilliant answer to hitting a step count between calls and emails, and products like the original WalkingPad and the WalkingPad S1 were among the early heroes of that era. We all got one, or knew someone who did, turning home offices into miniature gyms where productivity and light cardio could finally coexist. The problem was that a lot of those machines, true to their budget price tags, started dying after six months of use. Walking pads got a reputation for being disposable, which was a shame, because the core concept was always worth taking seriously.

The UltraWalk W60 Plus is the clearest expression of what MERACH is building toward: a walking pad engineered with permanence at its core. When we caught the brand at IFA 2026, their first major trade show appearance despite an already loyal following built through e-commerce, the walking pad lineup stood out for build quality at a price most competitors couldn’t match. The W60 Plus has 12 automatic incline levels, a third-party SGS-certified motor, and a weight capacity that would make a full-size treadmill raise an eyebrow. Mood lighting and a Bluetooth speaker come along too, which sounds ridiculous until you realize how much more likely you are to use a machine that’s genuinely fun to be around.

Designer: MERACH

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A 3.5 HP Brushless Motor, SGS-Certified Performance, and a Frame Rated for 330 Lb

The W60 Plus runs on a 3.5 HP peak / 1.25 CHP brushless motor with a 42mm diameter and a Hall sensor for precision feedback. Brushless motors are generally more efficient and longer-lasting than brushed ones, and MERACH claims a lifespan of up to 15,000 hours here, which the brand puts against the 300 to 800-hour lifespans typical of budget walking pad motors. The weight capacity sits at 330 lbs under SGS-certified testing conditions. The heavy-duty steel frame doesn’t wobble under a real walking load, which matters more than most spec sheet comparisons. That stability is what separates a machine you’ll want to use from one you’ll come to resent.

The W60 Plus passed SGS’ performance specs evaluation with flying colors. The noise testing came back at under 54 dB at medium speed with a 75 kg test load, which sits comfortably below the ambient volume of a normal conversation. At maximum speed that figure climbs to 60 dB with load, and 55 dB without, meaning the machine stays apartment-friendly even when it’s working hard. There’s also a one-touch mute function for those moments when you absolutely need silence (hello, important video calls). That noise profile lets you walk and watch TV simultaneously without either experience suffering, which is, honestly, the whole point of this category.

Twelve Auto-Incline Levels, a 16.5-Inch-Wide Deck, and a Speed Range Built for Walking

Twelve levels of automatic incline is the feature that separates the W60 Plus from the flat-and-boring competition, and for a machine in this price tier, it’s genuinely unusual. At the highest setting, it shifts from a gentle recovery walk to something that meaningfully elevates your heart rate, particularly through the posterior chain. The speed range of 0.6 to 4.0 MPH keeps things firmly in walking and light jogging territory, and that 4 MPH ceiling is worth acknowledging: this machine won’t satisfy runners. What it will do is make a 3 MPH incline walk feel like real exercise, which for most desk-workers is entirely the point. Incline transitions between levels automatically and smoothly, a detail that matters when you’re trying to maintain a rhythm.

The running deck measures 16.5 inches wide by 41.3 inches long, which MERACH puts at roughly 33% wider than the category standard. That extra width makes for a more natural gait and stride, particularly for taller users or anyone with broader hips. The non-slip surface handles uphill walking and light jogging without issue, and the length means you’re not constantly worrying about the back edge. Team USA heptathlete Annie Kunz has been using the W60 Plus for active recovery and step accumulation, describing it as a way to “jump on here and there when I feel a burst of energy.” Multi-event athletes log enormous volumes of low-intensity cross-training, and a 12-level incline walking pad fits that workflow more naturally than a flat surface ever could.

Sound-Reactive RGB Lighting, a 5W Bluetooth Speaker, and Triple-Platform App Integration

MERACH’s RGB lighting system reacts to step frequency and syncs to audio rhythm, creating a feedback loop between movement, sound, and visual stimulus that turns a walking session into something engaging. A walking pad that’s boring ends up under the sofa permanently, and MERACH clearly treats engagement as a design constraint, not an afterthought. The lighting pairs with a built-in 5W Bluetooth speaker that fills a home office without headphones, which matters when you’re walking through calls or podcasts. The whole feature cluster borrows from the cozy cardio playbook, acknowledging that for most users, habit formation is a bigger obstacle than physical capability. Make the machine enjoyable to use, and the steps take care of themselves.

Full app integration spans MERACH’s own platform, Apple Health, and Google Fit, with real-time tracking of speed, incline, calories, distance, time, and step count across all three. The MERACH app adds guided routines and custom workout programs, which pushes the W60 Plus into territory where it can coach you through a session rather than simply hosting it. An 8-button magnetic remote handles speed, incline, lighting, mute, start/stop, and program selection, and it docks magnetically to the frame when not in use. The LED display gives you a live readout of key metrics without having to pull out your phone. None of it requires a subscription, which at this price is a genuinely welcome detail.

Zero Assembly, 80 Percent Less Floor Space, and a Price That Makes Sense

The W60 Plus ships fully ready to use: unbox it, plug it into a standard 110V outlet, and step on. No assembly means no instruction booklet, no leftover mystery bolts, and no 45-minute YouTube tutorial that’s supposed to take 10 minutes. When you’re done, the vertical folding support stand lets the machine stand upright, which MERACH says cuts the floor-space footprint by up to 80%. The enlarged front transport wheels make it manageable to move even over carpet, which is where most budget transport wheel designs tend to give up. At 67.7 lbs, the W60 Plus isn’t light, so those wheels are doing real work every time you slide this thing out from under the desk.

The UltraWalk W60 Plus launched on May 26, 2026, and is available now through MERACH’s official website in a Grey finish, with the list price marked at $499.99 and the current sale price at $329.99. MERACH is also offering an extra discount code, MERACHW60, which drops the checkout price to $264.00 with free shipping, a much more aggressive number than this category usually sees for a 12-level auto-incline walking pad. The product page also offers optional accident protection from $29.99. Warranty details are not clearly surfaced in the material provided, so that part is best verified directly on MERACH’s store before publication.

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This Expandable LEGO Frame System Finally Solves the Collector Storage Nightmare

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Somewhere in a closet, a perfectly good LEGO minifigure is staring through a plastic bag at the back of a cardboard box. It has a tiny printed face, a surprisingly elaborate hat, and absolutely no audience. Every serious LEGO collector knows the feeling: shelves fill up fast, display cases sell at fixed sizes, and at some point the collection starts living in labeled ziplock bags rather than anywhere it can actually be seen. LEGO has released over 775 Collectible Minifigures across 51 series since 2010, with new figures arriving three times a year, which makes the storage problem a permanent one for anyone collecting seriously. Stephen Peaple, a British-born collector now based in Perth, Australia, had thousands of them and spent four years building the solution he could not find anywhere.

Finity Frames puts a collection on the wall in a clean white grid. A single frame carries 16 spaces, but removable dividers let you make room for bigger figures or pack in a crowd. When the collection grows, connected frames share edges so the display extends as one continuous piece without visual seams or doubled-up borders. Your next minifigure gets a spot without requiring a complete wall makeover. The system is injection-molded ABS, ships flat-packed, and the connection method that makes all of it work is patented.

Designer: Stephen Peaple

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A Display System That Grows With Your LEGO Collection

Every Finity Frame is built around a seamless edge connection where neighboring frames share a single border, eliminating the doubled-up edge and any visual gap at the join. This is the core innovation that solves the fixed-size problem inherent in every other display case on the market. It means you can start with a single frame for one series of figures and expand outward in any direction, at any time, without having to replace your original investment. The aesthetic is clean and continuous, looking like a single, cohesive unit no matter how large it gets.

This design approach also makes the system more efficient as it grows. Peaple makes the math explicit: the first frame measures 312mm across, and each connected frame adds just 298mm, because one edge is always shared. This reduces material waste and lowers the cost per additional frame. A 2×2 Collector, for instance, cannot be broken apart into four 1×1 Starters, since it doesn’t include the extra pieces. For context, the most prominent fixed-case competitors max out around 190 minifigures. The Finity Frames Showcase holds 1,056, and two of them together can display over 2,100 figures as a single, unified piece.

Built for Customization and Creative Play

Each Finity Frame ships with three horizontal and three vertical internal slats, forming a standard 4×4 grid. This sixteen-space layout is not arbitrary; it maps exactly to one complete Collectible Minifigures series, which traditionally ships with 16 unique figures. The slats are removable in any combination, yielding 64 different internal layouts. You can pull the vertical dividers out, double-stack figures with jumper plates, and a 1×1 Starter can hold up to 88 minifigures. This flexibility lets you create custom spaces for dioramas, larger vehicles, or oversized figures like the Hulk who need a little extra room.

The system’s dimensions are precisely calibrated to the LEGO System of Play. Internal slats are exactly one brick wide, and the frame edges are exactly two bricks wide. Each compartment accepts a 6×8 LEGO plate or four 3×4 minifigure plates, the same stands that come with CMF packs. This means removing the acrylic cover turns the frame into a wall-mounted baseplate where builds can bridge continuously across spaces and frames. Peaple calls this “bridging,” a feature that turns a static display into a creative canvas. Every horizontal slat even has a built-in row of six studs for securing figures or small builds.

Designed for Collectors of All Kinds

A magnetic Perspex acrylic cover protects the collection from dust and removes in a single pull. It’s made from UV-stable material with built-in absorbers to block harmful light, preventing the slow fading that can damage valuable figures over time. The frame itself is a gallery-white, UV-treated ABS plastic, a color choice meant to disappear behind the collection rather than compete with it. Everything is designed to last, preserving the collection while keeping it easily accessible. The magnetic attachment is secure but quick, so you can get to your figures without fussing with clips or latches.

Flipping the horizontal slats 180 degrees turns the studded surfaces into flat shelves, opening the frame to almost any small-scale collectible. A single 64x64x49mm space can hold Funko Pocket POPs, Be@rbricks, Sonny Angels, or even shot glasses. Removing dividers creates double-height spaces for larger items like vintage Kenner 3¾” figures, Super7 ReAction figures, Playmobil sets, or graded collectible cards in their hard cases. It’s a true cabinet of curiosities, designed for a LEGO collection but adaptable enough for just about anything else that deserves a spot on the wall.

Five Sizes, Starting at $65 USD

The five frame sizes run from the 1×1 Starter at 12.3×12.3 inches (up to 88 minifigures) to the 4×3 Showcase at 47.4×35.7 inches (up to 1,056), with the 1×2 Duo, 2×2 Collector, and 3×2 Lifestyle filling in between. All frames run 55mm deep without the cover, 61mm with, and production units are estimated at 0.9 to 1.1kg for the 1×1 (roughly 2 lbs).

Retail pricing starts at AU$99 (roughly US$65) for the Starter and reaches AU$835 (roughly US$550) for the Showcase. Any size can be extended later through a Frame Extender on finityframes.com, where you input what you already own and order only the additional sets required. The system ships flat-packed globally, with US distribution in place through the manufacturing partner.

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