The Qudi Mask 2 is $140 and spectacularly unsubtle, concealing the wearer's face behind a simple retro smiley-faced LED display. They're on sale at Kickstarter. Qudi Mask 2 – mask… Read the rest of the article: Qudi Mask hides your face behind an LED display
Behold Un Kyu Lee's MicroJournal, a distraction-free, instant-on writing device with knobs, a little text display, and a gorgeously unsleek form. He sells them as a kit for just $170,… Read the rest of the article: MicroJournal: a distraction-free writing device with knobs
Townscaper (previously, previously at Boing Boing) is a relaxing and perfectly-made city-building toy by Oskar Stålberg. Efforts have been made to expand it into a first-person game of sorts, and… Read the rest of the article: Explore your Townscaper towns in the first-person perspective (again)
Telo Trucks is developing electric pickup trucks that are truly compact, in contrast to those currently available (whose enormity, in fairness, reflect general trends and perverse incentives). They have five… Read the rest of the article: Compact electric pickup trucks on the way
The thing I love about Micropolis is the wedding of the original game and its pixelated graphics to modern high-resolution displays. You can see an entire original Sim City city… Read the rest of the article: Micropolis: the original Sim City on the web
The stencilled, vaguely military font used for the menus in 1996's Quake is, apparently, derived from Visa, or Avia, a typeface spotted at random in an old Solotype catalog by… Read the rest of the article: Is this the Quake font?
A bankruptcy judge in Texas decided against liquidating Alex Jones' crown jewels—Infowars and its merch business—while ordering his other assets to the auction block to pay off the Sandy Hook… Read the rest of the article: Judge liquidates Alex Jones' assets—except Infowars
After a gunman killed 58 people in Las Vegas and hurt hundreds more using a bump stock to automate his rifle fire into the crowd, then-president Donald Trump banned the… Read the rest of the article: Supreme Court lifts Trump's ban on bump stocks
The UK's governing Conservatives can count on only one in five voters to support them in next month's general election—a loss of about four percentage points over a brief yet… Read the rest of the article: Polls show Labour cruising to big win in UK elections, but both main parties are slipping in polls
Shareholders in Tesla voted to award CEO Elon Musk a share package worth about $56bn, reports the BBC, and to move the company's headquarters to Texas, where courts are less… Read the rest of the article: Tesla shareholders vote to give Elon Musk pay package worth $56bn
London wasn't mapped well until the early modern era, but for a few stylized drawings, but the time travelers of the Historical Towns Trust have the situation under control. Their… Read the rest of the article: New map of medieval London
The U.S. Supreme Court today unanimously rejected an effort to outlaw mifepristone, a drug commonly-prescribed to induce abortions among other uses. Writing for the whole circus, Justice Brent Kavanaugh said… Read the rest of the article: Supreme Court rejects long-shot effort to ban abortion drug Mifepristone
Winamp was the just-works music-playing app of the late 1990s. Its perfect utilily facilitated the MP3 era, and the distinctive style of its interface became legendary in its own right.… Read the rest of the article: Winamp as a real-life touchscreen stereo system
Lauren Boebert and her ex-husband Jayson Boebert got into a fight over something at a restaurant in Colorado—reportedly their criminally-wayward son—and the former Mr. Boebert later behaved in similar fashion… Read the rest of the article: Probation for Lauren Boebert's ex-husband after their public fight
Mark Adams Prieto was charged with firearms trafficking, transfer of a firearm for use in a hate crime and possession of an unregistered firearm. He wanted to start a "race… Read the rest of the article: Arizona man planned to kill Blacks, Jews and Muslims in mass shooting to start "race war"
The home of American novelist Ursula K. Le Guin is to become a writers residency. Her son, Theo Downes-Le Guin, plans to provide contemporary authors access to the place she… Read the rest of the article: Ursula K. Le Guin's home to be a writers residency
Most Americans hold a positive view of top carmakers, especially those whose vehicles they personally own, with Toyota the most-loved at 42 percent positive and GM trailing the pack at… Read the rest of the article: Everyone hates Teslas except Tesla owners
"Ultra-processing" plants removes their health benefits. Surprise! The research, published in The Lancet, found that meat substitutes, fruit juices and pastries containing "ultra-processed" veggies increases the likelihood of strokes and… Read the rest of the article: Ultraprocessing veggies makes them bad for you
Nintendo announced that it was removing Twitter/X integration from its game console, following similar decisions from Sony and Microsoft. Switch users will just have to post to Facebook instead. The… Read the rest of the article: Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft have all now removed Twitter/X integration from their machines
Raspberry Pi, the British company famed for its tiny single-board computers, launched on the London Stock Exchange yesterday and popped 31% in the first day's trading. Shares of Raspberry Pi… Read the rest of the article: Raspberry Pi up 31% in stock market debut
