Ploopy's 3D-printed "Bean Pointing Stick" functions as a compact four-button mouse and Thinkpad-style trackpoint. It even adopts the classic IBM color scheme and nipple texture. The buttons are Omron D2LS-21s… Read the rest of the article: The Ploopy Bean Pointing Stick is a portable trackpoint nipple mouse
You've heard of the Internet of Shit, but this is literally the case: an AI-powered poop analysis app's database of user-submitted poop images leaking into the wild. If you use… Read the rest of the article: AI poop analysis app selling human-verified poop photos
Police released pictures of a man suspected of killing a transgender University of Washington student this week, and called upon the public to identify him. The high-definition security footage clearly… Read the rest of the article: Man on run after murder of trans student
Dalton Eatherly, 28, posts video of himself as "Chud the Builder," directing racial slurs at black people and challenging them to fight him. He carries a gun and says his… Read the rest of the article: Racist streamer charged with attempted murder after shooting man outside courthouse
Kouri Richins, who poisoned her husband then published1 a book on grief for their own and others' children to read, will serve a life sentence for his murder. Convicted in… Read the rest of the article: Life sentence for woman who poisoned husband then published kids' book about grief
The Googlebook is Google's forthcoming new range of laptops, with premium hardware and Android features not offered by its low-end Chromebooks. But the main pitch is all the AI stuff… Read the rest of the article: Prompt your widgets with Googlebook, a laptop range for people into that sort of thing
A Connecticut man collared in possession of meth pills formed into the distinctive shape of Super Mario was sentenced to six years federal imprisonment earlier this week. The severe sentence… Read the rest of the article: Federal prison for Super Mario meth man
The price of groceries rose more last month than they have in nearly four years, according to annualized data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Fresh veggies are now more… Read the rest of the article: Grocery prices soar as Iran war drags on
GameStop, a meme stock valued at $10bn, made an offer to buy online retailer eBay, valued at $50bn. The game company hardly seems in good health as it is, and… Read the rest of the article: eBay declines GameStop's buyout offer
Pomiferous is the world's most extensive database of apples, containing information regarding more than 7,000 varieties. They're organized by name, pollination group, harvest period, and other characteristics. Pomiferous is brought… Read the rest of the article: Pomiferous: database featuring more than 7,000 apple varieties
IBM's Selectric Composer was a special edition of the famed business-class typewriter that used proportional type instead of fixed-width characters, allowing the typist to create beautifully typeset documents that appeared… Read the rest of the article: Digitizing vintage proportional typewriter fonts
Vouch Atlas is a decidely unscientific study of fear: fear of your laptop being stolen. The question is "Would you leave your laptop unattended in a coffee shop here for… Read the rest of the article: World map of presumed laptop theft risk in coffee shops
The Griffin Powermate nailed it: a simple, just-works USB rotary knob perfect for scrolling, zooming documents and playing Arkanoid. And it looked great, too, with brushed-metal bodywork and a glowing… Read the rest of the article: Getting the Griffin Powermate working on modern Macs
The Kodak Charmera (previously at Boing Boing) is a 30-gram keychain digicam built around a 1/4-inch 1.6MP CMOS sensor and a fixed 35mm-equivalent f/2.4 plastic lens. It shoots 1440 ×… Read the rest of the article: Design awards charmed by Kodak's $35 Charmera
A video from the Spring 2026 Commencement ceremony at the University of Central Florida's Nicholson School of Communication and Media perfectly encapsulates the information divides around AI. Speaker Gloria Caulfield,… Read the rest of the article: Clueless graduation speaker astonished to find that media students hate AI
Double Dragon was the first game I really knew back to front, the first I beat, though kid me never got past the elbow smash trick: an overpowered move made… Read the rest of the article: Did you know there was a bad Double Dragon comic book?
The Boox Tappy is a tiny Bluetooth device with two buttons and the legend "tap it" imprinted above them. You can use it to turn the pages of an ebook… Read the rest of the article: Boox Tappy is a wireless e-book page turner
Wizardry, originally coded in BASIC at the turn of the 80s, was one of the early greats in computer role-playing games, spawning a long-running series with countless spin-offs. It is… Read the rest of the article: Atari buys rights to RPG classic Wizardry
You've probably visited the Google Graveyard, which keeps track of bodies dumped by the tech giant, but the AI boom has already got it beat. There's already a veritable mountain… Read the rest of the article: AI Graveyard: 142 AI companies so far buried, many more to come
ReMarkable's progress has been quite, well, remarkable. Despite being in the shadow of Amazon's Kindle ecosystem, it (and Kobo, Boox, Supernote…) have put out nicer and more useful e-ink devices… Read the rest of the article: ReMarkable Paper Pure claimed to be 50% faster than last-gen model
