Month: January 2022
Please make a dumb car
Today’s cars are dumb where they should be smart, and smart where they should be dumb. Enough already. Make a car that’s pretty much all dumb and watch it sell — because what automakers are giving people is so bad, they’ll pay more to have less of it. Cars now are like budget smartphones with […]
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Valve’s Steam Deck will go on sale February 25
Igor Bonifacic Contributor Igor Bonifacic is a contributing writer at Engadget. More posts by this contributor Boom will build a supersonic jet factory in North Carolina Valve’s Steam Deck will go on sale February 25 Following a two-month delay, Valve’s Steam Deck will launch on February 25th. In a blog post the company published on […]
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Investor calls for Peloton to fire CEO, consider selling company
Peloton ended 2020 on top. Its own supply chain issues had presented a hurdle — but if anything, these were side effects of the company’s own stratospheric successes. It simply couldn’t keep up with demand, one of the better problems to have as a business on the rise. Always leave them wanting more, as P.T. […]
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Meta leaps into the supercomputer game with its AI Research SuperCluster
There’s a global competition to build the biggest, most powerful computers on the planet, and Meta (AKA Facebook) is about to jump into the melee with the “AI Research SuperCluster,” or RSC. Once fully operational, it may well sit in the top 10 fastest supercomputers in the world, which it will use for the massive […]
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NASA celebrates private sector deployments of space-born tech in its latest Spinoff
NASA’s Spinoff magazine is one of the things I look forward to reading every year. The space agency’s research trickles down to the rest of the world in surprising and interesting ways, which it tracks and collects in this annual publication. This year is no different, and NASA tech can be found in everything from […]
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Metalenz PolarEyes upgrades digital sensing with polarized light
Tech sees differently, and can fuse multiple types of data we can’t even perceive: lidar, IR, ultrasonic and so on. Metalenz, maker of highly compact “2D” cameras for advanced sensing, hopes to bring polarized light into the mix for security and safety with its PolarEyes tech. Polarization isn’t a quality of light that’s often paid […]
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Warehouse robotics system Exotec raises $335 million
French startup Exotec has raised a $335 million Series D round in a new round of funding led by Goldman Sachs’ Growth Equity business. Following today’s investment, the company has reached a valuation of $2 billion. Exotec sells a complete end-to-end solution to turn a regular warehouse into a partially automated logistics platform. It’s a […]
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This device attaches magnetically to a face mask to monitor the wearer’s vitals
Perhaps 2022 will be the year consumer health tracking moves beyond the wrist. We’ve seen Oura’s rise over the past few years and a CES that brought with it a couple of ring fitness trackers. Following Google’s addition to vital and sleep tracking on the Nest Home, Sengled is adding the feature to a smart […]
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The M11 is Leica’s new flagship rangefinder
Leica’s a strange one. It only puts out a handful of cameras every year, and most of them are remixes or minor iterations on previous models. Since 2017 its flagship has been the solid but still somewhat archaic M10, but now the company has revealed its successor: the even more solid and also still somewhat […]
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These balls tell you how zen you are
It’s all good and well to be able to sit cross-legged on a mountain top and feel at one with the universe — but how do you know if you are doing it right or not? For beginner meditators who aren’t sure how they are “meant” to feel in their bodies there’s Reflect’s Orb product, […]
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