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Capture Your Adventures In 4K

Two dads set out to build a robot they could actually enjoy with their kids, and somehow that idea turned into a whole engineering operation with 150 people across two continents. Beni is the result, and it's basically a tiny cameraman that refuses to get tired or complain about his workload.

It follows you, your dog, your bike, whatever's moving, and edits the footage into something watchable without you touching a single video editing app.

People have already taken Beni everywhere from the skate park to hiking trails to the absolute chaos of New York City sidewalks, and it kept up every time. It can hit almost 18 mph and hop over a 10-inch obstacle like it's nothing. It self-recovers if it gets knocked over, it dodges obstacles, and it can track from behind, side, front, or a circular pattern. 

Beni also has a pilot mode so you can drive him yourself, a motion tracker to keep him locked on you, and can even be personalized with unique accessories. Grab two if you want double the footage or want to share the fun! 

Bring Your CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays Out of the Closet

Want to listen to those old CD’s in the garage? How about those DVD’s on the bookshelf? Still have old rewritable CDs with photos or files lying around gathering dust?

BluHub is a 9-in-1 Multi-Function Optical Drive Hub that’s shaped like a baby grand piano. It reads and writes Blu-ray, DVD, and CD, and somehow also works as a full USB hub.

Lift the top and there's a spot to tuck away a disc. Underneath that you get four USB-A ports running at 10Gbps, a USB-C port, and an SD plus microSD card reader for all those camera cards in the back of your junk drawer. It can even burn discs up to 100GB on BD-XL media, for anyone who wants backups that don't depend on a cloud subscription.

This is the kind of thing anyone who still years for physical media would genuinely appreciate, and honestly, so would anyone who's ever lost photos to a bad hard drive. Plug it in and it just works, no drivers, no digging through settings. 

Physical media isn't dead, it just needs a better home.

CThe Standard For Desktop Clamping Has Been Raised

Unless you love spinning little bars, using a vice for a project can really test your patience (and your wrists). 

You’d probably be better off with a vice that has a stepper motor and a single button that you clamp down with one hand while the other stays busy holding tweezers or a soldering iron. It even self-levels its grip across weird, lumpy shapes instead of just mashing them flat.

It’s made from aerospace aluminum and stainless steel, not the flimsy pot-metal stuff that cracks after a year of shop abuse. The dual-axis swivel means you're never contorting yourself to see your own work, and a built-in spirit level keeps things honest without extra gear. Runs quiet too, so late-night hobby sessions won't wake up the whole house.

It folds down into a handheld vise mode when you don't need the full base, and mounts straight onto a CNC bed or T-slot table when you do. Type-C charging plus a battery that lasts about a week means it's ready for extended project sessions. 

Watchmakers, PCB solderers, action figure painters, 3D printer part sanders, DIY’ers, and model builders will all enjoy the unique features of NexLock. Makes a great gift too (and ships before the holidays).

A Pen That Takes Its Job Seriously

There's a certain kind of person who can't just carry a regular pen. It has to be milled from titanium so it looks like it arrived from 20 years in the future. It needs to have a bolt-action mechanism so it feels hi-tech and fidget-worthy. It needs to be nearly indestructible. And it needs to be perfectly balanced so it writes effortlessly.

That's MechaX. Because the details matter. It has ceramic bead pocket clips so it won’t tear anything it's clipped to. The bolt clicks both directions, so you get double the fidgeting satisfaction, and there's a hardened tip on the back built to crack a car window if you're ever in that kind of situation. It even locks so the mechanism won't fire off in your pocket.

There's a slot for a tritium vial if you want a faint glow so you can find it in the dark. It takes standard G2 refills too, so you're not stuck hunting down some weird proprietary cartridge in three years. 

It's a pen that all pens aspire to be, and it's ready for a lot more than signing your name.

Titanium, Carbon Fiber, and Serious Edge

ShadowX is the kind of folding knife that makes your current everyday carry suddenly feel a little ordinary. It pairs an M390 steel blade with a lightweight Grade 5 titanium frame, giving it a premium build without turning your pocket into a gym membership.

The refined blade geometry is designed for smooth, controlled cutting, while the zero-play axis lock keeps everything feeling solid and secure. An open-frame design also makes cleaning easier, which matters once this thing starts doing actual work instead of posing for photos.

Then there are the five scale options, including blue, red, and gray carbon fiber, plus upgraded gold-thread carbon fiber and Damascus titanium. Good luck picking just one, because ShadowX seems determined to make the search for your ideal EDC knife end with a very attractive dilemma.

Colossal Biosciences, a biotechnology company based in Dallas, has delayed its goal of bringing the extinct woolly mammoth back to life. Originally aiming for a mammoth birth by 2028, the company now expects progress sometime in the early 2030s due to the complexity of the project.

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