69 ‘Buy It for Life’ Products: Cast-Iron, Tools, Speakers, Chairs, and More
From cast-iron pans to mechanical watches, we’ve rounded up products that are made to last for decades.
Read MoreFrom cast-iron pans to mechanical watches, we’ve rounded up products that are made to last for decades.
Read MoreThe Ultraloq Bolt Mission is one of the first smart locks to support UWB unlocking, which unlocks your door as you approach, using your phone as your key. Imagine walking up to your front door and it unlocks â even opens â automatically as you approach. It may sound like the stuff of smart home
Read MoreShortly after moving into my first apartment, I received a package from home. Unfurling the brown paper within, I uncovered a simple, cream-colored coffee mug with the words “Call your mother.” My aversion to chatting had been noted and was unacceptable to the woman who gave me life. More than a decade later, I still
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Read More[Azpaca] purchased a fun little toy car from Tamiya, only… there was a problem. The little off-roader wasn’t up to scratch—despite its four-wheel-drive, it couldn’t get over rough ground to save its life. Thus, it was time to 3D-print a better chassis that could actually get through it! The problem was quite obvious. With no
Read More[Azpaca] purchased a fun little toy car from Tamiya, only… there was a problem. The little off-roader wasn’t up to scratch—despite its four-wheel-drive, it couldn’t get over rough ground to save its life. Thus, it was time to 3D-print a better chassis that could actually get through it! The problem was quite obvious. With no
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: Scientists have found that using seismometers is a new and inexpensive method to detect falling space junk, which can cause damage on impact and carry toxic materials — and may someday turn deadly… It’s not an easy task to track large hunks of falling metal
Read MoreCrystal oscillators are incredibly useful components, but they come with one little snag: their oscillation is temperature-dependent. For many applications the relatively small deviation is not a problem, but especially for precision instruments this is a deal breaker. Enter the oven controlled crystal oscillator, or OCXO. These do basically what it says on the tin,
Read MoreCrystal oscillators are incredibly useful components, but they come with one little snag: their oscillation is temperature-dependent. For many applications the relatively small deviation is not a problem, but especially for precision instruments this is a deal breaker. Enter the oven controlled crystal oscillator, or OCXO. These do basically what it says on the tin,
Read MoreFriday TechCrunch reported that OpenAI “used the subreddit, r/ChangeMyView to create a test for measuring the persuasive abilities of its AI reasoning models.” The company revealed this in a system card — a document outlining how an AI system works — that was released along with its new “reasoning” model, o3-mini, on Friday…. OpenAI says
Read MoreA new year means a new Sundance Film Festival, and a fresh crop of promising original features that could go on to become awards season darlings in a few months. It might be hard to top last year’s festival where Dìdi, A Different Man, and I Saw the TV Glow all made strong showings. But
Read MoreThe CNT coating between the layers is heated with microwaves to locally anneal. (Credit: Sweeney et al., Science Adv., 2017) Layer adhesion is one of the weak points with FDM 3D printing, with annealing often recommended as a post-processing step. An interestingly creative method for this was published in Science Advances back in 2017, featuring the
Read MorePresident Donald Trump kicked off the first day of his presidency by signing a flurry of executive actions, including halting enforcement of the TikTok ban and rolling back the Biden administration’s artificial intelligence order. Having already run the country once before, Trump entered the presidency with the goal of hitting the ground running, having already
Read MoreOn January 24th Brooklyn blogger Jeffrey Emanuel made the case for shorting NVIDIA, remembers MarketWatch, “due to a number of shifting tides in the AI world, including the emergence of a China-based company called DeepSeek.” He published his 12,000-word post “on his personal blog and then shared it with the Value Investors Club website and
Read MoreOn January 24th Brooklyn blogger Jeffrey Emanuel made the case for shorting NVIDIA, remembers MarketWatch, “due to a number of shifting tides in the AI world, including the emergence of a China-based company called DeepSeek.” He published his 12,000-word post “on his personal blog and then shared it with the Value Investors Club website and
Read MoreThe National Transportation and Safety Board will only update the press about the plane crashes in Washington, DC and Philadelphia on X — not over email, as reported earlier by The Desk. The agency announced on Saturday that it will use its @NTSB_Newsroom account to share ”news conferences or other investigative information.“ The NTSB later
Read MoreThe US is officially imposing tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China. President Donald Trump announced that goods imported from Mexico and Canada will face a 25 percent tariff, while goods from China will face a 10 percent tariff. There will also be a lower 10 percent tariff on energy resources from Canada. In a series
Read MoreA new year means a new Sundance Film Festival, and a fresh crop of promising original features that could go on to become awards season darlings in a few months. It might be hard to top last year’s festival where Dìdi, A Different Man, and I Saw the TV Glow all made strong showings. But
Read MoreCredit: Amazon Retroid is rumored to be developing a sequel to the Pocket Flip. The original handheld gaming system was quietly discontinued. There are currently no details on the specs or design. In a sea of handheld gaming systems, you may or may not remember the Retroid Pocket Flip. It was a solid retro portable
Read MoreA new year means a new Sundance Film Festival, and a fresh crop of promising original features that could go on to become awards season darlings in a few months. It might be hard to top last year’s festival where Dìdi, A Different Man, and I Saw the TV Glow all made strong showings. But
Read MoreA screenshot from Google’s Super Bowl commercial. | Screenshot: Google Google just debuted a series of Super Bowl ads showing how small businesses use Gemini AI across all 50 states, but the cheese lovers out there might notice something a little off about its Wisconsin one. As spotted by @natejhake on X, the ad shows
Read MoreGoogle’s products form the cornerstone of my digital life. The idea of ditching Gmail and Google Maps, in particular, is unimaginable to me. While Google doesn’t rule my life, and I’ve found plenty of more impressive alternatives to some of Google’s wares, including Google News substitutes and Chrome competition, some services and products are trickier
Read MoreGoogle’s products form the cornerstone of my digital life. The idea of ditching Gmail and Google Maps, in particular, is unimaginable to me. While Google doesn’t rule my life, and I’ve found plenty of more impressive alternatives to some of Google’s wares, including Google News substitutes and Chrome competition, some services and products are trickier
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Cloud AI might be impressive, but I yearn for the added security that only offline, local processing provides, especially in light of DeepSeek reporting user data back to China. Replacing CoPilot with DeepSeek on my laptop yesterday made me wonder if I could run large language models offline on my
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