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speed of sound . Doing it by hand still demands practiced timing and a fluid arm motion most people never master. Craig Turner, the Australian maker behind Turnah81, wanted a device that delivered that same boom on demand, aimed where he pointed, with no prior skill required.

McMurtry Travis Pastrana has jumped from a plane with no parachute, landed the first double backflip on a motorcycle, collected 11 X Games gold medals, and raced the Daytona 500. On a day at Dunsfold Aerodrome in England, the same airfield used as the old Top Gear test track, he still found something that reset his scale. He climbed into a McMurtry Spéirling prototype and later said he had gone faster than in any vehicle of his life.

Diablo V, aiming for a Spring 2029 launch after a short teaser during the opening ceremony. Platforms have not been named. Official posts and the follow-up panel framed the game as a new era built on one blunt fact: Sanctuary has fallen, the old heroes are gone, and Diablo has won.

crawlers to a backyard tether and asked whether any of them could rack up 100,000 scale miles, he ran the experiment again. This time the cars steered themselves. In the original 2022 test, a spinning line kept every vehicle on a circle, which also loaded one side of the drivetrain harder than the other and turned wear into a lopsided argument. For the Self Driving Edition, Riley laid a perimeter wire through his yard, borrowed the sensing idea from robot lawn mowers, and taught an Arduino to twitch a steering servo whenever a coil on the bumper drifted off the signal.

A 25-year-old Chicago man is in the county jail facing charges related to an armed robbery at a massage parlor on Howard Street in Evanston.

unveiled Mission Efficiency today as a near-production electric 2+2 coupe whose entire brief is to waste as little energy as possible. The car is a clear nod to the 2013 XL1, the plug-in hybrid teardrop that once held the title of the most economical production car on sale. This time the powertrain is fully electric, the platform is the same front-drive MEB+ hardware headed for the ID. Polo and ID. Cross, and the claim is a new record for any road-approved car: a drag coefficient of 0.158.

Dyson's new CameraJet pressed against her face, treating a $499 electric toothbrush as if it belonged in a camera bag. She goes by all gear no skill on Instagram and has a habit of forcing odd tools into photo walks. Dentists owning Leicas is an old running joke in that circle, so a toothbrush that already carries a camera felt like the next logical dare. Photography should be fun, she said, and she meant it enough to stand on a sidewalk holding oral-care hardware while strangers stared.

spent Monday putting a headset on sale before most people had finished coffee. Steam Frame starts at $1,059 for the 256GB kit and $1,299 for the 1TB kit, with controllers and a native build of Half-Life: Alyx in the package. A power brick stays off the packing list. Sign-ups for a reservation lottery run through September 17 at 10 a.m. Pacific. After that cutoff Valve randomizes the list, emails results the same day, and starts sending the first purchase invitations on September 18. Miss the window and you land at the back of the waitlist.

IKEA paid Kinggath Creations to build a free official Creation for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and the finished work arrived on Bethesda's Creations menu on September 9 for PC and Xbox. Players who pick it up get a new companion named Kallax Storageborn, a walking cube of shelves modeled on IKEA's familiar Kallax bookcase, voiced in full by Matt Berry.

brought its Magma GT Concept to life on a 9-kilometer stretch of Italian mountain road last week. The mid-engined grand tourer, first shown as a still object at Le Mans in June, rolled onto the closed Strada Borromea on Mount Mottarone for the Tutto Bene Hillclimb, an invitation-only gathering of 85 cars overlooking Lake Maggiore.