🫧 Siliconemaxxing
The computer is getting ideas.
This issue is all about living life to the maxx. Vibemaxxing, robotmaxxing, smoothiemaxxing. If you don’t get the vision, that’s okay unc. Don’t crash out on me. You’re probably just chopped, but I’m here to help you lock in.
📱 Grip it and flip it
It’s a low-profile grip like a PopSocket, but with a flip-out aluminum adjustable stand.
I’ve found the stand alone to be great for travel, and if you add the included MagSafe ring sticker to the back of an iPad mini, you can use it for that during a flight too.
The only negative I can think of is that you have to remove it entirely to wireless charge, but that’s the same with any of these attachments.
🎙️ Stop typing, you neanderthal
Yes, yes, dictation has been around for a while. But if you haven’t tried the latest wave of AI dictation apps, you’re honestly missing out. The advantages are not only speed and accuracy, but also the way it can remove fragments of speech when you misspeak or change your mind mid-thought.
Also that it can adapt the writing style based on the destination: one style and tone for messaging apps, another for when you’re coding or writing an email.
Monologue is generally just more delightful than a lot of the other tools floating around right now, with better sound effects, nicer animations, and less sterile productivity-lab energy.
🥤 Smoothie operator
ZWILLING Enfinigy Personal Blender ↗
It’s pretty fly, for a blender. I wanted something to quickly make smoothies and not look like a piece of shit on the counter. This does the job and doesn't make you hate it.
I will say, the included cup lid is great, but definitely hand-wash only. I’ve had one of the small bits break in the dishwasher. (Rookie move.)
🕰️ Time waits for no hands
Balmuda made a clock with no hands, because apparently normal clocks were still too legible. It uses a little illuminated ring to point at the hour and minute markers instead, which makes it look less like a household appliance and more like something you'd find in a boutique hotel lobby with a $9 sparkling water policy. Very pretty.
✨ The new Tamagotcha
I regret to inform you that I may now want a $399 decorative metal creature whose main feature is being an extremely good little guy. This is starboy, and it hits that same part of the brain as a new-age Tamagotchi for adults.
It comes in aluminum, stainless steel, brass, and crystal, plus you can add a tiny halo if you really want to commit to the bit. Completely unnecessary object. Strong aura. I respect it.
🏋️ Gym in a box
The Beyond Power Voltra I is a 13-pound handheld cable machine that delivers up to 200 lbs of digital resistance. It has a touchscreen, a rechargeable battery, multiple training modes, and you can mount it to basically anything. A rack, a door, even your car.
At $2,199, it's not cheap, but if you're the kind of person who travels with a foam roller and a grudge against hotel gyms, this might be your thing.
🤖 Your robot maid is almost ready
Figure just dropped a video of their Helix 02 robot tidying a living room, completely on its own. No remote control, no human in the loop, just a humanoid robot walking around picking things up and putting them away.
Yes, it’s staged and mostly unrealistic, but the gap between “cool robot video” and “this is actually happening” keeps getting smaller.
🎵 Not a podcast, somehow better
Friends Keep Secrets: The Ed Sheeran Episode ↗
This is technically a YouTube show and not a podcast, which mostly seems like an excuse to make something looser, warmer, and a bit more watchable than the usual two-guys-and-mics setup.
I’m a big fan of the casual chat style they’ve nailed, and I came away from this episode with a ton of respect for Ed Sheeran’s musical chops.
💻 It’s okay if you do it in private
SlapMac is a $7 menu bar app that makes your MacBook react when you slap it. Exactly the way you’re thinking, too. Or just fart sounds if you want.
The harder you hit it, the louder and more dramatic it gets, which is already hilarious enough before you learn there’s a mode called USB Moaner for people who want their laptop to get weird every time they plug something in.
(Hell yeah, I bought it.)
🫧 One more thing (clock)
This pneumatic clock uses a silicone membrane to create soft, physical numbers, which is already cooler than most things pretending to be futuristic right now.
It looks less like a normal display and more like someone taught air pressure how to tell time. Not just "here is a screen," but "here is a screen made out of pressure and weird material science."
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