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Together at last! Mini knife and mini pen join forces in four-function multitool
July 15, 2025
| Ben Coxworth
What do you do after successfully crowdfunding a tiny knife and a tiny pen? If you're London gear company Malboro & Kane, you combine them to form a clever gadget known as the SlashPen, which also features a screwdriver and a glass-breaking tip.
Slim folding knife packs a hideaway feature that makes it even sleeker
July 14, 2025
| C.C. Weiss
To pocket clip or not to pocket clip? It's a question many a folding knife owner has considered. Peak Spec has a better answer, and it calls it the Apex Ghostclip. Luckily for those interested, it's more than an apparition – or it's getting there.
Sidewinder electric chopper rolls on dual omnidirectional wheels
July 15, 2025
| Paul Ridden
Pretty much all of the fantastic inventions from YouTube creator James Bruton are bizarre engineering oddities. But when the former toy maker says that one of his wacky omnidirectional rides "behaves weirdly" – a closer look is definitely warranted.
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July 15, 2025 | Abhimanyu GhoshalIt's not every day that you come across a product where the standout feature is its ability to go kaput. Team Group's P250Q SSD can physically destroy itself at the push of a button, so your secrets go up in smoke before they fall into the wrong hands.
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July 14, 2025 | Bronwyn ThompsonFrom St John’s wort to vitamin D, the range of over-the-counter supplements for mental health wellbeing continues to grow. Now, scientists have looked at 64 products reviewed in hundreds of studies to shed light on how useful they are for depression.
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July 14, 2025If your old PC needs a new lease on life, a fresh installation of Microsoft Office 2019 can give you useful and essential functionality. Right now, you can get Word, Excel, Outlook, and more for $19.97, a 91% discount on the regular price of $229.
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July 14, 2025 | Bronwyn ThompsonFor the first time, a new study demonstrates that insomnia severity directly impacts ADHD traits and quality of life in adults. It calls for more attention to be paid to how treating sleep disorders can greatly improve wellbeing for people with ADHD.
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July 14, 2025 | Bronwyn ThompsonBlack cats may be a symbol of bad luck in many Western societies, but one such sooty feline has brought good fortune to scientists, playing a key role in identifying a new virus that can infect humans. It's the second novel bug Pepper has hunted down.
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July 14, 2025 | Ben CoxworthWhy just buy a gift card for games, if you can buy an actual handheld gaming console which is (roughly) the same shape and size? That's the thinking behind the Raspberry-Pi-packin' GamerCard, which has an interesting pedigree.
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July 14, 2025 | Paul RiddenA couple of years ago, LG went viral with a mobile version of a "wireless private TV" announced in late 2021. An upgraded flavor of the StanbyME smart screen was uncovered at CES 2025 back in January, and is now being rolled out globally.
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July 14, 2025 | Aaron TurpenLamborghini has announced the Temerario road model will now get a race track twin, the Temerario GT3. The competition model was designed and developed by Lambo's Sant'Agata Bolognese factory.
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July 14, 2025 | Abhimanyu GhoshalResearchers at the University of Buffalo are hoping to make breast cancer screening easier and quicker than ever before, with a detection technique that only requires patients to press up against a window for a minute to get accurate results in 3D.
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July 14, 2025 | Mike HanlonFashion history was made this week when THE ORIGINAL Hermes Birkin handbag sold at auction for $10.1 million, a record price 20x greater than the previous record of $500,000 (a Hermes Kelly that Princess Grace of Monaco used to hide her "baby bump").
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