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Fashion 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").

This portable dental blaster should probably be called a vapor flosser, as it fires surprisingly forceful bursts of up to 98% air through the gaps in your teeth, making efficient use of water as it blasts out debris.

Let's be honest: vacuuming is not the bulk of the work. Vacuuming is a victory lap that can only be performed after somebody's gone around picking up all the junk off the floor – a task that Roborock's flagship Saros Z70 is starting to take over.

Stationary bike trainers provide a good workout for the lower body, but they don't do much for the upper body. That's where the S-Rower comes in, as it's a low-cost partial rowing machine that connects to your bike trainer for a full-body workout.

NWA 16788 was ejected from its own planet by a massive asteroid collision, wandered around in space for ages, before landing on Earth 140 million miles from where it started. And it could be yours (if your pockets are deep enough).

Phones can help with navigation on road trips, but they can also be dangerous distractions. A new study shows just how big that distraction is among teen drivers, and the number one reason the phones are used has nothing to do with directions.

In a perfect world, everything you try to clamp in a vise would have straight sides. The world isn't perfect, though, which is where the Tivise comes in. It's a fractal vise with jaws that adapt to the unique shape of whatever's placed inside it.

The cardboard business card has been with us just 200 years, a period of unprecedented change in society and scientific knowledge. This is the second part of a series in which we examine history from a different angle.

What if the water in your coffee pot literally just came out of thin air and you never had to fill it again? That's what the Kara Pod does. True story.

There has always been a marketplace for the personal cards of important people, but the humble ceremonial personal card (aka business card, visiting card, calling card, Carte de Visite) has never received much attention at auction, and has often been used as part of a significant lot to highlight provenance and authenticity.