Technology

Retrospekt is tapping into childhood nostalgia and is appealing to retro tech enthusiasts everywhere with a new Pepsi x Polaroid 600 Instant Film Camera. The vintage Polaroid camera brings fans back to the nostalgic time of the ’80s and ’90s and is designed with the Pepsi blue exterior to celebrate the beverage’s iconic branding from years past. Retrospekt is known to revive vintage analog cameras and combine old and new by sourcing additional internal components from other antique Polaroid cameras before restoring them to be like new. This is not the first time Pepsi has partnered Polaroid. Retorospekt’s Creative Director Michael Kempen said, “In the 1980s, Polaroid produced a limited number of cameras that made use of the then-current Pepsi branding. As the years go by, they’re becoming ...

Continuing to expand into other tech gadgets, Swedish consumer electronics company Teenage Engineering has now crafted its very first computer case. Having been in development since 2014, the new computer-1 takes on Teenage Engineering’s signature design aesthetic to offer a simple yet playful take on the mini-ITX form factor. The case’s powder-coated aluminum panels are clad entirely in orange with minimalistic joints, curves, and bends all complementing its sleek exterior. Just like the company’s other products, the computer-1 comes flat-packed and ready for you to assemble yourself, which will include actually bending some of the components as well. Dimension-wise, the mini-ITX case stands roughly 12 inches tall and a little over 6 inches wide, giving you ample room for anything you’ll ...

The major 2.0 update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons is now available to download, which is somewhat surprising because Nintendo previously said it wouldn’t be released until November 5th. That means you’ll be able to dive into all the new features two days earlier than expected. The free 2.0 update was announced last month in a Nintendo Direct presentation. It includes a ton of expanded functionality including new house exterior designs, boat tours to other islands, more item, storage, a “pro” camera mode, the ability to cook food with grown ingredients, and more. Perhaps the most anticipated addition is Brewster’s coffee shop, a notable omission from the base game. In addition to the free update Nintendo announced a $24.99 expansion called Happy Home Paradise, but as of writing it’s no...

Ethereum reached an all-time high of $4,674 USD on Wednesday while Solana soared to a record $247 USD, according to Coingecko. In terms of market cap, the cryptocurrency data aggregator ranks Bitcoin as number one, followed by Ethereum, Binance Coin and Solana. The global cryptocurrency market cap today is $2.87 trillion USD. Over the last seven days, Ethereum’s value has risen by 15.8%, while Solana’s has jumped by 33.3%. Ethereum now has a market cap of $540 billion USD, while Solana’s market cap sits at $72 billion USD. Several popular coins have hit all-time highs in recent weeks, including Bitcoin, which soared past $65,000 USD and memecoin Shiba Inu, which hit $0.00007 USD. Ethereum celebrated the frenzy with a tweet on Wednesday. gm ? — ethereum.org (@ethdotorg) November 3, 2021 Eth...

More and more official papers are being turned into PDF documents, and you may be asked to sign one electronically while you’re away from your computer (here, by the way, is how to sign a PDF document using a Mac or a PC). If you’re using an iPhone, it’s actually not all that difficult; you can create a signature and reuse it by using the iPhone’s built-in Markup tool. Here’s what to do: Open the PDF document in Markup. Tap the plus sign at the bottom right. Tap on the Signature button. If you haven’t created any signatures yet, tap on the label at the top titled “New Signature.” (If you don’t see “New Signature,” tap the plus sign in the upper left corner.) In Markup, tap on the plus and then the Signature button. You can label your saved signature. You’ll be given the option of labeling ...

Notability developer Ginger Labs announced today that, in a change of heart, its popular note-taking app wouldn’t eventually require current users to switch to a subscription model. This news comes just two days after the developer announced a new subscription model where current app owners who wanted to keep the same features would be forced to start a $14.99 / month subscription by November 1st, 2022. Notability rolled back its original Monday pricing announcement and today posted an update on its company blog addressing current customers: Everyone who purchased Notability prior to our switch to subscription on November 1st, 2021 will have lifetime access to all existing features and any content previously purchased in the app. This means that current paid users will not have to pay for ...

Nestled in Take-Two Interactive’s most recent earnings report was information that it was charged $53 million dollars for an unannounced title that has been cancelled. “Cost of goods sold included a $53 million impairment charge related to the Company’s decision not to proceed with further development of an unannounced title in its pipeline,” Take-Two said in a press release. The report did not name the title nor the affiliated studio that worked on it. However, according to a Bloomberg report, the cancelled title is from Mafia III developer Hangar 13. The California-based developer also released the Mafia: Definitive Edition in 2020. The Bloomberg report says that according to sources at the studio, the game was codenamed Volt and suffered from a number of setbacks associated with the pan...

When Sonos purchased a privacy-focused voice assistant Snips in 2019, it strongly implied that it planned to build an assistant that would “add to our customers’ ease of use and control” instead of going head-to-head with bigger assistants from other big tech companies. Nearly two years later, we might be close to being using the company’s homegrown assistant, as a Reddit user found code in the Sonos app that appears to show voice commands for Sonos Voice Control (via Protocol). According to the code strings, you’ll be able to do things like play and pause music, adjust the volume, and check your Sonos’ battery. The Reddit user also found what looks to be the logo for Sonos’ assistant and evidence suggesting you’ll be able to have it assistant enabled alongside Amazon’s Alexa but not along...