The latest adventure of the crazy camera looks to the sky. Chris Graue Musician and retro tech fan Chris Graue made headlines last month after using a Game Boy camera to take a photo of Jupiter. Obviously, a Game Boy camera alone isn’t capable of achieving that kind of range. He and some colleagues connected the new camera to the eyepiece of Mount Wilson Observatory’s Hooker Telescope using a 3D-printed adapter. Now Graue has released the schematics for the adapter, meaning anyone can print theirs for free. He also released a short tutorial video about it.…
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UVL/Shutterstock Nvidia is synonymous with the video game industry, particularly the graphics cards that power a ton of gaming computers. The company has such a large share of the market that it has branched out into other areas, including liquid-cooled data centers. And even though Nvidia’s stock broke records on May 14, it quickly lost about $1 trillion in value because investors focused on a different product. Market volatility strikes again! According to media outlets such as Yahoo! Finance and Bloomberg, while investors were previously interested in GPUs, changed course…
Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images Sometimes players find themselves in the most unexpected places. Today we learned that there was a geek appearance on the travel show National Geographic. The best in the world with Antoni Porowski. During the strange eye While in London, he visited Big Ben with Andrew Strangeway, a clockmaker to Parliament. Apparently, Strangeway has programmed his Playdate to help check the time when the bells of the iconic clock tower ring. The Playdate is not a new tool in the arsenal of watch mechanics either. An earlier video of him and a colleague showed…
Even older emulation-focused handhelds can’t escape RAMaggedon. Retrooid Retroid, creator of a growing number of Android-based handhelds, is striking a deal with recent buyers of its Retroid Pocket 5 and Flip 2 handhelds. Anyone with an unfulfilled order of the company’s entry-level models with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage will get an upgrade to 12GB of RAM at no additional cost. Retrooid handhelds reports. After July 14, both handhelds will also cost $10 more. While these aren’t Retroid’s newest devices – that honor goes to the upcoming Retroid Pocket Nova – the Snapdragon 865…
Connor Jewiss / Deadline The Oura Ring 5 is the most refined smart ring you can buy right now, bridging the gap between smartwatches and smart rings. It’s 40% smaller than the Ring 4, light enough to forget about on your hand, and has all the learnings of a smart tracker brand that’s been around for a decade. If you want health tracking without another screen on your wrist, this is the obvious place to start – and after weeks with mine, I still think it’s best in class. It’s…
It’s been a few weeks since Apple announced widespread price increases across many product categories, including the 2026 MacBook Pro. These new prices are now reaching third-party retailers, but there remains an exception at Best Buy, which still offers a 14-inch MacBook Pro M5 Pro model at its pre-hike price. Note: Woozad is an affiliate partner of Best Buy. When you click on a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us operate the site. You can get the 24GB/2TB 14-inch MacBook Pro M5 Pro for $2,549.00down from the new price of $2,999.00. This…
Apple stands to gain from India’s decision to eliminate import duties on a series of components used in smartphone manufacturing, which could further reduce costs in the India-based company’s fast-growing supply chain. According to a report from Reutersthe Indian government removed customs duties of 7.5% and 5% that applied to inputs for wireless charging hardware, automotive and medical device displays, and lithium-ion battery cells. The exemptions are expected to remain in effect until March 31, 2029. The exemption of wireless charging components, in particular, fits directly into the MagSafe ecosystem used across the iPhone lineup. With the costs of importing…
Meta automatically enabled all public accounts in its Muse Image AI. Steve Dent for Woozad On Tuesday, Meta announced its new AI Muse image generator for Instagram, Meta AI and WhatsApp, promising “advanced reasoning to understand complex prompts, seamlessly blending multiple photos into high-quality creations.” On Instagram, the feature lets you add 30 new effects for Stories, including one that makes your photo look like it was taken with a disposable camera, for example. It also includes an interface in Instagram’s image editor to let you preview effects before applying them. This seems useful, but as…
A big accessories sale is happening on Amazon this week, with the best prices of the year on Anker chargers, Samsung monitors, Sonos audio products and much more. Note: Woozad is an affiliate partner with some of these providers. When you click on a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us operate the site. Highlights this time include a new batch of audio devices on sale, including the Sonos Ace headphones for $279.00down from $399.00, and the Sony WH-1000XM5 Noise Canceling Headphones for $248.00down from $399.00. Another notable audio reduction is the Soundcore…
Apple has stopped signing several older versions of iOS for a group of older iPhone and iPad models, cutting off opportunities to reinstall or downgrade affected software. Apple will no longer validate Over-the-Air (OTA) or direct IPSW installations of the builds in question. Once a version is unsigned, there is no way to restore or install it through Finder or iTunes. The change is more limited than a typical signature update. Apple has not stopped signing iOS versions itself. Instead, it ended the signing of baseband firmware, the low-level software that runs each device’s cellular modem, tied to these versions.…