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Light Flip is a minimalist phone without the dumb
Light, maker of the stripped-down Light Phones (previously recommended), today announced the Light Flip, a clamshell model that swaps e-ink for matte…
 • Rob Beschizza
Luke Skywalker’s severed hand and lightsaber prop sold for $3.75M
The lightsaber that Mark Hamill held and lost, along with the hand holding it, to the central reactor shaft of Bespin’s Cloud City in “The Empire…
 • Rob Beschizza
Boing Boing, July 20, 2026
Your monitor is watching, your CO2 is rising
 • Boing Boing
Pokémon-parody sex toys are back, with holographic trading cards
Ten years ago, an Australian company called Geeky Sex Toys launched a line of adult toys based on Pokémon.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
An orchestra with inept players sold out the Royal Albert Hall
In 1970, composer Gavin Bryars and a group of students at the Portsmouth School of Art formed the Portsmouth Sinfonia, an orchestra open to anyone…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Knitters believe a hand-made sweater can end your relationship
Knitters call it the sweater curse: knit a sweater for a significant other and they’ll break up with you — in one version, before the sweater is even…
 • Mark Frauenfelder
Some people initiate sex in their sleep and remember none of it
Sexsomnia is a parasomnia — in the same family as sleepwalking — in which a person engages in sexual acts during non-REM sleep.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
New monkey: so rare only 8 of 52 nearby villages knew it existed
An international team including Yale researchers has described a new species of Colobus monkey living high in the forest canopy of the Democratic…
Two AIs got $100 each to make a music video by themselves
Someone at TryAI handed two frontier AI models the same assignment: here’s Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk,” a budget, and a shell with ffmpeg…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
An AWS bug turned a 5-cent bill into $2.5 billion
On the morning of July 17, a redditor who normally pays Amazon Web Services about five cents a month opened their inbox to a wall of billing alerts and…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The theory that UFOs come from Earth, not space
Most UFO theories reach for outer space.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
In 1945, Five bombers vanished and launched the Bermuda Triangle legend
On December 5, 1945, five Navy torpedo bombers took off from Fort Lauderdale on a routine navigation exercise and never came back — the disappearance…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
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