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I think we can all agree that one of the best parts of any CES is seeing all the weird, wacky, and borderline insane products that surface at the show. You know what I’m talking about: It’s thesuitcases with ears, thecuddling robots, and all the other stuff that makes you scratch your head and wonder how somebody had the drive and determination to follow through with such a strange idea. So in the spirit of celebrating all the wonderfully odd things that make it to the Consumer Electronic Show against all odds, we’ve rounded up a modest collection of the weirdest tech we spotted this year....

Sadly, many excellentBlack Friday dealsare over, but if you’ve missed out, luckily there are still some great deals floating around. For example, if you’ve been wanting to get into VR and have been waiting for a Black Friday deal, this Meta Quest 2 is still on sale at Walmart for $349, rather than its usual $400 price tag. Even better, Walmart has thrown in two free games; the excellentBeatSaber, which will help keep you active and fit, andResident Evil 4....

You don’t have to spend more than $1,000 for a powerful gaming PC because there are budget-friendly options like the Lenovo LOQ Tower gaming desktop, which is currently even cheaper from Best Buy due to a $250 discount. From an already affordable sticker price of $900, the machine is down to just $650 — but we don’t think this price is going to last long. There’s a chance that the offer expires as soon as tomorrow, so if you don’t want to miss out on the savings, it’s highly recommended that you complete your purchase within the day....

There’s a new retro mechanical keyboard on the horizon, but its typewriter-like appearance isn’t the only thing that makes it noteworthy. Known as Rocksete, it’s an upcoming mechanical keyboard from keyboard manufacturer KnewKey. Rocksete’s most intriguing feature is that it comes with built-in Bluetooth speakers. According to KnewKey’swebsite product listing for the Rocksete keyboard, the Bluetooth speakers are JBL speakers and KnewKey claims that the speakers will offer “360° surround with fully immersive cinematic audio experience....

The King of Silicon Valley just called it a “chaos factory.” Givinga commencement speech at Stanford University, Apple CEO Tim Cook criticized his fellow Silicon Valley giants for disregarding the privacy of their customers. “We see it every day now, with every data breach, every privacy violation, every blind eye turned to hate speech. Fake news poisoning our national conversation. The false promise of miracles in exchange for a single drop of your blood....

The maker of Twitterrific, a third-party Twitter app for macOS and iOS that launched in 2007 and came to the iPhone before Twitter itself, has been left with no choice but to close it down. Ina messageposted on its website on Thursday, The Iconfactory, Twitterrific’s developer, said: “We are sorry to say that the app’s sudden and undignified demise is due to an unannounced and undocumented policy change by an increasingly capricious Twitter — a Twitter that we no longer recognize as trustworthy nor want to work with any longer....

Today, November 25, will be a busy day in the skies above our planet: Not one but two asteroids will be passing close enough to Earth to be considered a “near-Earth object” (NEO) according toNASA data. One of the NEOs, dubbed 2018 VT7, is a smaller object of around 20 feet to 60 feet in diameter, which is fairly typical for the kind of objects that pass near to our planet....

Christmas 2024 is only six days away, and the big markdowns on top consumer tech items continue to roll in. We’ve seen discounts on everything from coffee makers to QLED TVs, but one category that’s been seeing a lot of sales is wireless earbuds. And wouldn’t you know it, just earlier today, we came across this fantastic offer for one of the best sets of buds money can buy: Right now, when you purchase the Sony WF-1000XM5 True Wireless Noise-Cancelling Earbuds through Amazon or Best Buy or directly through the manufacturer, you’ll only pay $200....

Western DigitalImage used with permission by copyright holder One of the simplest ways to get extra performance and squeeze more life out of an aging PC is by upgrading the storage to a more spacious orfaster solid-state drive. This is especially true if your system relies on a slower hard disk drive. Though solid-state drives, or SSDs, are generally more expensive than their hard drive counterparts, Western Digital is making the upgrade more affordable for consumers with the launch of theWD Blue SN500 NVMe SSD, which starts at $55 and uses the faster NVMe technology, rather than the cheaper SATA-based SSDs....

Tesla’s Optimus is not a new electric vehicle, as you might expect if you haven’t been following Elon Musk’s tweets. Also known as the Tesla Bot, Optimus is ahumanoid robot concept that Musk announced just last year. There are already two working prototypes, one relying on off-the-shelf parts, and another, more refined version, that uses Tesla’s own actuator design. In yet another, world-changing, grandiose plan, Musk described a robot that could soon supplement human labor in factories and potentially free the world from the burden of doing physical work for a living in the distant future....

Summary A major development inThe Wheel of Timelaid the groundwork for Perrin to share an exciting team-up story that’s completely original to the show. AfterThe Wheel of Timeseason 2’s ending, Marcus Rutherford’s Perrin Aybara is on relatively the same course as his book counterpart. But while that does appear to be the case, there is at least one element of Perrin’s future that could differ fromRobert Jordan’sWheel of Timebooksin an interesting way....

Will EA FC 24 have real players and teams? The upcomingEA SPORTS FC 24is the first football sim from EA following their split with FIFA and many fans may be wondering if real players and teams will still be featured in thegame. Here’s everything we know about teams, players, and licenses in the EA SPORTS FC 24. After EA and FIFA announced they would be parting ways after a 30-year relationship, EA quickly revealed their next game would be entitled EA SPORTS FC 24 and while the name may be different, the gameplay and trailer footage we’ve seen so far have confirmed it’s still the same core football sim that fans worldwide have come to love....

YouTuber wants to fulfill his girlfriend’s dying wish by starting a podcast Before Billy LeBlanc’s girlfriend died from a foodborne illness, she wanted him to start a podcast. Now, he’s searching for a co-host so he can fulfill her wishes. In July,YouTuberBilly LeBlanc took to social media to share that his girlfriend of several years, Natalie Clark,died after falling ill from eating raw oysters. Having eaten the raw oysters too, LeBlanc fell ill as well and was in a coma for 12 days....