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It’s 2024. You’ve probably got one or more pairs of wireless headphones around the house. [Barnso] prefers wired headphones with a long cable, but he also decries the fact that it often gets tangled in his chair. The solution? A pulley system to make everything easier.

It’s pretty easy to take a balloon, fill it up with helium, and send it up in to the upper atmosphere. It’s much harder to keep track of it and recover it when it falls back to Earth. If you’re trying to do that, you might find some value in the Tiny4FSK project from the New England Weather Balloon Society.

When the Ford Bronco returned, it was something special. A legendary nameplate was reborn as a capable, brawny off-roader, and finally, the Wrangler would face real competition. Between insane demand and multiple production headaches, we saw prices go to the moon in the early days. Now, though, you can score a Bronco—even a Bronco Raptor—for […]

On Sunday night, the Internet was aflutter with a scurrilous rumor. GEICO had blacklisted the proud Tesla Cybertruck, and owners would be left scrambling for insurance coverage elsewhere. Understandably, this would be unwelcome news to many a Cybertruck owner. However, it appears that GEICO will continue to insure Cybertrucks. The story comes to us via […]

Plastics are unfortunately so cheap useful that they’ve ended up everywhere. They’re filling our landfills, polluting our rivers, and even infiltrating our food chain as microplastics. …

If there’s one traffic crime police like to crack down on, it’s speeding. Catching offenders is relatively straightforward, dishing out fines is easy, and prosecuting the crime is by-and-large a slam dunk. Few motorists have any wiggle room to fight back against such charges, but the Iowa State Patrol just gave a bunch of speeders […]

The SUV craze really got going in the 1980s. People wanted to go off-road, slinging mud and water as they blasted through the terrain. Or, at least, they wanted vehicles that could do that, even if they never got around to it. In these heady times, the Nissan Pathfinder burst on to the scene, establishing a […]

Tesla went big on its Cybercab announcement event on Thursday night. It’s been a long-awaited moment, as the EV automaker has been championing autonomous taxis as the ultimate goal of its self-driving technology for years now. The company’s well-attended livestream finally gave us a real look at the vehicle that’s supposed to herald the future […]

America is the land of the pickup truck. Big brawny haulers are everywhere you look; indeed, they’re easily the best selling vehicles in the country. What’s lacking are the smaller, car-based options—the utes! However, if you’re down in Kansas, someone’s built one that you might struggle to ignore. Our own Hans Bishop happened across this […]

Diesel is a great fuel if you’ve got a diesel engine. Put gasoline in, though, and you’ll risk wrecking it to some greater or lesser degree. That is, unless, you had a magical “multifuel” engine that could run on both fuels. Well, it’s not magical, because — on some vehicles like the legendary “Deuce And […]