Cables & Connectivity
Truely Universal™ USB-C Cable
A USB-C cable that supports every USB-C protocol simultaneously — the first product to make the Universal in Universal Serial Bus factually accurate.
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31 products
Mobility
Nike Adapt BB 2.0 Self-Lacing Sneakers
Self-lacing sneakers with app-controlled fit — the promise of 1989, delivered at last, with one significant caveat about charging.
Wearables
Kameleo Thermoptic Jacket
An e-ink fabric jacket that samples the background and approximates it across the garment surface — most effective against uniform backgrounds, which the manual categorizes as 'urban environments.'
Mind & Media
Virtuix Omni One VR Treadmill
An omnidirectional treadmill for VR movement — walk, run, strafe in any direction while standing still in your living room, assuming your living room is 2 metres in diameter.
Mind & Media
ScentStream 4D Scent Module
A streaming-compatible module emitting 32 scene-synchronized scents during video playback — petrichor is perpetually out of stock.
Mind & Media
HereAfter AI Legacy Avatar
A service that builds a conversational AI model of a living person through extended interviews, for use by family after that person's death.
Home
Unitree Go2 Robot Dog
A capable consumer quadruped robot with voice interaction, programmable movement, and an ability to follow you up stairs that takes some adjustment.
Food & Body
MealCube Original
A 34-gram chewable cube providing complete nutrition for one meal, available in eleven flavors, all of which professional reviewers describe as varying degrees of beige.
Mobility
Jetson One Personal eVTOL
A single-seat electric aircraft with eight rotors, 20-minute flight time, and regulatory status that varies significantly by jurisdiction.
Communication
Babel Bud Pet Translator Collar
An AI collar translating dog vocalizations and behavior into 11 languages — 94% of output is 'now,' 'food,' or 'you're back.'
Mind & Media
Muse S Brain-Sensing Headband
A consumer EEG headband providing real-time brainwave feedback during meditation and sleep, in the remote lineage of the neural interfaces William Gibson imagined in 1984.
Communication
Timekettle WT2 Edge Translator Earbuds
Real-time bidirectional translation earbuds covering 40 languages — the Babel fish made manufacturable, with a two-second lag that Douglas Adams did not specify.
Home
PreParcel Predictive Doorbell
A doorbell that predicts porch theft up to 40 seconds before intent forms, using behavioral analysis — with a false-positive rate that has strong opinions about people who jog.
Wearables
Holtzman Micro-Shield Personal Kinetic Field
A belt-worn personal kinetic field that stops fast-moving objects while permitting slow ones — including rain, persistent insects, and frisbees thrown with sufficient warning.
Wearables
Withings BeamO Health Multiscope
A handheld wand combining ECG, pulse oximeter, body thermometer, and digital stethoscope — four diagnostic tools in one 88-gram device.
Home
SonicSuds SC-2 Waterless Shower Cabinet
An ultrasonic cleaning cabinet for the human body — 90-second cycle, no water required, and a 'mist finish' mode that several reviewers have found controversial.
Home
Moley Robotics Automated Kitchen
Ceiling-mounted robotic arms that cook full recipes, clean up afterward, and cost approximately what a two-bedroom flat costs in several European cities.
Communication
Ansible Duo Quantum Communicators
A pair of quantum-entanglement-branded communicators claiming zero latency at any distance — range tested to approximately one suburb.
Mind & Media
Mercer Empathy Box, Home Edition
A wellness device with two grip handles that synchronizes your mood state with other users currently holding theirs — reviewed as a meditation gadget, terms of service pending careful reading.
Mobility
A.L.I. XTurismo Hoverbike
A piloted hoverbike in limited production, capable of sustained flight at speed, road-illegal in essentially all jurisdictions, and priced at US$680,000.
Home
Sonic Driver Mk. VII
An ultrasonic multitool claiming to loosen fasteners non-mechanically using directed ultrasound — functional in a narrow set of conditions, none of which involve wood or deadlocks.
Mobility
Gravity Industries Jet Suit
Five arm-mounted turbines producing over 1,000 horsepower. Available for training sessions, occasional racing events, and moments of poor judgment at altitude.
Wearables
Aether Canopy Air Umbrella
An invisible umbrella: a downward air curtain deflecting rain from a 60cm diameter zone. Battery life is 25 minutes. Not recommended in wind, which describes most rain.
Home
EweMow Robotic Grazing Sheep
A robotic sheep that mows by grazing — a wool-textured chassis, programmable bleating schedule, and a GPS boundary system that keeps it from leaving the property.
Wearables
bHaptics TactSuit X40
A haptic feedback vest with 40 actuators covering the torso — the tactile layer that VR still largely lacks, delivered as a vest you wear over your clothes.
Home
RePoly Screen Serum
A self-healing polymer coating for phone screens that closes micro-scratches overnight — slower than the T-1000 and notably non-threatening.
Home
Invisibility Shield Co. Megashield
A 1.2-metre lenticular panel that genuinely blurs the person standing behind it — passive, battery-free, and limited mainly by the requirement that you stand very still.
Mind & Media
Somnigraph S1 Dream Recorder
An EEG headband that reconstructs low-resolution visual 'dream stills' from REM sleep brainwave data — reviewable each morning in the companion app.
Mind & Media
Alcor Life Extension Foundation Membership
A subscription to whole-body cryopreservation — the option to be stored at -196°C after legal death and revived if the technology to do so is developed at some point in the future.
Home
AcoustiLift Acoustic Levitation Desk Organizer
An acoustic levitation platform that suspends small objects in mid-air above your desk — functional within a 3-gram payload limit that covers exactly some things.
Food & Body
Soylent Complete Nutrition Drink
A complete-nutrition meal replacement drink that borrowed its name from a 1973 dystopian film about resource scarcity and, arguably, protein sources.