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    The remastered Babylon 5 is coming to Blu-ray this December.

    The animated movie is coming August, and you can already stream the remastered episodes from the likes of HBO Max — but disc lovers have been stuck with some pretty iffy DVD transfers for decades. That gets fixed on December 5th.

    WB forwarded us a press release that shows the 110-episode series will cost $100 and include pilot movie The Gathering; JMS says it won’t include commentaries.

    There’s also a series reboot in the works.

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    Sean Hollister
    Cricut’s got a bigger cutting machine for the Etsy crowd.

    The Verge’s resident decal maker Emma Roth isn’t that impressed by the Cricut Venture’s features or its 25-inch cutting width: “It’s nice that it supports vinyl, iron-on, cardstock, bonded fabric, leather and poster boards but this is a bit overpriced IMO, especially since you have to pay $200 extra for a stand.”

    But if you feel differently, the new machine’s coming July 25th for $999. (via Engadget)

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    Sean Hollister
    Framework’s first gaming laptop is now up for preorder.

    I’ve been dreaming of something like this since my own first gaming laptop — which was old enough to largely predate “gaming laptops” and old enough to have twin removable batteries. This one starts at $1399 DIY or $1699 prebuilt — plus $400 extra for a discrete modular AMD GPU — and ships Q4.

    More in our exclusive hands-on:

    Framework Laptop 16: our exclusive hands-on
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    We upgraded a laptop GPU with a snap — and six screws.

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    Sean Hollister
    Sean Hollister
    Hyrule engineers have developed the “railjet,” a technique that breaks the speed limit on flying Zelda contraptions.

    1) Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s fans can blow things way faster than they push them. 2) You can harvest an unusually lightweight rail segment from mineshaft elevators in the Depths.

    So: Trap a fan between those rails and you get a RAILJET. r/BilboniusBagginius’s TIE Advanced, below, is the most awesome I’ve seen yet.

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    Sean Hollister
    One of Nerf’s best basic blasters at its best price ever.

    No doubt inspired by Nerf community mods, the Motoblitz is the first official Nerf rifle with a built-in underbarrel shotgun. Everything you need for indoor foam warfare in a single package, for an unheard-of $15 clearance price from Amazon and Walmart.

    For longer-range play, Out of Darts sells a full modkit.

    Note: If you buy something from these links, we might get affiliate revenue.

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    Sean Hollister
    Guess what I found in the Oculus VR lobby a decade ago?

    The other day, Vjeran discovered we still have the original Oculus Rift dev kit I brought back from Oculus HQ ten years ago. It made me nostalgic, so I decided to spruce up my story about touring their early offices to fix a little linkrot.

    Then, an old photo suddenly caught my eye.

    No idea how long this was on display, but it had a seat of honor at the front desk. Oculus sold to Facebook one year later.

    “Warning: Facebook may cause loss of time, poor work ethic, obesity, social disorders, and possible interference of destiny.”
    It’s an artistic commentary on Facebook by street artist 2Wenty, <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2011/04/06/l-a-street-artists-unfiltered-take-on-facebook-social-cigarettes/?sh=37eb01db7d9f">as profiled by Kashmir Hill in 2011</a>.
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    “Warning: Facebook may cause loss of time, poor work ethic, obesity, social disorders, and possible interference of destiny.”