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Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
These 30th-anniversary Pokémon guitars are gorgeous and gorgeous-sounding.

Sadly, they’re so limited that they’re only available through a lottery. But these red and green Fenders feature sprites and pixel art from the original games under a transparent, tinted finish, plus a built-in bit crusher for authentic 8-bit tones.

Get in the spooky spirit with these horrors from YouTube

Close out the Halloween season with these creepy, weird, and unsettling videos from YouTube.

Terrence O'Brien
Keyboards of The Verge

From the strictly utilitarian to the ergonomic to the obsessive, these are the keyboards we use every day.

Verge Staff and Nathan Edwards
Happy Pikmin Day EveHappy Pikmin Day Eve
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
It: Welcome to Derry has a Halloween surprise.

Overnight, a new surprise episode of the It prequel series dropped. No Pennywise in this one, though. “A Story of Derry” takes place hundreds of years ago and focuses on building out the lore, including introducing Maturin, the giant cosmic turtle that hasn’t made the cut in the feature films yet.

I built an AI Tamagotchi before Meta could

We have Muse Charm at home.

Sean Hollister
Vic Mensa can’t live without the Voice Memos app

Between his music, acting, podcast, activism, and businesses, Vic Mensa wears a lot of hats.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Google made a robot planter.

No, you can’t buy it. It’s a “just for fun” project to show off Google AI Studio. But it’s also undeniably cute. Sprout wanders autonomously to find the best sunlight and sends an alert when the plant needs watering.

Touchscreens everywhere!Touchscreens everywhere!
David Pierce
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Curry Barker used a Surface Laptop Ultra to help make his new YouTube short.

He edited the entire “Mama Bear” film while the laptop was unplugged, according to a behind-the-scenes video from Microsoft that also includes the claim that the computer sees a “less than 1% drop in performance when unplugged.”

That said, a footnote in the video says that the editing was “not performed on a single battery charge.”

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Apple Stores reportedly got a memo about iPhone Duo screen cracks.

MacRumors says that the instructions for technicians are straightforward, but “the fact that Apple issued an internal memo suggests the issue is widespread enough to warrant official guidance.”

Apple confirmed this week there is an “issue” affecting a “small number” of iPhone Duo units. iFixit told The Verge that cracks might be happening due to the flexible screen pushing up against a part of the hinge.