Shoestring

Review at a glanceThose who enjoy the idea of a gadget that feels at least a little unique will be naturally drawn towards Nothing. After all, this is a London-based tech company (which is unusual in itself) that has openly stated its desire to bring a little fun back into what it calls the boring world of consumer electronics.Few products embody this sentiment more than Android handsets, which all too often feel like a hotchpotch of me-too components desperately searching for a point of difference.Nothing boldly thrust…

via Double Edge Films The most memorable fantasy movies are often the ones with the biggest budgets, which comes with the territory when sweeping visuals and impeccable effects required to do justice to high concept stories don’t come cheap. That being said, 2009’s Ink was made on a shoestring budget of just $250,000, yet ranks as one of the genre’s most acclaimed entries of the last decade and a half. On Rotten Tomatoes, the ambitious undertaking orchestrated by writer, director, producer, editor, and composer…

Ukraine has achieved a cut-price version of what the Pentagon has spent decades and billions of dollars striving to accomplish: digitally networked fighters, intelligence and weapons.Kyiv’s improvised web of drones, fighters and weapons, linked through satellite communications and custom software, is giving its soldiers a level of intelligence, coordination and accuracy that has allowed the initially outnumbered and outgunned forces to run circles around Russia’s massive but lumbering armies. Ukraine’s grab…