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Andrew Liszewski

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Andrew Liszewski is a Senior Reporter for The Verge covering consumer technology with a focus on gadgets and electronics. He's been covering tech since 2011 including previous roles at Gizmodo and The Messenger. When he's not staying on top of the latest and greatest tech, Andrew's hobbies include photography but most of his rare moments of free time are spent re-playing the classic retro games of his youth and adding to an ever-growing collection of handheld gaming systems.

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Boston Dynamics’ humanoid robot is hard to trick on Halloween.

After shedding its bulky hydraulics, the new all-electric version of the humanoid robot Atlas is now small enough to wear Halloween costumes. In a follow-up to a video demonstrating the robot’s autonomous capabilities, Atlas — dressed up as a hot dog — manages to avoid being tricked when the dolly it’s loading with car parts is moved without the robot realizing.


The Amazon Echo graveyard

The Echo ecosystem has seen its fair share of failures while trying to popularize Amazon’s Alexa smart assistant.

You can buy a replica of Christopher Nolan’s Tumbler Batmobile for $3 million.

Warner Bros. has officially sanctioned Action Vehicle Engineering to build 10 replicas of the Batmobile from Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, according to Hypebeast. The Tumblers are only available by invite and while fully-functional (minus the jet engine) they won’t be street legal. So you’ll also want to factor in the cost of a massive display case.


A low-angle front shot of the Tumbler Batmobile.
The replica isn’t street legal, so you’re actually buying a 5,500-pound showpiece.
Image: Warner Bros.
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Universal has shared a first look at its resort’s Dark Universe animatronic monsters.

Universal’s Orlando resort is expanding in May, 2025, to include a Dark Universe world with a ride called “Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment” featuring 14 of its “most technologically advanced animated figures.” Ahead of its opening, the resort has shared a short video showing animatronic versions of Frankenstein’s monster and the wolf man moving with eerily lifelike speeds.


Anbernic’s first wireless controller will cost $18.

Earlier in October, Anbernic revealed its first wireless controller — the RG P01 — with features comparable to the $29.99 8BitDo Ultimate 2C, including Hall effect triggers and joysticks.

Anbernic’s gamepad will be an even more tempting alternative to 8BitDo’s budget-friendly controller now that we know it will cost $17.99, or $14.99 if preordered before it’s expected to release on November 12th.


The Anbernic RG P01 controller in its three different colorways.
Anbernic says its RG P01 controller will ship after November 12th.
Image: Anbernic