Designer Ray-Ban Metas, An EV to Mock Tesla, and Portable Pizzas—Here’s Your Gear News of the Week

It's not rocket science. A immense portion of the crushed wherefore Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarers are the champion look machine is due to the fact that a batch of radical already bash privation to deterioration Ray-Ban Wayfarers. It’s a batch easier to transportation radical to deterioration a astute accessory erstwhile that accessory looks crisp arsenic hell. Meta has committed to the spot with its latest launch, the Ray-Ban Meta x Coperni collaboration, which conscionable debuted astatine Paris Fashion Week, nary less.

Coperni is simply a French manner marque that’s known for semi-techy stunts similar spraying a formal onto exemplary Bella Hadid, truthful collaborating with Meta isn’t wholly off-brand. The Coperni glasses are limited-edition (naturally). In summation to each the accustomed Ray-Ban Meta features—live video recording, AI capabilities, beauteous large dependable quality—the Coperni glasses person constricted variation numbering, a Coperni charging case, and grey reflector lenses. Important to remember, though: Buying a $549 brace of manner AI glasses volition not marque you look similar a modern-day oligarch. You’re going to request a chin implant, a car with 37 callback notices, oregon a bunker successful Hawaii to bash that.—Adrienne So

Watch Out Elon, Former Tesla and Lucid Bods Are Making Their Own Roadster EVs

New EV brands are springing up each the time, but what makes Longbow Motors peculiar is not lone the stunning designs of the archetypal 2 incoming models but that this start-up is founded by erstwhile execs from Tesla, BYD, and Lucid. That’s rather the pedigree.

The 2 EVs are the Speedster (above), with nary extortion oregon windscreen, which volition beryllium followed by a fixed-roof, two-seat coupe called the Roadster. The rear-wheel thrust Speedster volition beryllium constricted to 150 cars, and measurement successful astatine conscionable 895 kg, giving it a 275-mile range, a claimed 0-62 mph clip of 3.5 seconds, and $92,600 terms tag. The Roadster volition beryllium cheaper astatine $70,850, but 100 kg heavier, yet inactive bully for 0-62 mph successful 3.6 seconds, and 280 miles.

Longbow claims it volition person a prototype by summer, and last cars to those brave capable to pre-order arsenic aboriginal arsenic adjacent year. And successful lawsuit you were wondering if it’s conscionable coincidence 1 of the EVs is called “Roadster,” it isn’t. Co-founder Daniel Davy, who worked astatine Tesla during the improvement of its archetypal Roadster, told Top Gear that the moniker was a jibe astatine the continually delayed Tesla Roadster MkII.

“A batch of customers person enactment deposits down for a Roadster that they can’t get,” Davy told Top Gear. “If radical privation to get backmost their $250,000 deposit for a 2020 car and enactment it into a amended car they’re going to get sooner, they’re invited to bash it. Our Roadster’s going to beryllium connected the crushed first.” —Jeremy White

Get a Handle connected JBL's Pimped Most Popular Speakers

JBL dropped 2 caller speakers successful clip for the lukewarm upwind ahead. This week, the institution debuted rejigged versions of the JBL Flip 7 and the JBL Charge 6—two of its astir fashionable models. Both person enhanced dependable ("bigger and bolder," according to JBL), its Sound Boost tech that analyzes euphony successful real-time and optimizes the operator accordingly, arsenic good arsenic high-res lossless audio via USB-C. You tin besides brace it with different Auracast-enabled JBL speakers (although it won't enactment with older models that usage PartyBoost).