🫡 Keychron built a trackball that sits under your keyboard

🔸 At CES 2026, Keychron showed Nape Pro, its first trackball. The flat, compact design lets it work on either side of a keyboard or directly underneath it.

🔸 Placed under the keyboard, it allows cursor control without moving your hands off the keys. The setup resembles an oversized TrackPoint, but external and adjustable.

🔸 Nape Pro includes a trackball, a rotary dial, and 6 programmable buttons. It launches first in Japan via crowdfunding, with a US release planned for spring.

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🎬 A YouTuber tried to beat AI slop with its own weapons

YouTuber Alan Pan recreated three viral AI-generated videos in real life to see if human-made versions could compete.

The builds included a horse-shaped electric scooter, high-heel beer shoes, and a fully functional transparent toilet aquarium with live fish. Each project took days or weeks of real engineering, fabrication, and filming. Some were barely usable and clearly unsafe, but all were finished and published.

Results after three weeks
🔸 TikTok under 10K views per video
🔸 YouTube around 80K views
🔸 Instagram stood out
🔸 Horse scooter at 90K views
🔸 Toilet aquarium close to 500K views
🔸 Beer shoes reached 6 million views

The problem remained. The original AI beer shoes video passed 10 million views.

The takeaway was simple. AI produces this kind of content in seconds, while humans need weeks.

Competing on volume is unrealistic.
Quality may be the only lever left.

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