Stephen Johnson

2 days ago | au.lifehacker.com | Stephen Johnson

It doesn't mean much to anyone with a job, but summer's coming in quick, and only grade-grubbers are still paying attention in school. The other kids are wasting their time exactly how you'd expect: watching kitten body horror videos, discovering 20-year-old RPGs, and throwing bowling balls into helicopter blades. Here's what's shaping (and warping) young minds this week.

5 days ago | lifehacker.com | Stephen Johnson

Mother’s Day is supposed to be wholesome and sort of boring: some flowers, a Hallmark card, maybe doing some chores around the house for once. But the American version of Mother's Day wasn’t born in a garden. It was forged in the smoke and death of the Civil War, shaped by radical women, and became a battleground between profit and principle—a holiday so contentious its own creator devoted her life trying to destroy it. Mother's Day's history is dramatic as hell.

5 days ago | lifehacker.com | Stephen Johnson

Design and build qualityThe Ikarao Break X2 is a party in a box: It's a portable all-in-one karaoke machine with a 10-inch Android touchscreen display, two wireless microphones that charge in the unit itself, and a speaker that outputs up to 560 watts. It looks slick, with a matte black finish and built-in disco lights that pulse in time to the sound, and it's easy to carry around thanks to a deep handle and shoulder strap. Build-wise, the Break X2 is solid.

1 week ago | lifehacker.com | Stephen Johnson

Six months ago, I reviewed the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. If you’ve been off-grid, these specs pack a camera, open-ear speakers, microphones, and voice-activated Meta AI inside a pair of Wayfarer-style frames, so they're basically science fiction glasses that look normal. I liked them so much, I had prescription lenses put in and made them part of my daily load out.

1 week ago | au.lifehacker.com | Stephen Johnson

Six months ago, I reviewed the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. If you’ve been off-grid, these specs pack a camera, open-ear speakers, microphones, and voice-activated Meta AI inside a pair of Wayfarer-style frames, so they're basically science fiction glasses that look normal. I liked them so much, I had prescription lenses put in and made them part of my daily load out.