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No Base iPhone — Apple's Sept 9 event will focus on the iPhone 18 Pro, Pro Max, its first foldable, and new Apple Watches. It also reportedly tested a Foldable iPhone Pencil, but not likely for next week.
Toothbrush With Built-In Camera — Dyson's $499 CameraJet toothbrush uses a macro camera to spot gaps between teeth & automatically aim a cleaning jet at them.
EAT Tops Charity Tokens — WYDE's EAT token became the largest charity coin on CoinGecko at roughly $24M market cap as the charity crypto category hit $76M.
Britain just made it legal to buy a solar panel, plug it into a normal wall socket, and start knocking money off your electricity bill the same day. No electrician. No permit. No roof installation. The kit costs less than a games console.
In the current cost of living environment and energy crisis, the significance of this can’t be underplayed. don't think it is. And the US is now racing down the same road.
Plug-in solar (people also call it balcony solar) was a German thing almost nobody in America talked about a year ago. Now eight states have made it legal: Utah, Maine, Virginia, Colorado, Maryland, Connecticut, Vermont, and New Hampshire. These are small systems, usually 800W to 1,920W, and the whole point is you skip the utility approval and the paperwork.
California's SB 868 is sitting on Governor Newsom's desk right now. He has until September 30 to sign or veto. New York's version is waiting on Governor Hochul. If both go through, roughly a quarter of the country will have a legal path to this stuff inside a single year. Energy law almost never moves this quickly, and when a market opens up that fast, the winners usually get sorted before anyone's finished doing the math.
Where these kits get sold is also a gamechanger. EcoFlow, Lidl, Currys, B&Q, and Amazon are already stocking up in the UK, and IKEA has been selling kits across Europe for years at around $590. Solar is walking out of the world of door to door sales pitches and 25-year contracts, and turning up on the shelf next to the toasters.
That flip is the whole game. Rooftop solar has always been expensive to sell because it runs on aggressive lead-chasing and hard closes. Texas only just started cracking down on it after AARP found people locked into contracts worth six figures. A plug-in kit doesn't need any of that. You grab the box, you pay a set price, you leave. If you're building or backing anything in home energy, I'd watch which companies have real shelf space long before I'd care about panel efficiency numbers.
Tesla scrapped Solar Roof this year. That was the ten-year bet that building solar straight into the roof tiles would beat just bolting panels onto a normal roof. Musk kept saying 1,000 installs a week. Wood Mackenzie says the real number peaked somewhere around 21 to 32. Grand total over about seven years: roughly 3,000 roofs.
I keep chewing on that gap. The fancy, complicated, premium version lost to the boring modular one, badly. Plug-in solar wins for the exact reason Solar Roof died. It does less on purpose. It's cheap, and it asks nothing of you. Something to remember the next time a deck promises to fix a whole industry by making the product harder to install.
About a third of US households rent, and rooftop solar was never really built for them. Plug-in kits sit on a balcony rail or a patio, and when the tenant moves, the panel goes with them. A few of the new laws, Colorado's included, flat out ban HOAs and landlords from saying no.
For landlords and property managers, that changes the conversation. Let tenants use these things and you get a cheap green selling point without spending a cent of your own capital. And if you'd rather not bother, the way these laws are trending, you might not have a choice much longer.
The unlock here is UL 3700, a safety standard published in December 2025. That's the paperwork that lets big retailers stock these devices without sweating the liability, the same job Underwriters Laboratories has done for every appliance you own. So: watch Newsom's September 30 deadline, watch whether Hochul signs in New York, and watch whether Texas-style consumer rules follow the sales as volume climbs.
Normally the rules show up long after the money does. This time they got there first, and that alone tells you how fast this one is moving.
MrBeast Reading Game Show — Jimmy Donaldson co-wrote a thriller with James Patterson and is offering readers a real $1M prize for solving its clues.
Chasing the Mouse — Google offers Disney, WBD, Universal to license content for AI training, offering up to $40M per studio—a deal with long-term risks.
Duane 'Keffe D' Davis Found Guilty — A Las Vegas jury convicted Duane 'Keffe D' Davis of murder in Tupac Shakur's 1996 killing, decades after the case began.
Dolly Parton's Streams Are Surging — Dolly Parton's music catalog saw a sharp jump in streams following her death, a common pattern for artists who pass away.
French Gates Doubles Festival Gift — Melinda French Gates matched Olivia Rodrigo's $10M donation, bringing the women- and girls-focused fund to $20M.
Hollywood Discovers the Microdrama Boom — James Franco, Issa Rae, and Kim Kardashian are now starring in or investing in microdramas, a booming $1.5B US mobile drama format.
DAZN Buys Into US Sports Bars — DAZN acquired EverPass Media, the NFL-backed distributor of Sunday Ticket to bars and restaurants, a US venue foothold.
Hesai's Robot Restaurants — Sharpa, founded by Hesai's co-founders, raised $669M and opened a fully autonomous humanoid-robot Dairy Queen in Shanghai.
Chick-fil-A Shuts Its Virtual Delivery — Chick-fil-A will close its last Little Blue Menu location, converting it as chains pull back from virtual-only brands.
NBA Stars Back Coffee Startup — Draymond Green and other NBA players joined agent Rich Paul backing ready-to-drink brand Beekeeper Coffee's expansion.
Starbucks Pulls a Drink Ingredient — Starbucks discontinued a refresher powder after baristas reported coughing and headaches from airborne dust.
Lionel Messi Retires — Lionel Messi announced his international retirement at 39, closing a 20-year Argentina career and a 2022 World Cup title.
Scottie Scheffler Passes Tiger Woods — Scottie Scheffler overtook Tiger Woods atop the PGA Tour earnings list after his Tour win, reaching $130.4M.
US Open Won't Give Players a Cut — New USTA CEO Craig Tiley unveiled record US Open prize money but said pay won't be tied to revenue, a key player demand.
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