Thursday ran from a robot that learned its job in imaginary rooms to a game car sitting in a London shop window with a seven-figure tag. Between those poles the day cut real money off screens, air and desk gear, priced a moonphase at $1,500, and put a state limousine on sale to the public.
The day, priced and linked, runs like this.
A humanoid that rehearsed in 1,000 imaginary rooms
Apple’s HALO system trained a stock Unitree G1 in 1,000 generated rooms, then walked it into six real homes and offices it had never seen. The robot sat in chairs, ducked under desks and sidestepped through half-open doors, landing 91 percent of its assigned skills across 360 trials with nobody at the controls.
The hardware underneath is a standard Unitree G1, the research humanoid that Unitree lists from $13,500.
Two restored mansions become Willemstad’s adults-only all-inclusive
The Pyrmont Curaçao opens early December on Penstraat, built around the Cerro Bonito and Kas di Pueblo mansions with new wings tucked behind them. It runs 305 rooms including 36 suites, adults-only and all-inclusive, inside the UNESCO-listed old town, steps from the Handelskade row.
December is the island’s sweet spot, dry season with the trade winds up.
The GTA VI Cheetah in the Selfridges window costs $1.34 million
West Coast Customs built six real cars from Grand Theft Auto VI, and the flagship Grotti Cheetah sits in The Corner Shop at Selfridges under neon palms, wearing a blue-to-magenta Vice City fade. Full-size, mid-engined, pop-up headlights, and genuinely for sale through the shop window.
The window closes November 28, and the sale runs through Selfridges Personal Shopping by appointment.
A moonphase where the moon is a battle station
Citizen put the second Death Star, still under construction, on the moonphase disc of the Attesa Phase Model, waxing and waning on the lunar cycle in printed steel-grey panels. Under the novelty sits an H874 Eco-Drive caliber with radio sync, a perpetual calendar and world time, inside a 41.5 millimeter Super Titanium case.
At $1,500 the run matches its own production cap, one dollar per piece.
China’s presidential limousine, now on sale in Australia
For decades a Hongqi was a car you were driven in if you ran China. The E-HS9 changes that in Sydney, a six-seat electric flagship on a 120 kWh battery with 548 kilometers of claimed WLTP range, sold under a shortened HQ badge in one fully loaded trim.
Sydney gets the first cars, in a single trim with nothing left to option.
Dyson’s white purifier tower is $210 off, and Dyson itself is sold out of it
The Purifier Hot+Cool HP1 cleans the air with HEPA H13 filtration, heats a whole room in winter and runs as a fan in summer, swinging through 350 degrees of oscillation. Dyson’s own store has the white finish sold out at its sale price, while Amazon still has the machine ready to ship.
$449.95 against a $659.99 list is a 32 percent cut on a three-job appliance.
A dash cam the size of a car key, down to $99
The Dash Cam Mini 3 hides behind the rearview mirror, records everything in 1080p across a 140-degree field of view, and cuts windshield glare with a built-in Clarity polarizer. No screen, voice control, and a body you forget is there.
At $99.97 it sits $50 under Garmin’s own $149.99 price.
Sony’s 48-inch OLED falls $402 for the rooms big TVs can’t fit
The BRAVIA 6 in 48 inches carries a 4K OLED panel at 120 Hz, four HDMI 2.1 ports with VRR and ALLM, and Google TV with Dolby Vision and Atmos. This is the small-room set that gives up nothing on picture.
Sony’s own store asks $899.99 for the same set, so Amazon’s $898 is the better route by a whisker.
A 23-liter laptop backpack in Raven Crosshatch for $62.99
The Settlement keeps the brief simple, 23 liters in a recycled 600D polyester shell, with a padded sleeve sized for a 15 or 16 inch laptop. Nothing about it chases a trend, which is why the design keeps selling.
Thirty percent off a $90 list price, no code and no countdown attached.
4,000 amps in the trunk for $119.99
The GP4000 jump starter delivers 4,000 amps of peak current, enough for gas engines and diesels up to 10.0 liters, with about 60 starts per charge. Between emergencies it works as a 100W power hub with dual USB and USB-C in and out.
It costs less than one tow truck visit and waits quietly in the trunk.
A 65-inch flagship TV fell $1,502 in one move
TCL’s QM8L pairs an SQD-Mini LED panel at a native 144 Hz with Dolby Vision IQ, Atmos and audio by Bang & Olufsen, running Google TV on the TSR AI Processor. TCL’s own store sits at $999.99, two dollars over Amazon’s price.
A 60 percent cut on the maker’s current premium line, not a warehouse leftover.
One cable runs the whole desk, and the dock is $90 off
The Anker Prime dock puts 14 ports behind a single cable, four USB-C and five USB-A among them, with dual HDMI for two external screens and 160W of charging, 100W of it upstream to the laptop.
A third off the box that ends the charger drawer.
BMW’s i3 crossed Europe on 2 hours and 46 minutes of charging
Five drivers took the i3 50 xDrive from the North Cape to Tarifa, 5,886.7 kilometers end to end, and the sedan spent 2 hours and 46 minutes plugged in across the whole route. Consumption averaged 12.5 kWh per 100 kilometers, highways included, with 400 kW peak DC charging doing the fast work.
The 2017 record it beat needed over seven hours more at the chargers.
Bangkok’s sky-high dining rooms are rebuilding this winter
lebua is rebuilding Sirocco, the open-air restaurant under State Tower’s golden dome, and turning Café Mozu into Les Marchands, inside a tower holding 11 restaurants and bars and two two-Michelin-starred dining rooms. The Tower Club Signature suites on the 55th floor carry the redesign into the rooms.
The new phase premieres this winter, timed for New Year’s Eve above the Chao Phraya.
The Porsche above the 911 makes its Dubai debut
The Mission S is a mid-engined super sports car concept that sits above the 911 in the range, and Icons of Porsche in Dubai gives the region its first public look on November 21 and 22. The historic Porsches that inspired it stand on display alongside.
Thursday’s full run, from a $62.99 backpack to a $1.34 million game car, with the savings riding on the screens in between.