We play a brutal quiz of our gadget memories

Hello, and welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of many, many Nokia phones. I'm your friend, David Pierce. And today on the show, we're playing a game. This is a thing I've actually been wanting to do for a while. One of my great aspirations on the Vergecast is to make Nilay play a lot of TikTok games. Like, I want him to blind rank things, and I wanna do the the fast money games. There's just so many silly fun things you can do that we're gonna start playing more of on this show. And today, we have our first one. Travis Larchuk, our producer, has put together a whole game. I don't know a ton about it, but I know it has to do with gadgets. I know it has to do with history. I know I am in big trouble, and I'm pretty excited about it. Before we get into it, if you have ideas, if you've, like, seen a TikTok where they're playing a fun game and you wanna send it to me because you think it would be fun to watch or hear us be terrible at it on the Vergecast, send them all my way. Vergecast@theverge.com is the email. 86611 is the hotline. More games on the Verge cast is my goal for the future, and I wanna hear all of your ideas. Our game is coming up in just a second, but first, here's everything else happening on The Verge today. I'm David Amell, and this is ninety seconds on The Verge for Monday, 08/24/2026. Amazon's first party products just got a big price bump up to 60%. The cheapest products in the lineup were hit the hardest with the Echo Dot smart speaker jumping from $49.99 to $79.99. The Fire TV Stick four k Max rose by 40% to $84.99, and the base level Kindle now comes in at a $149.99. In a statement to The Verge, a communications manager blamed memory and storage component costs for the price hike, like everyone else. Apple also recently increased its competing HomePod mini to a $129.99 from $99.99. The Google smart home speaker is holding stable at $99.99 for now. Today, the New York Times reported that Netflix has discussed making Peacock and Fox one available through the Netflix app. Other services like Amazon Prime Video and Roku have long made competing streamers available in their app, but Netflix has always kept its app pretty isolated. The change comes amid YouTube, Netflix's biggest rival, announcing that it will be bundling Peacock as part of its premium subscription starting next year. While there are reportedly no imminent plans to make this happen, Netflix has already dabbled in third party streaming partnerships in France, where it folded live channels and streaming content from TF one into its app. And finally, the nine point five eight second 1,000 meter dash set by Usain Bolt in 2009 has been smashed by Chinese robots participating in the World …