Lifestyle
The Original Tesla Model S Leather Key Fob Holder
For the last year and a half I’ve kept my Model S key inside a fabric USB holder. It works just fine in preventing scratches as well as not adding bulk so it fits nicely in my pocket. But the cheapness of the solution does not match the sleekness and quality of the key provided by Tesla.
Yesterday I got a hold of the Rustic Leather FobPocket from Abstract Ocean. The FobPocket is a leather sleeve for your Model S key. As soon as I opened the shipping envelope I knew this would be something different. It comes in a black box which evokes the emotion of jewelry. The product name and company logo are indented on the top in silver; a classic touch. When you open the box the Fob is nestled in red satin, again, as if it was made for a precious stone. Packaging is so often overlooked, but not in this case. A lot of thought went into creating a fitting delivery system for the FobPocket.
Tesla Model S Leather Key Fob Holder
The FobPocket is leather with an even all around tan and finished in rustic, distressed style. It looks like it will age wonderfully and reveal character over time. There is no information about the leather in the package so I visited their web site which states it’s “premium” leather.
As you handle the FobPocket you notice the attention to detail. The stitching is even, quite thread-good and runs fully around the outline of the sleeve. They also stitch in the leather loop that holds the silver key ring. Abstract Ocean says it’s hand-stitched but I couldn’t find any information about where it is made.The ring is flat, not round, which makes it a bit harder to load in keys and adds unnecessary weight to the item. I will replace it will a much smaller, lighter round ring.
The inside of the FobPocket is lined with black satin, which allows your key to easily enter the sleeve. Insert your key with the frunk end (Tesla logo) first. There is a flap that encloses the open end and fastens with a substantial snap. No velcro here.
The top of the FobPocket sports the classic profile of the Model S, heat-embossed into the leather. A subtle reminder that you are holding the key to one of the best cars every manufactured.
I only carry one real world key with me, as all the locks on my home are keyed to the same notches, so I’m adding almost nothing to the overall weight of the FobPocket. It’s definitely heavier and more sizable than the fabric USB holder and the snap adds some bulk, but overall I’m fine with it in my front right pants pocket. I found no issues operating the Model S key switches. Certainly the leather requires a bit more pressure, but that helps prevent accidental activation.
There is also a smartly concealed compartment inside the FobPocket to store an extra battery. This is a very clever feature and one I will definitely use. I change the battery in my Model S keys each time I spring ahead or fall back. I know it’s a bit neurotic, but I’m confident my key will never fail me.
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When we think Tesla, we often think high tech, which is normal. The FobPocket is a low tech, classic and genuine accessory that fits directly into the Teslarati lifestyle. You own a car with the coolest key around. Why not give it a fitting home. At $25.99, I would not hesitate to gift it and will likely do so this holiday season. The rustic qualities of the FobPocket makes it best suited as a gift for Model S owners.
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Firmware
Tesla unlocks in-car web conferencing to extend Google Meet, Teams and beyond
Tesla’s Summer Update lets owners join Google Meet, Teams, and Discord calls via cabin camera.
Tesla’s 2026 Summer Update, which just began rolling out to customer vehicles, now links the built-in web browser with the in-cabin camera feed and microphone input, thereby letting owners join video calls on nearly any browser-based service instead of just Zoom.
The change appears in Tesla’s own release notes for software version 2026.26 under “Web Browser,” which states that the vehicle can now use its interior camera and cabin microphone when a website requests access, with permission granted the same way a desktop browser handles it. As NotATeslaApp notes, this feature opens the door to Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Discord, and other webcam-enabled sites to activate the in-car cabin-facing camera. The feed automatically crops and zooms to center the driver in frame.
Tesla has offered in-car video calling before, but only through a dedicated Zoom app that launched at the end of 2022, a stripped-down browser preloaded with Zoom’s own web client and gated behind Premium Connectivity. Opening the full browser to any camera-requesting site removes that walled garden. Elon Musk first called video conferencing “definitely a future feature” back in 2020, when the pandemic pushed remote meetings into daily life, so this update effectively finishes something Tesla has been promising for six years.
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The feature keeps the same restrictions that applied to Zoom on Tesla vehicles. It only works while the car is parked; shifting into Drive disables the camera feed, according to the release notes. It is also limited to vehicles running Tesla’s AMD Ryzen infotainment hardware, meaning older Intel-based Model S and Model X units, along with early Model 3 and Model Y builds, don’t get it.
Turning the browser into a general entry point for the in-cabin camera, rather than routing everything through one local app, widens the number of third-party sites that can ask for access, even though Tesla’s permission prompt.
With the Summer update only days into its rollout, be sure to stay with us on TikTok and X to see the latest video demonstrations.
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Elon Musk escalated his monthslong feud with Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey this week, pledging that his own AI video tool will produce a competing version before the year is out. Responding to a fan-made, AI-generated clip of the ancient epic, Musk wrote on X, “Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer.”
In June, Musk quoted an xAI-shared trailer built entirely with Grok Imagine Video 1.5, a two-minute-plus reimagining of The Odyssey styled after a 1970s classical Hollywood epic, and predicted “full movies by the end of the year,” as Teslarati reported at the time. That trailer, built from 36 consistent shots by a single creator, was Musk’s proof of concept. This week’s pledge turns that prediction into a specific commitment, tied directly to Homer’s text rather than a generic demo.
Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer https://t.co/bVHzUmY9WN
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 22, 2026
When a fan separately proposed that Musk fund a live-action alternative, to “give Mel Gibson $100 million to film an Odyssey adaptation with painstakingly historically accurate ships, armour, weapons, and casting, with all dialogue taken straight from the original poem and delivered in Homeric Greek,” Musk replied with two words: “I’m down.”
The Grok Imagine pledge lands as the tool’s underlying infrastructure has changed hands. Grok is no longer a standalone product, it folded into SpaceXAI after SpaceX’s acquisition of xAI closed in February, meaning the compute behind any Odyssey production traces back to the same Colossus supercomputers now bundled into SpaceX’s pitch to investors. Musk has separately said SpaceX’s own engineering data is being fed into the next major Grok training run, a two trillion parameter model he’s called the “2T run.”
Whether Grok Imagine can sustain a feature length narrative, rather than a series of impressive individual shots, remains the open question.
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Cybertruck
Tesla Mobile App gets a new feature that wrap fans are going to love
Tesla’s Summer Update removes the USB drive step from customizing your car’s digital wrap design.
Tesla’s latest 2026 Summer Update quietly closes out one of the more tedious steps in personalizing a Tesla’s digital appearance. Uploading a custom wrap design used to require a USB drive. Now it doesn’t.
The feature is listed in Tesla’s release notes as “Send Custom Wraps from Mobile App.” The company described it plainly: “Skip the USB drive and upload a custom wrap of your car from the mobile app. Instructions for creating a custom wrap here: github.com/teslamotors/custom-wraps.”
The digital wrap tool has been around since Tesla’s 2024 Holiday Update, when it launched for Cybertruck owners first, as Teslarati reported at the time. Getting a design onto the car meant formatting a USB drive, creating a folder named exactly “Wraps,” dropping in PNG files sized between 512×512 and 1024×1024 pixels and under 1 MB each, then plugging the drive in and applying the wrap through Toybox. Tesla expanded the tool to other models and renamed it from “Colorizer” to “Paint Shop” with the 2025 Holiday Update, while also adding license plate and window tint customization alongside the wraps.
Custom wraps via mobile app https://t.co/5OydZ26g9p pic.twitter.com/uexU0ZePxu
— Tesla (@Tesla) July 22, 2026
The latest Summer Update removes the USB step from that process. Owners will be able to pull a design from wherever they saved it, whether that’s a download from social media or something built from Tesla’s own GitHub templates, and push it to the car directly through the app.
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It’s a small fix relative to the rest of this latest release, which also included expanded Grok voice commands, automatic navigation that learns regular routes, and self-driving stats inside the mobile app, all detailed in our rundown of the full Summer Update. The USB requirement was one of the more common complaints about Paint Shop since it launched. Tesla did not say when the wrap upload change would reach individual vehicles, only that the broader update is rolling out now in waves.
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