EDC coverage defaults to knives. Blade steel launches dominate feeds, deployment mechanisms generate headlines, and pocket clips spark thousand-comment debates about tip-up versus tip-down carry. Meanwhile, genuinely useful tools slip through without fanfare because they solve problems instead of generating marketing noise. The Gadgeteer tracked dozens of everyday carry releases the past year, and these […]
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Backup power stations live in a strange financial limbo. The value proposition only clicks when the lights go out, which means most buyers are pre-paying for uncertainty. You’re covering insurance premiums against an event that might never happen, and the hardware sits idle until it doesn’t. Price: From $1,099 Where to Buy: Ecoflow, Big Game
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ARTICLE – Most smartphone printers feel like expensive impulse purchases. You use them twice, they sit in a drawer, and eventually you forget they exist. The appeal is obvious: turn digital photos into something you can hold, pin up, or hand to someone. The execution is usually disappointing. Colors wash out, the paper feels cheap,
Fujifilm Instax Mini Link+ Brings Pinterest to Your Pocket Printer Read More
Ozlo, maker of the Sleepbuds earbuds, announced a platform strategy at CES 2026 that turns its hardware into measurement devices for third-party meditation and sleep apps. The company has signed partnerships with app developers including Calm to provide biometric feedback on content effectiveness, addressing a gap in the sleep app industry where creators lack data
Your Sleep App Has No Idea If It Works—The Sleepbuds-Maker Does Read More
Most Valentine’s gifts for women collapse into one of three exhausted categories: jewelry that sits unworn in drawers, flowers engineered to die within days, or boxed chocolates that communicate “I remembered the date but not the person.” The problem isn’t that people don’t care, it’s that gift markets optimize for ceremony over utility, treating sentiment
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Most bluetooth speakers try to disappear. They hide behind mesh grills and neutral tones, blending into whatever room you place them in. IKEA’s new GREJSIMOJS portable speaker does the opposite: it’s a purple mouse with a tail, designed for kids to carry around like a pet that plays music. Price: £12 (Around $16) Where to
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Most gaming headsets compress audio into a narrow range that’s built for footsteps and directional cues, which works for competitive play but sounds artificial when you want to hear music or movies without swapping gear. ASUS ROG’s new Kithara flips that approach by starting with audiophile-grade planar magnetic drivers developed with HIFIMAN and tuning them
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ARTICLE – We Knife doesn’t design folders for people who want their EDC to blend in. Their latest release, the Anglex Flipper Knife, doubles down on that philosophy with angular geometry, full titanium construction, and nearly four inches of M390 super steel wrapped in a reverse tanto profile that looks like it was sketched by
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Most productivity tools promise to help you focus while simultaneously offering seventeen ways to not focus. The browser tab you’re supposed to write in sits next to the tab where you’re checking analytics, reading news, and pretending research counts as progress. The Zerowriter Ink doesn’t negotiate with this impulse because it physically can’t connect to
This Word Processor Can’t Access the Internet and That’s the Entire Point Read More
Laptop launches happen in waves at CES, and most of what gets announced is noise. Processor bumps that look impressive on spec sheets but vanish in real use. Display brightness claims that sound dramatic until you realize the difference between 800 and 900 nits doesn’t register to human eyes in typical lighting. Battery estimates that
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ARTICLE – Eight decades of audio engineering calls for more than a press release, and JBL knows this. When a company has shaped how multiple generations experience music at home, a milestone anniversary demands something tangible, something collectors can actually own. The JBL L100 Classic 80 Anniversary Edition exists for this exact reason. It’s a
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ARTICLE – Apple Arcade subscribers with Vision Pro headsets can play seven classic arcade games starting February 5, when Retrocade launches as part of the monthly subscription. Resolution Games built the app to recreate the physical arcade experience in VR, complete with cabinet artwork you can walk around and inspect before dropping into gameplay. Add
Seven Classic Arcade Games Just Got Virtual Cabinets You Can Walk Around Read More
ARTICLE – Segway has reduced the Cube 1000 Power Station to $330, down from its standard $500 retail price. The 1024Wh unit occupies the middle capacity range for portable power stations, positioned between lightweight camping solutions and comprehensive home backup systems. Price: $329.99 Where to Buy: Amazon Add The Gadgeteer on Google Add The Gadgeteer
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Most Valentine’s gifts for men split into two exhausted categories: sentimental items that look thoughtful but never leave the shelf, or utilitarian objects so practical they might as well come with a receipt attached. The tension isn’t between romance and function, it’s that conventional gift markets treat those qualities as mutually exclusive instead of overlapping
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ARTICLE – Most pocket knives marketed as “modern classics” just swap out the handle material and call it progress. The actual mechanism stays exactly what it was in 1950, which works until you realize modern steel exists for a reason. Price: $124.99 Where to Buy: Case Case’s new Crossroads series takes the opposite approach. The
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Your TV’s built-in speakers can’t handle Super Bowl audio. Thin screens don’t have room for drivers that can reproduce crowd noise, commentary, and stadium sound at the same time. What sounds fine when you’re watching alone turns into a mess when your living room fills with 20 people all trying to hear what the announcers
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ARTICLE – Instant cameras freeze moments, but this one records them, converts the footage into a scannable code, and prints both on film. The Fujifilm instax mini Evo Cinema captures up to 15 seconds of video, lets you pick a single frame, then embeds a QR link on the print that plays the clip when
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ARTICLE – Roxon has announced the Flex Titan, a plier-based multitool that taps into two separate modular ecosystems simultaneously. It’s the company’s most robust modular platform to date, built for users who’ve been requesting something tougher than Roxon’s current lineup. Price: TBD Where to Buy: Roxon The tool launches later this month with reinforced construction
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Most gaming displays are solving for screen tearing, but Samsung’s betting that competitive players have already moved past that baseline and are now stuck choosing between resolution and ridiculous frame rates. That’s the tension driving this G-SYNC Compatible certification across its 2026 OLED TVs and Odyssey monitors. The real question isn’t whether these screens sync
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ARTICLE – The open ear category keeps getting treated like a temporary trend, but that reading feels off now because the shift toward unplugged ears isn’t slowing down. People want to stay connected without losing awareness, and that balance is harder to strike than it sounds, which is why so many open ear designs still
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