Most folding knives are built from separate pieces screwed together. Integral folders are different. The entire handle is carved from a single block of material using a CNC machine, which takes serious precision and usually costs serious money. Most integral folders start around $300. Tacray’s new Talos costs $119 and does something with the design […]
Why This $119 Folder Feels Like a $350 Knife Read More
The return of the square print didn’t come from a camera this time. Polaroid’s new Hi-Print 3×3 is a small, portable square photo printer that connects over Bluetooth, pulls images from a smartphone and turns them into 3-inch square prints. The prints come out smudge-proof and built to last, thanks to dye-sublimation — a method
Polaroid Made a Photo Printer That’s Also a Picture Frame Read More
Earth Day falls on April 22 this year, and the timing couldn’t be more fitting to take stock of the tech you carry, charge, and rely on every day. The sustainability conversation has moved well past reusable bags and metal straws. It’s now embedded in the materials, manufacturing, and power sources behind the gadgets that
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For six years, every book-style foldable phone has followed the same basic template: take a tall, narrow slab, fold it in half, and call it innovation. The inner screens got bigger. The creases got smaller. But the shape never really changed. Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold line, Google’s Pixel Fold, and OnePlus Open all open into
Huawei Just Beat Apple to the Wide Foldable Phone Read More
The USB-C port quietly replaced everything. Your phone charges with it. Your laptop charges with it. Your earbuds, your tablet, your game controller. And yet most EDC gear still ships with micro-USB ports or proprietary magnetic pucks that require their own dedicated cable, which inevitably lives at the bottom of a drawer you forgot existed.
7 USB-C Rechargeable EDC Tools You Can Top Off Anywhere Read More
Montreal-based brand Dime has linked up with Timex and UK retailer END Clothing for a new take on the classic T80 digital watch. The result is a gift set that wraps the T80 in a studded stainless steel bracelet and pairs it with a second leather strap — all for $229 USD. Price: $229 Where
A Studded Timex T80 Just Crashed the Skate-Watch Party Read More
Wireless earbuds are everywhere, and for good reason. But some people are tired of charging cases, Bluetooth problems, and the fear of losing a $200 earbud on the subway. For them, Panasonic’s ErgoFit RP-HJE120 wired earphones offer a simple deal: spend less than $12, plug in, and listen. They’re cheap wired earbuds that sound good
Panasonic’s Famous Wired Earbuds Get a USB-C Upgrade Read More
The AstroRinse station is the reason the Beatbot AquaSense X exists. It’s the first automatic filter-cleaning station built for a pool robot, and The Gadgeteer is among the first publications to put it through real-world testing. The robot docks, the station rinses its filter, empties its debris bin, and three minutes later everything is clean
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Dyson spent 17 years building bladeless fans that cool entire rooms. Now the company has shrunk all of that engineering into something that fits in your hand. The HushJet Mini Cool is Dyson’s first portable fan, and it launched on April 9 with a $99.99 price tag that makes it the most affordable product the
Dyson Made Its Cheapest Product Ever, It’s a Fan Read More
Xiaomi isn’t just making phones anymore. The company’s smart home lineup has quietly grown into one of the most complete ecosystems in consumer tech, covering everything from robot vacuums with triple-camera AI systems to espresso machines that wouldn’t look out of place in a specialty coffee shop. While brands like Google and Amazon grab smart
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We’ve been keeping an eye out for NASA-themed watches that commemorate the Artemis mission, and this one caught our attention. Custom Casio Royale mods have blown up over the past year. Builders have been turning the classic AE-1200 into all kinds of unique pieces, from retro-style collectibles to custom metal-cased builds. The affordable base watch
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We first covered the Bugout Vapyr after Benchmade announced it at SHOT Show, but with the June 2 launch now less than two months away, this one deserves a closer look. Price: $375 Where to Buy: Benchmade Benchmade just did the one thing most brands are too scared to try. It took its best-selling EDC
EDC Knife of the Week: Benchmade Rebuilt a Thinner Bugout for $375 Read More
Tissot and Pinarello have teamed up for the first time, combining over 170 years of Swiss watchmaking with the Italian cycling brand’s racing pedigree. The result is the Tissot Pinarello Special Edition, a 42mm (43mm across) forged carbon cycling watch priced at $1,775. Price: $1,775 Where to Buy: Tissot Pinarello, founded in 1952 in Treviso,
Tissot Made a Watch From the Same Carbon Found in Tour de France Bikes Read More
ASUS recently launched five new Zenbook laptops across its A-series, S-series, and standard Zenbook lines. They come in 14-inch and 16-inch sizes with processors from Qualcomm, Intel, and AMD. All five are Copilot+ PCs, and all use some form of ASUS’s Ceraluminum material — a ceramic-aluminum hybrid the company spent four years developing. Prices start
The New Zenbook A16 Is the Fastest Snapdragon Laptop Yet Read More
Civivi doesn’t play by the rules most budget knife brands follow. This WE Knife subsidiary keeps showing up with ceramic ball bearings, respected designer collaborations, and blade steels that have no business appearing at these price points. With a catalog past 773 folding models, choosing the right one isn’t easy. These ten knives span everything
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Four astronauts splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on April 10, 2026. They’d just finished Artemis II, a 10-day trip around the Moon and the first time humans made that journey in over 50 years. The crew of Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen traveled more than 252,756 miles from Earth, breaking
Timex Built a Watch for the Moon, Then Artemis II Came Home Read More
Micro EDC tools tend to follow the same formula: take a regular knife, shrink it down, and hope it still works. The NanoArc from Zyac Knives takes a different approach entirely. Instead of miniaturizing a straight blade, the team built a curved cutting tool from GR5 titanium and M390 steel that the company says actually
This Micro EDC Tool Borrowed Its Geometry From the Karambit Read More
The last couple of weeks in gadgets weren’t loud. No Apple keynotes, no Samsung Unpacked, no trade show floors packed with press badges. And yet the stuff that actually shipped or got announced during that quiet stretch is wilder than most of the products fighting for stage time at CES. A desktop PC shaped like
A $520K Speaker and Other Gadgets You Missed Read More
Amazon’s Big Spring Sale officially wrapped on March 31, but Samsung shoppers still have reasons to check back. Several discounts on Galaxy watches, phones, earbuds, monitors, and home audio remain active at the time of writing, and every one of them lands under the $250 mark. A few deals didn’t survive the post-sale window, including
Amazon’s Spring Sale Is Over but Samsung’s Prices Are Still Sliding Read More
Most mini EDC knives try to cram full-size ambitions into compact frames. The SpearEdge from Edgelet goes the other direction: one curved blade, one cutting concept, packed into a titanium body that, at 47.7mm closed, should be easy to forget you’re carrying. Based in Beaverton, Oregon, this is the team’s third Kickstarter project after the
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