IFA is back on the calendar for fall 2026, and the dates are locked. Berlin’s Messe halls open September 4 to 8 for IFA Berlin 2026, the biggest consumer tech trade show of fall 2026, with CES in Las Vegas as its January counterpart. If you watch the show for laptop reveals, smart home debuts, […]
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A good multitool turns three pockets into one. It’s the difference between giving up on a roadside fix and getting back on the road, or between finishing a campsite setup at dusk and fumbling in the dark. The category is in a good place. MagnaCut steel has crossed into mainstream blades, modular platforms let you
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The base Galaxy Z Fold 7 is finally cheap enough to take seriously. After ten months of stubborn pricing, the 256GB model is sitting hundreds below its $1,999 launch tag at the big three retailers, and the timing isn’t a coincidence. Samsung’s July Unpacked is expected to center on the Z Fold 8, and inventory
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A smartwatch on the wrist glows in your face at 2 a.m., gets caught on sleeves, and asks to be charged the moment you’re ready for bed. A ring sits there quietly, reading the same heart-rate variability and skin temperature data, then hands you a sleep score before coffee. That contrast is the reason smart
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Mini PCs in 2026 finally do what desktop replacements have promised for years. A $499 box now comes with a Ryzen 7 chip, 32GB of DDR5 memory, and a 1TB NVMe drive, and it can fit behind your monitor. The hard part isn’t power anymore. It’s picking the right model for what you do. A
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If your wrist hurts after a long day at the desk, a vertical mouse may be the cheapest fix to try. These mice tilt sideways so your hand rests in a relaxed handshake shape, which keeps your forearm in a more natural spot. In 2026, you finally have real options beyond the same one or
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The biggest shift in this cycle isn’t a new color or a thinner chassis. It’s the rumored removal of the entry-level iPhone 18 from the fall slate, with multiple reliable leakers now pointing to a spring 2027 window. In its place this September, buyers would choose from an iPhone 18 Pro, an iPhone 18 Pro
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Citizen’s stacked one of its busiest release calendars in years, and most of it’s real upgrades, not refresh-by-colorway. The Eco-Drive 50th anniversary anchors the lineup with the limited AQ4091-56W, but the Tsuyosa’s grown up with a rotating bezel and a seconde/seconde/ collab, the Series 8 has slimmed down, and Promaster’s dropping the stealth limiteds collectors
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Memorial Day weekend kicks off peak outdoor season, from coastal trail runs to multi-day basecamps and weekend road trips, and the device most likely to die on you out there is still your phone. A solar power bank solves the math by stacking a usable battery and a built-in panel into a single piece of
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If you’ve been holding out for a price break on the 14-inch MacBook Pro with Apple’s M5 chip, Memorial Day weekend 2026 is delivering. The M5 14-inch only launched in October 2025, and Apple refreshed its base config as recently as March 2026, so real discounts on the latest chip are still rare. This weekend,
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Google I/O 2026 was an AI keynote with a hardware coda. The keynote ran almost entirely on Gemini 3.5, Gemini Spark, a Search rebuild, and agentic tools, then Google saved the last segment for the hardware story it has been building toward for two years: smart glasses. The hardware list out of Shoreline this week
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Soundcore today announced the Liberty 5 Pro and Liberty 5 Pro Max at Anker Day in New York, and they’re the first two products built around Anker’s new co-developed THUS AI chip. The headline trick is on the Pro Max: a 1.78-inch AMOLED touchscreen baked into the charging case that records meetings directly to the
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Anker SOLIX just unveiled the S-Series, a new home-backup line built around a single, very specific promise: keep the fridge running longer than any other 2kWh power station, per Anker. The debut model, the Anker SOLIX S2000, packs 2,010Wh of LiFePO4 capacity, 1,500W of continuous AC output, and the first-ever TÜV SÜD A+ Runtime certification,
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Meta has shelved its 2026 Quest 4 prototypes, pushing the true successor to 2027 at the earliest. Industry reporting from June 2025, leaked internal memos from December 2025, and Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth’s January 2026 Davos interview line up on the same picture: both planned tiers of the next flagship are off the table, and
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Spring 2026 brought two true flagship launches, Sony’s WF-1000XM6 in February and Samsung’s Galaxy Buds 4 Pro in March, into a market where three strong 2025 holdovers (Apple’s AirPods Pro 3, Bose’s QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds (2nd Gen), and EarFun’s Air Pro 4+) are still the picks to beat in their respective lanes. Whether you need
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AP’s Royal Oak waitlists run years for anything worth owning, and the pre-owned 15500ST sits near $40,000. If you want the Gerald Genta look (octagonal bezel, exposed screws, integrated bracelet), you’ve got two options: wait, or buy a homage. Interest in the Royal Oak just spiked again. Swatch and AP’s “Royal Pop” is a bioceramic
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An early-May Telegram leak spilled most of Google’s 2026 Pixel playbook in one shot: Tensor G6 on a 2nm process, new Samsung OLED panels on the Pro tier, smaller batteries across the board, fresh camera sensors on the Pro models, and an ambient lighting feature called Pixel Glow. With Google’s August event still about three
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January’s CES floor was thick with home robots. Booths lined up humanoids, rolling AI projectors, and dual-armed butlers, and every press release headline read some variant of “available in 2026.” Six months later, almost none of them sit in actual living rooms. Three units clear the bar as of May 2026. 1X NEO is open
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Subscription fatigue has crept into every corner of the smart home, but your front door doesn’t have to be next. The 2026 crop of smart locks finally lets you skip recurring fees without giving up fingerprint entry, app control, or local video storage. Renters who don’t want to commit to a cloud plan and homeowners
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Graduation cards are stacked on the kitchen counter, the cap-and-gown photos are queued for the family group chat, and somewhere a parent is panic-shopping for a gift that won’t get lost inside a shared dorm closet by October. Most graduation tech roundups solve the wrong problem, pushing full-size appliances that violate dorm fire codes or
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