Google’s Fitbit Air is finally arriving on doorsteps this week, and at $99.99 for the device itself, the screenless tracker is shaping up as the most direct shot at Whoop the fitness market has seen in years. Buyers in the UK started reporting deliveries around June 8, and the early U.S. shipping waves are tracking […]
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Most smart garden gadgets promise effortless growth and deliver expensive ways to kill plants more slowly. The category spent years over-engineering novelty and under-delivering on reliability. That changed. A handful of devices now handle the watering, lighting, and nutrient math well enough that the harvest is the only part left to you. We narrowed the
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Most budget knife buyers shop by price and assume the quality ceiling rises with it. CJRB has spent the last few years making that assumption look sloppy. The Artisan Cutlery sub-brand ships AR-RPM9 powder steel, ceramic bearings, and button locks at price points where most competitors are still using liner locks and D2 steel of
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Casio’s Edifice EFK-200XPB-1A has just been revealed as the first product from the brand’s Toyota Racing partnership, and on paper it looks like one of the more interesting sub-$400 automatics of 2026. The watch pairs a forged carbon fiber case and dial with a Miyota 8215-based movement, a 42-hour power reserve, and rose gold-tone accents
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Every time a Kodak Charmera sells out, someone adds it to a restock alert and waits. The smarter move this year isn’t waiting. There’s a designer on MakerWorld who already figured that out, and 319 backers who agreed. Price: From $10 Where to Back: Makerworld The Keymera, launched on MakerWorld crowdfunding on May 19, is
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The smart glasses market keeps adding players, but most of them ask you to choose between looking normal and actually doing something useful. (Here’s where smart glasses stood heading into 2026.) INMO thinks you shouldn’t have to. The INMO GO3, which launched on Kickstarter in April 2026 and is now heading into production, pack a
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If you already picked up the Forza Horizon 6 limited edition Xbox controller, 8BitDo has a matching charging dock that completes the look. The accessory maker officially launched the dock after opening pre-orders back in mid-April. It costs $34.99 and comes with a rechargeable battery pack and a custom Forza-branded battery door. The dock is
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Portable power station searches have nearly quintupled year over year, and this summer is the reason. Peak heat in the U.S. runs from late June through August, when grid strain is highest, storm activity peaks across the Gulf and Southeast, and campsite demand surges simultaneously. A single purchase covers all three scenarios. The 2026 market
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Most e-readers are designed around a single concession: you trade control for simplicity. You get a clean, distraction-free reading experience, and in return the device tells you which apps you can run, which store you can buy from, and what you’re allowed to do with your own content. Boox has spent years building against that
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Most EDC flashlights solve one job well and apologize for the rest. You carry the bright one for distance, the UV one for travel, the red one for camping, and the laser lives in a drawer you rarely open. The assumption baked into that system is that no single light can cover all of it
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Most “budget” fitness trackers are budget in the wrong places. They cheap out on the heart-rate sensor you actually need and overspend on screen bling you stop noticing after a week. The data you came for, accurate sleep staging, real heart-rate zones, honest step counts, costs roughly the same to engineer whether the band is
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Most people shop satellite messengers like phones, comparing screens and ounces, then forget the subscription will outspend the device by year two. That is the wrong frame for 2026. Summer plans often mean going off grid, but staying reachable is the wise move. The satellite communicator market shifted in late 2025: Garmin moved to month-to-month
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Wall chargers are still the most opaque device in your bag. You trust them with thousands of dollars of laptops and phones, and they tell you nothing about what they’re doing. You see a charging icon and hope the brick is giving your machine the 100 watts it asked for. If the cable is loose,
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Seiko is keeping the candles lit on its 145th anniversary, and this time the Prospex line gets the cake. The Japanese watchmaker just announced the second installment in its 145th anniversary commemorative series: the limited-edition HBB001, a $595 Samurai diver that leans into “Seiko Blue,” the signature shade the brand has been refining since the
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Logitech’s new travel mouse snaps shut like a Nintendo DS. The Mobi Fold, spotted in leaked promo materials and confirmed by a Chilean SUBTEL filing as MR0121, collapses flat for pocket storage and unfolds into an arched shape for use. It uses a touch scroll strip, pairs with up to three devices over Bluetooth, and
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If you were waiting for Apple to ship the Siri upgrade it promised in 2024, WWDC 2026 delivered the reset. During the June 8 keynote, Apple unveiled Siri AI, a rebuild of its assistant running on next-generation Apple Foundation Models, custom-built in collaboration with Google and its Gemini models. The company also announced iOS 27,
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Most “cooling gadgets” are marketing for moving air, not lowering temperature. Once humidity climbs past 60 percent and the sun stops being a suggestion, fans alone stop working. They just push warm air around your face. The ones that actually help in a real heatwave do something different: they cool the surface they’re touching, evaporate
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Eighty-year-old speaker designs aren’t supposed to get simpler. Heritage companies usually mark anniversaries with new finishes, not new engineering. The Klipschorn 80th Anniversary Limited Edition, debuted at High End Vienna 2026, drops a driver instead of adding one, returning to the two-way fully horn-loaded topology Paul W. Klipsch introduced in 1946. Price: TBD Where to
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JP-crafts launched TSUKI on May 26, 2026 to fund the initial production run of YEBISUYAIBA’s (Ebisu Blade) moon series. The campaign is denominated in yen, so every dollar figure here is an approximate conversion as of June 9, 2026. As of that snapshot, 974 backers have pledged J¥37,290,899, roughly $215,000 at recent Kickstarter exchange rates.
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Skeleton watches are judged by what they remove, not what they add. Strip away the dial, and the movement has nowhere to hide. These six automatic and manual-wind models, ranging from $200 to $1,950, are the ones that actually earn the cutout. Most fall short. Either the finishing under the dial is rough, the case
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