Your phone doesn’t belong on your nightstand. Hatch has been making that argument since its first Restore, and the Restore 3 at $169.99 is the sharpest execution of that philosophy yet. It’s also the strongest case any Hatch alarm clock has made for ditching the screen entirely. It bundles a sunrise alarm clock, sound machine, […]
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ARTICLE – Edifier’s R1280DB Bluetooth bookshelf speakers are now sitting on shelves at more than 170 retail locations across Australia, and stateside they’re going for $189.99. That’s a compelling price for a bookshelf speaker with this much connectivity packed in. The R1280 series has been Edifier’s top performer in Australia for years, and the DB
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ARTICLE – Gift shopping for the gearhead in your life usually ends in the same aisle. You grab a socket set, maybe a funny t-shirt, and call it a day. The wrench-themed greeting card goes in the bag for good measure. It’s safe, it’s predictable, and it tells the recipient you thought about them for
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ARTICLE – Every keychain has dead weight. Most people carry at least one clip, fob, or attachment that looked useful in the store and turned useless within a week. Miniature flashlights die and stay dead. The promise of practical keychain gear has burned people enough that most of us stopped trusting the category entirely. Funbro’s
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Gaming laptop collaborations have trained people to expect a sticker job. Print a character on an existing lid, swap one accent color, and call it a special edition. Buyers have seen that formula so many times that most don’t look twice anymore. The Asus ROG Flow Z13-KJP, built with Kojima Productions, skips it entirely. Price:
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Portable speakers almost never get meaningful discounts while they’re still the current model. JBL can hold prices firm because demand stays consistent, and retailers rarely need to push inventory that sells itself. That makes Woot’s deal worth a closer look. The Flip 7 sits at $99.95, a $50 cut from its usual price, while the
ARTICLE – Every EDC pouch makes the same silent promise: your gear will be organized and ready when you need it. Most break that promise fast. You unzip, dig through elastic loops, and pull out the wrong tool first. It’s a frustration that compounds daily, and the better your gear gets, the worse it gets
This Clamshell EDC Organizer Opens Flat So You Never Dig for Gear Again Read More
Color didn’t used to matter much in premium headphones. You’d walk into a store, see black and silver, and that was the whole conversation. Over the last couple of years, brands figured out that finish drives buying choices as much as sound quality, and the ones that moved first have held shelf attention longer. Sony
Date night has a pocket problem. You want your phone, your wallet, maybe your keys, and that’s about it. The tactical gear that works for a weekend hike doesn’t belong in chinos and a blazer. Going completely unprepared, though, means borrowing a charger from the hostess stand or fumbling through a chaotic jacket pocket while
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ARTICLE – Most triple collaborations in sneakers end up as compromise projects where one brand brings the silhouette, another picks a colorway, and the third slaps a logo on the tongue. The results usually tell you which partner got sidelined before you even touch the materials. So the real question is: can three labels with
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ARTICLE – Pro monitors promise calm color. They also hand you a calibration puck and a recurring reminder. That tradeoff gets old fast. Price: $2,599.99 Where to Buy: Dell You export a batch of portraits on a Tuesday afternoon. The skin tones look warm on your screen. They look muddy on the client’s laptop. That
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ARTICLE – Trackers feel like an easy win when the price is right. The payoff shows up the first time you don’t lose an hour retracing your steps. At €17.99 ($21) for one or €59.99 ($71) for four, the Xiaomi Tag makes tracking feel like basic upkeep. A four pack lands in the same mental
Xiaomi Tag Brings a Lower Price to iPhone and Android Tracking Read More
ARTICLE – Job site noise doesn’t just cover music. It grinds it down. Motors drone. Fans howl. Set a phone on a dusty bench and hit play. Flip on a shop vac. The sound thins out fast. Voices lose edges. Bass collapses into thump. Treble gets sharp. That mismatch is annoying. It’s predictable. Pocket speakers
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ARTICLE – Most phone controllers are designed for horizontal play, using a wide grip that puts controls on both sides of the screen. GameSir’s Pocket Taco takes the opposite approach. It’s built for portrait gaming instead, with a clamp on design that sits under your phone and puts the controls below the screen. Price: $34.99
This $35 Controller Brings Back The Game Boy Grip For Your Phone Read More
ARTICLE – Compact cameras didn’t disappear when smartphones got good. They got pushed into a clearer lane, and you feel that shift the second a zoom ring clicks under your fingers. Price: $1,299 Where to Buy: B&H Photo A phone’s fast, but it’s also a flat slab of glass that makes every move feel the
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ARTICLE – Most cable organizers are built for a fantasy version of your day, the one where you’re always traveling and you somehow need every cable you’ve ever owned. Price: $49.95 Where to Buy: Peak Design, Amazon You buy a pouch that looks ready for a weeklong trip, then you carry it with one charger,
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NEWS – We keep hearing about AI in the cloud, but SwitchBot’s new AI Hub flips that model. It runs a Vision Language Model directly on the device, processes up to eight camera feeds locally, and hosts Home Assistant without needing a separate server. That challenges the assumption that serious AI work requires cloud infrastructure.
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Most Valentine’s gift guides treat thoughtful and practical like opposite things. Flowers get called thoughtful. Tools get called practical. The split doesn’t make sense, but it creates a market where gifts either sit on a nightstand for two days or solve problems nobody has. EDC gear works differently because you carry it every day, which
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Most EDC enthusiasts can recite the steel composition of their pocket knife but can’t name the pen they’re carrying. They’ll debate lumen output for hours while using whatever promotional pen ended up in their bag after a trade show. That’s backward priority management, because the pen fails more often, gets used in more contexts, and
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ARTICLE – Crowdfunding timelines train you to expect disappointment. You back a project in January, watch estimated shipping dates slide from spring to summer to “Q4 if we’re lucky,” then forget you even pledged until a surprise package arrives eighteen months later. The RODMAN ED08 appears to skip that script entirely, with the Kickstarter campaign
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