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EDC Knife of the Week: Kizer Begleiter 2.9 Goes Sub-3

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Kizer Begleiter 2.9

Kizer has expanded its popular Begleiter line this May 2026 with the Begleiter 2.9, a shorter-bladed version of the value-priced EDC folder that helped build Kizer’s reputation. The new model trims the blade to 2.97 inches, comfortably under the 3-inch threshold many U.S. workplaces, schools, and local blade-length ordinances enforce, while keeping the Azo-designed drop-point […]

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MacBook Air M5 vs M4: The $100 Gap That Doubles Storage, and Which to Buy

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Macbook Air M5 R 15 inch

You’re shopping for a MacBook Air in 2026 and facing a rare choice: Apple’s still selling the M4 alongside the newer M5. At first glance the M5 costs $100 more, but it ships with double the base storage and Wi-Fi 7. With retailers already discounting the M5 below its launch price, the decision’s trickier than

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Every Smart Glasses Design Tells You Who They’re Chasing

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Ray-ban Meta Wayfarer Review vs Google AI Smart Glasses

The smart glasses category is having its third loud year in a row, and the shape of the products on the way says more about strategy than any keynote slide. Meta keeps shipping frames that look like regular Ray-Bans. Google and Samsung partnered with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster before partnering on hardware. The Ray-Ban

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Last Year’s Biggest Fold is Suddenly the Smartest Buy of 2026

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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 Discounted

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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M5 MacBook Pro is $1,499 for Memorial Day: Here’s Where

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Apple MacBook Pro M5 Pro M5-Max Liquid Retina XDR Display

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 Hardware: 4 Reveals From Gentle Monster Glasses to Googlebook

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Samsung and Google Intelligent Eyewear 2

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 Put a Touchscreen on the Liberty 5 Pro Max Case

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Anker Soundcore Liberty 5 Pro Max Review

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’s New SOLIX S2000 Promises 35 Hours of Fridge Backup

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Anker SOLIX S2000 Charger

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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Pixel 11 Leak Exposes Tensor G6 and Pixel Glow

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Google Pixel 11 AI Image Render Only

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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Computex 2026: What to Wait For Before You Buy a Laptop

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Computex 2026

Computex feels less like a trade show this year and more like a forced reckoning. Arm laptops, hybrid handhelds, and a heavy NVIDIA presence are about to collide in Taipei, and the silicon teased over the next two weeks could shape what your next ultrabook or gaming handheld actually looks like. The show opens Tuesday,

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AirPods Pro 3 Down to $199 Right Now, The Best Deal Since Launch

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AirPods Pro 3 Features

Apple’s flagship earbuds rarely sit on the discount shelf for long, and the AirPods Pro 3 just hit a price that even patient shoppers haven’t seen before. Amazon, Verizon, and Costco are all running the same AirPods Pro 3 deal at $199 this week, which is $50 off the $249 list price and the steepest

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What ‘Rugged’ Means on a 2026 Smartwatch, and Which Specs Actually Matter Outdoors

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What 'Rugged' Means on a 2026 Smartwatch, and Which Specs Actually Matter Outdoors

Why 2026 is the year every brand wants a rugged watch The rugged category was niche for a decade, and then it wasn’t. Every major brand now treats “rugged” as a default product line, and the shift didn’t happen because watches got tougher. It happened because the fastest-growing sport among mainstream tech buyers is being

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OPPO Reno 16 Pro Lands With 200MP Cameras, 7000mAh, and Dimensity 9500s

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OPPO Reno 16 Series

OPPO has put a date on the Reno 16 series, and it’s closer than most rumor threads expected. The brand has confirmed a May 25, 2026 launch event in China at 6 PM local time, with two phones already locked in for day one and at least two more variants lining up behind them for

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New Snoopy Timex Watch Floats Astronauts Around the Dial

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Peanuts x Timex Marlin Automatic Space Watch 40mm Launch

Most mechanical watches mark the seconds with a slim hand and call it a day. This new Timex skips the hand entirely and lets a trio of Peanuts characters, Charlie Brown, Peppermint Patty, and Franklin, drift around the dial in orange astronaut uniforms while Lucy and Snoopy ride a static spaceship motif on the dial

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6 Smart Home Upgrades for Memorial Day That Don’t Require the Cloud

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6 Smart Home Upgrades for Memorial Day

Memorial Day weekend gets sold as the best smart home sale of the spring, and the carts fill up fast. The catch is that most of what’s discounted phones home to a cloud account, a paid subscription, or a server in another country. When that pipeline blinks, your lights, locks, and cameras blink with it.

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EDC Knife of the Week: Vero Nova in CPM MagnaCut

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EDC Knife of the Week Vero Engineering Nova Launch

The Vero Engineering Nova has been one of the harder titanium framelocks to keep in stock through 2026, and the brand’s collection page currently lists it from $325 in the Stonewash blade and Titanium Raw handle configuration. It’s our EDC knife of the week, and the reason sits mostly in the spec sheet. Price: $325

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5 Pocket Pens That Outlast the Notebook They Write In

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5 Pocket Pens That Outlast the Notebook They Write In

Refill compatibility is the Ti Click’s whole argument, and it delivers more thoroughly than any pen on this list. Big Idea Design’s internal auto-adjusting collet accepts more than 100 refills without modifications, spacers, or aftermarket hacks. Pilot G2 drops in natively, and BID’s published compatibility list spans the major gel, rollerball, and ballpoint formats from

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