Growing Gadgets: Pressed Grass Could Change Tech Housing
Plantd’s pressed grass panels offer a test of how sustainable materials could enter familiar gadget manufacturing workflows.
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xTool WonderPress: The complete 5-in-1 creator kit has arrived
An initial look at the complete xTool WonderPress 5-in-1 creator kit before hands-on testing.
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The New iPod Question: Is Owning Music Worth the Friction?
A phone makes music effortless, then fills the same screen with messages, feeds, and alerts. The FiiO SNOWSKY ECHO NANO takes the opposite approach: it gives local music its own tiny device, a physical control wheel, and a reason to leave the phone in your pocket. ❗Price: $49.99 Where to Buy: Amazon That sounds like
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Xteink X4 Versus a Full Size E-Reader: Is Pocketability Worth the Compromises?
The Xteink X4 makes a sharp promise: carry a real E Ink reader in the space where your phone usually goes. At $69 from Xteink, its 4.3-inch screen and 77-gram body solve the size problem that makes a full-size reader annoying to pack. The catch is equally clear: the X4 strips away the library access,
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This $1,599 Mini PC Doubles Your Memory, Then Slows It Down
The GMKtec EVO-X1 Pro mini PC Pro costs $1,599.99 and ships with slower memory than the cheaper EVO-X1 below it. GMKtec pairs AMD’s 12-core Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 with 64GB of LPDDR5 at 6400MT/s, while the original EVO-X1 shipped 32GB of LPDDR5X at 7500MHz. Price: $1,599 Where to Buy: GMKTec So the buying case
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G-Shock’s GMA-P2110B Brings Quiet Style to Women’s Watches
Casio has added two new colorways to its popular G-SHOCK GMA-P2110 line built for women, and this time the brand is leaning into restraint rather than the neon and pastel palettes G-SHOCK is often known for. The Casio G-Shock GMA-P2110B 5A and GMA-P2110B-1A trade the line’s usual bold colorways for an all-brown and an all-black
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Tacray 5-in-1 Multitool Pocket Knife: Small Blade, Big Utility
Five tools ride inside one folding frame: a blade, a seatbelt cutter, a bottle opener, a flathead driver, and a small open wrench. That recipe isn’t rare in 2026. TACRAY’s listing leans on the blade steel to carry the package, calling it CVG-10 and crediting it with edge retention plus corrosion resistance, and that’s where
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Seiko Folded Honda’s Pocket Scooter Into a 36mm Field Watch
Seiko took one of the oddest machines Honda ever built, the folding Motocompo scooter, and pressed its spirit into something you wear instead of ride. The Seiko 5 Motocompo Limited Edition sits inside the refreshed 5 Sports Field series, and it lands as the most charming small watch Seiko has shipped at this price in
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The Vintage Lens Look Everyone Gave Up On Just Came Back for Leica M
If you’ve ever chased that vintage “Super Six” look and given up because the originals cost a fortune and rarely mount cleanly on a modern body, DK-Optic just handed you another route. The new DK-Optic Chiaro 1.5-inch f/1.9 is a from-scratch recreation of that legendary mid-20th century British optic, built for native Leica M-mount and
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Nobody Announced a New Version and Buyers Keep Coming Back
The ZT 0357BW isn’t a new knife. It’s the cheapest folding knife Zero Tolerance builds in the United States, and it’s been on sale since at least 2020. Six years on, it’s still in the lineup at $188, and buyers still rate it 4.6 stars. Zero Tolerance 0357BW Price: $188 Where to Buy: Amazon For
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Olive Gray Lands on the WH-1000XM6 and Sony’s Color Playbook Gets Obvious
A flagship headphone doesn’t get a new paint job because the design team ran out of things to do. It gets one because the product still has selling left in it and the spec sheet can’t carry that alone. Sony’s WH-1000XM6 is now available in Olive Gray, and that’s the whole story on the surface.
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Every Allman Variant Is Back in Stock, Including Two WESN Quietly Retired
For a while now, the WESN Allman has been hard to buy in the color you wanted. That changed on July 30. Every version is in stock again, and two G10 colors that disappeared years ago are back with them: Blacked Out OD Green and Blacked Out Mustard. Now you can buy the one you
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The Foldable E-Ink Book That Turns Reading Into a Two-Page Desk
I’d reserve a spot on this one, not a wallet. InkLeaf’s whole pitch fits into one motion: fold two E-Ink panels flat and get a book on one side, a notebook on the other, updating in real time. Founder Kameron Yu built the InkLeaf Foldable E Ink Tablet around that swap, and the early photos
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Samsung Gave the Galaxy F70 Pro 5G a Flagship-Length Update Promise
Samsung India’s product page for the Galaxy F70 Pro 5G carries a commitment that used to sit well above this price bracket. Six generations of OS upgrades. Six years of security updates. Put that policy on a Galaxy F device and the ownership math shifts before anyone’s had a chance to argue about sensor sizes.
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Hyundai Motor Group Wants Your EV Battery to Help Run Your House During an Outage
Picture a blackout driveway: the porch light’s dead, the fridge’s gone quiet, and there’s a two-ton battery sitting fifteen feet from the kitchen door doing nothing but existing. The company wants to close that gap with the Hyundai AllDayEnergy. Hyundai Motor Group unveiled AllDayEnergy on July 24, a single brand covering its vehicle-to-everything energy services:
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G-SHOCK’s Shock Yourself Campaign Puts Lil Tecca Center Stage
Casio built its 2026 G-SHOCK campaign like a two-chapter movie instead of a typical product ad. Casio America announced the G-SHOCK Shock Yourself campaign, and it stars multi-platinum artist Lil Tecca instead of a spec sheet. Two cinematic chapters carry the story, backed by a full media push across photos, digital placements, social posts, and
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What a Multi-Blade Pocketknife Actually Solves That a Single Blade Can’t
Old Timer built a three-blade pocketknife that the modern outdoor market mostly ignores, and that’s the whole point of the Generational USA Series. The Old Timer Middleman 34OTG packs a clip point, a sheepsfoot, and a pen blade into one bone-handled frame, forged from 1095 high carbon steel and assembled start to finish in the
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Razer’s First Hall Effect Keyboard Bets on Control Over Speed
Razer spent years telling competitive players that its analog optical switches were the fastest input it could build. On July 30, 2026, it announced the Razer Huntsman V3 HE Magnetic 8KHz Keyboard line, its first Hall Effect magnetic keyboard family, and published a latency number that sits behind the optical boards it already sells. That’s
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The Miffy Digicam Lands at $109, and the Bunny Isn’t the Story
The Lola x Miffy Digital Camera started shipping on July 31, and the price is the part worth arguing about. At $109 in the US, £79 in the UK, and AU$159 in Australia, this camera lands in the awkward middle of the digicam revival, sitting well above the $35 keychain toys and far below anything
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FiiO’s RETRO BOX Only Makes Sense If You Already Own the Right Player
The FiiO RETRO BOX is shipping. The cassette shaped desktop speaker sells in black and white through FiiO’s official AliExpress store for US $56.47, and the shape is doing the heavy lifting here, because a rectangular box with two knobs would never have gotten a second glance. Docking hardware is a strange thing to get
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