Posts about a variety of topics which are not news and are not reviews.
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 variant adds […]
Edifier’s Best Bookshelf Speakers Hit Sub-$200 Retail Push Read More
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
This $8 Keychain Knife Keeps Showing Up in EDC Reviews for All the Right Reasons Read More
Between runway shows, photographers have minutes to deliver images that used to take hours to process. Designers expect selects by morning. Brands want street style live before the day ends. During Fashion Week, editing time becomes the real bottleneck. Evoto AI Photo Editor Learn more: Try Evoto AI Evoto cites a pattern where editing can
Inside Fashion Week Deadlines and the AI Workflow Evoto Is Betting On in 2026 Read More
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
ARTICLE – The Swiss Army Knife hasn’t changed much since your grandfather carried one. Same scales, same tweezers wedged into the same slot, same basic tool lineup that Victorinox has refined over the decades but never truly reimagined. Keyport, the EDC company behind the Pivot 2.0 key organizer and four successful campaigns since 2013, sees
Keyport Versa58 Turns Your Swiss Army Knife Into a Click-Together Modular EDC System Read More
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
The Vans That Feel Like Workwear and Grip Like Hiking Boots Read More
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
The Tiny DEWALT Speaker Made for Loud Workdays Read More
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
Canon Marks 30 Years of PowerShot With a Limited G7 X Mark III Anniversary Edition Read More
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
The Coin-Sized Flashlight Backers Funded 20x Over Ships This Month Read More
ARTICLE – Most PS5 owners quietly accept that their preferred controller won’t work on Sony’s console. An Xbox Elite Series 2 that feels perfect in your hands sits unused. A Switch Pro you spent months breaking in collects dust. Third-party adapters exist, but the moment you go wireless, haptic feedback vanishes. Motion controls stop working.
The PS5 Controller Problem Nobody Talks About Has a Fix Now Read More
Fitness trackers made everyone count steps, but they also made everyone charge gadgets every other night. Casio’s G-Shock GAB010 sidesteps that ritual by putting a step counter inside a solar-powered watch that runs on light and takes a beating. There’s no nightly charging, no battery anxiety, and no touchscreen to crack. It’s step tracking stripped
This G-Shock Counts Your Steps Without Ever Needing a Charge Read More
ARTICLE – Most budget security cameras cap out at 2K resolution, which is the quiet compromise between affordability and image clarity. You get enough pixels to confirm motion, identify that someone is near your front door, and review general activity patterns. What you don’t get is the ability to read text on a package label
Xiaomi Put a 6MP Sensor in a Budget Security Camera Read More
ARTICLE – Tower heaters have trained us to accept a design limit that doesn’t need to exist. They stand upright, blow heat forward, and expect you to arrange the room around them. That works fine if you’ve got an open corner, but it breaks down when you need heat under a desk or along a
Tower Heaters Force You to Arrange Rooms Around Them, and Most People Don’t Question Why Read More
Phone gaming controllers fail at portability before they fail at anything else. The problem isn’t buttons or latency or compatibility across ecosystems. The problem is that most mobile controllers ask you to carry a secondary device that’s heavier, bulkier, and more annoying than the phone itself. Telescopic grips turn your phone into a brick. Clip-on
This 56-Gram Phone Controller Fits in Your Pocket and Ships for $49 Read More
ARTICLE – Nintendo built these colors in the ’90s, tested them with real consumers, then buried them. Not concept sketches or Photoshop mockups: actual injection-molded consoles with matching controllers, fully functional, sitting in storage until former employees started selling them to collectors years later. Extreme Green, Ocean, Ghost, Glacier, Atomic Purple. They all worked. They
The N64 Prototypes Nintendo Built But Never Released Are Finally Getting Made Read More
ARTICLE – Most companies add features to charge more money. The Ricoh GR IV Monochrome does the opposite. It removes the ability to shoot color photos completely, then charges $700 more than the regular version. It’s a pocket-sized camera that takes out the color filter and bets that photographers who want to shoot black and
Ricoh’s New Pocket Camera Costs $2,200 and Removes the Ability to Shoot Color Read More
ARTICLE – Portable power stations weren’t supposed to get better by getting smaller. The whole category started because people needed more capacity, not less bulk. But that’s the tension DJI is now betting on with the Power 1000 Mini, a 1,000 Wh lithium iron phosphate battery that weighs 11.5 kg and measures 314 x 212
DJI Made Its Power Station 3kg Lighter by Removing What Most People Actually Use Read More