Posts about a variety of topics which are not news and are not reviews.
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
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 from across
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
ARTICLE – Automatic knives sit in a strange cultural space where tactical credibility and collector impulse rarely coexist without tension. Most buyers treat their automatics as either serious tools or display pieces, but almost never both at the same time. The Dessert Warrior line from Boker and Blade HQ blurred that boundary when it first
The Dessert Warrior Knife That Sold Out Every Time Just Added a Work Blade Read More
Portable speakers force a tradeoff nobody questions: carry something bulky, or settle for tinny sound from pocket-sized options. Wearable speakers exist to sidestep this entirely, but most designs look like Bluetooth necklaces with apologetic output. JLab’s Blue XL Speaker Headphones reject compromise by going oversized instead of miniaturized. Price: $99.99 Where to Buy: JLab These
JLab’s Blue XL Turns Oversized Headphones Into Wearable Bluetooth Speakers Read More
Backup power stations live in a strange financial limbo. The value proposition only clicks when the lights go out, which means most buyers are pre-paying for uncertainty. You’re covering insurance premiums against an event that might never happen, and the hardware sits idle until it doesn’t. Price: From $1,099 Where to Buy: Ecoflow, Big Game
The Backup Power Bundle That Beats Single-Unit Pricing Read More
ARTICLE – Most smartphone printers feel like expensive impulse purchases. You use them twice, they sit in a drawer, and eventually you forget they exist. The appeal is obvious: turn digital photos into something you can hold, pin up, or hand to someone. The execution is usually disappointing. Colors wash out, the paper feels cheap,
Fujifilm Instax Mini Link+ Brings Pinterest to Your Pocket Printer Read More
Ozlo, maker of the Sleepbuds earbuds, announced a platform strategy at CES 2026 that turns its hardware into measurement devices for third-party meditation and sleep apps. The company has signed partnerships with app developers including Calm to provide biometric feedback on content effectiveness, addressing a gap in the sleep app industry where creators lack data
Your Sleep App Has No Idea If It Works, The Sleepbuds-Maker Does Read More
Most bluetooth speakers try to disappear. They hide behind mesh grills and neutral tones, blending into whatever room you place them in. IKEA’s new GREJSIMOJS portable speaker does the opposite: it’s a purple mouse with a tail, designed for kids to carry around like a pet that plays music. Price: £12 (Around $16) Where to
IKEA Made a Bluetooth Speaker That Looks Like a Purple Mouse with a Tail Read More
Most gaming headsets compress audio into a narrow range that’s built for footsteps and directional cues, which works for competitive play but sounds artificial when you want to hear music or movies without swapping gear. ASUS ROG’s new Kithara flips that approach by starting with audiophile-grade planar magnetic drivers developed with HIFIMAN and tuning them
ASUS ROG Just Put HIFIMAN Planar Drivers in a Gaming Headset Read More
ARTICLE – We Knife doesn’t design folders for people who want their EDC to blend in. Their latest release, the Anglex Flipper Knife, doubles down on that philosophy with angular geometry, full titanium construction, and nearly four inches of M390 super steel wrapped in a reverse tanto profile that looks like it was sketched by
WE Knife Anglex Flipper Knife Puts M390 Steel and Full Titanium Into Tactical EDC Read More
Most productivity tools promise to help you focus while simultaneously offering seventeen ways to not focus. The browser tab you’re supposed to write in sits next to the tab where you’re checking analytics, reading news, and pretending research counts as progress. The Zerowriter Ink doesn’t negotiate with this impulse because it physically can’t connect to
This Word Processor Can’t Access the Internet and That’s the Entire Point Read More
ARTICLE – Eight decades of audio engineering calls for more than a press release, and JBL knows this. When a company has shaped how multiple generations experience music at home, a milestone anniversary demands something tangible, something collectors can actually own. The JBL L100 Classic 80 Anniversary Edition exists for this exact reason. It’s a
JBL’s Making Only 800 of These Oak and Brown 80th Anniversary Speakers Read More
ARTICLE – Apple Arcade subscribers with Vision Pro headsets can play seven classic arcade games starting February 5, when Retrocade launches as part of the monthly subscription. Resolution Games built the app to recreate the physical arcade experience in VR, complete with cabinet artwork you can walk around and inspect before dropping into gameplay. Add
Seven Classic Arcade Games Just Got Virtual Cabinets You Can Walk Around Read More