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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. […]
6 Smart Home Upgrades for Memorial Day That Don’t Require the Cloud Read More
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
EDC Knife of the Week: Vero Nova in CPM MagnaCut Read More
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
5 Pocket Pens That Outlast the Notebook They Write In Read More
Apple’s MacBook Neo, announced 4 March 2026 and on sale a week later, has now spent roughly two months on the market, long enough for the launch-week spec-sheet conversation to give way to a lineup question. The first A-series Mac in Apple’s history sits at $599 ($499 education), one tier below the MacBook Air M5,
MacBook Neo at 60 Days: First A-Series Mac, Tracked Read More
The Audemars Piguet × Swatch Royal POP arrived as eight pocket watches with nowhere to land on the wrist. Lambertus picked up that gap on day one of the drop and called the answer Chapter I. Chapter I is a tailored strap with a machined octagonal clip holder that snaps the Royal POP head in
Lambertus Makes the $400 Royal POP Wearable for $95 Read More
The brand that turned hoverboards and robot lawn mowers into mass-market categories is now selling a 187-pound electric dirt bike with 21 kW of peak power. Segway’s Xaber 300, whose full spec sheet landed on May 1, is now on sale with a $5,299.99 sticker, and it’s clearly aimed at the Sur-Ron and Talaria buyers
An Electric Dirt Bike With a Clutch That Doesn’t Exist Read More
Google wants us to believe the future of laptops is Android in a Chromebook shell. The 16-minute leak that dropped hours before the official Android Show tells a more complicated story. We sat through the full AluminiumOS walkthrough, and what stands out is not the Pixel desktop mode familiarity or the iPhone link promise. It
Googlebook AluminiumOS Leak: First Look at Android 17 for Laptops Read More
Some knife drops are about specs and pricing. This one’s about memory. WeKnife’s latest Arrakis configuration, the 906CF-E, isn’t a routine restock or a fresh color run. The brand is calling it a tribute to designer Elijah Isham, released to mark the fourth anniversary of his passing. The Arrakis is a flipper knife designed by
The Arrakis Returns as a 299-Piece Isham Tribute Read More
Timex slipped a watch out earlier this May hat’s already harder to track down than most retail experiments this year. The Space Jam 30th Anniversary x Q Timex Limited Edition arrived in a run of 1,000 numbered pieces, priced at $269, and went up exclusively through Timex.com. It’s a quiet release for a watch this
Bugs Bunny Just Got a $269 Watch and It’s Already Vanishing Read More
Ugreen’s accessory team clearly watched the World Cup countdown clock before greenlighting this one. The brand’s newest item tracker, the FineTrack Soccer Design, looks like a shrunken-down soccer ball, runs on Apple’s Find My network, and started shipping worldwide on May 15, 2026, just weeks before FIFA World Cup 2026 kicks off across North America.
Ugreen’s $20 Soccer-ball Find My Tracker is Here For 2026 Read More
ECOVACS spent more than two decades teaching machines to clean floors, scrub windows, mow lawns, and skim pools. Today the company decided it’s done with utility. LilMilo, ECOVACS’ first emotional AI companion robot, went on sale in the US for $599, and it’s the brand’s clearest signal yet that the next robotics category isn’t about
ECOVACS LilMilo Is a Robot Puppy That Reads Your Feelings Read More
The smart glasses race finally has a credible Apple release window, and it isn’t the one fans were hoping for. Longtime Apple reporter Mark Gurman now says the company plans to show off its first smart glasses in 2026 and ship them in 2027, per coverage from MacRumors and Macworld of Gurman’s Power On newsletter.
Apple Smart Glasses Tracking for 2026 Reveal, 2027 Launch Read More
Something shifted in smart rings this year, and it’s not subtle. The category Oura defined for almost a decade isn’t a one-horse race anymore. There are at least three rings on the market right now that beat Oura on a single measurable axis, and the buyer who reflexively types “best smart ring 2026” into Google
Best Smart Ring 2026: Oura Isn’t the Default Anymore Read More
PongBot has launched Aura, a ball machine that physically reconfigures for tennis, pickleball, and padel from a single chassis. The company set an introductory price of $499, which lands at roughly half the cost of the cheapest single-sport competitor currently on the market, with a planned $999 MSRP once the launch window closes. Early buyers
PongBot Aura is a $499 AI ball machine for tennis, pickleball, and padel Read More
Travel season is when chargers get punished. Spring breaks, Memorial Day flights, Father’s Day road trips, July 4th cookouts that turn into all-day events. By the time July rolls around, most of us are hauling a wall charger, a power bank for travel, and a tangle of cables that all do roughly the same job.
The Two-Charger Bag Has a New Enemy Read More
The wrist real estate fight feels settled. Apple, Samsung, and Garmin keep stacking sensors onto rectangles, and most Kickstarter watches are just cheaper takes on that same playbook. Two new campaigns running right now don’t bother fighting in that lane at all. Price: From $160 Where to Buy: Kickstarter One is a tactical 2-in-1 from
A Rugged 2-in-1 Smartwatch and an Analog Light Meter Just Hit Kickstarter Read More
A new leak says the iPhone 18 Pro Max could land with a 5,200 mAh battery, the biggest cell Apple’s ever shipped in a phone. The number sounds dramatic. The actual real-world gain looks much smaller, and a few details in the rumor itself tell us why. Here’s what the claim actually means, what would
iPhone 18 Pro Max Battery Jump Is Smaller Than It Looks Read More
We spent the first 24 hours after the Royal Pop announcement trying to figure out if Swatch was playing a joke. A $400 ceramic pocket watch that looks this much like a Royal Oak, and you can’t wear it on your wrist? The lanyard is charming in a 1990s-keychain sort of way, but most of
Delugs is Developing a Wrist Strap for the Swatch x AP Royal Pop Read More
Casio’s compact corner of the G-Shock catalog just picked up two more colorways, and they’re aimed squarely at wrists that find the brand’s classic square a bit much. The GMD-B300-2 arrives in a deep navy with a vapor-deposition sheen on the glass, and the GMD-B300-7 lands in off-white with metallic printing on the crystal. Both
The Mini G-Shock You’ll Actually Want is Here Read More
Sony’s Xperia 1 VIII finally got its big reveal today, and the headline isn’t the chip or the battery. It’s that Sony looked at every trend in the 2026 flagship market and shrugged. Headphone jack, microSD slot, bezels, front-facing stereo speakers, two-stage shutter button: all still there. The Sony Xperia 1 VIII is a deliberate
Sony’s New Flagship is a 2019 Wishlist With 2026 Internals Read More