Posts about a variety of topics which are not news and are not reviews.
IFA is back on the calendar for fall 2026, and the dates are locked. Berlin’s Messe halls open September 4 to 8 for IFA Berlin 2026, the biggest consumer tech trade show of fall 2026, with CES in Las Vegas as its January counterpart. If you watch the show for laptop reveals, smart home debuts, […]
What to Watch When IFA 2026 Opens September 4 Read More
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
Last Year’s Biggest Fold is Suddenly the Smartest Buy of 2026 Read More
The biggest shift in this cycle isn’t a new color or a thinner chassis. It’s the rumored removal of the entry-level iPhone 18 from the fall slate, with multiple reliable leakers now pointing to a spring 2027 window. In its place this September, buyers would choose from an iPhone 18 Pro, an iPhone 18 Pro
No Base iPhone 18 This September, Per New Leaks Read More
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,
M5 MacBook Pro is $1,499 for Memorial Day: Here’s Where Read More
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
Google I/O 2026 Hardware: 4 Reveals From Gentle Monster Glasses to Googlebook Read More
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
Soundcore Put a Touchscreen on the Liberty 5 Pro Max Case Read More
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,
Anker’s New SOLIX S2000 Promises 35 Hours of Fridge Backup Read More
Meta has shelved its 2026 Quest 4 prototypes, pushing the true successor to 2027 at the earliest. Industry reporting from June 2025, leaked internal memos from December 2025, and Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth’s January 2026 Davos interview line up on the same picture: both planned tiers of the next flagship are off the table, and
Meta Quest 4 Pushed to 2027 Read More
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
Pixel 11 Leak Exposes Tensor G6 and Pixel Glow Read More
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,
Computex 2026: What to Wait For Before You Buy a Laptop Read More
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
AirPods Pro 3 Down to $199 Right Now, The Best Deal Since Launch Read More
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
What ‘Rugged’ Means on a 2026 Smartwatch, and Which Specs Actually Matter Outdoors Read More
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
OPPO Reno 16 Pro Lands With 200MP Cameras, 7000mAh, and Dimensity 9500s Read More
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
New Snoopy Timex Watch Floats Astronauts Around the Dial Read More
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