Posts about a variety of topics which are not news and are not reviews.
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 […]
FiiO’s RETRO BOX Only Makes Sense If You Already Own the Right Player Read More
Most tools sold as everyday carry start with a blade and build outward. KANSEPT’s PryMate starts somewhere else. It’s a flat piece of titanium designed by Sebastian Irawan as a deliberately non-knife carry tool, built around a pry bar and a short list of wrenches rather than a cutting edge. It isn’t a new release,
KANSEPT’s $43 PryMate Is a Titanium Pry Bar That Skips the Blade Read More
NEC announced a new Android tablet, the LAVIE Tab T12, on July 30, and the spec sheet reads like it was assembled in two different years. The display, the battery, and the chassis all belong in 2026. The wireless radio doesn’t. LAVIE Tab T12 (PC-TAB12Q01) Price: 64,790 yen including tax (About $412) Where to Buy:
NEC’s LAVIE Tab T12 Makes a Big Bet on Support, Not Speed Read More
Most folding knives ask nothing of you beyond a thumb push. The WE Knife Inmate 23096B-3 asks for a specific motion, and it hands back a blade that snaps open with more authority than a thumb stud usually manages. That trade sits at the center of this knife. It’s the reason the Inmate reads as
Blue Titanium and Golden Raindrops: WE Knife’s Least Subtle Folder Read More
Dell’s new XPS 13 starts at $699.99 in the U.S., or $599 for eligible students, and pairs that entry price with a 13.4-inch 2.5K display, a 2.2-pound CNC aluminum chassis, and a 512 GB SSD. Touch is part of the deal only if you pick the Sky finish, because the Storm configuration costs the same
Pick the Wrong XPS 13 Color and You Lose the Touchscreen Read More
ASUS put the Zenni Claw beta out on July 24 as a free download, and free is doing a lot of work in that sentence. The software costs nothing to install. Unless your PC can run the model locally, the intelligence behind it runs on an API key you supply yourself, billed to your own
Installing Costs Nothing, but Running It Doesn’t Read More
Dive watch marketing still sells you a tool. Most of that tooling stopped mattering once dive computers got affordable, and the pitch never updated. The rotating bezel, the 200 meter rating, the lume that reads in black water, all of it survives because it looks like capability. Heron Marinor Rainbow White Price: $600 (FKM rubber)
The Dive Watch Feature That Stopped Mattering Decades Ago Read More
Robots don’t fail only because a hand misses a cup. They fail because the task around that cup keeps changing. Google DeepMind’s answer is to split the problem, and Gemini Robotics ER 2 is the half that keeps track of the larger job. ER 2 isn’t a robot you can buy, and it isn’t the
Google’s Gemini Robotics ER 2 Wants to Run the Whole Robot Crew Read More
Watch a camera operator on a busy set, or an engineer working front-of-house, and you’ll see the same thing. One cup sits on the ear. The other gets pushed back behind it. The room matters as much as the signal does. beyerdynamic DT 275 PRO Price: $149.99 Where to Buy: beyerdynamic, Amazon (Older model) That’s
The Monitoring Headphone Built for Working With One Ear Off Read More
De’Longhi wants $999.95 to solve a problem most kitchens handle with a second appliance and a shrug. Its new De Longhi Magnifica Duo ships with two milk carafes, one tuned for hot foam and one for cold, so a cappuccino at 7am and an iced latte at 3pm come out of the same machine without
Your Kitchen Doesn’t Need Two Coffee Machines Anymore Read More
Laundry is where home robotics stops being a novelty and starts asking for a place in the family budget. Weave Robotics has opened pre-orders for Isaac 1, a mobile home robot that the company says can collect clothes, fold them, put them away, make beds, and reset the small messes that gather through a normal
Weave Isaac 1 Wants Your Laundry Pile This Fall, for $7,999 Read More
Timex added an automatic GMT to the Deepwater Meridian 200 on July 30, and the change is bigger than the name suggests. Deepwater already had automatics, and it had a quartz GMT, but never the two in one watch. This one puts a 24-hour hand and a ceramic bezel on a 42mm steel case with
Timex’s Deepwater Meridian 200 Goes Automatic and Adds a GMT Hand Read More
Evan Blass just gave Pixel 11 fans another reason to keep refreshing his feed. The leaker shared more than a dozen new images this week, and this batch goes beyond hardware shots into the features Google’s actually building the phone around: a 30x zoom claim, Gemini AI teasers, and camera samples straight from the device.
This Pixel 11 Leak Skips the Design and Goes Straight for the Features Read More
An AI necklace that couldn’t talk has spent two years defining itself through controversy instead of conversation. This week that changes. Friend AI Pendant, the always-listening AI pendant from founder Avi Schiffmann, now ships with a built-in speaker and a spoken personality, and the price has nearly doubled to match. Schiffmann announced the update, calling
Friend AI Pendant Gets a Voice, and the Price Jumps to $249 Read More
Home EV charging gets expensive before the electricity starts flowing. A wall charger, a dedicated circuit, and an electrician can turn a simple overnight routine into a project. The new Lectron Nexus EV Chargers aim at the hardware portion with four Level 2 options that split the decision into connector and installation style. Lectron announced
Lectron’s New Nexus EV Chargers Put Home Charging on a More Practical Footing Read More
GoPro’s MISSION 1 Creator Edition packs a full production setup into one $1,099.99 box, built around the 8K-capable MISSION 1 PRO camera. Instead of assembling a camera, a microphone, a grip, a power source, and a mounting system one piece at a time, the whole kit ships together in a single purchase. GoPro announced the
5 Things to Love About the GoPro MISSION 1 Creator Edition Read More
Two fixed blade knives for under twenty dollars usually means something got cut, and not in a good way. The Mossy Oak 2-piece Bowie Knife set sells for $19.99 on Amazon, which works out to roughly ten dollars a blade. That price alone makes it worth a closer look. What’s surprising is that the spec
Two Full Tang Bowie Knives for $19.99 Sounds Too Cheap to Trust Read More
A 1440p panel, a 180Hz refresh rate and a stand that actually moves rarely show up on the same cheap monitor, but this Samsung Odyssey has them all. Two of them usually cost you the third. That trade is worth a second look right now, because one screen that avoids it just fell to what
This 180Hz Samsung Gaming Monitor Just Got a Huge Price Cut Read More
Casio unveiled the CRW-H001M-8, its first ring watch with health sensors inside. Heart rate, blood oxygen, body temperature and sleep all get read from the inner surface of the ring. The original CRW-001 from 2024 tracked nothing at all. Price: 1,990 yuan (About $294) Where to Buy: Casio China Add The Gadgeteer on Google Add
Casio’s Ring Watch Just Grew a Heart Rate Sensor, and It Undercuts the Oura Ring 5 Read More
Google still hasn’t shown the Pixel 11 Pro Fold, and at this point it barely needs to. A fresh batch of high resolution images landed on July 30, and they look like they came straight off a product listing rather than out of a rendering tool. Under two weeks out from the August 12 event
The Pixel 11 Pro Fold Leaked in Full, and Pixel Glow Made the Cut Read More