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You Don’t Need a Full Power Station to Save Your Fridge During an Outage

Most backup power advice starts with buying a whole-house generator or a portable power station bulky enough to run half the kitchen. FridgeGuard skips that step. It’s a dedicated battery built to sit beside the refrigerator and take over the instant an outage starts, without anyone installing a larger system or calling an electrician. Jackery […]

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8 Things the Galaxy Z Fold8 Just Made the New Floor for Every Foldable

By Rei Padla / July 27, 2026 / Articles / Foldable, galaxy, Mobile Phone, Samsung / Leave a Comment

Every affordable version of a flagship phone ships with an unspoken warning: whatever made the expensive model good, expect less of it here. Smaller battery, slower charging, a camera bar that quietly drops a lens, a screen that looks fine only until you put it next to the version that costs more. Samsung’s new Galaxy

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The Origami-Folded G-SHOCK for Runners Just Got Three New Colors

By Rei Padla / July 27, 2026 / Articles / watch, Watches and Clocks / Leave a Comment

Casio GBA-950-9A3 Analog Digital Series Watch 7

Comfort is the spec nobody prints on a watch box, and it’s usually the reason a training watch ends up in a drawer by March. Casio’s GBA-950 goes after that problem from an unexpected direction, borrowing the mathematics of paper folding to change how the band sits against your wrist. The series arrived in 2025

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Buck’s Range Pro Comes in Two Sizes and the $10 Gap Tells You Which to Buy

By Rei Padla / July 27, 2026 / Articles / EDC, folding knife, Knives / Leave a Comment

Buck Knives 790 Mini Range Pro Folding Pocket Knife C

Buck has made knives since 1902 and built its name on the lockback, then put a crossbar lock on a folder for the first time in company history. The Range Series is where that shift landed, and the Pro versions are the ones most buyers should look at first. They pair 154CM steel with glass-filled

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Viltrox’s New 26mm EVO Makes Full-Frame Cameras Easier to Carry

By Rei Padla / July 27, 2026 / Articles / Camera, Camera gear, Lens / Leave a Comment

Viltrox AF 26mm F2.8 EVO Full-Frame Lens Buy Now

Full-frame kits get left at home because of size. Viltrox’s new AF 26mm F2.8 EVO aims straight at that problem, and it keeps a clicked aperture ring and a separate focus ring while doing it. The Sony E version measures about 23.8mm long, per Viltrox. Price: $299 Where to Buy: Sony Viltrox showed both full-frame

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Ultra-Wideband Comes to a 70% Gaming Keyboard

By Vincent Nguyen / July 26, 2026 / Articles / Keyboard / Leave a Comment

CHERRY XTRFY K63W Pro Compact Ultra-Wideband Gaming Keyboard

Wireless gaming keyboards have been making the same trade for years: pick compact and live in a crowded radio neighborhood, or keep the cable and stop thinking about it. Ultra-Wideband changes the math. It runs on short pulses across a wide frequency range, separate from the Bluetooth headsets and Wi-Fi routers that chip away at

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Why the Cheapest Revel Gets You the Same Blade Shape

By Rei Padla / July 26, 2026 / Articles / EDC, folding knife, Knives / Leave a Comment

ARTISANCUTLERY REVEL Pocket Knife for Men Where to Buy copy

Budget folding knives usually show you where the money went. You get a molded nylon handle instead of milled metal, a coated blade instead of a polished one, and a house brand steel instead of a name you know. The black Artisan Cutlery Revel 1867P has all three, and it still comes with a button

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Razer Puts 32-Bit DSP Inside Its New Creator Mic

By Rei Padla / July 26, 2026 / Articles / Audio gear, microphone / Leave a Comment

Razer Seiren V3 Chroma 32-Bit DSP Where to Buy

Razer’s new Seiren V3 Chroma 32-Bit DSP starts at $119.99, which is $10 under the starting price of the Seiren V3 Chroma it upgrades. That reads like a bargain until you check what the older mic actually sells for, which is closer to $88 to $100 at Best Buy, Newegg, and other retailers. The upgrade

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This Titanium Bezel Grows Its Own Pattern, and Only 1,800 Watches Will Have It

By Vincent Nguyen / July 26, 2026 / Articles / watch, Watches and Clocks / Leave a Comment

CITIZEN ATTESA SATELLITE WAVE GPS F950 limited edition model availability

Most limited edition watches are a color swap and a numbered caseback. You pay the premium for scarcity, not for anything your fingers can actually detect, and the material underneath stays identical to the model sitting next to it in the case. Price: $2,915 Where to Buy: Citizen Citizen’s newest ATTESA takes a stranger route.

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OKNIFE’s $59.99 Titanium EDC Pen Skips the Bolt Action

By Rei Padla / July 25, 2026 / Articles / EDC, Pens / Leave a Comment

OKNIFE B1 Ti Titanium Pen with 2-in-1 Clip Use

OKNIFE prices the B1 Lightning Strike titanium EDC pen at $59.99, which is real money for a ballpoint. The company’s argument is that you’re paying for a machined grade 5 titanium body, a clip that deploys the refill in place of a bolt action, and a fidget spinner built into the cap. Whether that adds

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Anbernic’s RG SP Ditches the Joysticks for a Slimmer GBA SP Throwback

By Vincent Nguyen / July 25, 2026 / Articles / gaming, Gaming Gear / Leave a Comment

Anbernic keeps circling the same idea: take the Game Boy Advance SP shape and get it right. The RG35XXSP had the look but skipped analog sticks. The RG34XXSP added sticks that not every buyer in this shape was asking for. Now the newly revealed RG SP throws the sticks out again and leans all the

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Fort Wearable Tracks Your Reps, Sets, and How Close You Are to Failure

By Rei Padla / July 25, 2026 / Articles / Activity tracker, fitness, Health and fitness, wearables / Leave a Comment

Fort Strength Training Wearable How It Works

Most fitness wearables were designed around cardio. The step counts, the heart rate curves, the VO2 max estimates: all of it was built to make sense of movement that looks like movement. Lifting doesn’t look like movement to a gyroscope. It looks like a person standing still, occasionally lurching, and the software treats it accordingly.

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CIVIVI Iron Tide Puts a Titanium Clip and Thicker Blade Stock Under $85

By Rei Padla / July 25, 2026 / Articles / EDC, folding knife, Knives / Leave a Comment

Pete’s Pirate Life is Peter McKinnon’s EDC label. It put its name on another CIVIVI folder. The Iron Tide is the simplest thing that partnership has produced yet. Forest green aluminum, a black stonewashed 14C28N blade, a button lock, a titanium clip. Amazon has it at $84.75. CIVIVI’s own store wants $99.70. Price: $84.75 Where

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JBL Live 4 Earbuds Make a Strong Back to School Case for Students

By Rei Padla / July 25, 2026 / Articles / Audio gear, Bluetooth earbuds, Earbuds / Leave a Comment

JBL Live 4 Earbuds with Smart Charging Case

If you are on the lookout for new earbuds for the coming school year, the JBL Live 4 series is worth a look. It comes in three wearing styles, Buds, Beam and Flex, and the parts that matter most carry across all three: the same touchscreen charging case, the same six microphone call rig, the

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Casio Just Made the Cheapest G-SHOCK Expensive

By Rei Padla / July 25, 2026 / Articles / watch, Watches and Clocks / Leave a Comment

Casio G-Shock 6900 DW6900MO26-4 Digital Watch Buy Here

Casio has listed a new orange DW-6900 on its US site, the DW6900MO26-4, a limited collaboration with Larry June’s Midnight Organic tagged as a July 2026 release at $170. That number is the first thing worth arguing about, because the standard DW6900-1V has sat at $99.95 for years. Price: $170 Where to Buy: Casio You’re

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MSI Wrapped an RTX 5090 in Dragon Mythology for Its 40th Anniversary

By Rei Padla / July 24, 2026 / Articles / Computing, Gaming Gear, Laptop / Leave a Comment

MSI Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition Draco Epic

MSI marked its 40th anniversary by giving its Titan 18 HX flagship a mythology-inspired makeover, and the result is the Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition Draco Epic, a limited-run gaming laptop that pairs the brand’s most powerful mobile hardware with a showpiece design built around the Draco constellation. Price: $6,899 Where to Buy: MSI Add

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This $75 Leatherman Folds Three Ways and Hides a Full Bit Kit

By Rei Padla / July 24, 2026 / Articles / EDC, Leatherman, Multi-tool / Leave a Comment

Leatherman rolled out the ninth release in its Garage series, and this one skips brute force for precision. The Batch #009 Adapter is a $75 ratcheting tool cache built to carry the small stuff your main multitool doesn’t have room for, and true to the Garage line’s limited-run playbook, it sold out almost the moment

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MagicX Mini Dream Brings a 3.3-Inch OLED Screen Starting at $80

By Vincent Nguyen / July 24, 2026 / Articles / gaming, Gaming Gear / 1 Comment

MagicX wants you excited about a screen and patient about everything else. The Mini Dream broke cover on July 23, 2026 as the company’s first handheld built around a custom 3.3-inch OLED, and that panel is the entire reason anyone’s paying attention. Price starts at $80. The catch shows up fast. That tension sits right

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The Kizer Finch Is a Fixed Blade Built to Vanish in Your Pocket

By Rei Padla / July 24, 2026 / Articles / EDC, Knives / Leave a Comment

Most of Kizer’s catalog folds. The Finch refuses to, and that one decision changes how it carries, feels, and earns pocket space. Designed by Vincent Rizzo, it slips a 3.09-inch blade into a fixed-blade body that runs 6.34 inches overall and stays under three ounces, light enough to ride a neck cord without tugging your

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Timex Is Pushing the Expedition Capstone Upmarket Without Raising the Price

By Rei Padla / July 24, 2026 / Articles / Timex, watch, Watches and Clocks / Leave a Comment

Expedition Capstone 39mm Eco-Friendly Leather Strap Watch

Timex is growing its outdoor-focused Expedition Capstone line, and for the first time, a chronograph function is part of the mix, announced last June. The Expedition name has long been Timex’s shorthand for rugged, affordable field watches, and Capstone is the more style-forward branch of that family, built around a distinctive tonneau case rather than

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