A good multitool turns three pockets into one. It’s the difference between giving up on a roadside fix and getting back on the road, or between finishing a campsite setup at dusk and fumbling in the dark. The category is in a good place. MagnaCut steel has crossed into mainstream blades, modular platforms let you […]
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A smartwatch on the wrist glows in your face at 2 a.m., gets caught on sleeves, and asks to be charged the moment you’re ready for bed. A ring sits there quietly, reading the same heart-rate variability and skin temperature data, then hands you a sleep score before coffee. That contrast is the reason smart
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Mini PCs in 2026 finally do what desktop replacements have promised for years. A $499 box now comes with a Ryzen 7 chip, 32GB of DDR5 memory, and a 1TB NVMe drive, and it can fit behind your monitor. The hard part isn’t power anymore. It’s picking the right model for what you do. A
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If your wrist hurts after a long day at the desk, a vertical mouse may be the cheapest fix to try. These mice tilt sideways so your hand rests in a relaxed handshake shape, which keeps your forearm in a more natural spot. In 2026, you finally have real options beyond the same one or
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Citizen’s stacked one of its busiest release calendars in years, and most of it’s real upgrades, not refresh-by-colorway. The Eco-Drive 50th anniversary anchors the lineup with the limited AQ4091-56W, but the Tsuyosa’s grown up with a rotating bezel and a seconde/seconde/ collab, the Series 8 has slimmed down, and Promaster’s dropping the stealth limiteds collectors
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Memorial Day weekend kicks off peak outdoor season, from coastal trail runs to multi-day basecamps and weekend road trips, and the device most likely to die on you out there is still your phone. A solar power bank solves the math by stacking a usable battery and a built-in panel into a single piece of
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Spring 2026 brought two true flagship launches, Sony’s WF-1000XM6 in February and Samsung’s Galaxy Buds 4 Pro in March, into a market where three strong 2025 holdovers (Apple’s AirPods Pro 3, Bose’s QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds (2nd Gen), and EarFun’s Air Pro 4+) are still the picks to beat in their respective lanes. Whether you need
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AP’s Royal Oak waitlists run years for anything worth owning, and the pre-owned 15500ST sits near $40,000. If you want the Gerald Genta look (octagonal bezel, exposed screws, integrated bracelet), you’ve got two options: wait, or buy a homage. Interest in the Royal Oak just spiked again. Swatch and AP’s “Royal Pop” is a bioceramic
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January’s CES floor was thick with home robots. Booths lined up humanoids, rolling AI projectors, and dual-armed butlers, and every press release headline read some variant of “available in 2026.” Six months later, almost none of them sit in actual living rooms. Three units clear the bar as of May 2026. 1X NEO is open
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Subscription fatigue has crept into every corner of the smart home, but your front door doesn’t have to be next. The 2026 crop of smart locks finally lets you skip recurring fees without giving up fingerprint entry, app control, or local video storage. Renters who don’t want to commit to a cloud plan and homeowners
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Graduation cards are stacked on the kitchen counter, the cap-and-gown photos are queued for the family group chat, and somewhere a parent is panic-shopping for a gift that won’t get lost inside a shared dorm closet by October. Most graduation tech roundups solve the wrong problem, pushing full-size appliances that violate dorm fire codes or
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Most “travel tripods” don’t actually travel. Anything under 5 pounds qualifies in marketing copy, but the list that rides inside a carry-on is much shorter. The same trick applies to stability, a 60-inch max-height spec usually requires a center column cranked all the way up, which is where stability disappears. Heading into the 2026 summer
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A $150 cut, no successor in sight The iPhone Air just hit its lowest Memorial Day price, and the timing tells you everything. The 256GB unlocked model dropped to roughly $850, a $150 haircut off the $999 launch price. That’s the steepest discount it’s seen since hitting shelves. Price: From $789 Where to Buy: Amazon
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The Sub-$300 Sports Watch Stopped Being a Compromise The under-$300 sports watch used to be the watch you bought when you couldn’t afford the watch you actually wanted. That math broke in late 2025. Apple shipped the SE 3 in September at $249 starting, with the S10 chip, an always-on display, and sleep apnea notifications,
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Pocket knife law used to live in a fog of city ordinances, county add-ons, and state preemption fights. A handful of statehouse moves this cycle have started thinning that fog. North Carolina’s H439, advancing through the 2025-2026 session, defines an “ordinary pocket knife” as a folder with a blade up to 6 inches. Ohio and
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The jump from built-in TV speakers to a real soundbar is bigger than the jump from a $500 soundbar to a $1,500 one. The first upgrade fixes everything that was broken. The second upgrade chases marginal gains most living rooms can’t even reveal. The change shows up inside five minutes of plugging one in. Dialogue
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The Audemars Piguet x Swatch Royal Pop dropped on May 16, 2026, and it isn’t a wristwatch. It’s a pocket watch, in eight Pop Art colorways, built around the Royal Oak’s octagonal case and powered by a hand-wound SISTEM51 movement. It ships in two case styles: the open-faced Lépine at $400 and the hunter-cased Savonnette
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The electric lawn mower finally got good enough this spring. Cordless decks used to feel like a compromise for green-minded buyers, but now they’re the first thing we’d point most homeowners toward, and the specs back that up. People who would’ve laughed off a battery mower two years ago are walking past the gas aisle
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Sony’s WH-1000XM5 just hit $278 on Amazon, its lowest tracked price since launch, as Memorial Day deals go live across the audio category. Bose is also shaving $120 off its mainline QuietComfort, and Nothing’s first KEF-tuned over-ears are matching their all-time low. We’ve pulled eight picks that we’d actually spend on, across over-ears, true wireless
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Garmin’s loudest watches have always been the Forerunners. The fenix gets the marketing budget, the Forerunner 970 gets the running coverage, and the Venu has spent four generations stuck between “the friendlier Garmin” and “the one that isn’t a fitness computer.” That positioning’s finally over. Price: $499.99 (On Sale) Where to Buy: Amazon The Venu
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