The Royal Pop launched on May 16 with police callouts, sidewalk queues, and StockX asking prices climbing past $2,400 for watches starting at $400 by lunch. One month later, some colorways are already getting listed back near $700, restocks keep arriving at boutiques, and the secondary market is doing exactly what Swatch CEO Nick Hayek […]
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Most beach gear makes it to the shoreline easily enough. It’s the last hundred feet of soft sand between the parking lot and the waterline that separates the gear that works from the junk that ends up on Facebook Marketplace after one summer. What the VEVOR Beach Dolly Actually Is The VEVOR Beach Dolly is
Kodak’s tiny keychain camera, the one people kept selling out last year, is back in Y2K dress code, and it might be the most early-2000s thing to launch in 2026. The Kodak Charmera Millennium Edition went on sale direct from Reto Production in mid-June, with six new metallic blind box designs and a rare secret
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Google just gave its smart speaker lineup the reset it’s needed for years. After a six-year gap, the new Google Home Speaker arrives June 25 with Gemini built in, a fresh 360-degree design, and a $99.99 price that undercuts much of the competition. It’s the clearest sign yet that Google wants its hardware to lead
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Most midrange tablets get the big stuff right and punt on audio. The screen handles Netflix, the battery lasts a day, and the speakers sound like a laptop fan arguing with itself. Lenovo’s answer to that pattern is the Tab Plus Gen 2, a $399.99 slate with a nine-speaker JBL system, a 360-degree kickstand, and
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Every trackable thing you’ve bought in the last five years picked a side. iPhone or Android. Apple Find My or Google Find Hub. Your tracker works great, and your partner’s doesn’t, and that’s just how it goes. Nobody called it a design flaw. It became background noise, an accepted tax you pay for buying into
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I woke up Saturday to a notification no wearable had ever sent me. The RingConn Gen 3 had finished its three-night sleep apnea assessment, and the report read AHI 8.1, “Suspected Mild.” I put this $349 smart ring on to find out whether the two-week battery claim and the no-subscription pitch hold up. Seven days
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Camera navigation in pool robots is no longer new. What is new is a robot that uses two front-mounted cameras for stereo depth perception, recognizes more than twenty debris types in real time, and generates weekly cleaning schedules without manual programming. The Aiper Scuba V3 Ultra does all three. Aiper Scuba V3 Ultra: $1999.99 $2299.99
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If you were waiting for Apple to ship the Siri upgrade it promised in 2024, WWDC 2026 delivered the reset. During the June 8 keynote, Apple unveiled Siri AI, a rebuild of its assistant running on next-generation Apple Foundation Models, custom-built in collaboration with Google and its Gemini models. The company also announced iOS 27,
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JP-crafts launched TSUKI on May 26, 2026 to fund the initial production run of YEBISUYAIBA’s (Ebisu Blade) moon series. The campaign is denominated in yen, so every dollar figure here is an approximate conversion as of June 9, 2026. As of that snapshot, 974 backers have pledged J¥37,290,899, roughly $215,000 at recent Kickstarter exchange rates.
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Tim Cook’s WWDC 2026 keynote was not about one headline feature. It was about Apple admitting what it could not build alone, while quietly doing something remarkable for anyone who keeps their hardware longer than two years. After two years of promising an AI leap that never fully arrived, Apple changed strategy: it called in
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Father’s Day 2026 lands on June 21, and most “tech gift guides” floating around this week are recycled Amazon affiliate dumps with the same five products in a different order. The seven picks below are different. Each one earned its slot through real-world use and a clear answer to the question dads quietly ask themselves:
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ASUS used its Computex 2026 keynote to show a full ecosystem rather than a single flagship. Every category received an AI upgrade, from creator laptops down to a new tablet and a desktop tower that could pass for furniture. It was a broad presentation. Headlining the lineup are the ProArt P16 and P14, which become
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I just spent four days inside Xpeng’s world leading up to the 2026 Beijing Auto Show, and I’m still trying to process what I saw. Cars threading through Beijing chaos like a taxi driver who’s been on the job for thirty years. Humanoid robots in active development. A flying car with 7,000 orders on the
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The biggest time-savers in a smart kitchen are an air fryer, a smart-sensor microwave, and a vacuum sealer. An air fryer cooks in roughly half the time of a conventional oven and skips preheating altogether, which keeps the kitchen (and your AC bill) cooler in July. A smart-sensor microwave reads the moisture coming off the
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Kershaw is the brand that quietly lives in more pockets than any other. A Spyderco gets pulled out at the knife meet. A Benchmade gets argued over on Reddit. A Kershaw gets carried, used, lost in the couch, replaced for under $50, and carried again. The lineup spans a $15 keychain folder to a $200
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For most of computing history, the deal with a personal computer stayed the same. You learned where the buttons lived, you clicked them in the right order, and the machine waited for your next move. Faster chips and brighter screens changed how quickly that dance happened, never the dance itself. The computer sat still until
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Most pool robots promise to erase a weekend chore, then turn into another gadget that needs babysitting. You charge it, untangle it, fish it out when it dies in the deep end, and wonder why you didn’t bother with a manual pole. Aiper’s pitch with the Experts Duo is that one robot was never the
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Every dad has a pocket loadout, even the ones who’d never call it “EDC.” Car keys, a beat-up wallet, a phone with three cracks, and that one ballpoint pen from the bank that somehow refuses to die. We love them for it. But with Father’s Day right around the corner, this is the year to
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This week brought one of the strongest gadget weeks of the year. Workhorse EDC knives went sub-3-inch without losing teeth, Qi2.2 MagSafe banks finally caught up to wired speeds, robot mops added 176°F dock washing, and an Apple II tribute keyboard arrived clad in five pounds of aluminum. The ten releases below are all drops
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