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Most Robotic Mowers Can’t Handle American Lawns, This One Climbs 40-Degree Slopes

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CES 2026 NEWS – Robotic mowers have been a solved problem in Europe for years. Over there, 1.5 million units ship annually, backyards tend toward flat rectangles, and the idea of a machine handling grass duty barely raises an eyebrow. Cross the Atlantic, and the math breaks down. American lawns are steeper, larger, more complicated, […]

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The Robotic Mower That Uses Two Navigation Systems Because One Isn’t Enough

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CES 2026 NEWS – Robotic mowers have a predictable weakness that manufacturers rarely discuss. LIDAR-based navigation excels under tree cover and in complex yards but struggles in wide open spaces without reference points. RTK positioning works brilliantly in open terrain but bounces unpredictably when satellite signals hit buildings and foliage. Every mower has to pick

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This Robotic Mower Finally Figured Out What “Hands-Free” Actually Means

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CES 2026 NEWS – Most robotic mowers still need babysitting. They get stuck on roots. They panic at garden gnomes. They mow the same strip seventeen times while ignoring the patch by the fence. And when the GPS drifts, you’re out there with your phone trying to convince a premium robot that your property line

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Plaud Desktop Captures Your Virtual Meetings Without the Bot Awkwardness

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CES 2026 NEWS – Meeting bots have become the digital equivalent of that colleague who announces their presence a little too loudly. They join your Zoom with a megaphone notification, make external clients visibly uncomfortable, and occasionally get blocked by IT departments before they can even do their job. The friction is real. The popular

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The Wearable That Captures Conversations Before You’re Ready for Them

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CES 2026 NEWS – Most conversations worth capturing happen before you’re ready for them. The meeting starts while you’re still finding a seat. The doctor begins explaining a diagnosis while you’re processing the previous sentence. Your client mentions the real constraint in the first thirty seconds, not the last. Recording tools that require unlocking, launching,

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Samsung’s Freestyle+ Finally Addresses the One Thing Portable Projectors Get Wrong

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CES 2026 NEWS – Portable projectors have always demanded too much compromise. You get the convenience of throwing a screen anywhere, but you pay for it with fussy keystone correction, washed-out brightness, and the kind of setup ritual that kills the spontaneity these devices promise. Samsung’s original Freestyle was fun but flawed, and three years

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Clicks Communicator and Power Keyboard: BlackBerry Nostalgia Gets a 2026 Upgrade

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CES 2026 NEWS – Physical keyboards on phones didn’t die because people stopped wanting them. They died because touchscreens won the spec war, and manufacturers followed the numbers. Clicks Technology has spent the past two years proving there’s still an audience willing to strap a real keyboard to their iPhone, and the company shipped over

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Hisense Built a TV That Follows You Around the House

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CES 2026 NEWS – The television industry has spent decades convincing everyone that bigger is better. Screen sizes keep climbing, wall mounts keep getting more elaborate, and the assumption remains that a TV belongs in one spot, permanently anchored to whatever room you designate as the living room. Hisense thinks that assumption is outdated. The

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LG’s 2026 Xboom Speakers Bet Everything on One Feature Nobody Asked For

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CES 2026 NEWS – Portable speakers have become commodities. Walk into any electronics store and you’ll find a wall of identical-looking cylinders and cubes, each promising “rich sound” and “deep bass,” each blending into the next. The category feels solved, which usually means it’s about to get interesting. LG’s answer arrives just before CES 2026,

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Xiaomi 17 Ultra turns your phone into a Leica-style camera rig with a 1-inch sensor and a rotary zoom ring

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NEWS – Most flagship phones pretend to compete on cameras while actually competing on the same sensors, the same software tricks, and the same marketing language. The Xiaomi 17 Ultra is the first phone in years that feels like it was designed by someone who actually shoots with their phone, not someone who approves spec

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What Happens When Blind Navigation Stops Being Reactive

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CES 2026 NEWS – Most accessibility technology settles for workarounds. It finds clever ways to route around limitations rather than confronting them directly. The white cane extends reach by a few feet. Screen readers translate visual interfaces into audio. Smartphone apps identify objects when you point your camera at them. Each solution adds capability, but

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This Two-Sided Watch Band Is a Bad Idea From the Bottom Up

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CES 2026 NEWS – There’s no polite way to say this. The Smartlet is a bad idea. A Paris-based startup is announcing a $418 stainless steel watch band at CES 2026 that lets you wear a mechanical watch on top of your wrist and hide a smartwatch underneath. Both devices. Same wrist. Stacked. The pitch

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Perisphere Smart Headphones: Your Personal Immersive Cinema That Disappears When You Don’t Need It

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CES 2026 News – Every portable display makes you choose: commit to the headset experience or don’t bother. Perisphere from Geeks Loft tries something different. Dual screens that rotate down when you want them, then disappear into what looks like a pair of headphones when you don’t. Your browser does not support the video tag.

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Hisense XR10 Laser TV: A Big Screen Alternative That Actually Works During the Day

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NEWS – There are two ways to get a really big picture in your living room. You can mount a massive television on your wall, or you can use a projector. Until recently, the choice came down to one thing: how much do you care about watching during the day? Televisions handle daylight by being

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Spark X pushes 3D printing out of the workshop and onto your desk

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NEWS – There is a line in Her, the film about a future where technology feels less like a machine and more like an extension of human emotion. That future no longer lives only in imagination. Tools that once felt cold, distant, or intimidating are quietly becoming warmer, simpler, and more woven into daily routines.

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Alexa+ Enables Ring Doorbells to Greet and Respond to Visitors

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NEWS – Amazon’s latest Alexa+ feature turns your Ring doorbell into a conversational assistant that can identify who’s at your door, understand what they need, and respond naturally on your behalf. Whether you’re home, busy, or simply don’t want to be interrupted, Alexa handles the conversation for you. What is Alexa+ Greetings? Alexa+ Greetings combines

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Hisense Bets Big on AI and Modularity for Home Appliances at CES 2026

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NEWS – If you’ve ever wrestled a sloshing dehumidifier tank up basement stairs, or wondered why your smart fridge and smart oven don’t talk to each other, or given up on Hisense washers because they were too small for American households, this CES lineup is aimed directly at you. Hisense showed a dehumidifier you empty

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GUNNAR’s Fallout Brotherhood of Steel Glasses Hit Pre-Order Tomorrow

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NEWS – GUNNAR Optiks and Amazon Studios just dropped the officially licensed Fallout Brotherhood of Steel gaming glasses for pre-order at $99. For anyone who spent hours roaming the wasteland or binged the Prime Video series this year, these frames bring one of gaming’s most iconic factions straight to your face. Pre-orders open December 17,

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6 Reasons the Huawei Mate X7 Has Me Rethinking Foldables

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Huawei dropped the Mate X7 at their Dubai launch event today, and I need to talk about it. I sat through the virtual pre-briefing a few weeks back, watching spec after spec scroll by, and something clicked. Not the usual “oh, that’s nice” reaction you get from annual phone refreshes. More like “wait, did they

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