A $500 folding knife that shares its blade steel and lock with a standard model costing under half as much is either an easy skip or an easy yes, and which one depends entirely on why you are buying. That is the tension running through the Mini Adira Dark Waters, the limited-edition collaboration between Benchmade […]
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PlumCat AI is crowdfunding a translator small enough to disappear on your collar. The PlumCat AI weighs 7.4 grams, runs real-time translation, comes with a companion app in every pledge, and is live on Kickstarter now. PlumCat calls it the world’s smallest AI translator you can wear, and at that weight the claim is at
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Hisense announced the A10, a phone built around a 6.13-inch monochrome E Ink display with a detachable magnetic color LCD for the back and a Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 processor. The removable rear panel lets you swap between a slim reading-focused device and a full-color smartphone without carrying two phones. It is also the first
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Patriotic watches are usually cash grabs wearing a flag. You’ve seen the formula: a stock case, a themed sticker of a dial, and a markup that banks on your patriotism outrunning your judgment. Skepticism is the right default when a brand wraps an anniversary around a timepiece. Every so often, though, one earns the occasion
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July is when the back-to-school shopping season really kicks off, and 2026 is no exception. Between Apple’s expected education promotion, Best Buy’s student deals hub, Dell’s extra 10% off for students, and Lenovo’s back-to-school sale, there are real savings to be found if you know where to look. We have rounded up the best laptop,
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TrimUI has opened preorders for the TrimUI Brick Pro, a $99.99 retro handheld that grows the screen to 3.95 inches while keeping the pocketable shape that made the original Brick a budget favorite. Preorders are live on the TRIMUI Store, with units shipping after June 30, 2026, and an early bird code, BPO10, taking 10
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A memory shortage has quietly rewritten the laptop buying rules for 2026, and most of the advice people are still repeating hasn’t caught up. RAM and storage prices have jumped hard this year, and brands have started downgrading specs and raising prices to protect their margins. So the cheap laptop that looked fine two years
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Kershaw didn’t make the Bel Air line easier to understand in 2026. It made it more useful. The regular Bel Air already sits in that pocket between polished EDC and a knife you’d actually use, but the new Bel Air XL variants turn the decision into something sharper: what kind of work do you expect
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Every action camera asks you to trust that you framed the shot right, then find out hours later that you clipped everyone’s heads off. The MusicCam Pro fixes that with one deceptively simple idea: it shows you the shot live, on your phone, before and while you record. That’s the pitch behind VibeLens’ newest headset,
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Budget earbuds earn their price by leaving things out. The cheap pair is usually where you expect to lose the feature you’d actually want to talk about, so you brace for the compromise before the case even opens. Price: $99.25 Where to Buy: Amazon That expectation is what Nothing just poked at. On July 7,
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I spent a month wearing a RingConn Gen 3 smart ring and a Huawei Watch Fit 5 Pro at the same time. Only one of them changed how I actually live. Here is the short version: the smartwatch won the utility battle, but the smart ring won the behavior war. Let me explain why that
I Wore a Smart Ring and a Smartwatch for 30 Days: One of Them Won Read More
If you have ever grabbed a power bank only to watch your phone charge slower than it drains, you know the pain. Most portable batteries claim fast charging, but very few deliver it. This July, a handful of deals actually back up the promise with real specs: 22.5W output, 90W laptop charging, MagSafe speeds, and
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Jake Laser has spent his whole life watching his dad navigate a world that wasn’t built for wheelchairs. His father, a former marathon runner, has multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease that attacks the spinal cord and has kept him in a wheelchair for more than a decade. Stairs, gravel paths, steep hills. These aren’t inconveniences.
Apple’s ultra-thin iPhone Air arrived as one of the most polarizing flagships in years. It won praise for its impossibly slim titanium body and premium feel, but it drew just as much criticism for its single camera, modest battery, and steep price. Almost as soon as it shipped, attention turned to the sequel. The iPhone
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You love your mechanical watch. You also want to track your sleep, heart rate, and workouts without strapping a second device to your other wrist or giving up the watch you carefully curated. This is the tension that has defined watch collecting for the last decade. And it’s the exact problem the XBAND smart strap
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You don’t need to spend a paycheck on a good watch. The watch industry has spent decades convincing people that a decent mechanical movement starts at $500 and that anything cheaper is disposable. That marketing works. But it’s also wrong. Some of the most reliable, most respected watches ever made cost less than what you
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If you’ve seen one Timex reissue, you’ve seen most of them. A vintage case borrowed from the archive, a dial color from a Tumblr mood board, and a price that makes you impulse-buy at the checkout counter. The END. x Timex 1981 is not that watch. This is a collaboration between Timex and the UK
Timex and END. Just Made the Most Interesting $199 Watch of the Summer Read More
Think about the last time you tried to film something worth watching. You propped your phone against a water bottle, asked someone who filmed mostly sky and pavement, or skipped it entirely because the setup wasn’t worth the interruption. The moment happened. The record of it didn’t. Price: From $549 Where to Buy: Kickstarter Mondo
Your GoPro Can’t Follow You, This Robot Can Read More
Xreal just spun up a budget sub-brand called X by Xreal, or xbx for short, and the a01+ is the higher-end half of its debut lineup. It sits alongside the base a01 as a pair of tethered AR display glasses built for movies, games, and work on the go, not a standalone headset. The glasses
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Most EDC knife buyers know exactly where they stand: under $80 gets you a solid folder that does the job, and anything above $150 starts to feel like a collector’s purchase. The $100-to-$150 bracket has always been the awkward middle: too expensive to be a casual buy, not premium enough to justify the leap. That
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