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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Alongside its new 3:2 Iconia Duo tablet family announced out of Taipei, Acer slipped in two of the more interesting wearables of the year. The AR Vision GR0 and GI0 AI glasses aim at completely different audiences, one for couch gamers and frequent flyers who want a giant private screen, the other for travelers and
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For most of Matter’s short life, the smart home standard had a glaring blind spot: cameras and doorbells. Lights, plugs, locks, thermostats, blinds: all good. The devices most people actually picture when they hear “smart home security,” not so much. That changed on November 20, 2025, when the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) finalized Matter 1.5
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Father’s Day is coming soon, and this year’s watch lineup is the strongest in five years. Our eight best watches to gift Dad for this year range from a $99 Casio G‑Shock to Garmin’s $899 Fenix 8, with rugged GPS smartwatches, tool‑watch classics, a hybrid tracker, and a mid‑century dress watch around $200 in between.
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The biggest news about Sony’s WF-1000XM6 isn’t the new driver or the extra mics. It’s the chip. Sony built a new noise-canceling processor for these earbuds called the QN3e. It’s a different chip from the QN3 inside Sony’s WH-1000XM6 over-ear headphones. That one decision is what powers most of the upgrades in this generation. Price:
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The quietest, weirdest preview of where wearable AI is heading didn’t come from Apple, Meta, or any of the usual hardware giants. It came out of a lab at the University of Washington, where a team of researchers cracked open a pair of Sony WF-1000XM3 earbuds and did something equal parts brilliant and cursed: shoved
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A wobbly phone stand is worse than no stand at all. If your desk setup needs an upgrade for video calls, streaming, or just keeping notifications in view, the right stand keeps your screen stable without eating up space. This spring, a wave of new Qi2 and adjustable models hit shelves, so we rounded up
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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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If you’ve ever wished your wristwatch came with a side of wizarding charm, Timex just answered your owl. A few weeks ago, the American watchmaker officially unveiled the Harry Potter x Timex Collection, a nine-piece lineup that spans skeleton automatics, INDIGLO-equipped house watches, and a few playful Weekender twists that lean into the franchise’s most
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The sub-$100 fitness tracker market hit an inflection point in 2026. Continuous heart rate, blood oxygen, AMOLED screens, multi-band GPS, and two-plus weeks of battery are all standard at this tier. Behind the shift: Xiaomi’s Smart Band 10 going global at $50, Amazfit’s Bip 6 bringing 5-system GPS to a $79.99 watch, the Fitbit Inspire
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After a long wait, the Thunderbolt 5 dock field has finally narrowed to a handful of real options. Intel showed off Thunderbolt 5 back in 2023, and by mid-2026 the docks are finally here. Plugable’s TBT-UDT3 Thunderbolt 5 docking station has been on sale since 2025, and Satechi and UGREEN shipped their first TB5 docks
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The over-ear ANC market has settled into a familiar shape: Sony’s WH-1000XM6 owns the top of the pile, Bose’s QuietComfort Ultra owns the noise floor, and AirPods Max (refreshed as the H2-powered AirPods Max 2, introduced in March 2026) owns the “if you live in the Apple ecosystem” slot starting at $549. Everything else has
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Meta Ray-Ban gets the magazine covers. Amazon’s smart-glasses category gets everyone else. And “everyone else” is doing more interesting work than the headlines suggest. AI assistants on open-ear frames, real Micro-OLED AR displays, 4K POV camera frames, and built-in prescription audio glasses are all sitting one search away, often for half what the big names
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ASUS Republic of Gamers is 20 years old, and it’s celebrating the way you’d expect: with a limited-edition handheld that’s louder, denser, and more ambitious than the one it replaces. The ROG Xbox Ally X20 Bundle was announced on June 1, 2026 from Taipei, and it’s the first Xbox Ally with an OLED display, a
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If you’ve been holding out for Samsung’s next book-style foldable, the wait now has a countdown. Multiple reports point to Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked July 2026 event landing in London on July 22, where the Galaxy Z Fold 8 is expected to debut as the headline samsung foldable 2026 launch. Below, we round up the latest
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Qualcomm came to Computex with two announcements that sound like they belong to different companies. One is a chip platform for $300 Windows laptops. The other is a ready-made brain for humanoid and industrial robots. The thread connecting them is Qualcomm’s pitch that intelligence now has to run everywhere, from the cheapest laptop to a
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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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Before G-Shock took over the world, Casio was quietly building a back catalog of plastic-and-steel icons that have outlived just about every trend they survived. These eight classic and vintage Casios prove you don’t need four figures (or even three) to wear real horological history on your wrist. Casio’s vintage lineup is basically a cheat
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CJRB Cutlery’s glow-in-the-dark Gobi, the J1906-GD, has been gaining traction in EDC circles since its January 2026 debut and is widely available again on Amazon for $49.99. After several months of uneven Amazon availability following its initial launch, the variant is back in stock at its original price, ready to compete with newer releases in
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The “smart home tax” is shrinking. Between Blink’s first sub-$50 2K doorbell, IKEA’s full Matter relaunch, and Philips’ new WiZ-based budget line that all dropped in May 2026, you can now build a real, voice-controlled, multi-room setup without ever crossing the $50/device line. These ten picks, cross-checked against current Amazon pricing and May 2026 launches,
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