ARTICLE – Hundreds of TikTok influencers trashed their Oura Rings on camera this past year. Some smashed them with hammers. Others filmed themselves tossing them in the trash, set to trending audio. A connection between Oura and Palantir, the defense contractor, sparked the trend. Millions of viewers became convinced their sleep data was heading to […]
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People have spent years waiting for robot vacuums to handle everything on the floor. The fantasy is simple: the smarter these machines get, the less you’ll ever need to bend down. Yet after all the AI mapping, obstacle avoidance, and self-emptying bases, you still pick up your own socks before the vacuum runs. Price: $1,299.99
Robot Vacuum Picks Up Your Socks With a Mechanical Arm Read More
ARTICLE – A 290-reply Reddit thread titled “PSA, Don’t Buy HP Omen MAX 16” sits near the top of r/GamingLaptops right now. Directly below it, another post calls the same machine “amazing” with one condition: stick with Intel. Two active threads, same laptop, completely opposite conclusions. That kind of public split doesn’t happen often with
HP Omen Max 16 Gaming Laptop You Either Love It or Hate It Read More
I’m a fan of e-paper devices. My first e-reader was a Sony PRS-505 (from Julie!), and much later, I joined the Kindle ecosystem when the devices were finally affordable. I have gotten a ton of use out of my Kindles over the years, until I upgraded to a Kobo Libra Colour shortly after its launch in early 2024.
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ARTICLE – Most outdoor speakers look exactly like what they are: plastic boxes bolted to a wall or perched on a patio table. Earthquake Sound’s Granite-52 takes a different approach. The enclosures are molded from epoxy resin and finished with a granite texture that actually reads as stone from a few feet away. They’re sized
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ARTICLE – Every flat iron on the market works the same way. Two ceramic plates heat up, you clamp your hair between them, and the heat forces it straight. It’s effective, it’s simple, and it’s been slowly cooking your hair for decades. Dyson looked at that entire concept and decided to throw it out. Price:$549.99
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ARTICLE – Most Bluetooth speakers sit on a desk and do one thing. The Divoom Timebox Evo sits on a desk and won’t stop doing things. It’s a pixel art canvas, an alarm clock, a sleep aid, a social media ticker, and a surprisingly punchy little speaker all packed into one cube. The whole thing
Your Boring Desk Just Got Called Out by This Divoom Speaker Read More
ARTICLE – Every year, tablets get faster chips, sharper cameras, and another wave of apps nobody asked for. The whole category has been sprinting toward “do everything” for over a decade, packing screens with notifications and content feeds that fight for your attention. Then there’s reMarkable, a company that looked at that race and walked
The Most Expensive E-Ink Tablet You Can Buy Does Almost Nothing Read More
ARTICLE – Most people still think 240Hz is a luxury. It’s the kind of spec you see on $350 panels at Micro Center, sitting next to “gaming” tags and RGB lighting that pulses like a nightclub entrance. That price wall kept high refresh rates locked inside the competitive FPS crowd. Dell wants to change that.
Dell’s $130 monitor just made 240Hz a budget feature Read More
Samsung Unpacked lands on February 25, and the buildup this year has been different. Samsung turned global landmarks into Galaxy AI previews for its teaser campaign, and the leak cycle has been so thorough that we already know more about the S26 Ultra than Samsung probably wanted us to at this point. 1. The Galaxy
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ARTICLE – Every phone camera in 2026 runs the same loop: shoot, preview, delete, reshoot. That cycle has been the default for so long that most people don’t notice it happening anymore. The Flashback ONE35 V2 exists to break it. For $119, you get a reusable digital camera with no screen, no instant preview, and
This $119 Camera Won’t Let You See Your Photos Read More
ARTICLE – The JBL Charge 6 isn’t new. It hit shelves at $199.95 months ago, and by most product cycle standards, the hype window should’ve closed by now. Instead, something unusual is happening. The speaker keeps climbing recommendation lists, Amazon ratings sit above 4.5 stars, and retailers have started cutting the price without pulling it
The JBL Charge 6 Won’t Stop Outselling Newer Speakers Read More
Something shifted in the sub-$100 gadget space this year, and it’s not the usual incremental creep of slightly better versions of last year’s budget picks. The products landing in this price range now have features that sat firmly in the $200-plus tier barely two years ago: full smart TV platforms inside pocket projectors, hot-swappable mechanical
6 Gadgets Under $100 That Do Way More Than They Should Read More
ARTICLE – Every pocket knife you’ve handled in the last twenty years probably opened the same way. Thumb stud, flipper tab, button lock. The click is familiar, and that’s the problem. Steel quality and lock strength get all the attention while the act of deployment stays frozen in place. Price:: $139 Where to Buy: Kickstarter
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Somewhere along the way, large E Ink devices became the kind of purchase you have to sleep on. The Kindle Scribe starts at $500 and now tops $630 for the color version. The reMarkable Paper Pro runs $629 and gates cloud sync behind a monthly subscription. If you just want a big screen that feels
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Dyson just announced the PencilWash, a wet-and-dry floor cleaner that looks more like a broom handle than a cleaning appliance. It’s the company’s thinnest wet floor cleaner, it’s slimmer than anything else on the market, and it somehow costs less than Dyson’s own dry-only vacuum. Here’s everything worth knowing before it goes on sale. Price::
Dyson’s $349 Floor Cleaner Is Thinner Than a Broomstick Read More
ARTICLE – The Alienware 18 Area-51 with an RTX 5070 just dropped to $2,349.99 on Amazon, a clean 20% off the $2,949.99 list price. Dell’s storefront lists the 18-inch line at the same number, but here’s the catch: that base config swaps in a Core Ultra 7 255HX and an RTX 5060. The RTX 5070
Alienware’s Most Powerful 18-Inch Laptop Hits Its Lowest Price Read More
REVIEW – Every hotel Wi-Fi network is a trust exercise you’re losing. Connect a laptop to the hotel’s guest network, and within seconds your device has announced itself to every other machine on that shared subnet, broadcasting its name, services, and open ports to strangers you’ll never meet. I packed the Firewalla Orange on a
Firewalla Orange Review: A Pocket-Sized Firewall That Followed Me to Tokyo Read More
ARTICLE – Bosch just dropped an ad where a construction worker transforms into a championship boxer the moment he fires up a laser level. The spot, called “Champ,” is part of Bosch’s second-year “Like a Bosch” campaign, and it features two of the company’s measuring tools getting the kind of dramatic treatment usually reserved for
A Laser Level Just Got a Championship Boxing Entrance Read More
ARTICLE – Most of the everyday carry world runs on a loop. Knives, lights, multitools, pens. The rotation shifts by material or brand, rarely by function. Nobody looks at their pocket dump and thinks it’s missing a fan. That assumption is exactly where COMANDI found an opening. Price:: $169 Where to Buy: Commandi Folding fans
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