Pete’s Pirate Life is Peter McKinnon’s EDC label. It put its name on another CIVIVI folder. The Iron Tide is the simplest thing that partnership has produced yet. Forest green aluminum, a black stonewashed 14C28N blade, a button lock, a titanium clip. Amazon has it at $84.75. CIVIVI’s own store wants $99.70. Price: $84.75 Where […]
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If you are on the lookout for new earbuds for the coming school year, the JBL Live 4 series is worth a look. It comes in three wearing styles, Buds, Beam and Flex, and the parts that matter most carry across all three: the same touchscreen charging case, the same six microphone call rig, the
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Casio has listed a new orange DW-6900 on its US site, the DW6900MO26-4, a limited collaboration with Larry June’s Midnight Organic tagged as a July 2026 release at $170. That number is the first thing worth arguing about, because the standard DW6900-1V has sat at $99.95 for years. Price: $170 Where to Buy: Casio You’re
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MSI marked its 40th anniversary by giving its Titan 18 HX flagship a mythology-inspired makeover, and the result is the Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition Draco Epic, a limited-run gaming laptop that pairs the brand’s most powerful mobile hardware with a showpiece design built around the Draco constellation. Price: $6,899 Where to Buy: MSI Add
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Leatherman rolled out the ninth release in its Garage series, and this one skips brute force for precision. The Batch #009 Adapter is a $75 ratcheting tool cache built to carry the small stuff your main multitool doesn’t have room for, and true to the Garage line’s limited-run playbook, it sold out almost the moment
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Samsung finally gave the Fold line a true Ultra, and it earns the badge. The Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, shown July 22, 2026 at Unpacked in London and on sale August 7, goes straight at the three complaints Fold7 owners repeated all year: a battery that quit early, charging that crawled, and an ultrawide that
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Retro cameras aren’t a nostalgia gimmick anymore, they’re outselling plenty of mainstream mirrorless bodies, and the restock waitlists prove it. Buyers want dials they can feel, texture a touchscreen can’t fake, and photos that read like a moment instead of a file. That pull is the same wave we tracked in our vintage Casio watch
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MagicX wants you excited about a screen and patient about everything else. The Mini Dream broke cover on July 23, 2026 as the company’s first handheld built around a custom 3.3-inch OLED, and that panel is the entire reason anyone’s paying attention. Price starts at $80. The catch shows up fast. That tension sits right
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Most of Kizer’s catalog folds. The Finch refuses to, and that one decision changes how it carries, feels, and earns pocket space. Designed by Vincent Rizzo, it slips a 3.09-inch blade into a fixed-blade body that runs 6.34 inches overall and stays under three ounces, light enough to ride a neck cord without tugging your
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Summer is here, and if you’re staring at a window AC that barely fits your sliding door or dealing with central air that can’t keep up with 100-degree afternoons, a portable air conditioner is the honest fix. You can roll it into whatever room needs cooling, set it up in a few minutes with the
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Timex is growing its outdoor-focused Expedition Capstone line, and for the first time, a chronograph function is part of the mix, announced last June. The Expedition name has long been Timex’s shorthand for rugged, affordable field watches, and Capstone is the more style-forward branch of that family, built around a distinctive tonneau case rather than
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Back to school shopping season means one more line item competing with school supplies, new shoes, and lunch money: a tablet. Prices on the most popular models are dropping right now, and the gap between the cheapest and priciest picks in this roundup is more than $270, which means the real decision isn’t whether you
Back to School Tablet Deals 2026: 5 Solid Picks From $128 to $399 Read More
Most cheap Bluetooth speakers ask you to accept a compromise you can feel within a week. The battery fades, the plastic creaks, and the first splash at the pool ends the relationship for good. Spend more and you fix those problems, or so the pricing tells you. Soundcore Select 4 Go Bluetooth Shower Speaker by
This $23 Speaker Floats, Survives the Shower, and Still Runs for 20 Hours Read More
You don’t need to have won a Commodore preorder to start putting your phone down. That itch to unplug was never really about one specific gadget. It’s about wanting your attention back, and there’s more than one way into that. The Commodore Callback 8020 became the internet’s shorthand for that urge this year, a $399
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I ran Geekbench 7 on my Galaxy Z Fold8 and got 2,262 single-core and 6,317 multi-core. It’s one initial run rather than a verdict on the phone, but it lands well behind a public Galaxy S26 Ultra result that identifies the same Qualcomm SM8850 platform: 2,966 single-core and 10,196 multi-core. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 Price:
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A keychain tool has one job: earn its place without you feeling the weight. Gerber’s 3-in-1 Carabiner Keychain Multitool clears that bar at half an ounce, and it’s the rare EDC add-on I’d tell most people to grab without overthinking it. Price: $11.96 Where to Buy: Amazon At $11.96 it costs less than the lunch
Why a Twelve Dollar Clip Might Be the Only EDC Upgrade You Notice Read More
Keychain flashlights live in a weird space. Most are too dim to be useful, and the ones that actually throw a decent beam cost more than a full-size light. After sorting through the Amazon listings for tiny EDC lights, six stood out for balancing brightness, build, and a price under $30. Every one of them
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For years, FX3 shooters wanted two things Sony kept locked inside its pricier cinema cameras: internal RAW and open gate. On July 22, Sony finally handed both over. The new FX5 is a full-frame Cinema Line camera that sits above the FX3 and below the FX6, and it does something no FX body has done
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Phone upgrades used to be judged on the spec sheet. Lately the color you choose says just as much, and it is usually the first thing anyone notices when you pull the phone out. That is what makes the newest Pixel 11 leak worth a look, because a fresh wave of leaked renders and retailer
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Buying another EDC tool usually ends the same way. It rides in a drawer for a week, then loses out to the knife you already trusted. Gear Spool’s Mighty Bar LT keeps breaking that pattern, and it isn’t because it looks tactical. Price: $24.99 Where to Buy: Amazon It’s a titanium pry bar built to
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