The Gadgeteer covered several watches worth a second look this month, and the range says a lot about where the category stands right now. A Vietnam-era 24-hour pilot watch came back in the same stretch as a crownless mystery watch thin enough to make an engineer nervous, and neither one showed up next to the […]
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The next microphone upgrade may be almost invisible. RØDE has introduced Sonaura, a studio grade MEMS microphone platform that puts a 4mm by 5mm capsule at the center of its next generation of creator and production gear. This isn’t a new camera mic or a new wireless kit. It’s the component RØDE says will sit
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A $50 record player that can’t play any full-size records sounds like a bad deal. It nearly is, because the records it plays already work on most turntables you might own. The Tiny Vinyl Player does one thing: it spins 4-inch records that look like full-size albums but fit in your palm. No LPs, no
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A pocket multitool usually forces a choice: carry a knife that disappears in a pocket, or carry a bulky plier tool that earns a belt pouch. The Böker Naturensöhne MK II NXT tries to split that difference with a slim folding design built around a real blade, compact pliers, and a wood saw. Böker USA
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The Cricut AutoPress 2 sells for $379 on Amazon, against a $999 starting price for the original AutoPress. It also brings a larger 15 by 15 inch heat plate, adjustable pressure up to 220 pounds, and a slide-out tray in place of the original’s clamshell. For crafters who outgrew a handheld press but don’t need
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Most creator displays sell you the panel and then charge you again for the desk around it. You pay for color accuracy first. Then you pay for the dock, and then you pay for a second keyboard because the laptop and the tower can’t share one. That stacking is how a color-critical setup quietly turns
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Most affordable 15-inch laptops compromise on display quality, memory, or build. This IdeaPad configuration avoids two of those tradeoffs with a 120Hz touchscreen and 16GB of RAM, while its plastic chassis and missing keyboard backlight keep expectations realistic. The exact build tested here pairs a 15.3-inch 1920×1200 panel and DDR5-5600 memory with a 512GB PCIe
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Sleep earbuds have spent years pretending to be tiny daytime headphones. Most true wireless buds on the market were engineered for calls, workouts, and commutes, then repurposed for bedtime almost as an afterthought, a fit that rarely survives eight hours on a pillow. Ozlo Sleepbuds 2 takes the opposite route: a $279 pair built specifically
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A countertop ice maker earns its counter space only if it stops feeling like another small appliance you have to work around. That is the challenge GE Profile is chasing with its newest countertop launch. The GE Profile Opal Mini tries to clear that hurdle by cutting the Opal footprint by 30 percent while keeping
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Most folders that arrive with a pattern-welded blade are asking you to put them in a display case. The KANSEPT Orion Pocket Knife asks for a pocket clip instead. It’s a 3.07 inch Damascus clip point set into a titanium frame lock handle, designed by custom maker JB Stout for KANSEPT’s production line. Price: $169.89 Where
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Titanium pens have quietly become one of the easiest EDC upgrades to justify. They shrug off pocket abuse, they don’t rust the way cheap steel does, and a good one outlasts every plastic pen you’ve ever lost. The catch is that “titanium” shows up on a lot of listings, and the price spread runs from
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Back to school tech lists repeat the same five items every August. A laptop, headphones, a backpack, a lamp, a power strip. You end up with a desk that works fine and says nothing at all about the person sitting at it. Divoom builds for the gap that list leaves open, which is why these
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Orient Star is marking its 75th anniversary with a run of new watches, and two of them are worth singling out: a skeletonized hand-winder built around a meteor shower and a vintage-inspired dive watch pulled from the brand’s 1964 archive. The releases went out quietly back earlier this year, which is why this is landing
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Roborock’s newest Qrevo is aimed at a familiar mixed-floor problem: a robot can mop hard floors or clean carpets, but it usually creates a wet compromise between the two. The Qrevo 2 Pro is built to leave its mops at the dock before it reaches carpet, and Roborock has put that feature into a $799.99
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Gerber has spent the past couple of years rewriting its EDC lineup around CPM MagnaCut steel, and the five knives below show how far that shift has gone. Three of them now run MagnaCut, one still leans on the budget-friendly 420HC that made the original LST famous, and one skips folding steel altogether for a
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Titanium in a phone usually means the frame you’re gripping, not something buried where you’ll never see it. Samsung’s new Flex Titanium breaks that assumption. Announced by Samsung Electronics America earlier in July, the technology rebuilds the layers underneath the screen instead of anything visible, with titanium showing up twice: once as a film and
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A compact keyboard can turn a tablet or handheld into a more useful travel workstation, but carrying a keyboard, a stand, and a protective sleeve usually means packing three separate accessories. That’s a familiar hassle for anyone who works from a tablet on the road. Razer’s new Travel Case Folio tries to collapse that stack
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Casio has been busy, and so have we. The Casio watches we featured this month cover two retro digitals, a stripped-back Pro Trek, three limited collaborations, a pilot’s watch that repairs its own accuracy, and an obstacle course you play in a browser. The spread runs from $54 to somewhere near $860, which is a
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A humanoid robot making coffee is easy to film. Keeping a café moving through the dull work around that moment is the harder job. KEENON’s recent robot-café demonstration makes its strongest case not by presenting one all-purpose machine, but by putting a humanoid alongside dedicated delivery and cleaning robots. At LEAP East 2026, KEENON showed
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The back half of July 2026 turned into one of the more scattered stretches of product news in recent memory, and that is the point. ASUS revealed its first ROG-branded soundbar, Garmin cut the screen off a fitness band, and HP loaded a business laptop with a 50 TOPS chip, all inside the same few
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