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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Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro Max won’t break cover until September, but the rumor mill is running. Late May 2026 brought a four-color dummy-model leak (Silver, Black, Light Blue, Dark Cherry) plus supply-chain reports that Apple is finalizing OLED panel approvals. The clearest picture yet: the same overall back as the iPhone 17 Pro, a refreshed
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Summer is the season that tests your gear the hardest. Heat warps batteries, sweat shorts out cheap electronics, sand jams sensors, and the hour you spent picking the perfect outfit gets undone the moment you sit down on a humid bus. The wearables you reach for in July and August have to do more than
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The Mudman line has stayed stubbornly old-school for years: conventional LCDs, no fitness tracking, all toughness. A new leak suggests that’s about to change. Imagery from Casioblog (the same fan blog that called the F-B100W’s Bluetooth step tracker last year) shows the GDG-B100, what looks like the first Mudman with a memory-in-pixel (MIP) display and
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Most pool robots promise to erase a weekend chore, then turn into another gadget that needs babysitting. You charge it, untangle it, fish it out when it dies in the deep end, and wonder why you didn’t bother with a manual pole. Aiper’s pitch with the Experts Duo is that one robot was never the
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Most knife companies celebrate a milestone anniversary with a logo etch and a price bump. Spyderco, which has spent half a century quietly running one of the more interesting catalogs in production knives, decided to do something else. For its 50th, the Golden, Colorado outfit rebuilt what Spyderco itself calls its iconic Native® 5 as
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Apple Watch Ultra 3 was at $699 recently, the lowest the Ultra line has ever been. Three months from now, an Ultra 4 with new health sensors and a slimmer case is expected to land alongside the iPhone 18 Pro lineup. So: grab the deal or wait it out? Price: From $699 Where to Buy:
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Travel adapters look very different now compared to 2024. A newer chip material called GaN (short for gallium nitride) lets adapters carry laptop-level power in a much smaller body. At the same time, USB-C Power Delivery (often shortened to USB-C PD) is now the main fast-charging port on most phones, tablets, MacBooks, and many ultrabooks.
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Every dad has a pocket loadout, even the ones who’d never call it “EDC.” Car keys, a beat-up wallet, a phone with three cracks, and that one ballpoint pen from the bank that somehow refuses to die. We love them for it. But with Father’s Day right around the corner, this is the year to
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Samsung hasn’t even finished shipping the Galaxy S26 line, and the rumor mill is already pivoting to 2027. Multiple industry trackers now have active Galaxy S27 watch pages pinning the next flagship to an early-2027 unveiling, alongside the first scattered chatter about an Exynos 2700, a move to Qi2.2 magnetic wireless charging, and, most newsworthy,
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