Retro tech has become very good at winning the thumbnail war. A beige plastic shell, a fake wood panel, or a tiny arcade marquee can make almost anything look tempting for five seconds. The useful stuff has a tougher job: it needs licensed games or real hardware support, current connections, a repair or warranty path, […]
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Wireless gaming keyboards have been making the same trade for years: pick compact and live in a crowded radio neighborhood, or keep the cable and stop thinking about it. Ultra-Wideband changes the math. It runs on short pulses across a wide frequency range, separate from the Bluetooth headsets and Wi-Fi routers that chip away at
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Budget folding knives usually show you where the money went. You get a molded nylon handle instead of milled metal, a coated blade instead of a polished one, and a house brand steel instead of a name you know. The black Artisan Cutlery Revel 1867P has all three, and it still comes with a button
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Razer’s new Seiren V3 Chroma 32-Bit DSP starts at $119.99, which is $10 under the starting price of the Seiren V3 Chroma it upgrades. That reads like a bargain until you check what the older mic actually sells for, which is closer to $88 to $100 at Best Buy, Newegg, and other retailers. The upgrade
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Most limited edition watches are a color swap and a numbered caseback. You pay the premium for scarcity, not for anything your fingers can actually detect, and the material underneath stays identical to the model sitting next to it in the case. Price: $2,915 Where to Buy: Citizen Citizen’s newest ATTESA takes a stranger route.
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Most multitool advice starts with whichever model claims the highest function count, which gets the problem backwards. The tool you’ll actually carry is the one that disappears in a pocket and still opens the box, tightens the loose hinge screw, and cuts the zip tie you didn’t plan for. So the real question isn’t which
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OKNIFE prices the B1 Lightning Strike titanium EDC pen at $59.99, which is real money for a ballpoint. The company’s argument is that you’re paying for a machined grade 5 titanium body, a clip that deploys the refill in place of a bolt action, and a fidget spinner built into the cap. Whether that adds
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Anbernic keeps circling the same idea: take the Game Boy Advance SP shape and get it right. The RG35XXSP had the look but skipped analog sticks. The RG34XXSP added sticks that not every buyer in this shape was asking for. Now the newly revealed RG SP throws the sticks out again and leans all the
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Amazon’s tactical EDC knife category is dominated by a handful of names that keep showing up on best-seller lists, from budget assisted-openers to mid-range workhorses with premium steel. Here are five of the most popular picks worth knowing about before you add one to your pocket rotation. This list spans a range of price tiers
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Most fitness wearables were designed around cardio. The step counts, the heart rate curves, the VO2 max estimates: all of it was built to make sense of movement that looks like movement. Lifting doesn’t look like movement to a gyroscope. It looks like a person standing still, occasionally lurching, and the software treats it accordingly.
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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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