Citizen spent this summer doing something unusual for a brand its size. Instead of building the month around one flagship, it pushed watches out across nearly every tier it sells, from a $426 solar diver to a titanium GPS piece whose bezel grows its own pattern in the furnace. Not one of them is a […]
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ASUS put the Zenni Claw beta out on July 24 as a free download, and free is doing a lot of work in that sentence. The software costs nothing to install. Unless your PC can run the model locally, the intelligence behind it runs on an API key you supply yourself, billed to your own
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Dive watch marketing still sells you a tool. Most of that tooling stopped mattering once dive computers got affordable, and the pitch never updated. The rotating bezel, the 200 meter rating, the lume that reads in black water, all of it survives because it looks like capability. Heron Marinor Rainbow White Price: $600 (FKM rubber)
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Robots don’t fail only because a hand misses a cup. They fail because the task around that cup keeps changing. Google DeepMind’s answer is to split the problem, and Gemini Robotics ER 2 is the half that keeps track of the larger job. ER 2 isn’t a robot you can buy, and it isn’t the
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NedFoss might not have the best reputation with knife fans, but there’s more to the story than the complaints. Even people who aren’t fans of the brand’s cheaper knives admit some models are “actually pretty good for the price.” That’s because buried in NedFoss’s huge catalog are a handful of standout knives that use real
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Mid-summer sits in an odd gap for laptop shopping. Back-to-school sales haven’t kicked in yet and Black Friday is still months out, but retailers are already discounting last season’s gaming notebooks to make room for new silicon. That’s where the five gaming laptop deals below come from. Prices range from $919 to $1,439, and no
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A watch deal is only interesting when the discount improves the ownership proposition, not just the headline price. The Citizen Corso Eco-Drive BM7330-59L is down to $175 at Amazon, compared with its $350 list price. That puts a traditional blue-dial watch with a light-powered movement and 100-meter water resistance in a useful everyday-wear bracket. ⌚Citizen
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Watch a camera operator on a busy set, or an engineer working front-of-house, and you’ll see the same thing. One cup sits on the ear. The other gets pushed back behind it. The room matters as much as the signal does. beyerdynamic DT 275 PRO Price: $149.99 Where to Buy: beyerdynamic, Amazon (Older model) That’s
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Robot lawn mowers have come a long way from simple boundary-wire bots that quit at the sight of a slope. The GOKO M6 Mower is a new wire-free robotic lawn mower that skips the boundary wire entirely and brings four-wheel drive, active front steering, and an AI vision system to lawns most robotic mowers can’t
GOKO M6 AI-Powered 4WD Robotic Lawn Mower Tackles 42° Slopes Without a Boundary Wire Read More
De’Longhi wants $999.95 to solve a problem most kitchens handle with a second appliance and a shrug. Its new De Longhi Magnifica Duo ships with two milk carafes, one tuned for hot foam and one for cold, so a cappuccino at 7am and an iced latte at 3pm come out of the same machine without
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Laundry is where home robotics stops being a novelty and starts asking for a place in the family budget. Weave Robotics has opened pre-orders for Isaac 1, a mobile home robot that the company says can collect clothes, fold them, put them away, make beds, and reset the small messes that gather through a normal
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Most gear coverage skips MTech USA Knives entirely. Master Cutlery is listed as the manufacturer on four of these five knives, the blades ship as stainless with a coating or a stonewash, and the whole catalog sits below the price of a movie ticket. That combination attracts a lot of eye rolling from people who
A $10 Neck Knife, a $12 Karambit, and Three More Cheap Blades That Earn Pocket Space Read More
Timex added an automatic GMT to the Deepwater Meridian 200 on July 30, and the change is bigger than the name suggests. Deepwater already had automatics, and it had a quartz GMT, but never the two in one watch. This one puts a 24-hour hand and a ceramic bezel on a 42mm steel case with
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September move-in is right around the corner, and if you’re shopping for a first dorm room, the sticker shock is real. Between the loft kit, the mini fridge, the desk lamp and every little thing you never knew you needed, furnishing a tiny cinder-block room can quietly eat a full allowance. Back to school se
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Evan Blass just gave Pixel 11 fans another reason to keep refreshing his feed. The leaker shared more than a dozen new images this week, and this batch goes beyond hardware shots into the features Google’s actually building the phone around: a 30x zoom claim, Gemini AI teasers, and camera samples straight from the device.
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An AI necklace that couldn’t talk has spent two years defining itself through controversy instead of conversation. This week that changes. Friend AI Pendant, the always-listening AI pendant from founder Avi Schiffmann, now ships with a built-in speaker and a spoken personality, and the price has nearly doubled to match. Schiffmann announced the update, calling
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Home EV charging gets expensive before the electricity starts flowing. A wall charger, a dedicated circuit, and an electrician can turn a simple overnight routine into a project. The new Lectron Nexus EV Chargers aim at the hardware portion with four Level 2 options that split the decision into connector and installation style. Lectron announced
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GoPro’s MISSION 1 Creator Edition packs a full production setup into one $1,099.99 box, built around the 8K-capable MISSION 1 PRO camera. Instead of assembling a camera, a microphone, a grip, a power source, and a mounting system one piece at a time, the whole kit ships together in a single purchase. GoPro announced the
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Two fixed blade knives for under twenty dollars usually means something got cut, and not in a good way. The Mossy Oak 2-piece Bowie Knife set sells for $19.99 on Amazon, which works out to roughly ten dollars a blade. That price alone makes it worth a closer look. What’s surprising is that the spec
Two Full Tang Bowie Knives for $19.99 Sounds Too Cheap to Trust Read More
Timex covered a lot of ground this month, and the easy way to write it up would be a list of new colorways. That isn’t what happened. Eight Timex watches landed in TG’s coverage, and each one moved a single thing forward: a movement, a case material, a sealing system, or a partner who shaped
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