Sony’s quietly launching the Xperia 1 VIII across Europe this week at €1,499, and the spec sheet reads like a love letter to everything other flagship makers have abandoned. While Apple’s chasing thinness, Samsung’s chasing AI demos, and Google’s chasing whatever Pixel Studio wants to be this quarter, Sony’s making a phone for people who […]
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Smart glasses keep getting smaller. Xpanceo is skipping the frames altogether. The Dubai-based deep tech company is building a smart contact lens that puts a screen, health sensors, and wireless power right on your eye. After a $250 million funding round and a year of public demos, the first full version is set for an
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Six years deep into building one of the most loyal followings in the fixed-blade world, Montana Knife Company just released its first production folder. The Montana dropped on June 4 at $390, ground around a MagnaCut blade with the thinnest edge MKC has ever produced, and the launch inventory cleared the same day. Drop 02
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Your desk is a graveyard of half-finished upgrades. A charger that almost replaces three, a wallet you keep meaning to slim down, a speaker you bought before the open-stack rivals showed up. Most of the gear in this category quietly assumes you’ll settle. The ten picks below don’t. Every one of these landed in the
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More than a decade later, Snap finally has consumer AR glasses to sell. SPECS got unveiled at Augmented World Expo 2026 (AWE 2026), and they’re a standalone pair of see-through glasses shipping this fall in the US, UK, and France. The pre-order deposit is $200 and refundable, with the full price landing at $2,195. That
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Xiaomi has flipped the switch on its TV FX Mini LED series in Europe, and the entry price is doing the talking. The brand says the lineup starts at 349 euros, with sizes that reach up to 65 inches, HDR10+, and a 120Hz Game Boost mode for console players. Price: From €349 Where to Buy:
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Most sewer cameras are a pain to move around. You lug a bulky case from the van to the crawl space, then wrestle the reel across gravel, mud, or concrete until you find the cleanout. The Sanyipace S860DSTKM Sewer Camera tries to solve that problem by adding a retractable pull handle and heavy-duty wheels to
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Somewhere between the airport security line and the rental car counter, the thing you needed most is the thing you can’t find. Chipolo’s Limited Edition LOOP isn’t a new tracker. It’s the same rechargeable, 125 dB, IP67 hardware that’s been quietly keeping bags, keys, and camera cases trackable since the standard LOOP launched, now in
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Kodak’s tiny keychain camera, the one people kept selling out last year, is back in Y2K dress code, and it might be the most early-2000s thing to launch in 2026. The Kodak Charmera Millennium Edition went on sale direct from Reto Production in mid-June, with six new metallic blind box designs and a rare secret
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Google pushed Wear OS 7 to Pixel Watch 2, 3, and 4 in mid-June 2026, rolling out alongside Android 17 for phones. The update brings four headline changes: Live Updates, connected device control, battery improvements, and a Gemini Intelligence layer that’s still partly on the way. If you own any of those three Pixel Watch
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Father’s Day is this Sunday, June 21. Graduation parties run through the next two weeks. Amazon’s Prime Day runs Tuesday, June 23 through Friday, June 26. That’s a tight five-day window where one good watch can cover Dad, the grad, and the deal hunter on your list. If the man you’re shopping for already has
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Wiring a video doorbell used to mean a hard choice. You could get steady power or smart-home flexibility, but not both. In 2026, that is changing. Power over Ethernet, or PoE, now shows up on doorbells that cost less than $100. The first Matter-certified home cameras are shipping too. And nonstop recording no longer locks
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Most smartwatches make the same quiet demand every two or three days: go find the charger. That one habit is why plenty of capable watches end up forgotten in a drawer by the third week. The Amazfit Balance 3, now shipping in the US, is built to kill that frustration. Price: $369.99 Where to Buy:
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Google just gave its smart speaker lineup the reset it’s needed for years. After a six-year gap, the new Google Home Speaker arrives June 25 with Gemini built in, a fresh 360-degree design, and a $99.99 price that undercuts much of the competition. It’s the clearest sign yet that Google wants its hardware to lead
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ReelCharge wants your next power bank to push 200 watts without pushing past $120, and it is betting a factory-direct model can make that math work. The new brand launched in the US on May 19, 2026, selling a lineup it says trades the usual price-versus-performance tradeoff for higher output, safer battery tech, and a
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Father’s Day shopping always circles back to one truth: dads love gear that just works. So here are the types of watches my husband would actually wear. Nothing fancy or luxury, all rugged. He doesn’t want a watch he has to baby, and he’s not about to trade his everyday beater for something that lives
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You already know the pitch. AR glasses that replace your monitor, your TV, your second screen. Every company in consumer tech has a version of it right now, and most of them require you to squint past the compromises to find the product underneath. The display is dim in anything brighter than a dark room.
Rokid Just Made the Case for Ditching Your Second Monitor Read More
A great summer night runs on good light. Setting up camp after dark, walking the dog before a barbecue, or packing for a long weekend all go smoother with the right flashlight in your pocket. Wuben builds compact lights that punch well above their size, and if you missed our piece on why your next
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Amazon Prime Day 2026 officially runs June 23 to 26, but plenty of early deals are already live. For the kind of practical tech shopping that actually matters for a household, Prime Day and Black Friday are the two moments a year worth planning around. If you’re hunting for a gadget upgrade and you don’t
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Schlage just put a real date on the smart lock it teased a year and a half ago. The company first revealed Sense Pro at CES 2025, so after all the “coming soon” promises, it’s finally real. The Sense Pro Smart Deadbolt goes on sale June 29, 2026, and it’s the company’s first lock that
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