Google wants us to believe the future of laptops is Android in a Chromebook shell. The 16-minute leak that dropped hours before the official Android Show tells a more complicated story. We sat through the full AluminiumOS walkthrough, and what stands out is not the Pixel desktop mode familiarity or the iPhone link promise. It […]
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Timex slipped a watch out earlier this May hat’s already harder to track down than most retail experiments this year. The Space Jam 30th Anniversary x Q Timex Limited Edition arrived in a run of 1,000 numbered pieces, priced at $269, and went up exclusively through Timex.com. It’s a quiet release for a watch this
Bugs Bunny Just Got a $269 Watch and It’s Already Vanishing Read More
PongBot has launched Aura, a ball machine that physically reconfigures for tennis, pickleball, and padel from a single chassis. The company set an introductory price of $499, which lands at roughly half the cost of the cheapest single-sport competitor currently on the market, with a planned $999 MSRP once the launch window closes. Early buyers
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The wrist real estate fight feels settled. Apple, Samsung, and Garmin keep stacking sensors onto rectangles, and most Kickstarter watches are just cheaper takes on that same playbook. Two new campaigns running right now don’t bother fighting in that lane at all. Price: From $160 Where to Buy: Kickstarter One is a tactical 2-in-1 from
A Rugged 2-in-1 Smartwatch and an Analog Light Meter Just Hit Kickstarter Read More
After five months of wearing the Even Realities G2 in the real world, the news that it’s becoming an actual gadget inside 007 First Light doesn’t feel like forced product placement. It feels like the first time a smart-glasses maker understood the assignment: spy gear should be invisible, not a face-mounted camera that screams “I’m
Even Realities G2 Smart Glasses Just Became a 007 Gadget, and We Saw It Coming Read More
The cable behind your desk used to be a wad you ignored. Now magnetic cable management is its own category. Magnets, modular silicone, anodized arches, and VHB-mounted tracks have turned the under-desk into a design surface, and you can feel the shift in the comments under any clean desk-setup video on YouTube. What’s driving it
Cable Management Got Magnetic and It Stuck Read More
We’ve spent thirteen years reviewing Chromebooks as the budget machine you buy when $300 is the hard ceiling. Google’s new Googlebook, announced today at the Android Show: I/O Edition, is not that machine. It’s a premium laptop built on part of the Android tech stack and ChromeOS, with Gemini wired into the OS, a cursor
Googlebook Is Here and It Wants to Kill the Laptop As We Know It Read More
The ThinkPad L-series sits in the part of Lenovo’s lineup that IT teams pick by the pallet and end users rarely think about. It’s been the value tier, the one priced for refresh cycles rather than headlines. The Gen 7 L14 is the one that changes that math without changing the budget, and it does
The Value-Tier ThinkPad Where Intel and AMD Finally Tied Read More
If you’ve ever sent a sensitive text across the iPhone-Android divide and felt a prick of doubt about who else might be reading, that’s just gotten a real answer. Starting yesterday, messages between an iPhone and an Android phone can finally be locked down end-to-end, with no extra app and no setting to dig up.
Your iPhone-to-Android Texts Are Now Encrypted by Default Read More
You’ve probably got a phone in a drawer somewhere with a swollen battery, a cracked back, or a screen that finally gave up. For years, the answer was to throw it out and buy the next flagship. That answer’s getting harder to defend in 2026. The European Union’s repairability scoring system is forcing every major
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