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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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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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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