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PongBot Aura is a $499 AI ball machine for tennis, pickleball, and padel

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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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A Rugged 2-in-1 Smartwatch and an Analog Light Meter Just Hit Kickstarter

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LMW-V1 Light Meter Watch

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

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PhantomX Swaps Watch Hands For Four Rotating Arms

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PhantomX Four-Arm Rotating Seconds Watch Where to Buy

The wandering-hour complication isn’t new. Audemars Piguet’s Star Wheel popularized the format in 1991, and a handful of independents have kept the idea alive since, almost always at prices most people will never touch. Mitico’s bet, live on Kickstarter right now, is that wandering hour watches can survive at $429. Price: From HK$ 3,360 (About

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Glasses-Free 3D Hits 27 Inches With the ZIMO1 Monitor

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ZIMO1 Interactive Light Field 3D Display

Glasses-free 3D monitors are slowly becoming a real product category instead of a CES demo, and the latest entrant wants to undercut everyone shipping today. Zondision, a Hong Kong outfit that’s been working on light field 3D displays since 2020, opened Kickstarter for the ZIMO1, a 27-inch interactive glasses-free 3D monitor aimed at gamers, creators,

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This Pen-Sized Multitool Hides 73 Tools Inside

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JK-9X 73-in-1 Precision Pen

The JK-9X takes a serious swing at the EDC category as a pen-shaped Kickstarter multitool that the creators say swaps between 73 separate functions through one ergonomic shell. The campaign launched on April 24, 2026, and it’s already cleared 873 percent of its modest funding target. The appetite for compact precision tools is still healthy.

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BLUETTI FridgePower Keeps Your Fridge Alive When the Grid Fails

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You know that stomach drop you feel the moment the power clicks off on a hot July afternoon. The hum of the fridge cuts, the kitchen goes quiet, and you start doing the math in your head. How long until the ice cream sweats through the carton. How long before the chicken you prepped for

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INKWON TAG Review: The Pocket Printer That Replaces Four Creative Gadgets

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Pocket printers usually pick a lane. Polaroid wants you printing photos. Phomemo wants you printing labels. Nothing on the shelf has tried to handle photos, stickers, heat-transfer t-shirt prints, and temporary tattoos out of the same box. INKWON’s first product, the INKWON TAG, makes exactly that pitch on Kickstarter. INKWON Printing is a Kowloon, Hong

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Meet the Vastnaut One 4×4: the first AI-powered exoskeleton that assists both hips and knees, built for every step, up and down the trail

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If you’ve spent any time looking at AI hiking exoskeletons, you’ve noticed something quietly weird about the entire category. Every suit on the market wants to talk about going up. The marketing is always uphill switchbacks, summit selfies, climbers arriving fresher than the friend who didn’t strap in. That’s the whole pitch. Climb harder, sweat

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This Micro EDC Tool Borrowed Its Geometry From the Karambit

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NanoArc Curved Titanium Micro EDC in M390 Images

Micro EDC tools tend to follow the same formula: take a regular knife, shrink it down, and hope it still works. The NanoArc from Zyac Knives takes a different approach entirely. Instead of miniaturizing a straight blade, the team built a curved cutting tool from GR5 titanium and M390 steel that the company says actually

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A Keychain Knife That Bets Everything on One Curve

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SpearEdge Mini Titanium EDC Knife Review

Most mini EDC knives try to cram full-size ambitions into compact frames. The SpearEdge from Edgelet goes the other direction: one curved blade, one cutting concept, packed into a titanium body that, at 47.7mm closed, should be easy to forget you’re carrying. Based in Beaverton, Oregon, this is the team’s third Kickstarter project after the

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One Stand for Every Screen You Own, and It Folds Flat

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XDock Foldable Magnetic Stand for Phone Tablet & Laptop Specs

Most device stands commit to a single job. They hold your phone, or they prop up your tablet, or they tilt your laptop to a better angle. Pick one. The XDock, currently live on Kickstarter, wants to replace all three with a single foldable, magnetic aluminum stand that fits in your bag when you’re done.

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10 Gadgets Everyone’s Quietly Buying in 2026

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10 Gadgets Everyones Quietly Buying in 2026

The gadget cycle in 2026 isn’t just fast. It’s punishing. Products launch, spike on social, hit backorder, and vanish before most outlets can finish unboxing them. We’ve been tracking the most heat across search trends, campaigns, and reader traffic, and one pattern keeps showing up: the best gadgets of 2026 aren’t the obvious flagship or

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What Happened in Tech While You Weren’t Looking

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What Happened in Tech While You Weren’t Looking

The past month on The Gadgeteer covered a lot of ground, and some of it got weird in the best way. Smart rings that control AR glasses, a wine fridge with its own AI sommelier, headphones running a real vacuum tube, and a digital camera that won’t let you see your own photos. That’s the

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This Titanium EDC Keychain Glows for 25 Years Straight

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NoxTi Tritium Keychain Price

A glow tube, a metal shell, and a keyring loop. That is the formula most brands follow, and it has not changed much in years. Xedge took a different approach with NoxTi, a Kickstarter project that fits a tritium vial, a glass breaker tip, and Gr5 titanium into something that weighs 10.7 grams and measures

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Your Vinyl, CDs, and Tapes Belong on a Wall, Not a Shelf

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There’s a very specific kind of person who still owns vinyl, CDs, and cassettes. Not out of nostalgia for the sake of it, but because each format sounds and feels different in ways that streaming never quite figured out. The problem has always been finding a setup that handles all three without turning a living

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What Happens When a Digital Camera Hides Your Photos

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Rewindpix Non-disposable Digital Film Camera 2

There is a specific kind of joy that comes from not knowing exactly how a photo will turn out. Film cameras understood that. Every frame carried weight because you couldn’t just delete it and try again. The problem is that actual film is expensive, developing it takes days, and the cameras themselves aren’t built for

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This Titanium Folder Runs on Ceramic Bearings

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GraphiX Ti Carbon Folding Knife M390 D2 Blade Knife Buy Here Now

Most EDC folding knives land somewhere on a spectrum between knives you don’t trust and knives you’re afraid to actually use. The overbuilt ones feel like carrying a statement rather than a tool. The budget ones develop wobble before the year’s out, and you stop reaching for them. The GraphiX, currently live on Kickstarter, is

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The AOTOS Flux X26 Is the Perfect Balance of City Commutes and Off Road Weekends

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AOTOS Flux X26 electric motorcycle riding through city streets and desert terrain with 48V battery system, long range performance, and all weather IPX5 design

Most electric bikes want to be taken seriously. They come wrapped in commuter efficiency, marketed with range charts and pedal-assist levels, designed to make you feel responsible. The AOTOS Flux X26 doesn’t care about any of that. It wants you to pop a wheelie. That’s not hyperbole. AOTOS built a one-click wheelie function into this

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The TNT Knives Slip Bang Has Four Legal Carry Configurations

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TNT Knives Slip Bang Specs

Most knife owners treat blade laws like weather: something you check before you leave, then hope for the best. Pack a locking folder for a weekend in London, feel the weight of it settle in your jacket pocket, and you’ve already miscalculated. Carry a one-handed locking folder through Germany and you’re technically breaking the law,

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