IRON finished assembly, walked off the production line under its own control, and received a staff badge from XPENG’s CEO. For a machine being developed to work alongside people, that’s a fitting way to begin. The moment marked the commissioning of XPENG’s humanoid robot production lines in Guangzhou, announced on September 8, 2026. According to […]
XPENG’s IRON humanoid robot just walked off a production line Read More
A partner’s snoring or traffic outside can make it hard to settle into sleep. Sometimes you’re already tired, but you’re still lying there replaying a conversation from work. DUVA ONE brings personalized sound and guided meditation to those bedtime moments, then adjusts audio and noise cancellation as the night unfolds. Fitnexa is the company behind
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The ODYSS N1 caught my attention at IFA because it tackles the part of food tracking I’d most like to automate: remembering to record what I ate. This AI necklace sits at the collarbone, looking toward a meal through a wide-angle camera. ODYSS wants it to recognize eating as it happens and turn that view
ODYSS N1 hands-on: This AI necklace makes food tracking feel automatic Read More
Lenovo closed its Innovation World keynote with a simple message from Luca Rossi, president of Lenovo’s Intelligent Devices Group: AI shouldn’t live inside one device. His point was that people shouldn’t have to think about where the intelligence comes from. Sometimes it belongs on the device, sometimes in the cloud, and sometimes across both. For
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I hate taking notes during a great conversation and especially for a high-profile interview. The moment I start looking down at a notebook or tapping on my phone, I’m no longer fully engaged with the person or group of people in front of me. I miss the small details, the way one comment leads to
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Google has now revealed Pixel 11 and new tools including Rambler and a sign-to-text feature for American Sign Language. The more important question, however, is not whether these features look impressive onstage. It is whether they make a busy day easier without adding friction or uncertainty. Price: From $899 Where to Buy: Amazon That is
Pixel 11’s New AI Looks Promising, But Everyday Reliability Is Still the Real Test Read More
Pipeline 2 Decision Engine about the ownership case for a dedicated Codex control surface. Vendor claims are attributed and no hands-on performance claims are made.
OpenAI’s Codex Micro Puts AI Agent Controls on Your Desk, But Who Actually Needs It? Read More
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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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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WSJ says SpaceX showed investors an AI handset prototype with xAI and Qualcomm inside. Musk calls it utterly false. Here is what is confirmed, what is not, and where the Tesla Pi phone rumor fits.
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Google Assistant’s been the voice in your kitchen, living room, and kid’s bedroom for almost a decade. That run is ending. Gemini for Home is the replacement, and it’s rolling out in early access. Google says it’ll reach every speaker, display, camera, and doorbell the company has shipped since 2016. This isn’t a setting you
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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
Camera navigation in pool robots is no longer new. What is new is a robot that uses two front-mounted cameras for stereo depth perception, recognizes more than twenty debris types in real time, and generates weekly cleaning schedules without manual programming. The Aiper Scuba V3 Ultra does all three. Aiper Scuba V3 Ultra: $1999.99 $2299.99
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If you were waiting for Apple to ship the Siri upgrade it promised in 2024, WWDC 2026 delivered the reset. During the June 8 keynote, Apple unveiled Siri AI, a rebuild of its assistant running on next-generation Apple Foundation Models, custom-built in collaboration with Google and its Gemini models. The company also announced iOS 27,
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Tim Cook’s WWDC 2026 keynote was not about one headline feature. It was about Apple admitting what it could not build alone, while quietly doing something remarkable for anyone who keeps their hardware longer than two years. After two years of promising an AI leap that never fully arrived, Apple changed strategy: it called in
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ASUS used its Computex 2026 keynote to show a full ecosystem rather than a single flagship. Every category received an AI upgrade, from creator laptops down to a new tablet and a desktop tower that could pass for furniture. It was a broad presentation. Headlining the lineup are the ProArt P16 and P14, which become
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I just spent four days inside Xpeng’s world leading up to the 2026 Beijing Auto Show, and I’m still trying to process what I saw. Cars threading through Beijing chaos like a taxi driver who’s been on the job for thirty years. Humanoid robots in active development. A flying car with 7,000 orders on the
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May 2026 was the kind of month where the gadget world stopped asking “what’s next?” and just started shipping it. The Fitbit Air went screenless at $99. The Anker SOLIX S2000 promised 35 hours of fridge backup. Google unveiled the Googlebook as Chromebook’s next chapter. Modular phones made a serious comeback, AI moved off your
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Microsoft has been quietly experimenting with what an AI assistant looks like when it stops living inside a laptop, and the latest answer is a wearable you clip to your shirt. At its annual developer conference, the company pulled the curtain back on two early hardware concepts built around its AI agents. One is a
Microsoft’s Latest AI Gadget Isn’t a PC, It’s a Badge You Wear Read More
Alongside its new 3:2 Iconia Duo tablet family announced out of Taipei, Acer slipped in two of the more interesting wearables of the year. The AR Vision GR0 and GI0 AI glasses aim at completely different audiences, one for couch gamers and frequent flyers who want a giant private screen, the other for travelers and
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