It’s Sunday morning, it’s Mother’s Day, and the iPad you were thinking about ordering yesterday is either sold out or arriving Tuesday. The good news: most of the best tech gifts for mom aren’t tablets. They’re the small, specific gadgets she’ll actually pick up on a normal Tuesday and use without thinking about it. Here […]
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Most Mother’s Day tech guides read like a checkout aisle. Smart mug, novelty speaker, pink earbuds, done. Mom smiles, says thanks, and the gift quietly migrates to a shelf in the spare bedroom. That’s not a gift, that’s clutter with a bow on it. This list is the opposite of that. Eight tech gifts she’ll
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Most tech EDC roundups read like a hardware sale flyer, eight power banks deep before you’ve even hit the flashlight section. The picks worth carrying daily usually share one quiet trait: they shrink something familiar until it stops feeling like a chore in your bag. Five items from a recent Best EDC pocket dump fit
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Most teacher gift guides treat the classroom as a backdrop, not the actual problem. They cycle through mugs, chocolates, candles, and novelty desk toys that end up in a drawer by June. The smarter move is to think about what teachers do all day, then pick the piece of tech that takes friction out of
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Teacher Appreciation Week kicks off May 4 to May 8, and if you’re staring at a blank gift card thinking the teacher in your life probably already has enough mugs, you’re not wrong. Teachers spend their days surrounded by sticky notes, snack wrappers, and tiny humans who lose things. What they actually want is gear
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The original BOOX Go 10.3 earned its following by doing something rare in the e-ink tablet space. It delivered a 10.3-inch display at 300 PPI while staying just 4.6mm thin, and it managed to look fantastic doing it. Without a front light layer sitting between the screen and your eyes, contrast was sharp and the
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ARTICLE – Every year, tablets get faster chips, sharper cameras, and another wave of apps nobody asked for. The whole category has been sprinting toward “do everything” for over a decade, packing screens with notifications and content feeds that fight for your attention. Then there’s reMarkable, a company that looked at that race and walked
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ARTICLE – Somewhere between the Kindle and the smartphone sits a category of devices that promise the best of both worlds: e-ink readability without notification distractions, plus the flexibility of Android apps when you need them. The DuRobo Krono plants itself firmly in that space, packaging a 6.13-inch e-ink display with a full Android operating
REVIEW – The BOOX Note Air5 C is a 10.3‑inch color ePaper tablet designed for reading, writing, and light productivity. It features E Ink’s Kaleido 3 display paired with BOOX Super Refresh Technology to reduce ghosting and improve performance. The tablet has a host of customized apps and also runs Android 15 with full Google
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REVIEW – After listening to me extol the amazing features of modern e-ink technology, Julie sent me her Onyx Boox Palma, thinking I’d get more use out of it than she had. It was an on-point gift, and I’ve gotten a lot of use out of my Palma. I used it to break my social media
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REVIEW – If the discontinuation of the Kindle Oasis has you bummed out, the folks at BOOX have you covered with the new Go Color 7. This new color ePaper tablet has physical page turn buttons and the latest generation Kaleido 3 color display, all tucked into a seven inch eReader. What is it? The
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NEWS – We’ve covered the awesome Libby by Overdrive before, but as a quick refresher, Libby is an app that will let you download free eBooks and audiobooks from your local library. All you need is a library card. Since we can’t actually go to our library right now due to COVID-19 shelter in place
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NEWS – I’ve been wanting to read Where the Crawdads Sing for months. But bestsellers like that can be tough to find at the library, and I rarely buy books unless I can find them second hand. Even my usual library trick, to look for the audiobook or large-print version, didn’t seem to work this
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REVIEW – Carrying a whole library of your favorite books in the palm of your hand is a glorious luxury and a lot of us do just that on our smartphones or tablets. But there is an alternative to reading on your iPhone or Android device; a dedicated eBook reader like the Kobo Clara HD.
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One of Amazon’s worst kept secrets is now official… Amazon’s newest Kindle is the Oasis. Their thinnest and lightest Kindle ever features 4GB of storage and a 6-inch 300 ppi high resolution display with 10 LEDs that evenly illuminate the screen to allow for comfortable viewing in any environment from total darkness to full sunlight.
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Amazon this week announced an update to its popular Kindle Paperwhite. The updated ebook reader now boasts a resolution of 300 pixels per inch, the same resolution as Amazon’s more expensive Kindle Voyage. The new Kindle also comes with Amazon’s new font, Bookerly, which claims to give readers a better reading experience — faster reading
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Not so long ago, any time a child had with a screened device was seen as frivolous playtime. That’s not true now, because kids spend more time reading and doing school work with tablets and computers than parents would have thought possible just a few years ago. In my household, most of our books were
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I used to love to fill the bathtub with hot water and soak and read a book until the water got cold and my skin got pruney. There were a few times when I would get so sleepy and relaxed that I dropped my book in the water. That would result in a ruined book,
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Just in time as a replacement for those last minute gifts that probably won’t get to their destinations on time, you can give a book through Apple’s iBookstore. You don’t have to send an impersonal gift card; you can actually pick out a book you think the recipient would like, and purchase that book for
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I like reading books, but I only read on my iPad mini now. Actually, I’ve exclusively read on electronic devices since I got my Handspring Visor Deluxe way back in the late 1990s. I’ve always been one to buy my books instead of borrowing them from the library, but that habit has left me with
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