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There’s a moment that hits when you realize you don’t need your gaming desk anymore. You’re sprawled on the couch, your full Steam library running on a screen the size of a paperback, the game you’d usually only touch at your tower hitting settings you’d be smug about on a desktop. That used to be […]
Why 2026 Is the Year Handheld Gaming PCs Got Real Read More
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
5 Small EDC Tech Gadgets Earning Their Slot This Week Read More
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,
Glasses-Free 3D Hits 27 Inches With the ZIMO1 Monitor Read More
The ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 were desktop machines. Boxy slabs with chunky keys, parked on kitchen tables, hooked up to portable TVs. So watching Hyper Mega Tech announce pocketable, clamshell versions of both feels a little like seeing your old school photo on a smartwatch. Nostalgic, slightly absurd, and somehow exactly right. Price: From
The ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 Are About to Become Pocketable Read More
LG announced the UltraGear evo GM9, model 27GM950B, the company’s first 27-inch 5K gaming monitor with Hyper Mini LED backlighting. LG first unveiled the panel at CES 2026 and confirmed full specifications, US pricing, and a pre-order window in its April 30 global newsroom announcement. Hyper Mini LED is LG’s name for its denser local-dimming
LG’s GM9 Is the First 27-Inch 5K Hyper Mini LED Monitor Read More
Some weeks the gadget cycle is all incremental upgrades and color refreshes. This wasn’t one of them. The past few days brought a wide-foldable phone that breaks a six-year design pattern, Dyson’s first product cheap enough to call an impulse buy, a pool robot that empties its own filter, and a retro handheld that looks
10 Gadgets Worth a Closer Look This Week Read More
ASUS just dropped a $5,500 gaming laptop with two full 16-inch OLED screens, and pre-orders are live today. The 2026 ROG Zephyrus Duo ditches the old half-height secondary panel for a pair of matched 3K ROG Nebula HDR OLED touchscreens, which ROG is calling the world’s first 16-inch dual-screen OLED gaming laptop. We’ve already argued
The $5,500 Dual-Screen ASUS Laptop Is Finally Real Read More
If you’ve been waiting for Banjo-Kazooie to show up on something you can carry around, Blaze has an answer for you. The new Evercade Nexus is the biggest handheld the company’s made, and every unit ships with the Banjo-Kazooie Double Pack cartridge in the box. It lands in October 2026 at $199.99 in the US
Banjo-Kazooie’s Back, and Not on a Nintendo Handheld Read More
Sony has announced the INZONE M10S II (SDM‑27Q102/B), a 27‑inch OLED gaming monitor that Sony says was developed with esports org Fnatic. On its product page, Sony highlights QHD (1440p) at up to 540Hz, a stated 0.02ms response time, and a dual‑mode option that can run at a higher refresh rate in HD. Sony markets
Sony’s New Monitor Hits 540Hz at 1440p, 720Hz in HD Read More
A gaming laptop that pumps out 300W of combined processor and graphics power shouldn’t fit in a normal backpack. But MSI says its new Raider 16 Max does exactly that. The company rebuilt its 16-inch gaming laptops from scratch for 2026, shrinking the motherboard and redesigning the cooling system so it could pack more power
Gaming Laptops Hit 300W and Still Fit in a Backpack Read More
ANBERNIC has been busy lately, making retro handhelds in every shape you can think of. There’s the clamshell. The slider. Earlier this year, the brand even launched a wireless controller with a built-in heart rate monitor. But the RG Rotate might be the company’s most fun design yet, because at first glance, you’d never guess
This Retro Handheld Has a Secret Swiveling Screen Read More
Every wearable on the market wants to be your second phone. They push notifications to your wrist, track your sleep patterns, and buzz every time someone drops a message in the group chat. My Play Watch partnered with Capcom to take the opposite approach, and the result is a standalone retro gaming watch built around
The Watch That Plays Mega Man 2 and Nothing Else Read More
The 2026 Razer Blade 16 brings Intel Core Ultra 9 and RTX 50 Series graphics into a 14.9mm chassis with up to 13 hours of battery life. Every year, gaming laptop makers promise real power inside a thin chassis that won’t die before your workday ends. Every year, you pick two out of three. Razer
The thinnest gaming laptop just got 33% more cores and all-day battery life Read More
The retro gaming handheld market has a crowding problem. Every few weeks, another device shows up running the same MediaTek chip, the same emulators, and the same vaguely familiar industrial design. Most of them blur together, and that sameness has made it harder for anything to feel worth paying attention to. Price: $139.99 Where to
This $140 GameMT EX8 Retro Handheld Wasn’t Supposed To Be This Good Read More
Every gaming handheld on the market asks the same question: how big should the screen be? Lenovo’s answer at MWC 2026 is to stop choosing. The Legion Go Fold is a concept device that folds a POLED display from 7.7 inches up to 11.6 inches, then pairs it with detachable controllers and a wireless keyboard
Why Lenovo Put a Foldable Screen on a Gaming Handheld Read More
The mini PC market isn’t short on horsepower these days, but it’s desperately lacking in personality. ACEMAGIC’s new Retro X5 changes that equation. It’s an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 mini PC wrapped in a shell that looks like it time-traveled straight from 1985, and it’s up for presale now at $959 with shipping
A Retro Mini PC With Serious Desktop-Class Power Read More
ARTICLE – Nintendo’s biggest hardware flop got a second life on Switch Online, and what’s inside the collection tells a more interesting story than anyone expected. Price: $24.99, $99.99 Where to Buy: Nintendo The Virtual Boy, Nintendo’s red-and-black tabletop console from 1995, survived barely a year before disappearing. On February 17, 2026, seven of its
7 Reasons the Virtual Boy on Switch Online Works Read More
Every dual screen gaming laptop before this one existed to prove a point, not solve a problem. Manufacturers showed they could fit two screens in one chassis, then left users to figure out why they’d want that. Chassis ran hot to the touch. The weight made the whole thing feel like carrying a small desktop
Dual Screen Laptops Stopped Being a Gimmick Read More
ARTICLE – The Alienware 18 Area-51 with an RTX 5070 just dropped to $2,349.99 on Amazon, a clean 20% off the $2,949.99 list price. Dell’s storefront lists the 18-inch line at the same number, but here’s the catch: that base config swaps in a Core Ultra 7 255HX and an RTX 5060. The RTX 5070
Alienware’s Most Powerful 18-Inch Laptop Hits Its Lowest Price Read More
ARTICLE – Nobody buried the Virtual Boy. Nintendo’s red-and-black tabletop console from 1995 simply vanished on its own, barely lasting twelve months before becoming the company’s most talked-about hardware misfire. Three decades of distance made it look like Nintendo preferred the whole chapter stayed forgotten. Price: $24.99, $99.99 Where to Buy: Nintendo That silence broke
The Virtual Boy Is Back on Switch Online and Strangely Good Read More