The last couple of weeks in gadgets weren’t loud. No Apple keynotes, no Samsung Unpacked, no trade show floors packed with press badges. And yet the stuff that actually shipped or got announced during that quiet stretch is wilder than most of the products fighting for stage time at CES. A desktop PC shaped like […]
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Carl Pei’s hardware startup has quietly shifted gears. According to a Bloomberg report, Nothing is developing a pair of AI-powered smart glasses with a planned release window in the first half of 2027. The glasses would include cameras, microphones, and speakers, all tethered to a smartphone and cloud processing rather than running independently. It’s the
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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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Smart glasses have spent years trying to convince people they belong on actual human faces. Most of them failed, and the reason isn’t complicated: every major player landed on the same formula. Add a camera. Add a speaker. Record everything. Broadcast everything. The entire industry treats face-mounted surveillance as the price of admission, the one
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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
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April Fools is the one day a year where tech companies try to out-prank each other with fake product announcements. Google’s smell-search. Tesla’s fake bankruptcy tweet. The problem is that real consumer tech has gotten so genuinely weird that the line between prank and product barely exists anymore. Every one of these funny gadgets sounds
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Smart rings track your body. Smart glasses overlay your world. For years, both categories have operated in complete isolation, each solving half a problem while ignoring the other half. Your ring knows your heart rate spiked, but it can’t show you why. Your glasses can translate a conversation in real time, but they don’t know
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Video glasses always sound easy: plug in, get a giant screen, relax. In real life, they can feel fiddly in a way that makes you stop using them after a few days, which is always a small letdown when the whole point is convenience. RayNeo’s Air 4 Pro is being pitched as AR glasses that
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The Ultrahuman Ring Pro is officially available for pre-order in the United States, marking the end of a months-long import ban that kept the Indian smart ring maker out of its biggest market. US Customs and Border Protection cleared the device, and Ultrahuman isn’t wasting time getting its third-generation wearable into American hands. There’s no
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Jacoosa isn’t a name that shows up in most smartwatch conversations, but the company’s TG38 has been quietly climbing Amazon’s bestseller charts since appearing on the platform in mid-2025. At $30, down from a listed retail price of $200, the spec sheet reads like a clerical error. Price: $29.99 (From $199.99) Where to Buy: Amazon
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The Xiaomi Watch S5 is officially here, and it represents a clear philosophical shift for the S-line. Where the Watch S4 leaned into modular bezels that let owners swap out the look on a whim, the S5 goes in the opposite direction with a fixed, integrated bezel forged from 316L stainless steel. The result is
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Most wearable AI devices at MWC 2026 wanted to put information in front of your eyes. Scople went the other direction entirely. Built by startup Moxiebyte, this pocket-sized gadget uses computer vision to analyze what’s happening around you in real time, from the emotional reactions of people you’re talking to, to whether you’re reaching for
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The line between a travel watch and a fitness tracker barely exists anymore. Modern smartwatches navigate unfamiliar cities, track trail runs at altitude, monitor your sleep across time zones, and still have battery left when you land. They’ve become the one piece of tech that earns its spot on your wrist no matter where you’re
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Xpanceo walked into MWC 2026 in Barcelona with something that makes smart glasses look like a halfway measure. The Dubai-based deep tech company brought five working smart contact lens prototypes to booth 6F16, each one solving a different piece of the invisible computing puzzle. The most consumer-ready version combines a micro-OLED display with continuous glucose
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Most people carry their phone like a life preserver. Pull it out at dinner to snap a photo, at a meeting to jot a note, on a hike to capture a view you’ll scroll past in three weeks and never look at again. The assumption baked into every piece of mobile tech is that capturing
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Pet cameras sell a comforting lie. They let you watch your dog pace the living room while you sit in a meeting, completely unable to do anything about it. The footage is real, but the connection isn’t. You’re a spectator in your own pet’s day. Price: $89.99 (March sale; regular ~$105) Where to Buy: GlocalMe,
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ARTICLE – Every smart glasses maker at MWC 2026 brought the same formula. Camera next to the lenses, built-in speakers, an AI chatbot, and the ability to record whatever crosses your line of sight. XGIMI walked into Barcelona and ditched that playbook entirely. The company built its name on home projectors, and now it’s channeling
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NEWS – We got hands on the Xiaomi Watch 5 at MWC 2026 in Barcelona, alongside the rest of Xiaomi’s new lineup, and it stood out immediately. The feature list reads like someone merged three different product categories into one round case. It’s got a sensor that reads the electrical signals in your arm muscles,
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ARTICLE – Huawei has used titanium on lifestyle watches before, but never on something built specifically for runners. The Watch GT Runner 2 changes that, wrapping serious running tech inside an aerospace-grade titanium case that feels built for a different price bracket. We got hands-on time with it at MWC 2026, and the combination of
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NEWS – For years, smartwatch chips felt like an afterthought. Phone processors got faster, laptop chips got smarter, and the silicon inside your wrist stayed a generation behind. At MWC 2026, Qualcomm changed that with the Snapdragon Wear Elite, and among the first brands to adopt it is one that caught people off guard: Samsung.
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