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 […]
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Xiaomi isn’t just making phones anymore. The company’s smart home lineup has quietly grown into one of the most complete ecosystems in consumer tech, covering everything from robot vacuums with triple-camera AI systems to espresso machines that wouldn’t look out of place in a specialty coffee shop. While brands like Google and Amazon grab smart
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iaomi has added another appliance to its growing smart home lineup, and this one takes aim at a concern most rice cooker brands quietly ignore. The fluorine-based non-stick coatings inside conventional rice cookers have drawn increasing scrutiny from health-conscious buyers who want to know exactly what’s touching their food at high temperatures. It’s a conversation
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The last premium Xiaomi laptop landed in 2022. Since then, the company focused on phones, smart home gear, and even electric cars, letting competitors fill the gap in the notebook market. That silence ended this week with the Xiaomi Book Pro 14 2026, a machine that doesn’t just mark a return to laptops but announces
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Most years, you leave Barcelona with a notebook full of announcements and a mental list of things you’ll forget by April. Incremental updates dressed up as revolutions. Concept phones that will never ship. Folding screens nobody asked for, made slightly less fragile than the ones from the year before. This year felt different. A few
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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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We covered the Xiaomi Tag when European pricing surfaced last month, and the headline back then was all about the $21 (€17.99) sticker. But now that hands-on coverage has rolled in and the spec sheet has had time to breathe, the price isn’t even the most interesting thing about this tracker anymore. The interesting part
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Samsung had February. Apple has September. MWC belongs to whoever shows up with something worth talking about, and this year that was . Eleven products in one afternoon. Phones, tablets, a smartwatch, a Bluetooth tracker, a power bank thin enough to lose in a jacket pocket, a pair of earbuds with tech that belongs at
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REVIEW – Most phones at $630 ask you to pick your battles. Keep the battery, lose the camera. Get the processor, shrink the screen. skipped that conversation entirely, and then skipped a whole generation number while they were at it. The 17 jumped straight from 15 to 17, a move that puts it nose to
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ARTICLE – Trackers feel like an easy win when the price is right. The payoff shows up the first time you don’t lose an hour retracing your steps. At €17.99 ($21) for one or €59.99 ($71) for four, the Xiaomi Tag makes tracking feel like basic upkeep. A four pack lands in the same mental
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ARTICLE – Most budget security cameras cap out at 2K resolution, which is the quiet compromise between affordability and image clarity. You get enough pixels to confirm motion, identify that someone is near your front door, and review general activity patterns. What you don’t get is the ability to read text on a package label
Xiaomi Put a 6MP Sensor in a Budget Security Camera Read More
Most people buying Bluetooth speakers pay for brand equity they don’t need. JBL charges $120 for outdoor volume, Sony asks $150 for weather resistance, and you’re getting features that matter less than the badge on the grille. The Xiaomi Sound Party bets you’d rather have 50 watts of Harman-tuned audio at $83 (China) than pay
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NEWS – Most flagship phones pretend to compete on cameras while actually competing on the same sensors, the same software tricks, and the same marketing language. The Xiaomi 17 Ultra is the first phone in years that feels like it was designed by someone who actually shoots with their phone, not someone who approves spec