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Animated LED Face Mask Reminds Others to Stay Six Feet Away

Being stuck at home for weeks on end has given the world’s hardware hackers some extra time to come up with some truly wonderful creations. Chelsea Klukas, a Product Design Manager at Oculus who’s also known for her experiments merging fashion and tech, has created an LED face mask that could be the most coveted…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Dyson Redesigned Its High-Maintenance Humidifier So It Now Cleans Itself

Today Dyson introduced its most all-in-one machine yet with the Dyson Pure Humidify+Cool that promises to thoroughly clean and moisturize the air in your home. More importantly, the machine might be one of Dyson’s biggest product redesigns yet, completely rethinking the company’s original humidifier that was fraught with usability issues and questionable design choices. Originally…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

I Sure Hope Samsung’s Rumored Bean Buds Are Real

The Samsung Galaxy Buds+ didn’t offer much new in terms of design—they were more a minor upgrade than a true refresh. But newly leaked renders of the next generation Galaxy Buds have popped up online, and there’s no other way to say it: They’re li’l beans. The renders come from German tech site Winfuture and…

Gadgets Victoria Song

Adorable Miniature Record Maker Teaches Kids Not to Take Spotify For Granted

Hand a kid raised on streaming music services a vinyl record and they’ll wonder why someone made a flat frisbee that can’t fly. Yuri Suzuki’s lo-fi Easy Record Maker will not only teach kids what a record is, but it will also show them how they’re created, and in the process ensure they never take…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

This Self-Winding Charging Cable Is an Even Better Fidget Toy

In a time when frivolous mental distractions are an especially important part of everyday life, a simple idea for an upgraded charging cable that can wind and organize itself could become the most entertaining gadget on your desk. The SuperCalla cable, available in various versions that support USB-A, USB-C, microUSB, and Apple’s Lightning ports, features…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Instant Camera For Kids Prints Photos on Rolls of Cheap Thermal Paper

Photography can be a fantastic creative outlet (and time-killer) for kids if you’ve got the right equipment. A camera they can’t easily break is a must, as is a way to easily print out their prized shots. Most instant cameras rely on pricey film stock, but the myFirst Camera Insta 2 uses cheap rolls of…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Who’s Ready to Get Mad Over an iPad Notch?

Patents aren’t written in stone, but they’re definitely a glimpse into what a company is mulling for future products. On that front, a newly released Apple patent hints the company is finally recognizing that most people use their iPads in landscape mode by shifting the front-facing camera and FaceID sensors onto the horizontal side. The…

Tech News Victoria Song

Modder Builds a Perfect Portable N64 That Looks Like a Super-Sized GBA

Nintendo has ported a handful of classic N64 games to its portable systems, such as Ocarina of Time making an appearance on the 3DS. But for gaming on the go, the N64’s library is mostly unavailable. Modder GmanModz took on the challenge of building an oversized replica of the clamshell Game Boy Advance that’s large…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Surprise! Fitbit’s First New Product Since Google Deal Is A Fitness Tracker

As we entered a new decade, Fitbit’s fortunes looked uncertain. Last year, the company was acquired by Google for a neat $2.1 billion—a move that left some longtime Fitbit users wary about their data privacy. The acquisition followed reports about disappointing Versa Lite sales, which was a blow to Fitbit considering the popularity of its…

Gadgets Victoria Song

Adorable Animated Super Mario Chain Chomp Toy Will Help You Practice Safe Social Distancing

If you’ve played the various iterations of games like Super Mario and Mario Kart over the years, you’ve undoubtedly found yourself at the dangerous end of a Chain Chomp more than once. The character can be a terrifying baddie to stumble across in a game, but in real life it’s the most adorable way to…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Timex’s New GPS Smartwatch Ain’t Cute, But It’s Cheap

When Timex announced earlier this year that it was getting back into the smartwatch game, I was a little perplexed.. That’s mainly because, at a glance, the new Ironman GPS R300 looks much more like the kind of smartwatch-fitness tracker hybrid that was popular back in 2016 than a device you’d relaunch a product line…

Accessories & Wearables Victoria Song

Apple Not Only Fixed the New MacBook Air’s Keyboard, It Also Made the Laptop Easier To Repair

It was long assumed that one of the big sacrifices to making a laptop as thin as the MacBook Air was severely diminishing its repairability. But iFixit gutted the recently announced 2020 MacBook Air and discovered more than just keyboard improvements; Apple has also made it easier to fix several of the laptop’s most crucial…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

This Ankle Exoskeleton Was Designed to Make Running Easier

Running is one of the most affordable forms of exercise, but it’s also one that people love to groan about—and for good reason. It’s a high-impact sport that can be hard on the body, and that’s without factoring in however you might feel about your individual athleticism. But Stanford engineers have found a wearable exoskeleton…

Tech News Victoria Song

Marshall’s New Itty Bitty Smart Speaker Packs Big Sound

Marshall’s latest smart speaker is an unusually small boy. How small? The new Uxbridge Voice, which is integrated with Amazon Alexa, measures a mere 5 by 6.6 by 4.8 inches. For reference, the Uxbridge Voice is just a smidge taller than an iPhone XS Max, which measures 6.2 inches tall. That’s not quite as small…

Gadgets Victoria Song

The Never-Ending Death of Smart Home Gadgets

I got my smart TV in early November 2016. It was a 50-inch Samsung—the largest size I could convince my then skeptical roommate to shell out for. We scored a modest deal. At roughly $600 split between two poor millennials, it wasn’t half-bad. (Though, in retrospect, I should have waited until Black Friday.) It was,…

Gadgets Victoria Song

Turn Your Nintendo Switch Into a Miniature Arcade Optimized For Fighting Games

Nintendo’s Switch might not be the top console choice for fans of fighting games, but with titles like Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, and Super Smash Bros. available, it’s no slouch either. If fighting games get more screen time on your Switch than Zelda does, this miniature arcade stick controller might be a worthy upgrade. One…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

The World’s First Digital Watch Is Coming Back—for $750

If you’re trying to do everything you can to preserve your mental health while quarantined at home, an endless list of doomsday notifications on your smartwatch probably isn’t helping. Given that a dumb watch doesn’t seem so dumb any more, Hamilton is re-releasing the world’s first digital watch that does nothing more than tell the…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

If You Want to Buy a Treadmill, Peloton Can’t Help Right Now

Now’s the time for folks to get creative about how they exercise, but if you were hoping to get a Peloton Tread, you’re out of the luck. Peloton has announced that it’s temporarily suspending sales for its treadmills as part of its efforts to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. On its website, Peloton…

Tech News Victoria Song

This Smart Tape Measure Is an Asshole

There are plenty of bad connected gadgets, but sometimes it’s not the device itself that’s bad—it’s the execution. The idea of using a connected tape measure to track your fitness goals is not a bad idea. But considering the dangers of body dysmorphia and various types of eating disorders, it’s a gadget that needs to…

Other Gadgets Victoria Song

This U-Shaped Window AC Unit Looks Nifty If You’ve Got Noodle Arms

Summer is still a few months away, but for many of us lacking upper body strength, installing a window AC unit is righteous torture. There’s installing brackets, sealing your window, and if you’re in an apartment, doing all that while praying your noodle arms don’t give out and crush pedestrians below. That’s why Midea’s U-Shaped…

Tech News Victoria Song

Animated LED Face Mask Reminds Others to Stay Six Feet Away

Dyson Redesigned Its High-Maintenance Humidifier So It Now Cleans Itself

I Sure Hope Samsung’s Rumored Bean Buds Are Real

Adorable Miniature Record Maker Teaches Kids Not to Take Spotify For Granted

This Self-Winding Charging Cable Is an Even Better Fidget Toy

Instant Camera For Kids Prints Photos on Rolls of Cheap Thermal Paper

Who’s Ready to Get Mad Over an iPad Notch?

Modder Builds a Perfect Portable N64 That Looks Like a Super-Sized GBA

Surprise! Fitbit’s First New Product Since Google Deal Is A Fitness Tracker

Adorable Animated Super Mario Chain Chomp Toy Will Help You Practice Safe Social Distancing

Timex’s New GPS Smartwatch Ain’t Cute, But It’s Cheap

Apple Not Only Fixed the New MacBook Air’s Keyboard, It Also Made the Laptop Easier To Repair

This Ankle Exoskeleton Was Designed to Make Running Easier

Marshall’s New Itty Bitty Smart Speaker Packs Big Sound

The Never-Ending Death of Smart Home Gadgets

Turn Your Nintendo Switch Into a Miniature Arcade Optimized For Fighting Games

The World’s First Digital Watch Is Coming Back—for $750

If You Want to Buy a Treadmill, Peloton Can’t Help Right Now

This Smart Tape Measure Is an Asshole

This U-Shaped Window AC Unit Looks Nifty If You’ve Got Noodle Arms

Watch and Follow Live as NASA Launches Its First Crewed Mission to the Moon in 54 Years 🔴

This Is the Way to Lego’s April Releases

Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI

Amazon Facilities in Bahrain Hit Again as Iran Follows Through on Threat, Report Says

Why the PS6 Handheld Will Matter More Than the PS6

DNA Study Casts Even More Doubt on Shroud of Turin’s True Origin

Sam Witwer Is Ready for Maul’s Moment

Anthropic Can’t Cover Up Its Claude Code Leak Fast Enough

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