Gadgets

A New Netflix Poster Spotlights All the Gadgets From Prospect, Pedro Pascal’s Sci-Fi Thriller

The Mandalorian isn’t the only place to find new Pedro Pascal content this week. A film he released last year, Prospect, debuts on Netflix today, and if that title rings a bell, give yourself a gold star. We’ve covered it a lot. In Prospect, Pascal stars as the opposition to a father-daughter team (played by…

Movies Germain Lussier

The Raspberry Pi 400 Is a $70 Computer Built Inside a Keyboard

It looks like a keyboard—and it is. But it’s also a computer. Today, the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced the Raspberry Pi 400, a complete $70 PC that’s built into a compact keyboard. It takes its inspiration from home computers from the 1980s, like the BBC Micros, ZX Spectrums, and Commodore Amigas. As for specs, the…

Gadgets Victoria Song

Skullcandy’s Incredibly Cheap Wire-Free Earbuds Sound a Lot Better Than You’d Expect

Released to coincide with the news that the iPhone 12 line would no longer ship with headphones, Apple’s new $50 Beats Flex are the cheapest wireless earbuds the company sells—but they’re not completely wireless, and they’re not that cheap. Skullcandy’s new Jib True wireless earbuds easily best Beats with a truly wireless design, a $30…

Headphones Andrew Liszewski

This Tactile Pregnancy Test Offers Much-Needed Privacy to People With Visual Impairments

Pregnancy tests these days can get surprisingly high tech—and may even be rigged to play Doom. It’s also an unfortunate reality that these high-tech tests aren’t always accessible for the visually impaired. Because most rely on digital screens, blind or partially sighted people often have to ask someone else to read their results for them—which…

Tech News Victoria Song

This Smartwatch Has a Baffling Price

Your average smartwatch brand usually puts out at least two types of watches: a premium flagship smartwatch, and a more cost-conscious alternative with about 75% of the flagship’s features. Samsung does it (Galaxy Watch 3 and the Galaxy Watch Active2), Fitbit does it (Fitbit Sense and Versa 3), and now with the Apple Watch SE,…

Accessories & Wearables Victoria Song

You Won’t Have to Upgrade Mophie’s New Battery Pack When You Change Phones

It doesn’t matter what mobile device you use, battery life is always limited and always a struggle. Mophie’s Juice Packs, which strap an additional battery to the back of your smartphone using a form-fitting case, dramatically expand battery life, but have also always been device-specific. Its new Juice Pack Connect, however, can work with any…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Amazfit Might Have Made the Best Budget Smartwatch

Smartwatches under $200 keep getting more advanced and more worth your money, but the newly launched Amazfit GTR 2 and GTS 2 could actually pose a threat to the “budget” options from more well-known smartwatch brands. At $180, both the Amazfit GTR 2 and GTS 2 offer feature sets that punch way above their price.…

Gadgets Victoria Song

A Massive Upgrade Makes the Classic Super Nintendo Super Scope Work on Modern TVs

Despite a renaissance in outdated gaming tech, there’s a small blip in the history of retro gaming hardware that has all been all but abandoned in the emulation scene: light guns. The way the technology worked simply isn’t compatible with modern TVs and screens, so if you want to get something like the Super Nintendo’s…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Looks Like We May See Redesigned AirPods and Smaller AirPods Pro in 2021

While many of us mocked AirPods when they first came out, Apple’s wireless earbuds have turned out to be a popular product for the company and actually really solid wireless earbuds for most people. It appears Apple’s keen on continuing to capitalize on that popularity, with Bloomberg reporting that the company is currently working on…

Tech News Victoria Song

The World’s First Handheld Calculator Is Up for Auction

They can do everything from plot complex equations to even play games like Doom (if you have enough rotting potatoes) but the handheld calculator started out as a very simple device capable of performing just four basic mathematical calculations. One of the very first prototypes, created by Texas Instruments back in the mid-’60s, is going…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

A Pandemic-Induced Bankruptcy Killed the HAL-9000 Smart Speaker

If you need another reminder that it’s an especially risky time to back crowdfunded products on sites like Indiegogo and Kickstarter, Master Replicas Group, who introduced a smart speaker version of the HAL 9000 computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey, is shutting down, and unless a minor miracle occurs (space babies?) backers probably won’t be…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Is That Gadget Haunted or Just Broken?

Ghosts. They’re said to haunt anything, even electronics. I’m sure the first people who put light bulbs in their homes thought they were being haunted when a power surge made their lamps flicker. But there are enough stories of kids’ toys stuffed away in a closet coming to life, even with the batteries removed, to…

Tech News Joanna Nelius

Garmin Made an Esports Fitness Smartwatch for Streamers Because We Live in Hell

No one: Absolutely no one: Garmin: What’s up fam, it’s ya boi Garmin here with a new GPS esports smartwatch that you can use to livestream your biometric stats on Twitch or whatever it is you use to stream you crushing your opponents! I wish I were joking, but 2020 continues to test everyone’s sanity.…

Gadgets Victoria Song

I Miss the Wild West Days of Digital Watches With All the Features

It’s hard to be a kid obsessed with gadgets when you’re lacking a disposable income, but as a child of the ‘80s and ‘90s, one of my earliest attainable electronic obsessions were digital watches. I grew up in a time when companies like Casio and Timex were competing to cram as many features into their…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

The Portable Atari Mini Pong Jr. Is Like a Nintendo Switch That Only Plays Pong

Atari continues to struggle with getting its long-promised throwback console to consumers, but in the meantime it’s turned one of its most iconic games into a portable gaming machine that allows two players to smack a blocky ball back and forth across a virtual ping-pong table. Pong is back…again…but now in a more portable version.…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

LG Just Shattered Your Rollable OLED TV Dreams With an $87,000 Price Tag

Earlier this year, at CES 2020, LG announced that it was finally putting its roll-up OLED TV into production, after first debuting the display as a concept two years earlier. It promised the TV would ship sometime in 2020, and true to its word you can now buy the LG Signature OLED R, if you…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

The Best Controller of All Time Has Been Turned Into a Handheld That Can’t Actually Play GameCube Games

The problem with most handheld gaming systems is that they sacrifice ergonomic controls for portability, but the RetroBlock2 could change that. It’s designed from the ground up around the much-loved Nintendo GameCube controller, and will soon be hitting Kickstarter. Nintendo has long dabbled in unique controller designs; everything from the N64 to the Wii to…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Peloton Recalls Clip-in Pedals on 27,000 Bikes After Reports of Injury

If you bought a Peloton Bike between July 2013 and May 2016, you might want to check the clip-in pedals. Peloton is currently recalling the out-of-warranty PR70P pedals as they can unexpectedly break while you’re getting your sweat on—possibly resulting in injuries. Peloton announced the recall on its website, though it’s a bit buried in…

Gadgets Victoria Song

Analogue’s New Duo Console Reminds TurboGrafx Fans They’re Not Forgotten

After resurrecting some of the most popular classic consoles of the ‘80s and ‘90s including the NES, Super Nintendo, and Sega Genesis, the team at Analogue is turning its attention to reviving a lesser known family of systems in the annals of retro gaming. If consoles like the TurboGrafx-16 still remain close to your heart,…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

This Touchscreen Digital Board Game Table Is Rage Flip Resistant and Has Tons of Hasbro Games

In just a few years’ time Arcade1Up has managed to make a name for itself with a collection of DIY, Ikea-like arcade cabinets perfect for retro gaming collectors with limited space. The company is now targeting board game fans too with its new Infinity Game Table that lets players crowd around a giant touchscreen to…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

A New Netflix Poster Spotlights All the Gadgets From Prospect, Pedro Pascal’s Sci-Fi Thriller

The Raspberry Pi 400 Is a $70 Computer Built Inside a Keyboard

Skullcandy’s Incredibly Cheap Wire-Free Earbuds Sound a Lot Better Than You’d Expect

This Tactile Pregnancy Test Offers Much-Needed Privacy to People With Visual Impairments

This Smartwatch Has a Baffling Price

You Won’t Have to Upgrade Mophie’s New Battery Pack When You Change Phones

Amazfit Might Have Made the Best Budget Smartwatch

A Massive Upgrade Makes the Classic Super Nintendo Super Scope Work on Modern TVs

Looks Like We May See Redesigned AirPods and Smaller AirPods Pro in 2021

The World’s First Handheld Calculator Is Up for Auction

A Pandemic-Induced Bankruptcy Killed the HAL-9000 Smart Speaker

Is That Gadget Haunted or Just Broken?

Garmin Made an Esports Fitness Smartwatch for Streamers Because We Live in Hell

I Miss the Wild West Days of Digital Watches With All the Features

The Portable Atari Mini Pong Jr. Is Like a Nintendo Switch That Only Plays Pong

LG Just Shattered Your Rollable OLED TV Dreams With an $87,000 Price Tag

The Best Controller of All Time Has Been Turned Into a Handheld That Can’t Actually Play GameCube Games

Peloton Recalls Clip-in Pedals on 27,000 Bikes After Reports of Injury

Analogue’s New Duo Console Reminds TurboGrafx Fans They’re Not Forgotten

This Touchscreen Digital Board Game Table Is Rage Flip Resistant and Has Tons of Hasbro Games

Forget Apple’s Magic Keyboard, Logitech MX Keys for Mac Refuses to Go Back to Full Price After Amazon Spring Sale

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Google’s Next Fitbit Sounds Exactly Like a Whoop Clone

Amazon eero WiFi 7 Router (3-Pack) Keeps Its Spring Sale Price, Covering Up to 120 Devices Across 6,000 Sq. Ft.

72 New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books Arriving in April

A Cosmic ‘Dead Zone’ for Black Holes Is Real, New Evidence Suggests

Nothing Might Get Into Smart Glasses at the Worst Possible Time

Samsung Slashes $350 Off 49″ Odyssey Curved Gaming Monitor to Clear Out Stock on Amazon

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