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Bypass Siri With This Stick-On Smart Speaker That Brings Google Assistant and Alexa to Your iPhone

The three most popular AI-powered smart assistants are all available on the iPhone, but only Siri can hear and acknowledge your voice requests while the phone is locked. For Alexa and Google Assistant, you have to be actively using your iPhone and have the Amazon or Google apps open to access them. That’s a problem,…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

There’s a Prime Exercise Bike, and Amazon Isn’t Happy

Just yesterday it seemed like a Peloton challenger had arrived. Echelon Fitness casually dropped the news it was launching the “Ex-Prime Smart Connect Bike,” or a $500 stationary bike that it claimed was “Amazon’s first-ever connected fitness product.” Except now Amazon is crying foul, saying it has nothing to do with the bike at all.…

Commerce Victoria Song

Starving Artists and Design Students Can Afford This Cheap but Accurate Real-Life Color Picker

Check the camera roll on any designer’s smartphone and you’ll find hundreds of random images they snapped for inspiration or because they simply liked a color. But it’s not the best tool for the job. A dedicated color detector is far more accurate, and with Datacolor’s new ColorReader EZ, it’s no longer an obscenely expensive…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

If You Hate Your Ears, Then Why Not Build a Portable Floppy Disk Walkman?

There have been a lot of questionable portable music player formats over the years (does anyone remember the Iomega HipZip?), but Terence Eden’s homebrew Walkman that plays entire albums off of old-school 3.5-inch floppy disks is an obscure masterpiece. If you consider yourself an audiophile, you’ll want to look away immediately. Building the Walkman itself…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

The Fitbit Sense Is One Hell of an Ambitious Smartwatch

The Fitbit Sense is a smartwatch that has a lot to prove. After a pretty lackluster 2019, which ended with Fitbit getting acquired by Google, it seemed like the wearables company was in a rut. It was pumping out iteration after iteration of its popular Versa smartwatch like there was no tomorrow, even as competitors…

Accessories & Wearables Victoria Song

This Budget Pet Camera Is Perfect for Neurotic Pet Owners

Despite my partner’s disdain for pet cameras, it makes sense that I, the neurotic dog mom, would want one. Every time we leave the house for several hours, there’s a small part of me that’s convinced our furballs have died gruesome deaths due to freak accidents. I imagine their ghosts staring at me dolefully, asking…

Home Entertainment & Smart Home Victoria Song

This Perfectly Flat Fisheye Lens Could Help Shave Down Camera Bumps

Fisheye lenses make for some cool photos, but their most distinctive feature is that the glass is curved. The need for multiple bits of curved glass makes fisheye lenses both bulky and expensive. However, engineers at MIT and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell have figured out a way to make a fisheye lens that’s…

Gadgets Victoria Song

Amazon: Hope You Weren’t Expecting Your Pre-Ordered PS5 to Ship on Time

With retailers royally jumping the gun on PlayStation 5 pre-orders, count yourself lucky if you managed to snag one before they sold out everywhere. Unless you got yours on Amazon. In which case, you might still be screwed. An email Amazon sent to numerous pre-order customers on Friday warns that their console may not arrive…

Gadgets Alyse Stanley

CD Players Are Back From the Dead and Now Work With Airpods

According to the Recording Industry Association of America, sales of vinyl records surpassed compact discs for the first time since the ‘80s. What’s more surprising is that people are still actually buying CDs, and if you’re one of the loyal few who refuses to let the medium die, there’s now a portable CD player that…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Retailers Screwed Everyone on PlayStation 5 Preorders

Yesterday, we finally got the skinny on the PlayStation 5’s launch date, price, and what we thought was the preorder date. Then retailers everywhere jumped the gun, confusion was rampant, and now you’ve got a bunch of pissed off gamers asking Sony, what in the actual hell? After yesterday’s PS5 event, Sony tweeted that PS5…

Gadgets Victoria Song

You Don’t Sacrifice Much with the Apple Watch SE

Everybody loves a good deal, and after playing around a bit with the Apple Watch SE, I have to say, this watch feels like an extremely good deal. The base model of the Apple Watch SE is $280, which is $120 less than the entry-level Series 6. That’s not chump change—there’s a lot you can…

Reviews Victoria Song

Do Not Buy the Apple Watch Series 3 Over the Watch SE

Another September, another Apple Event, and this year, we got two new Apple Watch models: the Apple Watch Series 6 and the Apple Watch SE. But do you know which watch is also still around? The Series 3. And, I know the Series 3’s $200 price tag is enticing—a steal, even—but for the love of…

Tech News Victoria Song

Fitbit Sense’s ECG App Is Now FDA-Cleared, Just Like the Apple Watch

Late last month, Fitbit threw a Hail Mary—and pulled it off—when the wearables company unveiled its fall lineup. At the center of was a new Sense smartwatch, which among other snazzy features has the ability to take electrocardiogram readings to monitor for atrial fibrillation—pending clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, of course. Well,…

Gadgets Victoria Song

The Apple Watch Series 6 Will Need a Fresh Take on Old Features

There’s a good chance that Apple will drop its next-gen Series 6 smartwatch during the company’s Tuesday event. We already know a lot of what’s coming to the Apple Watch with this fall’s watchOS 7 software upgrade, but a few things are still a mystery. The most whispered about rumor is that while there may…

Tech News Victoria Song

Nvidia Buying Arm Means Nothing for Apple, but Maybe Good Things for Nintendo

After weeks of rumors, Nvidia announced last night that it was ready to plop down $40 billion to acquire Arm Limited, better known as that company that designs Arm architecture behind CPUs in practically every gadget you use on a day-to-day basis. That tracks with reports from the past few months. In late July, Bloomberg…

Tech News Victoria Song

I’m Mad This Obvious Apple Watch Clone Is Actually a Good Wear OS Watch

The moment I laid my eyes on a leaked render of the Oppo Watch, I muttered, “Oh god. Not another Apple Watch clone.” Nine months later, I have the Oppo Watch in my hands and I’m still not sold on the design. Not because it looks ugly or anything like that. On my wrist, it…

Accessories & Wearables Victoria Song

Nintendo’s Amping Up Switch Production Yet Again ‘Cause We’re All Quarantine Gaming Fiends

Finding a Nintendo Switch or Switch Lite during the pandemic hasn’t been easy. Which is why, according to Bloomberg, Nintendo is raising its production goal for the Switch yet again to 30 million units for this year. The Switch shortage was widely reported on at the beginning of quarantine, and Nintendo has ramped up its…

Gadgets Victoria Song

Apple’s Annual iPhone Event Is September 15 and Here’s What We Could See

Apple nerds, mark your calendars. Apple’s annual fall iPhone event will be September 15 at 1 pm ET/10 am PT. That means in a week, we’ll likely be getting the skinny on the iPhone 12 lineup, the Apple Watch Series 6, the iOS 14 release date, iPads, and maybe even some new headphones and the…

Tech News Victoria Song

Peloton Officially Has Cheaper Options for Working Out in the Pandemic

Peloton makes some excellent at-home fitness equipment. It’s just expensive as hell. However, in line with a Bloomberg leak last week, today Peloton announced that it’s finally offering cheaper options for its equipment now that we’re all stuck at home. The two new products joining Peloton’s catalog are the Bike+ and a new Peloton Tread.…

Gadgets Victoria Song

The Nubia Watch Is Less Futuristic Than it Looks

A curved AMOLED smartwatch sounds like the stuff of science fiction, and the Nubia Watch has certainly been described as futuristic—including by yours truly, who has used the word to explain the watch to coworkers and friends. But after wearing one for over a week, it’s more 2016 than 2020, much less like anything from…

Accessories & Wearables Victoria Song

Bypass Siri With This Stick-On Smart Speaker That Brings Google Assistant and Alexa to Your iPhone

There’s a Prime Exercise Bike, and Amazon Isn’t Happy

Starving Artists and Design Students Can Afford This Cheap but Accurate Real-Life Color Picker

If You Hate Your Ears, Then Why Not Build a Portable Floppy Disk Walkman?

The Fitbit Sense Is One Hell of an Ambitious Smartwatch

This Budget Pet Camera Is Perfect for Neurotic Pet Owners

This Perfectly Flat Fisheye Lens Could Help Shave Down Camera Bumps

Amazon: Hope You Weren’t Expecting Your Pre-Ordered PS5 to Ship on Time

CD Players Are Back From the Dead and Now Work With Airpods

Retailers Screwed Everyone on PlayStation 5 Preorders

You Don’t Sacrifice Much with the Apple Watch SE

Do Not Buy the Apple Watch Series 3 Over the Watch SE

Fitbit Sense’s ECG App Is Now FDA-Cleared, Just Like the Apple Watch

The Apple Watch Series 6 Will Need a Fresh Take on Old Features

Nvidia Buying Arm Means Nothing for Apple, but Maybe Good Things for Nintendo

I’m Mad This Obvious Apple Watch Clone Is Actually a Good Wear OS Watch

Nintendo’s Amping Up Switch Production Yet Again ‘Cause We’re All Quarantine Gaming Fiends

Apple’s Annual iPhone Event Is September 15 and Here’s What We Could See

Peloton Officially Has Cheaper Options for Working Out in the Pandemic

The Nubia Watch Is Less Futuristic Than it Looks

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