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Congrats to OnePlus for Making Its Smartwatch Slightly Less Awful

The OnePlus Watch launch was catastrophic. Never had a flagship smartwatch since Will.i.am’sinfamous Puls smartwatch failed in such spectacular fashion. I recently wrote 2,000 words about how it was the worst smartwatch I’ve ever used. Today OnePlus pushed out an over-the-air update that claims to fix some of the watch’s egregious omissions and cock-ups. It’s…

Gadgets Victoria Song

This DIY Wireless Ball Cap Lets You Control Death Itself

When it comes to facing your own mortality, there are few things better than a grinning skull with creepy eyeballs. And when it comes to really freaking you out, the only way to make a grinning skull worse is to connect it to a computer and make it jerk around and gape like some degloved…

Gadgets John Biggs

You Can Finally Buy the Flatcat That Looks Like Someone Turned Roadkill Into a Robotic Pet

Does a robotic pet have to look and behave exactly like a real dog or cat to entice its owners to interact with it? With the Aibo Sony seems to think so, but the creators of the flatcat disagree. First revealed a couple of months ago, the robotic roadkill is finally available for sale through…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Samsung’s New Upcycling Program Allows You To Turn an Old Galaxy Phone Into a New IoT Device

Usually, when a phone gets worn down, you recycle it or trade it in for a new one. But with its new upcycling program, Samsung is trying to help people convert old Galaxy phones into new IoT devices. Today, with the expansion of its Galaxy Upcycling at Home service (which is still in beta), users…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

Sound Reactive Bluetooth Speaker Uses Magnetic Ferrofluid to Become a Real-Life Winamp Visualizer

Years before the iPod was a thing, many of us relied on an app called Winamp to listen to MP3s. It was free, it was simple, but most of us used it for its visualizers that created complex, trippy animations synced to our music. Artist Dakd Jung has created a real-life version of those visualizers…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

You Can Link These Miniature Street Fighter II Arcade Cabinets for Head-to-Head Multiplayer

Miniature video game cabinets scratch a nostalgic itch for ‘80s kids who miss their favorite childhood arcades, but their compact size often means they’re single-player only. My Arcade’s new Street Fighter II: Champion Edition Micro Player solves that with the option of linking a pair of tiny arcades using a cable so that side-by-side fights—and…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

The New Tamagotchi’s Camera Lets You Take Photos With Your Virtual Pet Before It Dies of Neglect

Years before smartphones, kids’ preferred digital distraction was the Tamagotchi. The tiny gadgets were revived back in 2017, and have since evolved into more sophisticated handhelds. The latest version, the $60 Tamagotchi Pix, has a digital camera that introduces some novel interactivity and lets kids snap selfies with their virtual pets. Bandai America resurrected the…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Bowers & Wilkins’ New Wireless Earbuds Can Stream Audio From Devices Without Bluetooth, Including Airplane Seats

Every new set of true wireless earbuds seems to refine the experience with better ANC, improved sound quality, or longer battery life. But Bowers & Wilkins is introducing an entirely new feature in its PI7 truly wireless earbuds. Using the charging case as a wireless adapter, the earbuds can actually stream audio from almost any…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Polaroid Claims This Is the Smallest Analog Instant Film Camera Spitting Out Tiny Two-Inch Prints

Miniaturizing a digital camera is relatively easy because all you’re creating is digital files that sit on a tiny memory card. Miniaturizing an instant film camera? That’s a monumental task by comparison, given you have to shrink all the moving parts that expose and spit out physical prints, as well as the film itself. But…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Leaked HTC Vive Air Concept Would Solve a Major Problem With VR Fitness

VR fitness is the future, baby! But there’s one major problem: sweat. As fun as fitness games can be, it’s less fun if sweat keeps trickling into your eyeball during an intense session, and properly cleaning a headset afterward can be annoying. All this makes the leaked HTC Vive Air intriguing The concept headset, which…

Gadgets Victoria Song

This Artist Uses Drones To Create Gigantic Long-Exposure Light Paintings in the Sky

By now we’ve all “oohed” and “awed” over footage of thousands of glowing drones used to create elaborate animated light shows in the night sky. But artist Frodo Álvarez has come up with a different approach, using just a handful of pre-programmed drones to create towering long-exposure light paintings. Typically these types of images are…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

For Those Who Hate Smartwatches, Fitbit Has a Fancy New Fitness Tracker

The Fitbit Luxe, the company’s newest and most expensive band, can best be described as: fitness tracker, but make it fashion. The $150 Luxe, which Fitbit announced today, is the first of Fitbit’s fitness bands to sport a color touchscreen. It offers 24/7 heart rate-monitoring, as you might expect, and comes with a six-month free…

Gadgets Victoria Song

You’ll Want to Avoid Typos at ALL Costs With this Hand Grenade Keyboard

Ergonomic keyboards designed to make typing more comfortable (and reduce long-term injuries) come in many shapes and sizes, but it’s safe to assume that Reddit contributor dapperrogue’s functional Pineapple keyboard, modeled after a hand grenade, is a design you’re not going to see Logitech or Microsoft adopting anytime soon. The Mk 2 grenade used by…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

These Are the Best AR Apps You Can Use Outside

Warmer weather is coming, the days are getting longer, and we’re all starting to venture outside more—depending on which hemisphere you live in, and what your local coronavirus restrictions look like, of course. If you’re going to be exploring more of the great outdoors in the coming months, these augmented reality apps give you more…

Gadgets David Nield

Domino’s Has a New Pizza Delivery Robot That Lets You Track Your Order While It Drives It Over

Domino’s, the eager company that’s always looking for new ways to get you its pizza, is at it again. To ensure that you are not without its pizza, the company has dispatched a delivery robot at one of its stores that it says will take the pizza right to customers. Announced earlier this week, the…

Gadgets Jody Serrano

Regulators Urge Peloton Tread+ Owners to Stop Using Treadmill ‘Immediately,’ and Peloton Is Pissed

In the wake of multiple reports of injuries and at least one death involving Peloton’s Tread+ treadmill, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued an “urgent warning” that the product “poses serious risks” to children’s safety and should not be used in households with small children or pets. To date, at least 39 safety…

Gadgets Alyse Stanley

Peloton Resists Federal Safety Recall for Treadmill Tied to Child’s Death

Peloton is pushing back against a request from federal regulators to recall its Tread+ treadmill after the product was involved in a child’s death last month, the Washington Post reported Friday. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, which launched an investigation shortly after the incident, plans to issue a new consumer safety warning as soon…

Gadgets Alyse Stanley

Here’s What’s Going on With the Roku Remote Pro’s Streaming Buttons

If you go all-in on Roku’s new Voice Remote Pro, you may end up getting one sans the Apple TV+ button seen in marketing materials. When I was shipped a Voice Remote Pro last week, the one I received had four streaming buttons on the wand: Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, and Sling TV. But marketing images…

Gadgets Catie Keck

This Mini Modular Computer Helps You Build Gadgets From Scratch

DIY modular gadgets are nothing new, but they’ve had varying amounts of success over the years. Some devices managed to pick up steam, like AIAIAI’s TMA-2 headphones, while others, like the Blocks smartwatch and Google’s modular phone, crashed and burned. Mixed success in designing and launching these devices isn’t stopping others from creating new modular…

Gadgets Joanna Nelius

The Smart Home May Finally Be Unified Under One CHIP

The tech industry loves a coalition. Sometimes those coalitions lead absolutely nowhere, but in one particular case, the big companies working together is actually beneficial for consumers. Or at least that’s the hope for Project CHIP, an open-source initiative introduced in 2019 as a unifying smart home standard across all ecosystems. According to The Verge,…

Gadgets Florence Ion

Congrats to OnePlus for Making Its Smartwatch Slightly Less Awful

This DIY Wireless Ball Cap Lets You Control Death Itself

You Can Finally Buy the Flatcat That Looks Like Someone Turned Roadkill Into a Robotic Pet

Samsung’s New Upcycling Program Allows You To Turn an Old Galaxy Phone Into a New IoT Device

Sound Reactive Bluetooth Speaker Uses Magnetic Ferrofluid to Become a Real-Life Winamp Visualizer

You Can Link These Miniature Street Fighter II Arcade Cabinets for Head-to-Head Multiplayer

The New Tamagotchi’s Camera Lets You Take Photos With Your Virtual Pet Before It Dies of Neglect

Bowers & Wilkins’ New Wireless Earbuds Can Stream Audio From Devices Without Bluetooth, Including Airplane Seats

Polaroid Claims This Is the Smallest Analog Instant Film Camera Spitting Out Tiny Two-Inch Prints

Leaked HTC Vive Air Concept Would Solve a Major Problem With VR Fitness

This Artist Uses Drones To Create Gigantic Long-Exposure Light Paintings in the Sky

For Those Who Hate Smartwatches, Fitbit Has a Fancy New Fitness Tracker

You’ll Want to Avoid Typos at ALL Costs With this Hand Grenade Keyboard

These Are the Best AR Apps You Can Use Outside

Domino’s Has a New Pizza Delivery Robot That Lets You Track Your Order While It Drives It Over

Regulators Urge Peloton Tread+ Owners to Stop Using Treadmill ‘Immediately,’ and Peloton Is Pissed

Peloton Resists Federal Safety Recall for Treadmill Tied to Child’s Death

Here’s What’s Going on With the Roku Remote Pro’s Streaming Buttons

This Mini Modular Computer Helps You Build Gadgets From Scratch

The Smart Home May Finally Be Unified Under One CHIP

Trump Says He’ll Sign Order to Pay TSA

Deadpool Will Deface ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Classics for a New Secret Lair

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

ASUS ZenScreen 15.6-Inch Portable Monitor Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

Early Wildfires Are Surging Across the US—and Trump’s New Fire Agency Isn’t Ready

INIU Brings Another Power Bank to the Spring Sale as SnapGo Keychain Portable Charger Drops to Its Lowest Price

Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

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