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 […]
Xiaomi Priced Its MacBook Pro Rival Under $1,300 Read More
The multitool market looks fundamentally different than it did two years ago. Premium blade steels that once belonged exclusively to custom knife makers are showing up in pliers-based tools. Modular systems let users swap individual implements instead of buying an entirely new unit. Campsite-specific designs are carving out territory that traditional all-rounders never addressed. And
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There’s a certain kind of confidence required to look at a clock, remove the one thing that makes it a clock, and then charge $373 for the result. Jony Ive has that confidence. The former Apple chief design officer, the person behind the iMac G3, the iPhone, and pretty much every piece of Apple hardware
A $373 Clock With No Hands Sounds Wild Until You See It Read More
Let’s be honest about the state of phone straps. Most of them are terrible. You’ve got flimsy fashion cords that look cute until your phone hits the sidewalk, tactical gear that screams “I’m definitely prepared for the apocalypse,” and those purse-style contraptions that turn your pocket-sized phone into a whole handbag situation. Peak Design watched
Peak Design Built the Phone Straps Apple Never Could Read More
Jacoosa isn’t a name that shows up in most smartwatch conversations, but the company’s TG38 has been quietly climbing Amazon’s bestseller charts since appearing on the platform in mid-2025. At $30, down from a listed retail price of $200, the spec sheet reads like a clerical error. Price: $29.99 (From $199.99) Where to Buy: Amazon
A $30 Smartwatch Shouldn’t Have Sapphire Glass or BT Calls Read More
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
Best of MWC 2026: The Tech That Actually Stopped Us in Barcelona Read More
The Hisense CanvasTV lineup just got a little more accessible. The company has added a 50-inch model to the S7 series, the 50S7SG, giving the art-focused TV a size that fits smaller rooms and tighter budgets. It doesn’t lose any of the features that made the larger versions popular, either. The CanvasTV now comes in
Hisense Built a 50-Inch Art TV and It Could Undercut Samsung Read More
Most portable party speakers force a tradeoff. You get something loud enough to fill a backyard and accept that it weighs as much as a suitcase, or you grab something light and live with thin, compressed sound that falls apart the moment someone walks to the other side of the room. Marshall’s Bromley 750 arrived
Marshall Shrunk Its Party Speaker and Kept the Sound Read More
Every list of the “best” Swiss Army knives for EDC recommends the same three or four models. There’s nothing wrong with a Huntsman or a Super Tinker, but Victorinox makes well over 100 variations of the Swiss Army Knife, and the most interesting options rarely show up in the conversation. Some of them carry hidden
7 Swiss Army Knives That Make EDC Way More Interesting Read More
Fujifilm is adding a jet black colorway to its Instax Wide 400 instant camera, giving the company’s largest consumer instant camera a more refined look nearly two years after its initial launch. The original sage green model arrived in June 2024 with a clear focus on simplicity and wide format prints. Now the same camera
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Something shifted in knife design over the past six months. The race to pack more steel, more lock mechanisms, and more handle material into a pocket folder has quietly reversed. Makers are now competing to see how much they can take away. Thinner handles, shorter blades, lighter frames, and designs built to vanish rather than
6 New Minimalist EDC Knives That Prove Less Steel Is the Move Read More
Every smart home camera on the market right now forces you to pick an ecosystem first and figure out compatibility later. Aqara just changed that equation with the Aqara Camera Hub G350, the first indoor security camera to earn Matter certification, which means it can work across Apple Home, Google Home, Amazon Alexa, and Samsung
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Alienware didn’t settle for a spec bump to mark its 30th birthday. The company overhauled the entire gaming laptop architecture for 2026, introducing three new machines that pair Intel’s latest Arrow Lake HX Plus processors with Nvidia’s full RTX 50-series GPU lineup inside a completely redesigned chassis. The Alienware 16X Aurora, Alienware 16 Area-51, and
Alienware’s 30th Birthday Laptops Look Nothing Like Before Read More
Can you bring a knife on a plane? No, you can’t bring a knife on a plane in your carry-on bag, and that includes pocket knives. TSA bans virtually all bladed items from the cabin, with no exceptions for blade length or knife type. You can, however, pack knives in checked luggage if they’re properly
TSA Knife Rules Aren’t as Simple as You Think Read More
CRKT spent two years proving the Padawan could hold its own against folders twice its price. The original frame lock flipper from Brazilian knifemaker Pedro Buzetti earned loyal pocket real estate with a clean silhouette, snappy IKBS ball-bearing action, and 14C28N steel that kept its edge long after the novelty wore off. Now CRKT is
This $80 EDC Folder Proves Everyone Slept on Natural G10 Read More
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
This Steel Smartwatch Runs for 21 Days and Costs Under $150 Read More
There are billions of calculators in the world right now, and exactly zero of them needed to be hand-painted by a master lacquerware artisan over the course of a full month. Casio did it anyway. Price: $625 (Sold Out) Where to Buy: Casio Physical calculators haven’t gone extinct because phone apps still can’t replicate the
A Master Artisan Spent a Month Lacquering This Calculator Read More
Every sim racer who’s used a Logitech wheel knows the frustration. The Driving Force Shifter looked like an afterthought: thin plastic housing, mushy gear engagement, and after a few months of hard racing, internal contacts that started wearing down until gear positions got unreliable. For $50, it technically worked. But “technically works” isn’t what you
This $160 sim racing shifter fixes everything wrong with Logitech’s old one Read More
Philips spent a century building audio hardware, and somewhere along the way it forgot how to make the stuff look fun. The Moving Sound line that defined portable audio in the 1980s traded in bold yellow plastic, chunky buttons, and the kind of unapologetic personality that made a boombox feel like a statement piece. Then
Philips Turned a 40-Year-Old Boombox Into Four New Products Read More
The original BOOX Go 10.3 earned its following by doing something rare in the e-ink tablet space. It delivered a 10.3-inch display at 300 PPI while staying just 4.6mm thin, and it managed to look fantastic doing it. Without a front light layer sitting between the screen and your eyes, contrast was sharp and the
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