ARTICLE – The night before MWC officially opened, AGIBOT brought a robot to the Palacio Real de Pedralbes in Barcelona. The crowd at Showstoppers had come to see new gadgets. What they got was a 131 centimeter machine performing a martial arts sequence, then hip hop choreography, then dropping into a full split on the […]
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The wireless earbuds market doesn’t take breaks. Over the past seven months, a fresh wave of releases has landed from brands that clearly weren’t content to coast on last year’s lineup. From Apple’s latest Pro revision to a sub-$100 pair that punches absurdly above its price, there’s something here for just about every kind of
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There’s a phone at MWC 2026 that can start an actual fire. OUKITEL’s WP63 hides an electric igniter behind a tiny trap door on the top of the phone, and that’s only one of five products the rugged device maker brought to Barcelona last week. The full lineup spans phones, a tablet, a laptop, and
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Every fitness wearable on the market tracks the same handful of metrics. Heart rate, step count, blood oxygen, sleep stages. The list hasn’t changed in five years, and most of it measures what’s happening inside your body while completely ignoring what’s leaving it. Your sweat carries data that no wristband or ring has figured out
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Anker pulled the curtain on the Soundcore Space 2, a new pair of over-ear headphones that launched at MWC 2026 in Barcelona with a $129.99 price tag and an April 21 release date. That’s $30 more than the Space One they’re replacing, and for that premium, Anker is promising something absurd: 70 hours of battery
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The line between a travel watch and a fitness tracker barely exists anymore. Modern smartwatches navigate unfamiliar cities, track trail runs at altitude, monitor your sleep across time zones, and still have battery left when you land. They’ve become the one piece of tech that earns its spot on your wrist no matter where you’re
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The mini PC market isn’t short on horsepower these days, but it’s desperately lacking in personality. ACEMAGIC’s new Retro X5 changes that equation. It’s an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 mini PC wrapped in a shell that looks like it time-traveled straight from 1985, and it’s up for presale now at $959 with shipping
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Xpanceo walked into MWC 2026 in Barcelona with something that makes smart glasses look like a halfway measure. The Dubai-based deep tech company brought five working smart contact lens prototypes to booth 6F16, each one solving a different piece of the invisible computing puzzle. The most consumer-ready version combines a micro-OLED display with continuous glucose
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Most people carry their phone like a life preserver. Pull it out at dinner to snap a photo, at a meeting to jot a note, on a hike to capture a view you’ll scroll past in three weeks and never look at again. The assumption baked into every piece of mobile tech is that capturing
This $199 AI Wearable Is One You Can Actually Buy Now Read More
Most pocket knives want you to forget they’re there. ActMax’s LINKFIN takes the opposite approach. It’s a titanium EDC knife you’ll pick up to feel it move, then reach for again five minutes later. That sliding-link mechanism connecting blade to handle isn’t a gimmick bolted onto an ordinary folder. Price: $113 Where to Back: Kickstarter,
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Pet cameras sell a comforting lie. They let you watch your dog pace the living room while you sit in a meeting, completely unable to do anything about it. The footage is real, but the connection isn’t. You’re a spectator in your own pet’s day. Price: $89.99 (March sale; regular ~$105) Where to Buy: GlocalMe,
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Most 3kWh portable power stations take up more floor space than they probably should. BLUETTI’s new Elite 300 pushes back on that tradeoff by fitting 3,014.4Wh of LiFePO4 capacity into a frame that measures closer to a 2kWh unit. According to BLUETTI, it’s the smallest 3kWh power station currently available. That claim is backed by
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Soundcore showed up to MWC 2026 with a projector that solves one of the most persistent annoyances in portable home theater: the audio situation. We got quick hands on the Nebula P1 at the show floor, and the detachable speaker concept works exactly the way you’d hope it does. The Nebula P1 is a 1080p
Soundcore Nebula P1 Speakers Pop Off and Last 20 Hours Read More
Amazon didn’t build a hospital. It built the staff. AWS just launched Connect Health, an agentic AI platform designed to handle the work that burns out human workers fastest. Scheduling. Clinical documentation. Medical coding. Patient verification. Medical history review. Five capabilities under one platform, and the first two are available now with the rest rolling
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Talking to AI still carries a faint whiff of weirdness. You ask a question into the void, something invisible answers back, and the whole exchange feels like filing a support ticket with a very fast typist. Samsung Display looked at that problem and decided the fix wasn’t better language models. It was a face. The
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The design house that shaped some of Ferrari’s most recognizable silhouettes just finished its first smartphone. Pininfarina, the Italian firm celebrating 95 years of work spanning supercars, architecture, and industrial design, co-developed the Infinix NOTE 60 Ultra. The phone debuted at MWC 2026 in Barcelona this week with two firsts that feel genuinely surprising from
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Most mid-range headphones treat battery life as a checkbox. Hit 30 hours, maybe 40, slap “all-day battery” on the box, and move on. Nothing looked at that formula and decided 135 hours on a single charge was a more interesting number to chase. That isn’t an incremental bump over the competition. It’s a different conversation
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Most watches that claim ocean credentials stop at a water resistance rating and a blue dial. The Timex Expedition Freedive Solar took a different route entirely. Its case and strap are built from recycled ocean-bound waste, it runs on sunlight, and it costs $159. That combination doesn’t come around often. The way Timex pulled it
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ARTICLE – Every smart glasses maker at MWC 2026 brought the same formula. Camera next to the lenses, built-in speakers, an AI chatbot, and the ability to record whatever crosses your line of sight. XGIMI walked into Barcelona and ditched that playbook entirely. The company built its name on home projectors, and now it’s channeling
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Nothing built its entire identity on transparency. Every phone the company has released since 2022 carried a clear back panel with visible internals, turning circuit boards and wireless charging coils into design statements. At MWC 2026, the company rewrote that entire playbook with the Phone (4a) Pro and standard Phone (4a), and the changes go
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