Small tablets have been stuck for years. Apple updates the iPad Mini on its own timeline, Samsung stopped competing at the premium end of the category, and few other brands are willing to invest in pushing the compact tablet forward. The assumption is that people want either a big phone or a big tablet. That’s […]
Huawei Built the Tablet the iPad Mini Refuses to Be Read More
ARTICLE – Most speaker companies drop new products that replace what came before. Sonos is going the other direction. The company today announced Sonos Play and Sonos Era 100 SL, two speakers priced at $299 and $189 that expand an existing system rather than reset it. Both are up for pre-order now at sonos.com, with
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ARTICLE – Rugged phones have spent the last five years getting tougher without getting more interesting. Thicker glass, bigger batteries, higher IP ratings, all of it useful, none of it surprising. Ulefone walked into MWC 2026 in Barcelona last week and broke that pattern with a phone that pulls apart, and that’s what makes the
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ARTICLE – The physical keyboard on a smartphone isn’t dead. It just spent a decade in hiding while the rest of the industry chased bigger screens and thinner bezels. Unihertz has been quietly building QWERTY phones since its original Titan launched with a Passport-style square display, and the lineup has attracted a loyal following of
Unihertz Shrinks the QWERTY Phone Into BlackBerry Territory Read More
ARTICLE – You spend 10 hours a day staring at a screen, and it shows. It hits around 2 PM, sometimes earlier. Your eyes glaze over, your shoulders tighten, and your brain shifts into that foggy autopilot mode where you’re technically working but not really present. You grab another coffee. Maybe you step outside for
This Invisible Light Wants to Fix Your Afternoon Slump Read More
Most people stopped carrying a pen on purpose. Phones replaced notepads, digital signatures killed the ink-on-paper moment, and keeping a writing tool on you started feeling like a habit from a previous era. That assumption holds until it doesn’t. You’re at a customs desk, a trailhead register, or signing a delivery receipt, and there’s nothing
This Nano EDC Pen Fits on a Keychain and Writes on Anything Read More
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
AGIBOT’s X2 did a full split at MWC 2026 and you can already rent one Read More
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
7 New Wireless Earbuds That Just Raised the Stakes Read More
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
Fire starters and solar laptops lead OUKITEL’s MWC lineup Read More
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
This patch knows more about your sweat than any smartwatch Read More
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
When your budget headphones outlive your vacation Read More
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
8 Smartwatches Built for Travelers Who Refuse to Sit Still Read More
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
A Retro Mini PC With Serious Desktop-Class Power Read More
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
Forget Smart Glasses, Try Smart Contact Lenses Instead Read More
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,
A pocket knife that moves like a chain and folds like a puzzle Read More
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,
This $90 Pet Collar Lets Your Dog Call You Back Read More
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
Amazon’s $99 AI Now Does the Work Hospitals Can’t Staff Read More
