The first wave of RGB LED TVs are fighting for their spot in the TV hierarchy. They need to outperform OLED TVs in brightness and color (because they’ll never match OLED’s contrast), and they need to outperform regular LED TVs in everything (because their price is so much higher). It’s now time for Sony to […]
Since moving to South Carolina’s Lowcountry, I’ve been spellbound by the myriad of beautiful birds that share the coast with us – ospreys raising their babies in towering nests beside the road to my daughter’s school, roseate spoonbills wading in the marsh on my morning walks, eagles circling over my son’s tennis matches, and a […]
I had one ask for friends, colleagues, the lady checking me in for a meeting at a large software company’s headquarters, and everyone else who stopped to admire the phone I’ve been carrying around. “Pet it.” The Razr Ultra is not your average phone. I got the orient blue color option to test, which has […]
Gotrax’s Mustang is a surprisingly practical choice for town and trail rides, thanks to a combination of solid suspension and fat tires that offer a comfortable ride tagging alongside an impressive per-charge mileage.
With the AirPods Pro 3, Apple set out for a new benchmark. The company reached pretty close to the summit, but notched a few unexpected wins along the way, as well.
Last year I deepfaked my kid’s stuffed animal to make it look like his plush deer was on vacation. It was an experiment to see if I could re-create the events depicted in a Gemini ad Google was running, and I never showed the videos of Buddy the deer on his adventures to my four-year-old. […]
I’ve loved the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 since it launched in 2020. I bought one for my wife after reading about how awesome it was on a little site called The Verge dot com. Since then, the G14 has gotten some facelifts, chip bumps, an occasional special edition, a full redesign, and a 16-inch sibling […]
Soundcore, Anker’s audio brand, has mostly lived in the budget-to-midrange world, but with its new Liberty 5 Pro earbuds, it’s aiming at the big guys. The two new earbuds – the Liberty 5 Pro and Liberty 5 Pro Max – use Anker’s new Thus chip, which has more processing power than previous Soundcore earbuds to […]
I’m not sure anyone was really asking for an AI guitar pedal. But it was inevitable that someone would build one. One of the first to take the plunge is Polyend, a well-respected music gear maker with a reputation for building niche, idiosyncratic devices. The company has built grooveboxes around old-school trackers and a multi-effect […]
Ten years ago Sony introduced the MDR-1000X headphones. They combined noise canceling, good sound, design, and comfort in a way that we hadn’t quite seen before in a set of wireless headphones. (At the time, the Bose QC35 were the closest competitor, but I wasn’t a huge fan of their sound tuning.) The 1000X set […]