I’ve been staring at the same leaked CAD renders for three weeks. My team has been pulling specs from FCC filings, parsing accidental Amazon listings, and cross-referencing Telegram leak channels until our eyes blurred. And now, with six days left before Google’s Made by Google event on August 12, the picture is finally clear enough …
I’ll start with a confession. When the first Ember Mug landed on my desk back in 2019, I rolled my eyes so hard I nearly pulled a muscle. A hundred-plus dollars for a coffee cup with a battery in it? A mug that pairs with your phone? I wrote it off as the kind of …
I’ve been testing AI hardware for years — NPUs, GPUs, dedicated accelerators, the works. But the most surprising AI upgrade I’ve made in the last six months didn’t involve a new computer at all. It came from three devices sitting on my desk that I hadn’t thought about in years: my webcam, my headset, and …
I’ve been testing gadgets professionally for over 25 years, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned about health tech, it’s this: the number most people obsess over — total body weight — is the least interesting thing your body can tell you. I learned that lesson the hard way last spring, when I started training …
I’ve been testing smartwatches since the original Pebble convinced a million people that a wrist computer was a reasonable thing to want. In the years since, I’ve worn everything from a $1,800 Apple Watch Ultra to a $12 no-name fitness band that arrived in a box with no English text whatsoever. After months of testing …
We’ve all been there. You’re three hours into a six-hour layover, you’ve finally found the one outlet that actually works in the entire terminal — and someone’s already camped in front of it with a family-size pizza and a tablet playing cartoons at full volume. Your laptop battery icon has gone from comforting green to …
I spent the last six weeks carrying a 15.6-inch slab of glass and circuitry in my backpack everywhere I went — coffee shops, airports, hotel desks, my own couch. My team and I wanted to answer one deceptively simple question: is a portable monitor actually worth the money in 2026, or is it one of …
The WiFi Bottleneck That’s Killing Your Productivity I spent the first two years of working from home blaming my equipment. My laptop was top-of-the-line, my webcam was crystal clear, and my noise-canceling headphones cost more than my first car. Yet somehow, every video call still felt like a game of chance—would my connection hold, or …
I’ve been carrying the same chunk of metal on a ring for longer than I care to admit. House key, garage key, mailbox key, a spare key to a car I sold in 2019 — the whole clunky collection jangling in my pocket every single time I left the house. Three months ago, I finally …
I’ve been testing smart glasses since the original Google Glass made everyone nervous in 2013. Back then, the idea of a camera on your face felt like a dystopian episode of Black Mirror waiting to happen. The hardware was clunky, the battery died before lunch, and the social stigma was real enough that I stopped …