Open-ear audio spent two years acting like a luxury habit. Clips at a few hundred dollars. Hooks with a running-store markup. Bone-conduction pairs that sounded like a conversation in the next room. Then, on October 14, 1MORE put the Open Earbuds S10s on the market and priced the idea like a spare pair of gym …
Five weeks ago I wrote an article about firing Alexa from my house and replacing her with a voice assistant that never phones home. I stand by every word of it. Which is why it’s deeply annoying that Amazon announced something this morning that made me open a new browser tab and start building an …
Somewhere around minute forty of yesterday’s Connect keynote, my notebook stopped being a list of announcements and became a scorecard. My team and I have been tracking the leaks on this one for months — we even put our predictions in print last week — so when Mark Zuckerberg finally took the stage in Menlo …
Five days from now, Mark Zuckerberg walks onto a stage in Menlo Park at an unusual hour — 4PM PT, 7PM on the East Coast, an evening keynote for the second year running — and opens Meta Connect 2026. My team has been through every leak, firmware dig, and supply-chain whisper leading into this one, …
When I wrapped up the four-ring experiment back in August, I thought the smart ring story was settled for a while. Oura made the best hardware and charged rent for the software; RingConn and Samsung made very good rings and charged nothing beyond the sticker. Pick your philosophy, sign accordingly. Then Oura did something nobody …
I watched Apple’s “Surprise and Shine” event Wednesday night with three browser windows open, two colleagues on Slack, and a legal pad I filled with conflicting product names. That last part is the story nobody at Apple will admit: the biggest hardware launch in years shipped with a communications problem. The company that famously obsesses …
I’ve watched a lot of Apple keynotes from this desk. Somewhere around the twenty-five year mark you develop a rhythm for the second week of September: charge everything, clear the schedule, keep a notepad for the two features that actually matter versus the forty minutes of theater around them. But Wednesday’s event — Wednesday, September …
I have lost the same set of keys exactly four times in the past year. Twice they were in the couch. Once they were in a rental car returned to a different state. And once — this is the one that stung — they spent a week in a checked bag that had come back …
I’ve been covering Google hardware launches since the original Pixel back in 2016, and I’ve learned something over those ten years: the company’s product events have a rhythm. Some years it’s all software and incremental bumps. Other years, like today, Google walks on stage and empties the entire parts bin. The Made by Google 2026 …
I’ve been wearing a smart ring on my finger for the better part of four months. Not the same one — four different ones, rotating weekly, charging constantly, and explaining to my wife why there are tiny titanium circles scattered across every flat surface in my office. The reason was simple: I wanted to know …