It took a hit-and-run in a grocery store parking lot to finally teach me a lesson I should have learned a decade ago: the truth doesn’t set you free — footage does. Somebody backed into my wife’s car with a pickup, left a crease the size of a forearm, and drove off like nothing happened. …
The box arrived from a colleague in Hong Kong with a handwritten note that read, simply, “worth the paperwork.” Inside was the DJI Osmo Pocket 4P — the dual-lens flagship pocket gimbal camera that DJI launched worldwide on July 30, and that American buyers are officially not supposed to be able to purchase at all. …
I have a confession that will get me disinvited from at least two GPU enthusiast group chats: the AI server that runs my daily workflow lives on a shelf behind my desk, it weighs three pounds, and I have to check the power LED to confirm it’s on. After years of testing local inference rigs …
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’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 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 …
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 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 …
The Back-to-School Tech Stack I’d Actually Build for Under $800 (After 25 Years of Testing Gear) I’ve spent a quarter-century testing gadgets, laptops, and productivity tools. When September rolls around, my inbox floods with questions from parents and students alike: “What do I actually need?” “Is a $1,500 laptop worth it?” “What about tablets?” This …
The Robot Vacuum That’s Finally Worth $1,300: Why 2026’s AI Navigation Changed Everything I spent a decade watching robot vacuums get stuck on the same rug. They’d push a sock around for an hour, declare “mission complete,” and die under the couch with a flashing error light. I stopped reviewing them around 2018 because nothing …