Every AI translation earbud demo you have ever watched was filmed in a room I want to live in. Treated walls. A lavalier mic inches from the speaker. Two polite people trading sentences like they are reading from a script, because usually they are. The latency counter at the bottom of the screen ticks along …
When Google euthanized the Coral USB Accelerator last year, I wrote about the workarounds my cameras fell back on — and I was honest about the ceiling. A Raspberry Pi with a Hailo stick can watch two, maybe three streams before it starts dropping frames like a bad phone call. My house runs six cameras, …
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, …
The Subscription Math Problem: I Ran the Numbers on Every AI Voice Recorder I’ve been testing AI hardware for twenty-five years, and I’ve watched the same pattern repeat itself: brilliant hardware crippled by subscription fatigue. Smart rings that charge you monthly just to see your own data. Security cameras that hold your footage hostage. NAS …
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 …
Samsung Just Revealed Galaxy Glasses: Why AI-Powered Smart Eyewear Might Finally Be Ready for Prime Time Today’s Galaxy Unpacked event in London just changed the game for wearable AI. Samsung officially took the wraps off Galaxy Glasses (codenamed Jinju), and after spending the last decade watching this category stumble between gimmick and disappointment, I think …
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 …
The AI Workstation I’d Actually Build in 2026: Three Real Setups at Three Price Points I’ve been running local language models since the days when that meant chaining together multiple RTX 3090s and praying the thermal paste held. The hardware landscape has shifted dramatically since those early experiments, and 2026 is the year local AI …
When Neural Processing Costs the Same as a Coffee Six months ago, if you wanted a laptop with a dedicated neural processing unit, you were looking at $1,500 minimum. That was the floor for anything that could actually run local AI workloads without choking. I’ve spent the last decade testing hardware, and I’ve watched this …