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ReviewsPhonesHuaweiHuawei Rewrote the Rules for Smartphone Cameras With the P30 Pro
Despite how you might feel about its rumored ties to the Chinese government (or lack thereof), Huawei has undeniably made some of the most technologically advanced phones of the last three years. Huawei released the first handset with triple rear cameras and reverse wireless charging, while also beating its biggest rivals Apple and Samsung to … Continued
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ReviewsWearablesWearing This Ugly Smart Necklace Helped Me Deal With My Most Traumatic Memory
Back in December 2017, I was innocently catching a late-night screening of I, Tonya when somebody in the theater screamed, “He has a gun!” What ensued was mass panic as the entire theater stampeded toward the exit. In the confusion, I lost my coat, backpack, shoes, and most devastatingly, my iPhone. This was terrifying for … Continued
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ReviewsOther GadgetsThis Inflatable Curtain Turned a Bath Tub Into the Most Spacious Shower in my Home
If you live in a tiny apartment or condo, it’s doubtful you have the luxury of a walk-in shower. A cramped tub probably does double-duty for all your bath time needs, but it doesn’t have to be that way. The Aircurv is an expanding inflatable curtain that lets you move around and stretch out without … Continued
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ReviewsPhonesSamsungThe Samsung Galaxy Fold Is a Flawed Start to Something Amazing
In a lot of ways, doing a traditional review of the $2,000 Samsung Galaxy Fold is pointless. Anyone who buys one isn’t doing so because it’s a good value or a sound purchasing decision. It’s not. They’re buying one because it’s new, innovative, and exciting. Besides, pre-orders for the Galaxy Fold have already sold out, … Continued
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ReviewsFirst LookAsus Basically Overhauled Its Entire Gaming Laptop Lineup With Faster Everything
Anytime a new wave of components hits the market, computer makers (and gamers) start counting down the days until they can put those parts in actual systems. So to coincide with the launch of new processors from Intel, new graphics cards from Nvidia, and new availability of some AMD chips, Asus revamped almost every gaming … Continued
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ReviewsLaptopsGaming LaptopsAlienware’s Area-51m Is a Gaming Monster That Tackles Some of the Biggest Problems With Overkill Laptops
Like top-of-the-line Alienware portables before it, the Area-51m “laptop” is gigantic, expensive, and won’t fool anyone into thinking it’s anything but a device for Rockstar-swilling gamers. But at the same time, it’s a departure from previous laptops in ways that a least try to address some of those problems. And yes, of course, it’s incredibly … Continued
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ReviewsToysThese Battling Bots Bring Dystopian Warfare to Your Living Room Floor
It’s an unsettling glimpse into the inevitable future of warfare where battles are indistinguishable from video games, but watching a pair of robots duke it out is always entertaining. If your aspirations of one day rolling your competitor into the BattleBots arena have been thwarted by a complete lack of engineering skills, GJS’ Geio is … Continued
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ReviewsOther GadgetsDyson’s $600 Daylight Tracking Light Is the Only Lamp I’ve Ever Had to Reboot
Best known for its vacuums, in recent years Dyson has expanded its lineup with products that have nothing to do with cleaning. The Lightcycle smart lamp ventures furthest from the company’s typical products. It’s a masterpiece of engineering, but in true Dyson fashion still comes with a staggering $600 price tag. It’s long been debated … Continued
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ReviewsWearablesFitness TrackersHow a $70 Smartwatch Can Still Be a Waste of Money
With smartwatches, as with other technologies, you expect them to get more advanced with each iteration. The Apple Watch Series 4 introduced ECG measurements right onto the wrist. Since its Ionic smartwatch, Fitbit added red LED Sp02 sensors to each of its devices for some future sleep apnea-related feature that it hasn’t revealed. Samsung brought … Continued
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ReviewsVRThe Nintendo Switch’s Labo VR Kit Is Cheap VR That Doesn’t Suck
Considered Nintendo’s biggest failure and the butt of endless jokes, the $180 Virtual Boy delivered an embarrassingly limited virtual reality experience when it debuted in 1995. But the console’s quick death didn’t discourage Nintendo from taking risks, and 24 years later its second attempt at virtual reality leverages the Switch hardware to deliver a series … Continued
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ReviewsPhonesLGLG G8 Review: Sleek in the Streets, Wannabe Tech Wizard in the Deets
It’s been a while since I’ve used a phone with such wildly different personalities living in the same device, but here were are. On the outside, the LG G8 features a fantastically sleek and minimalist design as good or better than other phones on the market. But on the inside, the G8 dreams of being … Continued
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ReviewsPhonesSonySony Xperia 10 Review: My Adventure With an Extremely Lanky Phone
Smartphones screens have been getting taller (or wider depending on how you hold them) for a little while now. But Sony has taken that idea to a whole new level with these lanky devices: the Xperia 10 and Xperia 10 Plus (not to mention the forthcoming Xperia 1). Priced at $350 and $430, the new … Continued
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ReviewsTabletsWhy Would Anyone Buy an iPad Mini in 2019?
The iPad Mini is not the best tablet Apple makes (that’s the 11-inch iPad Pro). It’s not the good enough tablet either (that’s the iPad Air). It’s the awkward one. A little too small, but a little too big, and demanding a fairly radical change to how you operate a tablet if you’ve been using … Continued
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ReviewsWearablesI Was Ready to Dunk on the Bose Frames… But I Actually Like Them?
Smartglasses have a bad rep—you can thank the glassholes for that. To this day, most people still can’t help but think of the first iteration of Google Glass when anyone brings up the topic of smart eyewear. That also means people start thinking about being recorded against their will, dorky design, and absurd prices for … Continued
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ReviewsFirst LookThe New Truly Wireless Powerbeats Pro Seem Like the Better AirPods We Wanted All Long
If the second generation of AirPods seemed underwhelming, the new Powerbeats Pro by Beats might just get your blood moving. They’re truly wireless earbuds designed for sports and equipped with the new Apple-made H1 chip, superior sound quality, as well as an eye-popping nine hours of battery life. In other words, the Powerbeats Pro earbuds … Continued
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ReviewsPhonesMotorolaThe Moto G7 Is So Close to Budget Perfection
For years Motorola has had a stranglehold on the budget phone market, especially in the U.S where phone buyers don’t have quite the same access to all the low-cost handsets available overseas. It’s gotten to the point where it’s as if you could just change the headline on previous reviews, update a few numbers and … Continued
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ReviewsHeadphonesThe New AirPods Are Fine
The conversation is getting old. You know, the one about how Apple isn’t innovating with new hardware because the future of its business is in services and streaming video and this new Apple credit card that blah blah blah. But a lot of people point out one exception, one new Apple product that feels truly … Continued
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ReviewsWearablesSmartwatchesThe First Smartwatch to Read Your Blood Pressure Is an Ugly Marvel
There’s a reason they call high blood pressure the silent killer. The Center for Disease Control says 75 million Americans suffer from hypertension, a sobering one in three adults. Worse, it says only 54 percent have their condition under control—a fact made more awful by the fact that hypertension is a contributing cause for about … Continued
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ReviewsFirst LookHuawei Put a Bonkers-Big Zoom on a Phone
I’ve been waiting a long time for some company, any company, to bring a big zoom to a smartphone. Two years ago, Oppo showed off a prototype handset with a 5X zoom at MWC. But alas, after all this time, Huawei has finally brought 5X optical zoom to the real world on the new P30 … Continued
