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drones

The White House's new drone tariffs top out at 100 percent for heavy or thermal-equipped models, hitting power line inspectors, crop sprayers, and rescue crews the hardest. Onshoring is the stated goal. It is also years away.

wearables

Apple is turning the Watch into an ambient life recorder, generating AI summaries from microphone and sensor data. The pitch is familiar, and the wearables that tried it first are already cautionary tales.

soundbars

Dolby Atmos in a single bar depends less on the hardware than on the room it bounces off. Here is why most living rooms quietly sabotage the effect, and what to actually do about it.

drones

Ifremer's Deep-6000 floats reached 6,000 meters this year, joining a US and Chinese effort to instrument the abyss. By 2028, 30 more units should push Argo's coverage past 98 percent of ocean volume.

headphones

Heavys built a $499 over-ear headphone with four drivers per cup, tuned specifically for metal and rock. It undercuts the AirPods Max by $50 and claims a sound Apple cannot match, if you only listen to one thing.

wearables

Sharp's first smartwatch promises to estimate what you ate without any logging, using bioimpedance tech licensed from HEALBE. That same approach has spent years failing to convince independent testers.

wearables

Google has retired the Fitbit app and replaced it with Google Health, an AI-first redesign that pushes coach chatter to the top of the screen. Longtime users are not impressed, and the workarounds are clumsy.

cameras

Insta360's new Luna Ultra packs an integrated gimbal, dual lenses, 8K capture, and Leica-tuned optics into a pocketable creator camera. The pitch is convincing, but the missing pricing and unproven sensor claims deserve scrutiny.

wearables

For the third year, Sandwich Vision is livestreaming John Gruber's post-WWDC Talk Show in stereoscopic 3D through its Theater app. It remains the most-cited demo for Vision Pro, which says as much about the headset's content drought as it does about the show.

wearables

Borderlands creator Randy Pitchford claims a friend pulled an unreleased Pixel Watch 5 out of the sea near Saint Martin. The story is delightful. The supposed leak itself is borderline useless.

wearables

Amazon has the Apple Watch Ultra 3 down to $649, its lowest price on record. That puts Apple's latest titanium adventure watch uncomfortably close to the Ultra 2, which barely moves on discount.

earbuds

The AirPods Pro 3 have the best Active Noise Cancellation Apple has ever shipped. So why does the company still need an Accessibility feature to make them work for focused listening?

wearables

Amazon dropped the Apple Watch Series 11 to $279 for Prime Day, $120 below Apple's $399 list price. It's the lowest price we've seen on the new model, but the discount only applies to one configuration.

chargers

Reddit's r/UsbCHardware and r/onebag communities apply seven criteria to charger choice. Applied to the top 5 GaN chargers of 2026, here's what wins.

chargers

Anker's new Prime 3-in-1 brings 25W Qi2.2 charging to a fold-flat design aimed at travelers. The active cooling fan inside hints at how inefficient fast wireless charging still is.

chargers

INIU's new Cougar P63 promises 100W PD output and 25,000mAh in a 392g shell. The spec sheet is competitive, but the category is already crowded, and a few of the claims deserve scrutiny.

wearables

Apple just cut watchOS 27 support for the Series 8, first-gen Ultra, and SE 2, all 2022 hardware. The new floor is the S9 chip, and the company has offered no explanation for the sudden contraction.

audio

Insta360's first proper Pro-tier wireless mic adds e-ink badges, a three-capsule array, and onboard recording. It sounds better than the Hollyland Lark M2S, but you pay for it in grams.

headphones

Edifier's Auro Ace bolts an animated dot-matrix display onto each earcup, sized for everyone except the person wearing it. At roughly $40, it is the cheapest way yet to advertise your music taste to a metro car.

accessories

Amazon is yanking store access from Kindles released in 2012 or earlier starting May 20, 2026. Rather than upgrade, a vocal slice of owners is reaching for community jailbreaks to keep perfectly functional hardware alive.

headphones

A former Apple designer says the AirPods Max took five years and hundreds of cushion variations to ship. That dedication is admirable, and it also helps explain the headphones' frustrating refusal to evolve.

earbuds

Ordo wants to replace smart glasses with earbuds that listen, watch, and recall your day. The pitch is $99 and the ship date is a year away, which is the part worth scrutinizing.

wearables

Fitbit Air is the first new Fitbit hardware in four years: $99, screenless, week-long battery, A-fib alerts, and a new Google Health app underneath it. Google’s answer to Whoop.

chargers

Apple's MacBook Neo tops out at 35W, which leaves headroom on a 65W charger. Rolling Square's Supertiny is the smallest one we've seen, and pairs neatly with a splitter cable.

audio

JBL's Live 4 lineup splits into three fits and bundles each with a touchscreen charging case running Smart OS 3.0. The hardware is interesting. Whether anyone actually swipes on their case is another question.

cameras

Insta360’s new Luna line is a dual-camera handheld with Leica branding, aimed directly at the DJI Osmo Pocket 3’s category. At NAB 2026 we got the silhouette. The reveal is coming.

smart-glasses

Samsung is reportedly readying Galaxy Glasses for its July 22 Unpacked in London. The pitch sounds suspiciously like Meta's Ray-Ban formula, two years late, with a Gemini coat of paint.

cameras

GoPro’s new GP3 processor and an “entirely new generation” of cameras are aimed at NAB 2026. The marketing copy, cinema-grade, AI-driven, low-light parity with DJI, reads like a reset.

audio

Sony’s incremental XM6 refinement is exactly that: 25% more ANC than the XM5, an 11% smaller body, and an upgraded DSEE Ultimate audio upscaler. It’s the right kind of cautious.

chargers

Ugreen’s MagFlow AI Voice Recording Power Bank packs MagSafe wireless charging, a microphone and on-device AI transcription into one device. It’s a 2-in-1 that nobody asked for and the kind of gadget everyone notices.

wearables

Even Realities’ G2 has no camera, no external speaker, and a heads-up display tuned to disappear when you’re not using it. At $599, it’s the most considered pair of smart glasses at CES 2026.

wearables

Luna’s pitch is the simplest of the year: a $149 screenless wrist tracker with on-device voice coaching and no subscription. Whoop has not had a competitor this direct.

chargers

The new Prime pushes Anker’s TSA-legal flagship to 300W total, with a 250W input that recharges to 50% in 13 minutes. It’s the maximum reasonable power bank, and now the fastest to fill.