Sony’s latest gaming headset offers great open-back audio
…The mic doesn’t make my voice sound particularly good (and it’s not an omnidirectional mic), but it’s serviceable for chatting with friends and participating in video calls. Open-back…
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Turtle Beach made a good SteelSeries headset clone that’s $50 less
…The $399 Nova Pro Omni that came out on May 5th has a similar design to the 2022 model, but with some new and improved features — support for wireless hi-res audio…
Apple announces iPadOS 27
Today at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, the company announced new features coming to the iPad with iPadOS 27, including optimizations such as apps launching up to 30 percent faster by intelligently…
Pokémon Champions is off to a rough start
…The free-to-start battle sim, which is out now on the Switch and Switch 2 (and also coming to mobile later this year), is plagued with bugs, some of which cause…
Headphone Reviews
…still great but a questionable ‘upgrade’ Spatial audio and voice call improvements are the main new features, but these earbuds are largely identical to last year’s QuietComfort Earbuds II otherwise. Chris…
Smart Home
…First announced and demonstrated at CES 2026 , Philips Hue’s new SpatialAware feature that better distributes the colored lighting in a preset scene around a room is now available through the mobile…
The Matic is quiet revolution for robot vacuums
…From design and navigation to cleaning performance and mobility, it’s been built from the ground up to address the problems of today’s robot vacuums. And it succeeds. While it’s…
Netflix may have finally figured out games
…Games are included as part of a regular subscription, and at first the service offered a nicely curated selection of mobile games. There were ports of beloved indie titles like the sci…
Mercedes-Benz
…Hawkins Apr 3 Mercedes temporarily scraps its Level 3 ‘eyes-off’ driving feature Andrew J. Hawkins Jan 13 Mercedes-Benz discontinues feature that syncs music to driving Andrew J. Hawkins Dec 17…
The things we’re building
…Now there’s an app for Android and iOS, so you can make mobile apps with your mobile apps. Screen share For the last several weeks, I’ve spent a lot of…