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Atari’s Resurrected 2600+ Console Showed My Dad the Magic of Video Games

— Photograph by James Pero I shouldn’t be writing this review. When the Atari 2600 was first released, I was still 15 years away from having a mortal coil to call my own, and playing the Newstalgia So, what is the Atari 2600+? If you’ve seen the new wave of old consoles-turned-new ( (a new […]

This Mixed Reality Quest 3 Game Gives Us the Virtual Cats We’ve Been Waiting For

— Neko Atsume For those of us who want pets but don’t want to deal with the downsides, mixed reality is here to help. One of the cutest cat collecting games out there recently made its way on Meta’s Quest headsets, introducing a mixed reality mode that’s perfectly suited for the Quest 3. It’s called […]

Anbernic RG35XX H Is a Switch Lite-Like Gaming Handheld for Playing PSP, Nintendo DS, and Dreamcast Games

— Anbernic / YouTube Before you snap up Anbernic’s RG35XX Plus handheld that just came out last month, consider the same handheld but in a landscape form factor — and with joysticks. We did previously point out that the vertically styled RG35XX Plus would be a hassle playing certain games. Looks like Anbernic was already […]

This Beastly Cargo E-Bike Is Powerful Enough To Haul a Whole Grand Piano

— Pelican E-bikes can do a lot of stuff nowadays, but hauling heavy loads is not necessarily their strong suit. Unless you’re riding the PelicanTrain, that is. Pelican’s recently introduced PelicanTrain cargo e-bike that can be customized to fit whatever haul you need to get home. Thanks to a modular design, the PelicanTrain can transform […]

The Next Big Feature for Wireless Headphones: Brain Wave Tracking

— Neurable Audio gear is getting more and more high-tech, but we didn’t expect a pair of wireless headphones that can track our brain activity. Neurable, a startup dedicated to making gear that translates brain wave activity into usable info, teamed up with Master & Dynamic for its first release. The MW75-Neuro takes Master & […]

OneXPlayer’s X1 Gaming Handheld Has a Nearly 11-inch Display and an Intel Core Ultra Chip

— OneXPlayer We’re really stretching the definition of a gaming “handheld” these days. With a 10.95-inch display and Intel’s latest Core Ultra mobile chipset, the newly announced OneXPlayer X1 might just be the biggest and most powerful handheld gaming PC ever made. You may think that a display that’s almost 11 inches diagonal is excessive […]

We Should Reject Using AI to Create Perfect Memories

— ED JONES/AFP/Getty Images Artificial intelligence is built on the back of a huge corpus of data — words, images, and information that models have digested and “understand” in one way or another. That basic ability to recognize patterns and call up information is currently the most promising use for large language models (LLMs) as […]

What We Know About the Cybertruck’s 15-Speaker Sound System So Far

— Tesla If you still have a lot of questions about the Cybertruck, you’re not alone. Even with its release, we’re still getting insight on the EV pickup in drips. For example: the inclusion of a special “Wade Mode” or whether it’s equipped for off-roading. Likewise, there are still many open questions about the Cybertruck’s […]

Here’s What Air Typing Is Like on the Apple Vision Pro’s Virtual Keyboard

— Apple Even having tried the Apple Vision Pro briefly in three separate sessions, we still have yet to see how certain parts of the visionOS software works. You can read my hands-on with the Vision Pro at WWDC and my experience viewing spatial video and other media content here and here, but if you’re […]

Why Stylish Software Is Nothing’s Best Chance at Pulling You Away From Your iPhone

— Photograph by Raymond Wong When Nothing took the plunge into smartphones, it opened the door to lots of obstacles, but also a whole world of possibilities. Sure, there are risks with making transparent wireless earbuds that look different (the Ear 1 and Ear 2 wireless earbuds do stand out in a crowded space), but […]