A photo you love rarely leaves the phone it was taken on, fading into a camera roll the moment the screen goes dark. TICKEY tries to pull that image back into physical space, using a 3.7-inch color e-paper panel housed in a 3.8mm aluminum shell that clips onto a bag, sits on a desk, or hangs from a badge lanyard. It’s a small object built around one simple idea: that a picture worth keeping deserves a life outside a glowing rectangle.

The panel itself is the real engineering story here. Most e-paper displays settle for a handful of muted tones and refresh rates measured in long, patient seconds. TICKEY runs on a Modos-developed driver that pushes past 48 native colors while cutting a full-quality refresh down to 13 seconds, with a faster 3-second mode available when precision matters less than speed. That gap between older e-ink hardware and this driver is wide enough to notice immediately.

Designer: ENIAC (Enilinx)

An ESP32-S3 chip handles the processing underneath, paired with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and NFC for getting content onto the screen without a cable in sight. A companion app lets someone edit a design on a phone and push it over wirelessly, and templates can be shared between users rather than built from scratch every time. Since the firmware is open, developers get a mature platform to build custom behavior instead of a sealed black box.

Clip it to a backpack strap before a conference, and it becomes a badge showing a name, a QR code, or contact details, updated the moment plans change instead of printed once and stuck for the day. Set it on a desk, and the same hardware turns into rotating art, swapped whenever the mood calls for something new. A magnet on the back means it holds onto a fridge door just as easily as a bag.

The 45g weight matters more than it sounds on paper, since anything heavier turns a clip-on badge into something that tugs at fabric or slides out of place by midday. Aluminum gives the shell enough rigidity to survive being tossed into a bag alongside keys and a water bottle, while staying thin enough to disappear against a jacket lapel or a laptop sleeve without adding visible bulk.

None of this asks for constant power once an image is set, since e-paper only draws current while actually changing what’s displayed. A finished screen sits there fully visible in direct sunlight, legible without a backlight fighting glare, and idle without draining a battery meant to last through a full day of moving between contexts. That’s the quiet advantage e-paper has always held over LCD, now paired with color depth that used to be out of reach.

TICKEY deliberately skips video and animation, treating that restriction as a feature rather than a compromise. A static image asks less of your attention than a screen that never stops moving, sitting calm on a bag strap or a windowsill until someone chooses to change it. Photos, event badges, or a fridge note showing today’s grocery list all fit that same quiet template, an object built to be looked at rather than constantly checked.

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Most of us have two or more gadgets that need constant charging, plus several chargers and cables to keep them all juiced up. That’s probably fine if you have an entire outlet strip at home or in the office, but when you’re working with a small space, or you’re traveling and on the go, it can be a real challenge to charge multiple devices at once. You end up with a tangle of cords and charging heads, or sometimes you even have to take turns charging your gadgets.

If you mostly own Apple devices or other USB-C-powered gear, the TESSAN 3-in-1 USB-C Charger may actually solve that problem for you. It’s a compact wall charger with a USB-C port, a USB-A port, and a built-in magnetic Apple Watch dock, so you only need one outlet to power up three devices at the same time.

Designer: TESSAN

This 3-in-1 charger is especially handy when you only have one outlet available but need to power up three different devices. A few years ago, this wouldn’t have been much of an issue, since most of us only had one phone to worry about. But now that owning multiple devices is the norm, charging has become an everyday hassle. What do you do when you’ve got a phone, a pair of AirPods, and a smartwatch that all need power at the same time?

TESSAN’s charger features fast charging through its 20W USB-C port, so you can get a device like the iPhone 15 up to 55 percent battery in just 30 minutes. At the same time, its 18W USB-A port can juice up an accessory simultaneously while your main device charges. It also offers broad compatibility, working with everything from the latest iPhone models to AirPods and other USB-powered devices. The real star of the show, though, is the built-in magnetic charger for your Apple Watch. There’s no separate puck or cable needed here. Instead, you get a self-aligning dock, so you won’t have to fuss with positioning your watch every time you need to charge it.

The charger comes in four finishes (white, black, pink, and blue) and is clearly designed to double as a small desk-aesthetic item, though it will likely still read as “just a charger” to most people, especially in the white colorway. Where it really shines is portability: it’s a travel-friendly device you can toss in a bag without a second thought, instead of hauling around three separate chargers that eat up space and weight in your carry-on.

How does it stack up against the competition? The most obvious comparison is Belkin, whose 3-in-1 MagSafe charging stands are the gold standard in this category. Belkin’s BoostCharge Pro and UltraCharge Pro docks charge an iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods wirelessly and look considerably more premium sitting on a nightstand, but they also run anywhere from $95 to $150 and require more desk real estate. TESSAN’s charger, at $20.99, skips the wireless charging bells and whistles in favor of a compact, plug-in design that’s built more for function and travel than for a styled bedside setup. If you want a showpiece charging stand for your living room, Belkin is still hard to beat. But if you want something inexpensive, pocketable, and fast enough to get you out the door in the morning, TESSAN makes a compelling case for itself as the budget-friendly, travel-first alternative.

At the end of the day, this isn’t a charger trying to be a lifestyle centerpiece. It’s a charger trying to solve a genuinely annoying, everyday problem: too many devices, not enough outlets, and not enough patience to wait in line for your turn at the power strip. For $20.99, the TESSAN 3-in-1 USB-C Charger delivers fast charging, broad compatibility, and a clever built-in Apple Watch dock in a package small enough to disappear into a laptop bag or a nightstand drawer. It won’t turn heads the way a sleek charging stand might, but it will quietly keep your phone, watch, and earbuds powered up without the usual cord chaos. For anyone juggling multiple Apple devices on a daily basis, or packing for a trip and dreading the tangle of cables, this little charger earns its spot on the “actually useful” list.

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Setting a reminder on a phone means unlocking a screen, opening an app, and typing on a keyboard, three steps that break whatever train of thought led to needing the reminder in the first place. MATE skips all of that by reading your own handwriting instead. Write “meeting at 1:00 p.m.” on its E-ink panel with the built-in pen, and the device sets the alarm itself, no app, no unlocking, no menu to dig through.

That handwriting recognition is the entire premise, and it works because the device treats a note and a task as the same object rather than two separate steps. The moment it detects a time written into the text, it quietly converts that scribble into a scheduled alert running in the background. Nothing about the note’s appearance changes. It still just looks like something you jotted down on paper.

Designer: Geonwoo Kang

A thin LED bar along the top edge handles the countdown, giving a glance-able sense of how much time remains without requiring a full screen wake or a swipe through settings. When the set time actually arrives, the alarm sounds and stops the instant you tap the panel, keeping the entire alert cycle contained to the same physical surface where the note was written in the first place.

Because handwritten notes pile up fast, MATE handles multiple pages through a three-stage physical slider running down one side, letting you flip between up to three saved notes with a flick of a finger. That’s a deliberately low-tech solution to a problem most gadgets solve with a touchscreen menu, and it works specifically because a slider takes zero attention to operate correctly on the first try.

The memo pad itself doesn’t have to stay locked into the main body either. It detaches from its dock and relies on built-in magnets to stick onto a partition wall or a metal filing cabinet, turning a handheld notepad into a fixed reminder posted wherever it’s actually needed. A grocery list stuck to a fridge door works the same way a sticky note always has, just with an alarm quietly running underneath it.

Even the pen gets a small, deliberate design decision most styluses skip. It nests into a groove at the top of the device rather than rattling around loose in a bag or a drawer, solving the single most common complaint about any stylus-based gadget: losing the one piece that makes the whole thing work. Reaching for a note and finding the pen missing defeats the entire point of a device built around spontaneous handwriting.

None of MATE’s individual pieces, the E-ink panel, the physical slider, the magnetic pad, would stand out much alone. Put together, they describe a specific kind of object: something meant to sit on a desk quietly doing one job well, catching a thought before it disappears and holding onto it until the moment it’s actually needed.

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I’ve tried every trick to get my phone to leave me alone. Do Not Disturb. Grayscale mode. Leaving it in another room, which mostly just means I walk to the other room every twenty minutes to check on it. None of it works for long, because the problem was never the settings. The problem is that the phone is still there, still glowing, still capable of buzzing the second I let my guard down. Willpower is a terrible security system, and every app-based fix is still just asking me to trust myself, which is exactly the thing I can’t do at nine at night with a bag of chips in one hand.

That’s the gap French industrial designer Pascal Grangier is quietly working in with FARADAY, a home object that doesn’t ask you to resist your phone. It makes resistance unnecessary. Named after the 19th-century scientist whose cage design blocks electromagnetic fields, the piece works on the same basic physics: once your phone is inside, it has no signal at all. No calls sneak through, no texts land, no app can light up your lock screen and drag your eyes back to it. You’re not disconnecting through discipline. You’re disconnecting through geometry.

Designer: Pascal Grangier

What makes this more than a novelty is the shape it comes in. Most signal-blocking products look like they were built for a hardware store, not a living room. Faraday pouches for concerts and courtrooms are floppy nylon sleeves you’d never leave out on a counter. Grangier’s version is carved from wood, with the kind of soft, rounded form you’d expect from a well-made bowl or a piece of studio furniture. It’s designed to sit on a nightstand or a kitchen counter without looking like a confession that you have a phone problem. That distinction matters more than it sounds like it should. An object you’re proud to display gets used. An object you’re embarrassed by gets shoved in a drawer and forgotten by the second week.

I think a lot about why boxes like this are showing up now, and it’s not really about phones getting worse. It’s about people finally admitting that the “just put it on silent” advice never addressed the actual craving, which is the urge to check, not the urge to hear. Silent mode still lets the dopamine loop run in the background of your brain, because you know the notifications are piling up somewhere, waiting. A Faraday enclosure removes the pile entirely. There’s nothing accumulating on the other side of that lid, so there’s nothing to be curious about later.

I don’t think objects like FARADAY are anti-technology, and I’d push back a little on anyone who frames it that way. It’s closer to how we treat food we know we’ll overeat if it’s sitting on the counter. Nobody calls it deprivation to put the cookies in a cabinet instead of banning sugar from the house. A wooden box that mutes a phone for the length of a dinner, or a weekend, or a first date, isn’t rejecting the smartphone era. It’s setting a boundary the same way a lock on a liquor cabinet does, respectfully and without lecturing anyone.

The dinner table is probably where this thing earns its keep fastest. Phone stacking, where everyone tosses their device into a pile and the first person to grab theirs pays the check, has become a real ritual at restaurants precisely because people know they need external enforcement. FARADAY takes that same instinct and gives it a permanent home, no penalty games required, no honor system to break.

Whether a hand-carved signal blocker becomes a fixture in American homes the way candles or diffusers did, I couldn’t tell you yet. But the appetite is obviously there. We keep buying productivity apps, screen time trackers, even flip phones marketed as luxury items, all chasing the same outcome Grangier reached with a block of wood and a basic law of physics. Sometimes the smartest tech solution is the one that refuses to be technology at all.

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A keyboard can give you plenty of keys, but when you’re gaming, you rarely use all of them. What matters is having the right controls exactly where your hand needs them. That is the idea behind Razer’s new Tartarus V2 Pro, a one-handed gaming keypad that packs 31 programmable controls into a much smaller footprint while adding a proper analog thumbstick, something most keypads don’t have.

The thumbstick is one of the more interesting bits of the accessory. It uses TMR technology with anti-drift positioning and sits alongside three dedicated thumb buttons, giving the left hand a combination of keyboard and controller-style controls. The stick can handle movement, but it can also be assigned to other commands, making it useful for games that rely heavily on shortcuts, radial menus, or multiple simultaneous inputs.

Designer: Razer

Razer has also moved beyond the usual mechanical-switch approach, as Tartarus V2 Pro uses second-generation Analog Optical Switches that can recognize how far a key is pressed. Their actuation point can be adjusted anywhere between 0.1 and 4.0 mm, allowing the keys to be tuned for either quick, light presses or a more deliberate response. Rapid Trigger goes further by detecting upward movement as small as 0.1 mm, which can make repeated inputs feel considerably more immediate. Razer rates the switches for up to 100 million keystrokes.

There is plenty of control over how those inputs behave as well. Razer’s Advanced Input Control features include Snap Tap, Snap Flex, Dual-Keypress Priority, and Dynamic Keystroke. These allow players to change the way directional inputs work, prioritize simultaneous key presses, or assign different actions depending on how far a key is pressed. The wrist rest can slide outward and rotate from side to side, so the position of the hand can be adjusted instead of forcing it into one fixed angle. The keypad uses textured doubleshot PBT keycaps and a 5052 aluminum alloy top plate, with Chroma RGB lighting adding the familiar Razer touch.

True 8000 Hz HyperPolling is built in, while Razer Synapse handles deeper customization. Players can create up to 24 keymaps across three onboard profiles, with actuation and Rapid Trigger settings adjustable to suit different games. An onboard LED array also provides visual feedback without needing the software open.

At 211 × 159 × 49 mm and 486 grams, Tartarus V2 Pro takes up far less desk space than a conventional keyboard. Priced at $199.99, the gaming accessory changes how the player’s hand interacts with a game. Instead of reaching across a keyboard for commands, movement, and shortcuts, the controls are gathered into one compact surface designed specifically around that hand.

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Bose's new open-ear earbuds cost $199 and $299. The extra $100 buys longer single-charge battery life and more audio features, but not better durability.

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Sony has revealed six key differences between PlayStation Pulse and Pulse Edge, while price, battery life, and exact launch dates remain unannounced.

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Apple and the gaming crowd have always had one of those relationships where you nod at each other across a party and never actually walk over. Apple makes the chips, brags about them beating a PS5 in some benchmark slide, then goes right back to talking about spreadsheets and stargazing apps. Gamers, meanwhile, buy a Steam Deck or a Switch and never think about the iPhone in their pocket as a gaming device at all. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman just reported that Apple wants to finally cross the room, having spent over a year quietly developing its own gaming controllers for the iPhone. The bigger twist is who gets to wear the name tag. Rather than an Apple logo, the hardware is reportedly launching under Beats, the audio label Apple has been slowly turning into its lifestyle catch-all since buying it in 2014.

Code unearthed in a leaked macOS 26.7 build gives the rumor real teeth, naming two unreleased devices, T6502 and T1057, each carrying its own dedicated controller profile instead of placeholder code. Both come with the standard gamepad vocabulary, sticks, triggers, a D-pad, face buttons, the stuff every controller on the planet already has. T6502 keeps things simple and wired. T1057 adds Bluetooth, motion sensors, and a noticeably different haptic engine, suggesting more than one idea is being tested at once. Nothing is priced, dated, or confirmed, but the code alone says this has moved well past a mood board.

Designer: Apple

Gurman’s sourcing on the branding is the part I keep chewing on. He says Beats executives are leading both the engineering and the product concept, not just slapping a logo on something Apple’s industrial design team already finished. His reasoning is that the culture and lifestyle around gaming controllers fits Beats better than it fits Apple, and that the sub-brand gives the company room to use cheaper materials and a louder design without dragging down the premium finish people expect from anything wearing the actual Apple logo. Read between the lines and that is Apple admitting its own aesthetic has a ceiling. Titanium and glass photograph beautifully, but nobody wants to grip a cold slab for a three-hour Genshin Impact session. Beats, with its glossy plastics and its very unserious relationship with color, is a far more honest home for an object designed to be squeezed, dropped, and thrown in a backpack pocket.

There is a decent trade-off lurking here too, and it is worth naming before anyone gets too excited. T6502, the wired one, is basic by design, which means it will likely be the cheaper, more disposable option with none of the motion sensing or richer haptics that make a controller feel alive. T1057 sounds like the one worth wanting, but Bluetooth controllers introduce pairing friction and battery anxiety that a simple USB-C plug-in never has to deal with. Apple will have to pick a lane, or price the two far enough apart that the choice makes sense, and so far there is no signal on either price or release window. History also isn’t fully on Apple’s side. The company has floated controller ideas for years without shipping one, and it once required developers to support the Siri Remote’s accelerometer as a de facto gaming input before quietly dropping that mandate. A leaked profile in a beta build is not a keynote slide.

Where this actually matters long term is the software Apple has already built around it. iOS 26 shipped a dedicated Games app that pulls your library, your Game Center friends, and Apple Arcade into one hub across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV, and Arcade itself has quietly grown past 250 titles for $6.99 a month. A first-party controller, even a scrappy Beats-branded one, gives all of that infrastructure something physical to plug into, which is a very different goal from just selling more hardware. It also puts Apple in the odd position of competing with its own shelf space, since the Apple Store already sells the Backbone One and the SteelSeries Nimbus, and we covered how Backbone’s own Pro model already chases full-size ALPS sticks and forty-hour battery life at a premium price. Razer’s brand new Prio takes the opposite approach entirely, folding down to credit card size for people who would rather not carry a controller-shaped commitment at all. Apple showing up now, later than everyone, wearing someone else’s logo, says less about gaming and more about how Apple treats every category it enters late. Quietly, sideways, and only once it has found a version of itself that does not feel like Apple at all.

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Apple’s first foldable meets Samsung’s eighth-generation Fold. Here’s which makes more sense for Apple loyalists, multitaskers, and other premium buyers.

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This refurbished HP ProBook x360 flips into tablet or tent mode and keeps working professionals connected.

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Motorola’s $349.99 Moto Watch Ultra returns to Wear OS with LTE, Polar health tools, a two-day battery claim, and two promised OS upgrades.

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Pixel Watch 5 leads overall, while Galaxy Watch9, OnePlus Watch 3, and Galaxy Watch Ultra2 offer better fits for Samsung users, battery life, or outdoor use.

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For forgetful people like me, trackers have basically become a must-have. Whether you’re clipping one onto your wallet, your car keys, your backpack, or whatever it is you absolutely cannot afford to lose, these little devices help you do exactly what they promise: keep track. The only catch is that a lot of trackers tend to look alike, and if you’re relying on appearance alone instead of the connected app, it’s easy to accidentally grab the wrong one.

If you’re after a tracker that actually stands out, and one that can even glow in the dark, Pebblebee’s latest Evercolor drop might be exactly what you need. Evercolor is the brand’s limited-edition color program built exclusively for its Clip 5 tracker, and the newest release, called Neon Pulse, comes in two eye-catching shades: Techno Lime and Hotline Pink. Pebblebee describes the collection as perfect for “bold self-expression and a fresh-season reset,” and honestly, it’s hard to disagree.

Designer: Pebblebee

Evercolor has rolled out plenty of standout colors before, but Neon Pulse marks the first time the program has added glow-in-the-dark accents. That means your tracker stays visible even after its LED switches off, so you’re not just relying on the app to tell you where your item is. You can actually spot it in the dark, as long as it’s somewhere within eyesight.

Keep in mind that this is a limited-edition release, so if hot pink and neon green happen to be your colors, you’ll want to grab them soon. Pebblebee rolls out new Evercolor shades every twelve weeks, and once a drop sells out, it’s gone for good, no restocks. Previous collections like Freeze Frame and Heatwave Hijinks have already sold out, so if Neon Pulse catches your eye, don’t wait too long to add it to your cart.

Underneath all that color, though, it’s still the same reliable Clip 5 that Pebblebee originally released. It works with both Apple and Android devices, so you don’t have to worry about switching phones down the line. The rechargeable battery lasts up to a year on a single USB-C charge, which means no more digging through drawers for spare coin batteries. It also boasts a direct Bluetooth range of about 500 feet, roughly double what a lot of competitors offer, plus access to a global crowd-network for finding your stuff even farther away. On top of that, you get a 130dB siren, a bright LED strobe, and IP66 water resistance, so it can handle a little rain or an accidental splash without missing a beat.

It’s also worth noting that Neon Pulse still costs the same $34.99 as the standard Clip 5, so you’re not paying extra just for the fresh colorway. There’s also a free built-in safety feature called Alert, which can notify you if an unfamiliar tracker seems to be following you, a nice bit of peace of mind on top of everything else. Design-wise, the compact clip-on shape makes it look less like a tech gadget and more like an accessory for your bag, wallet, or keychain. Add in the bright, playful colorway, and it becomes even more fashionable, dare we say, kind of cool. So if your main complaint about trackers has always been that they all look the same, Neon Pulse is built to solve exactly that problem.

At the end of the day, a tracker is only useful if you can actually tell it apart from the pile of identical black and white gadgets everyone else seems to own, and if you enjoy using it enough to keep it clipped on in the first place. Pebblebee’s Neon Pulse drop checks both boxes, combining genuine utility with a design that feels personal rather than generic. Whether you’re the type who loses your keys weekly or you just want your tech to match your personality, this drop is worth a look before it disappears for good. And if pink and green aren’t quite your vibe, it might be worth keeping an eye on Pebblebee’s page anyway. With a new Evercolor drop landing every twelve weeks, there’s a good chance your perfect color combo is just around the corner.

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Every gadget on a desk is built to hide what makes it work. Phones, consoles, controllers, they’re all sealed slabs designed to keep the copper and silicon out of sight. Arduview refuses that logic entirely. Its shell is clear, its circuit board is clear, and its OLED display lets you watch pixels light up while seeing straight through to the components producing them.

Retro handhelds have flirted with transparency before. Clear-shell Game Boys and modded Miyoo units let you glimpse a shadow of the board through tinted plastic, but the display itself stayed opaque, a black rectangle sitting in an otherwise see-through frame. Arduview closes that gap by making the screen itself transparent, so nothing on the device breaks the illusion of looking clean through it.

Designer: Louis Huang

Peer through the front and the internals aren’t just visible; they’re the entire visual identity. The board, the chip, an orange copper flex cable, the button domes, and the USB-C port all sit in plain view, arranged the way a watchmaker might arrange gears behind sapphire crystal. Nothing here was designed to be hidden later. It was designed to be looked at from day one.

That philosophy extends to how the thing works, not just how it looks. Built on Arduboy, an open-source handheld platform, Arduview skips the layers that usually complicate small electronics. There’s no app store hunting, no Wi-Fi pairing, no account setup standing between you and 400 preloaded games. Power it on and it plays, the same instant gratification that made simple handhelds addictive in the first place.

At 50 grams and roughly the footprint of a credit card, the size does real work here. A device this small and this light stops being a dedicated gaming session and starts being something you carry the way you’d carry a keychain or a pocketknife, small enough to disappear until the moment you want it. Pull it out on a train platform or set it on a desk between meetings, and it reads less like a toy and more like a curiosity someone can’t resist picking up.

That reaction seems to be the entire point. A transparent gadget invites touching in a way an opaque one never does, because there’s an implicit dare in showing your internals: come look closer. Arduview leans into that dare completely, treating the space usually reserved for a case as prime real estate for the very thing most companies spend their design budgets concealing.

Retro gaming has always had a strong current of nostalgia running through it: chunky buttons, pixel art, low-resolution charm. Arduview borrows all of that while adding something genuinely new to the mix: a device that looks like it belongs in a display case at a design museum as much as it belongs in a pocket.

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Desks are overrated. So are the cables that come with them. The 4URPC is a 15.6-inch wireless touchscreen monitor built for people who’d rather not be chained to an outlet just to get a bigger screen. It’s slim, self-powered, and ready to mirror whatever’s on your phone, tablet, or laptop the moment you need more room to work, watch, or play.

Cutting the cord doesn’t mean cutting functionality. The monitor mirrors an iPhone or Android device through a peer-to-peer wireless connection, no home Wi-Fi or app required. For streaming platforms like YouTube, Netflix, or Hulu, connecting to Wi-Fi and tapping the built-in TV Cast icon sends video to the screen. Either way, there’s no dongle to lose or cable to untangle before the movie starts.

Designer: 4URPC

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The more interesting trick happens after mirroring starts. The 10-point touchscreen can send input back to the connected phone, turning the monitor into a larger, shared control surface. Flip through photos with a friend, walk a colleague through a presentation, or hand someone the reins without handing over your phone. It’s a shift that makes shared screen time less awkward.

None of this would matter much if the monitor were bulky. At half an inch thick and just over 2 pounds, it’s built to disappear into a backpack rather than dominate it. The matte, textured shell keeps fingerprints and glare to a minimum, and a fold-out kickstand on the back means setup takes seconds on a desk, a kitchen counter, or the arm of a couch.

A built-in 4,000 mAh battery backs up that portability by taking the wall outlet out of the equation. Setting up on a train, in a hotel room, or on a patio doesn’t mean scouting for the nearest plug first. That same battery can lend a charge to a connected phone, turning the monitor into a backup power bank when the moment calls for it.

Plug it into a laptop with a USB-C cable, and the 4URPC switches roles, becoming an extended display rather than a wireless mirror. Dragging a browser tab, a chat window, or a reference document onto the second screen takes a second, and the touchscreen works over the wired connection. The laptop stays focused on the main task while the extra display handles everything else.

The screen also rotates between landscape and portrait without any fuss, which sounds minor until it changes how you use it day to day. Landscape suits video calls, games, and spreadsheets, while portrait mode fits scrolling through documents, reading long articles, or checking social feeds. Switching between the two takes a twist of the stand, not a trip through a settings menu.

Compatibility runs wide enough that most people won’t need to think twice before connecting. Wireless mirroring covers iPhones, Android phones running version 10 or later, MacBooks, and most Windows laptops, while the wired USB-C or HDMI input works with game consoles, streaming boxes, and the Nintendo Switch. There’s no software to install and nothing to configure; connecting the device and turning it on is the entire setup process.

Under the glass sits a 1920×1080 matte IPS panel running at 60 Hz, built more for comfortable, glare-free sessions than eye-popping color numbers. Dual USB-C ports split power delivery and video duties, small stereo speakers cover casual audio, and a VESA mount plus a standard camera screw thread add mounting options beyond the built-in stand. It’s a practical set of choices rather than a flashy one.

There’s something telling about a monitor that assumes you won’t always be sitting at the same desk tomorrow. Work has scattered across kitchen tables, coffee shops, and airport gates for a while now, and screens are only starting to catch up. The 4URPC doesn’t try to be the sharpest or brightest display around; it just tries to be wherever you happen to land next.

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The $399 reMarkable Paper Pure trades apps, notifications, and color for focused writing. Review its features, limitations, battery life, and value.

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Every developer juggling AI agents right now knows the feeling of context switching until the whole workflow blurs together. Copilot suggests something in one window, Claude Code runs a task in another, and a dozen prompts live scattered across notes and muscle memory. The Logitech MX Keypad exists to collapse all of that into nine small screens sitting next to the keyboard, each one a physical shortcut into a specific piece of that chaos.

Every key on the keypad carries its own full-color LCD display, so instead of memorizing which function key does what, you glance down and see an icon that actually represents the command underneath it. Press one, and it can refactor a function, trigger a prompt macro, or hand off a task to an AI agent entirely. That small visual feedback loop turns an abstract keyboard shortcut into something closer to a labeled button on a control panel.

Designer: Logitech

What makes the hardware worth paying attention to is where Logitech chose to draw the compatibility line. Instead of building this around one coding environment, the MX Keypad works across GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, VS Code, and IntelliJ IDEA at once. A developer bouncing between an IDE and a terminal-based AI agent doesn’t need separate tools for each, just a different page of keys pulled up on the same nine buttons.

That pattern of paging matters more than it sounds. The keypad can hold multiple profiles, so switching from a Python project running through Copilot to a JavaScript refactor handled by Claude Code becomes a single tap rather than a mental reset. Anyone who has lost a train of thought hunting through browser tabs for the right prompt will recognize the value in never breaking eye contact with the code itself.

Underneath the surface, the MX Keypad ships with prebuilt plugins that Logitech had developers test directly against real coding platforms, rather than shipping generic templates and hoping they fit. An SDK opens the door further, letting teams build their own tools around internal workflows, while a community marketplace means the plugin library keeps growing without waiting on Logitech’s own release schedule.

None of that ambition comes wrapped in bulky, wasteful materials either. The body is made with recycled plastics, keeping the hardware in line with the sustainability commitments Logitech has built into its broader MX ecosystem. It is a small detail, but for a device meant to live permanently on a desk, it matters that the object itself doesn’t feel disposable.

At $99.99, the MX Keypad occupies a strange but clarifying position in a developer’s setup. It doesn’t replace a keyboard, and it doesn’t try to be an AI tool in its own right. Instead, it works like a translator between fast-moving human intent and the growing swarm of coding agents developers now manage daily, one labeled key at a time.

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Lenovo's new Yoga tablets share 4K displays and seven major Android upgrades, but performance, size, battery, memory, weight, and price separate them.

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Xiaomi Smart Band 11 keeps the Band 10’s display size and 21-day battery claim but adds more brightness, a thinner design, and new health features.

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UGREEN’s MagFlow Pro treats overheating as a design problem worth solving with actual engineering, not just a bigger heat sink. This 10,000mAh magnetic power bank borrows liquid cooling from gaming PCs and squeezes it into a pocket-sized charger, aiming to keep wireless charging fast without turning your phone into a hand warmer along the way.

Qi2 charging has always had a dirty secret hiding under its magnetic convenience. Wireless systems lose up to 30% of their power as heat during transfer, which means a phone sitting at 25W often throttles down within minutes to avoid overheating. UGREEN built the MagFlow Pro around fixing that exact bottleneck rather than just chasing a bigger battery number.

Designer: UGREEN

Inside sits CryoPulse, a cooling system built around a micro-pump that circulates liquid coolant past the charging coil and other heat-generating components. Copper foil spreads that heat further, while a layout that physically separates key parts keeps warmth from concentrating in one spot. It is a scaled-down version of what keeps a gaming rig from throttling under load, just built to survive inside a phone charger.

A transparent panel on the front turns that entire process into something you can actually watch, showing coolant moving through the internal channels while your phone charges. It is an odd, almost theatrical touch for a power bank, but it doubles as reassurance that the system is doing its job. UGREEN calls it the Cyber Window, and it is hard to look away from once it is running.

That cooling translates into real numbers, too. UGREEN claims the system keeps peak surface temperatures on a phone up to 18°F below its own reference benchmark, letting a device hold onto higher wattage for longer instead of stepping down early. In practice, that means someone topping up before a flight or during a commute gets closer to advertised charging speeds instead of a slow crawl once things heat up.

A small display embedded in the shell keeps track of charging wattage, remaining battery percentage, cycle count, and cooling status, turning what used to be a guessing game into actual visible data. Paired with a built-in USB-C cable capable of 30W and a combined output of up to 45W, the MagFlow Pro can charge a phone, tablet, and another accessory simultaneously without demanding a bag full of extra cables.

If the battery degraded quickly, all of those fancy features would be pointless, so UGREEN built the cell around Dymondcell 2.0 protection, retaining more than 80% of its capacity after 800 charge cycles. It also survived seven hours of continuous overcharge testing without failure, a detail aimed squarely at anyone who leaves their charger plugged in overnight out of habit rather than necessity.

At $149.99, the MagFlow Pro costs considerably more than other 10,000mAh power banks on the market, and that price tag puts real weight behind its cooling claims. It is a bet that people charging phones daily care as much about consistent performance and battery longevity as they do about raw capacity, and that a bit of visible engineering can justify paying extra for it.

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