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Une mise à jour récente du noyau Linux a cassé le support de certains adaptateurs Bluetooth MediaTek, ceux qui sont intégrés aux puces Wi-Fi qu'on trouve sur beaucoup de cartes mères modernes.
Le résultat : votre clavier sans fil, votre souris ou votre casque Bluetooth ne se connectent plus après la mise à jour. Pour les utilisateurs Linux, c'est le genre de régression franchement pénible, pour rester poli.
Al Williams raconte sur Hackaday avoir traqué le problème jusqu'à un fichier précis du noyau : btmtk.c, le pilote qui gère les puces Bluetooth MediaTek. Deux lignes de code suffisent à contourner le problème. Sa rustine consiste à remplacer une fonction de gestion d'erreur par une instruction qui marque la sortie comme "non terminée" et continue. C'est pas génial sur le papier, mais ça fait remarcher le matériel le temps qu'un correctif officiel arrive en amont.
Le problème, c'est que ce n'est pas un simple paramètre à changer. Il faut récupérer les sources du noyau, installer la boîte à outils de compilation, patcher la ligne concernée, recompiler juste le module problématique, l'installer dans /lib/modules, et rebooter.
Deux lignes. Pour un développeur Linux, c'est la routine. Pour un utilisateur lambda qui a juste envie que sa souris remarche, c'est franchement relou.
Al teste sa rustine sur OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (une distribution Linux à mises à jour continues), mais la procédure marche aussi sur Debian, Ubuntu et la plupart des autres distros, avec quelques ajustements de chemins. Il insiste : c'est temporaire. Le bug est connu des développeurs du noyau, et le correctif définitif devrait remonter dans les prochaines versions stables.
Le truc un peu naze, c'est que Bluetooth sur Linux a longtemps eu la réputation d'être un cauchemar. La situation s'était nettement améliorée ces dernières années avec BlueZ (la pile Bluetooth officielle de Linux) et le support natif dans la plupart des distros. Voir une régression d'envergure refaire surface en 2026 sur du matériel grand public, ça refait grincer des dents les vieux Linuxiens qui pensaient avoir refermé ce chapitre.
Et puis ça illustre bien le modèle de développement du noyau. Les régressions arrivent parce que le code évolue très vite et que tout le matériel ne peut pas être testé en permanence. Quand ça pète, la communauté patche. Quand le patch est validé, il remonte. C'est lent, mais ça finit toujours par marcher. Le truc, c'est qu'entre les deux, vous restez avec votre clavier Bluetooth en rade .
Si vous êtes touché par le problème, l'article complet d'Al Williams sur Hackaday donne toutes les commandes pas à pas . Le fix est documenté ligne par ligne, ça prend une trentaine de minutes pour quelqu'un qui est très à l'aise avec un terminal.
Source : Hackaday
J'sais pas si vous avez vu, mais sur les Motorola Razr 2026, l'app maison Smart Feed intercepte le lancement de l'application Amazon pour y glisser en soumsoum un petit code d'affiliation. Comme ça, à chaque fois que vous tapez sur l'icône Amazon, votre clic se met à rapporter une commission à un compte tiers. Vous ne payez pas un centime de plus rassurez-vous, c'est le principe de l'affiliation, mais il me semble que c'est pas très réglo de ne pas le dire. En plus je pense que ça va à l'encontre des CGU d'Amazon... Breeeef, y'a rien qui va dans cette histoire.
Le truc se déclenche donc uniquement quand vous ouvrez Amazon le menu des applications, et pas depuis un raccourci sur l'écran d'accueil. A ce moment là, pendant une fraction de seconde, Chrome clignote à l'écran, et votre téléphone passe par un site nommé kira-abboud.com, pour ensuite utiliser un lien qui repart vers l'app Amazon avec le code d'affiliation sramz-kff-008-20 comme si de rien n'était. Comme ça Amazon, pense que vous arrivez de ce lien affilié.
C'est tellement rapide que la plupart des gens ne verront jamais rien....
Sauf que kira-abboud.com renvoie vers une influenceuse mode, @kirasfashionfinds présente sur Instagram, et qui n'a aucun lien apparent avec Motorola. Pire, le code d'affiliation collé à votre session ne correspond même pas à ceux qu'elle a déjà publiés. Et voilà comment on se retrouve avec un téléphone vendu par une grosse marque qui détourne vos clics vers un compte tiers, sans la moindre explication.
Côté technique, les logs réseau pointent vers devicenative.com. C'est une régie qui place de la pub sur les smartphones via un SDK intégré aux launchers Android, avec une intégration Motorola documentée. En clair, le mécanisme qui pourrit votre app Amazon pointe vers un kit publicitaire préinstallé d'usine.
Reste à savoir maintenant si c'est un choix assumé de Motorola ou un SDK pub qui part en vrille, voire un hack... et pour l'instant, personne ne le sait.
Ce qui est sûr, c'est que le coupable porte un nom et un numéro de version. Sur la version 2.03.0056 de Smart Feed, aucun détournement alors que sur la 2.03.0070, le hijack apparaît. Et bizarrement, installer manuellement cette même version mise à jour ne reproduit pas le comportement. Autrement dit, y'a quelque chose qui s'active côté serveur ou côté usine, et pas juste dans le code de l'app. C'est vraiment super bizarre...
Les Razr 2026 et Razr Fold sont touchés, tout comme le Razr 60 Ultra de 2025 à l'origine du signalement. Le Moto G Stylus 2026 testé en parallèle, lui, ne l'est pas.
Après la bonne nouvelle, c'est que la parade est facile à faire ! Direction Paramètres, Applications, vous cherchez Smart Feed, et vous le désactivez. D'après les tests que j'ai pu lire, ça n'a pas d'impact visible sur le reste du téléphone donc mieux vaut désactiver cette merde parce que c'est réversible en deux clics et bien moins casse-gueule que de virer l'app via adb.
Perso, qu'un téléphone vendu par une marque sérieuse détourne nos clics vers un compte tiers via un domaine bidon, ça me rend fou et même si à l'échelle d'un clic, la commission c'est trois fois rien, étalé sur tout un parc d'appareils, ça finit par peser lourd niveau oseille pour celui qui encaisse.
Ce problème dépasse le cadre "Motorola" d'ailleurs puisque less apps préinstallées qu'on ne peut pas virer (les fameux bloatware) sont devenues un canal de monétisation à part entière et comme personne ne vérifie jamais ce que ces trucs font tourner en arrière-plan, c'est la fête du slip ! C'est exactement le même genre de paranoïa raisonnable que quand on se demande si votre téléphone vous écoute sauf qu'ici, pas besoin de théorie, puisque ce détournement est parfaitement visible.
Pour l'instant, Motorola a été contacté mais n'a pas réagi et le code d'affiliation continue de tourner sur les appareils concernés tant que Smart Feed reste actif. J'imagine quand même qu'Amazon va s'occuper de le désactiver en attendant d'en savoir plus.
Bref, bon courage si vous avez un Motorola récent !
Riley Testut et Shane Gill viennent de sortir une bêta d' AltStore Classic (la 2.3b1 ), qui supprime enfin le besoin d'avoir un ordinateur pour sideloader des apps sur iPhone. AltStore, pour ceux qui débarquent, c'est la boutique alternative qui installe des apps qu'Apple ne veut pas sur son store, sans jailbreak et pour l'utiliser jusqu'ici, il fallait garder un Mac ou un PC allumé avec AltServer pour réinstaller vos apps tous les 7 jours.
Mais maintenant, une simple connexion Wi-Fi suffit !!
Pour s'en servir, vous allez dans les réglages d'AltStore Classic et vous renseignez l'URL d'un "serveur anisette" et hop, l'app se mettra à causer directement aux serveurs d'Apple pour signer et rafraîchir vos installations, sans passer par AltServer. Pour l'instant c'est réservé aux AltStore Patrons (les abonnés Patreon), avec un déploiement grand public prévu une fois la bêta stabilisée.
L'anisette, c'est la donnée d'authentification que les serveurs d'Apple exigent pour valider une demande de signature. Avant, AltServer la générait depuis votre ordinateur, d'où l'obligation de l'avoir sous la main. En déportant ça sur un serveur anisette distant, AltStore se débrouille maintenant tout seul depuis le téléphone.
C'est bien pensé ! Du coup le refresh hebdomadaire se fait en silence, et gérer le plafond de 3 apps imposé par Apple devient indolore même si cette limite des 3 apps reste...
SideStore , un fork open source d'AltStore, fait du sideloading sans ordinateur depuis un bon moment, en montant un VPN WireGuard local qui fait croire à l'iPhone qu'un ordi est branché, donc oui c'est vrai, AltStore Classic arrive un peu après la bataille mais avec une approche différente, ce serveur anisette plutôt que le VPN.
Mais ces serveurs anisette, faut bien que quelqu'un les fasse tourner et quand ils tombent, votre sideloading tombe avec.... Les habitués de SideStore connaissent bien la chanson. Vous pouvez bien sûr héberger le vôtre si vous êtes du genre à bidouiller, mais sinon vous dépendrez d'un serveur communautaire... et de sa bonne santé.
Tout cela permet de reprendre un peu la main sur un iPhone qu'Apple a tenu verrouillé à double tour depuis bien trop longtemps. C'est grâce à ça que pas mal de gens peuvent aujourd'hui installer des émulateurs à l'ancienne comme Provenance , ou que la pression a fini par pousser Apple à accepter les émulateurs rétro sur son propre store.
Bref, si vous êtes Patron AltStore et sous iOS 17.4 ou plus, vous pouvez tester dès maintenant. Sinon, encore un peu de patience...
Most electric motorcycles still behave like motorcycles first and utility machines second. They chase performance numbers, oversized displays, or aggressive styling while ignoring a simple reality: most urban riders just want something practical enough to replace short car trips. The ANY LUV1 approaches the problem differently. Instead of behaving like a sportbike with batteries attached, it feels more like a compact urban tool designed around everyday life.
Created by Belgian startup ANY Mobility, LUV1 is sandwiched somewhere between an electric scooter, cargo bike, and lightweight motorcycle. The company calls it a “Life Utility Vehicle,” and the name makes sense once you look beyond the styling. Nearly every part of the vehicle revolves around usability, whether that means carrying groceries, office gear, camera equipment, or handling the kind of short-distance errands people usually default to using a car for.
Designer: ANY Mobility
That practicality starts with its packaging. The integrated cargo compartment offers 120 liters of storage, which is significantly more useful than the tiny under-seat compartments found on most scooters. It is large enough to carry shopping bags, delivery equipment, or a backpack and helmet without forcing riders to strap everything externally. Front and rear cargo racks expand that flexibility further, while configurable dividers allow owners to organize storage depending on the task at hand.
The modular approach is where the concept becomes genuinely interesting. Instead of locking owners into one fixed setup, the LUV1 can be customized with interchangeable body panels, seating layouts, storage accessories, and optional weather protection. One configuration can prioritize cargo hauling during the week while another leans toward casual commuting on weekends. It follows the same logic that made modular furniture and adaptable workspaces appealing: people increasingly want products that evolve with their routines rather than forcing routines around the product.
Visually, the bike avoids the exaggerated “future mobility” look many startups lean on. The clean bodywork and restrained surfacing come from Granstudio, the Italian design firm led by former Pininfarina design director Lowie Vermeersch. That design pedigree shows in the proportions and detailing. Even functional components like the storage compartments and structural frame feel integrated into the design rather than added as an afterthought.
Underneath the bodywork sits a modular aluminum chassis produced using high-pressure die-casting, a manufacturing method more commonly associated with larger automotive companies. The setup helps reduce complexity while providing the platform with enough flexibility to support various accessories and future configurations. Power comes from an 11 kW rear hub motor paired with dual swappable lithium-ion battery packs totaling 6.5 kWh. ANY Mobility claims a range of 68 to 87 miles, depending on use, while the top speed is rated at 62 mph, making the bike suitable for both dense city streets and suburban commuting. Charging the batteries through a standard 220V outlet reportedly takes under four hours.
The LUV1 also keeps accessibility in mind. It weighs around 352 pounds and features a relatively approachable 30.9-inch seat height, making low-speed maneuvering less intimidating for newer riders and shorter commuters alike. According to reports, the company expects pricing to fall between €7,000 and €10,000 (approximately $8,150 – $11,600) depending on configuration, and reservations have already opened ahead of production plans.
What makes the ANY LUV1 stand out is not raw performance or futuristic gimmicks, but how realistically it understands modern urban mobility. Most people are not looking for an electric motorcycle to replace weekend entertainment. They are looking for something convenient enough to replace unnecessary car usage, and the LUV1 feels designed precisely around that idea.
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Summer 2026 is a different kind of season for EDC. The carry conversation has matured past keychain gimmicks and bulk-heavy multitools into something sharper; gear that’s actually thought through, built from aerospace-grade materials, and designed with the same care as the objects that live on your desk. These five pieces represent the best of where that shift has landed: practical without being boring, minimal without being precious.
Whether you’re navigating festival crowds, weekend camping trips, or the daily urban grind, the right loadout isn’t about carrying more — it’s about carrying smarter. Each of the picks below earned its spot not through spec sheets alone, but through intentional design choices that make the experience of using them genuinely different. These are the five pieces worth making room for this summer.
Gravity-powered deployment sounds more cinematic than practical — until you hold the Cubik. Designed by IF and machined from aerospace-grade titanium, this pocket knife opens with a button-flick and the natural pull of gravity: no springs, no mechanisms to fail, no audible snap. At 2.6 inches long, 0.98 inches wide, and just 0.2 inches thick, it slips into a pocket and disappears. The Cubik looks more like a designer flash drive than a knife, which is exactly the point — and what makes it so easy to live with every single day.
The blade runs a standard trapezoid utility format — the same geometry used to slice linoleum, roofing materials, acrylic, and thin sheet metals. When one edge dulls, flip it; when both are spent, swap it. That interchangeable format turns a consumable item into something genuinely sustainable over time. A deep-carry titanium clip keeps it flush to the pocket edge, and a tungsten carbide glass-breaker on the rear makes it a legitimate lifesaver when it counts. At $59 with five replacement blades included, it’s one of the most sensibly priced titanium tools in the category.
Most EDC scissors ask you to accept a compromise — either you get a folding design that sacrifices cutting power, or you get a rigid tool that’s too bulky to pocket. The 8-in-1 EDC Scissors from Eiger Design, available through the Yanko Design Shop, sidesteps both problems. Made in Japan and compact enough to sit in a palm at just 13 centimeters (5.1 inches) closed, it packs scissors, a knife, a lid opener, a can opener, a cap opener, a bottle opener, a shell splitter, and a degasser into a single carry-ready object.
The scissors themselves are the real story — full-strength blades that don’t rely on a collapsible pivot to achieve their compact profile, which means they cut with conviction through materials that foldable scissors would snag or mangle. The remaining seven functions are genuine, not ornamental. For summer specifically — camping weekends, beach cookouts, farmers market errands, festival packing — this is the kind of tool that earns its weight early and keeps earning it. At $53 through the YD Shop, it’s the most versatile item on this list per dollar spent.
NoxTi is the kind of object that makes you reassess what belongs on your keychain. Designed by Xedge and built from Grade 5 titanium, it measures just 45mm and weighs 10.7 grams. The core of the piece is a tritium vial — a sealed, self-luminous insert that glows continuously for 25 years without batteries, charging, or any external power source. Quartz glass protects the vial from impact, and the titanium housing supports interchangeable vial options alongside a glass-breaker tip at the rear, making it far more than a novelty.
In practical terms, NoxTi solves a problem most EDC setups don’t realize they have: passive orientation in the dark. When your keychain is at the bottom of a bag, buried in a jacket pocket, or left on a nightstand, the glow orients you without reaching for your phone. That always-on, zero-input utility is a design philosophy most gear claims but rarely delivers.
Exceed Designs doesn’t do anything conventionally, and the HYZER is the clearest proof of that. At its core, it’s a hatchet — but calling it that undersells the engineering. The handle is fully skeletonized and CNC-machined from a solid block of 6AL-4V Grade 5 titanium, available in two lengths: a full-size 9.75 inches or a compact 8.15 inches. The head runs on an infinitely modular nested system that lets you swap cutting formats without replacing the handle — a level of adaptability that no conventional hatchet even attempts.
For summer carry — backcountry hiking, basecamp setups, or serious van-life configurations — the HYZER changes the math on what a hatchet needs to be. The D2 steel axe head delivers serious chopping performance, while the titanium handle keeps the tool lighter than any steel-handled competitor in its class. The stonewashed finish gives it a visual identity that’s unmistakably premium without being precious about it.
A 2,300-lumen output in a tactical flashlight isn’t rare in 2026 — but a 2,300-lumen flashlight that looks like it belongs at a design exhibition rather than a military surplus store is still genuinely hard to find. The BlackoutBeam, available through the Yanko Design Shop at $90, pairs that blinding output with an industrial aesthetic that wears well whether it’s clipped to a backpack or sitting on a shelf. The 300-meter throw distance cuts through darkness with clinical precision, and the IP68 waterproof rating ensures it performs regardless of what summer throws at it.
Five operational modes — including strobe and pinpoint — give the BlackoutBeam tactical flexibility that goes well beyond on-off cycling. The 0.2-second instant-on response is the detail that separates tools built for designers from tools built for actual use: in a power outage, a trail emergency, or any situation where you need light immediately, that activation speed matters in a way that a spec sheet can’t fully communicate. With longer days turning into late evenings outdoors and camping season running hot, the case for a serious flashlight in your summer kit has never been more straightforward.
What these five pieces share isn’t material or price point…it’s intention. Every one of them was designed by someone who cared enough to solve the actual problem rather than approximate a solution. That’s the standard worth holding EDC to in 2026, and it’s becoming a higher bar to clear as the category matures and the market fills with near-misses. The best loadout is never the one with the most gear. It’s the one with the right gear.
Summer tends to be the season when carry gets edited down; lighter layers mean fewer pockets, and heat means less patience for bulk. These five designs all pass that test. They’re compact enough to disappear when you want them to and capable enough to matter when you don’t. Whether you pick up one or all five, the upgrade from whatever you’re carrying now is real.
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Every sensor on a Waymo robotaxi sees the world in layers. The LiDAR maps it in three dimensions, radar bounces through it, and cameras read it in color and contrast, building a composite picture of the road that no human retina could match at the same fidelity. So when a Waymo encountered a flooded section of a 40 mph road in San Antonio on April 20, the car absolutely saw the water. It slowed down for it. Then it drove in anyway, floated off the road surface, and came to rest in Salado Creek. The voluntary recall Waymo filed with NHTSA on April 30, covering 3,791 vehicles, was triggered not by a sensor that missed a hazard, but by a software stack that saw the hazard clearly and still chose the wrong response.
You might be sitting in one of those 3,791 recalled vehicles right now, somewhere in Phoenix, Los Angeles, Austin, or Atlanta, and Waymo has confirmed the permanent software fix is still in development. Tesla’s Cybercab, entering production at Giga Texas, runs a supervised robotaxi service in Austin, Dallas, and Houston on a pure-vision architecture with no LiDAR whatsoever. Uber’s platform in Dallas is dispatching Avride-operated Hyundai Ioniq 5s that are currently under NHTSA investigation for 16 crashes involving lane changes and failure to stop for traffic ahead. Amazon’s Zoox uses cameras, LiDAR, radar, and long-wave infrared on every vehicle, the most sensor-redundant consumer-facing stack in the industry, and is still in limited city testing. Each platform has a different answer to what a self-driving car should do when it encounters something it cannot traverse, and after the San Antonio creek, all of those answers deserve a much closer look.
The NHTSA recall notice characterizes the flaw precisely: the software “may allow the vehicle to slow and then drive into standing water on higher speed roadways.” That is a classification error buried in the decision stack, not a sensor failure, and the distinction matters more than the recall number suggests. Waymo’s 5th-gen Jaguar I-Pace and 6th-gen Zeekr RT both carry LiDAR, radar, and cameras in overlapping fields of view, and the San Antonio car processed the flooded road accurately as a hazard worth responding to. The decision architecture, however, had no hard-stop condition for water on a 40 mph road, only a caution flag that reduced speed and left proceeding as an available output. A separate Waymo had already been stranded near McCullough Avenue in San Antonio roughly two weeks before the April 20 incident, confirming this was a repeatable failure mode across a fleet that was still carrying passengers in nine other cities.
Tesla’s Cybercab carries no LiDAR, putting its supervised fleet in Austin, Dallas, and Houston in a fundamentally different position when floodwater appears than Waymo’s overlapping sensor stack would. The platform relies on eight cameras and 4D millimeter-wave radar, meaning no independent depth-sensing channel exists to assess water severity when camera visibility degrades in heavy rain. A real-world FSD 14.3.1 test in April 2026 ended in manual takeover when the front bumper camera submerged, a precise illustration of where the vision-only approach runs out of information. Avride, dispatching Hyundai Ioniq 5s through Uber’s Dallas app since December, is under concurrent NHTSA investigation for 16 crashes involving lane changes and failures to stop for road hazards, all 16 occurring with a trained safety monitor seated in the vehicle. Amazon’s Zoox sits at the opposite end of the sensor redundancy spectrum, combining cameras, LiDAR, radar, and long-wave infrared in a 360-degree array with a human TeleGuidance fallback for scenarios the stack cannot resolve, though its commercial footprint remains a fraction of Waymo’s.
The Waymo recall, the Avride probe, and a dashcam video of a Waymo rolling through a red light on Irving Boulevard in Dallas all surfaced in the same seven-day window, collectively mapping the same design gap across three platforms: a perception-to-action pipeline that detects a hazard but generates the wrong response to it. Waymo’s OTA patch is deploying now, but the permanent fix remains in development, meaning every current ride runs on interim constraints rather than a finished solution. The San Antonio incident involved an empty car, and that is the only reason this story ends with a recovery operation rather than a casualty report. Each platform carrying passengers today is still writing its edge-case rulebook, publishing each new chapter only after something breaks on a live road. Knowing which system you are riding in, what its sensor stack can assess in a sudden storm, and whether its flood-detection logic has been patched from an interim fix to an actual solution is, I’d argue, the most practical safety question a passenger can ask in 2026.
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US approvals could let Nvidia sell H200 AI chips to China, but Beijing’s security concerns and export rules have stalled shipments.
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Google is testing a change that gives some new accounts 5GB by default, with the full 15GB unlocked only after phone verification.
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Google reported the first confirmed AI-assisted zero-day exploit, raising new concerns about logic flaws, supply chain risk, and containment.
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May 2026 is a good time to be paying attention. Gadgets aren’t just getting faster or thinner; the best ones this month are getting more intentional. There’s a shared thread running through every standout: each was built around a real constraint, a real behavior, or a real cultural moment, rather than a spec sheet searching for an audience. Five products rose above the rest, and each earns its spot for a distinctly different reason.
From a foldable phone that demolishes the category’s $800 price floor to a Nintendo Switch add-on that turns a gaming console into a live production rig, the range here is unusually wide. What connects them is the quality of thinking underneath. These aren’t renders looking for investment. They’re real objects designed to change how you work, listen, create, and move through a day. That’s the only brief that actually matters.
NASA’s Artemis II lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on April 1, 2026, carrying four astronauts on humanity’s first crewed lunar journey in over 50 years. CircuitMess timed the NASA Artemis Watch 2.0 directly into that cultural gravity. At $129, it’s a fully assembled, ready-to-use programmable smartwatch built around a dual-core ESP32 microcontroller, with a full-color LCD screen, accelerometer, gyroscope, compass, and temperature sensor packed into a wristband designed for anyone aged nine and up who wants more than a fitness tracker strapped to their wrist.
What makes it worth your attention is the depth it offers without demanding anything upfront. Out of the box, it pairs with iOS and Android over Bluetooth for activity tracking and notifications. When curiosity takes over, the firmware is fully open-source and reprogrammable in Python, CircuitBlocks, or the Arduino IDE. Build custom watch faces, write your own apps, and modify sensor behavior as far down as you want to go. The Artemis Watch 2.0 is one of the rarer gadgets at this price: it genuinely grows with the person wearing it.
Every frequent traveler has made the same quiet compromise: leave the proper mouse at home or carry something too small to work with comfortably for more than an hour. OrigamiSwift was built precisely around that problem. It’s a Bluetooth mouse that folds flat when not in use, weighs just 40 grams, and opens into full working position in under half a second. The origami-inspired form isn’t a styling exercise. It’s a structural answer to the oldest tension in portable peripherals: comfort has always cost you size.
The ergonomic shaping holds up across extended work sessions, which matters more than most product pages acknowledge. Whether you’re finalizing a presentation at an airport gate or editing documents in a co-working space, OrigamiSwift stays comfortable in your hand and disappears into a bag when you’re done. The ultra-thin profile and minimal build weight mean it never adds anything meaningful to your load. For anyone who genuinely works from wherever they happen to be, this is the mouse that finally makes sense to own.
The foldable phone category has spent five years convincing itself that the flip experience carries a natural premium of $800 or more. Ai+ is testing that assumption head-on with the Nova Flip, launched in India at Rs 29,999, roughly $320, making it the most accessible foldable phone on the market. The inner display is a 6.9-inch AMOLED panel resolving at 2790 x 1188 pixels, complemented by a 3.1-inch AMOLED cover screen. MediaTek’s Dimensity 7300 handles processing, paired with 8GB of LPDDR4X RAM and 256GB of internal storage.
The spec list doesn’t read like a budget compromise. A 50-megapixel primary camera, a 32-megapixel front shooter, and a 4325mAh battery with 33W wired charging all hold credibly against devices at double the price. 5G, NFC, and an IP64 dust and splash rating close out a package that would feel serious in any category. The Nova Flip doesn’t just undercut the competition on price. It quietly forces a harder conversation about what the flip form factor has genuinely been worth at $1,000 all along.
Alquemy’s Akai MPC Switch concept asks a question that feels obvious the moment someone finally puts it to you: if laptop-grade software can run on portable hardware, why can’t a capable gaming console handle serious music production? The MPC Switch is a pair of controller units designed to snap directly onto the sides of a Nintendo Switch, replacing the Joy-Cons with MIDI inputs, outputs, and a full DAW running on the console’s own screen. The control layout reflects real production workflows rather than a stylized render built for social media.
The appeal runs deeper than the novelty of the form. The concept treats the Switch as a legitimate interface surface: something you game on when you need to and produce or perform on when the moment calls for it. Swap the Joy-Cons for the MIDI setup, and you’re there. Whether Nintendo or Akai ever moves this into production is a separate question entirely, but Alquemy has made a persuasive case that the idea deserves a real answer. The best concepts don’t just look good. They make you wonder why nobody shipped it first.
Most headphone designs land at one of two poles: the over-ear build that announces itself before you even put it on, and the in-ear solution that disappears but gives nothing back in soundstage. StillFrame lands somewhere more considered than either. At 103 grams, it sits closer to weightless than wearable. The 40mm drivers are tuned for a wide, open soundstage that pulls spatial detail and melodic texture out of tracks that most headphones flatten into undifferentiated background noise.
Active noise cancellation closes you off when focus demands it. Transparency mode reconnects you to the room when the world around you matters more. Battery holds at 24 hours, covering a full workday, an overnight flight, and the morning after with no cable required. Switching between modes takes a single tap. StillFrame was designed around the premise that how you listen should adapt to where you are, not the other way around. That’s a harder brief to execute cleanly than it sounds, and the weight alone suggests it’s been taken seriously.
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May 2026’s strongest gadgets share something harder to write into a spec sheet than battery life or pixel count. Each was designed around a specific friction point and resolved it with a precision that feels purposeful rather than accidental. The Artemis Watch converts a cultural moment into a learning platform. The Nova Flip resets the floor of an entire category. The OrigamiSwift solves a portability problem that dozens of mice before it never genuinely addressed.
StillFrame and the Akai MPC Switch represent opposite ends of the development spectrum, one shipping and one conceptual, but both make the same underlying argument: that considered design changes the terms of what a product is allowed to be. Whether you’re optimizing a travel bag or rethinking a music studio from a gaming console, the standard these five set is worth taking seriously. The best gadgets this month aren’t the loudest ones in the room. They’re the most resolved.
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The Samsung T9 delivers read and write speeds of up to 2,000 MB/s, making large file transfers feel instant.
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Close-up of a WD_BLACK 2TB SN850X NVMe SSD on a wooden surface. The sleek black rectangular device features labels and specifications in white text.
WD_BLACK's 2TB variant of the SN850X on display.
Samsung 990 Pro SSD on a brown surface, partially in a white case. The packaging highlights "2TB" and "Blistering speed, endless victory."
Samsung 990 Pro SSD on display with its packaging.
A hand holds a SanDisk SSD against a reddish-brown wooden background. The SSD features various certification logos, giving a tech-focused, modern feel.
The WD_Black SN8100 read and write speeds are out of this world.
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