YouTuber Taki Udon got an early look at a Ryzen 8845HS-powered PC built into a detailed replica of Tesla’s electric truck. It’s got working doors, headlights, ports hidden beneath the rear bumper, and a power button integrated into the truck’s front shocks.
Pre-orders for the Xyber XPC will eventually happen through Indiegogo, but pricing and availability hasn’t been announced yet.
The officially licensed dock includes an 1,100 mAh rechargeable battery designed to replace a pair of AA batteries inside Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One wireless controllers. It also comes with replacement battery doors adding charging contacts and magnets for easy docking.
The battery takes about three hours to charge, after which the dock’s adjustable LED lighting will switch from amber to white.
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First revealed earlier this year, Ayaneo’s Pocket DMG and Pocket Micro will be available for pre-order starting on July 31st at 8AM ET through Indiegogo.
Pricing details are still unknown, but the Pocket DMG will feature the Snapdragon G3x Gen 2 platform paired with an OLED screen, while the Pocket Micro will have an aluminum housing.
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The Galaxy Ring keeps you in Samsung’s orbit
It’s not so much a standalone health tracker or a smartwatch alternative as an accessory for your Galaxy Watch.
Before he left The Verge, my colleague Jon Porter was able to try the Optimus Popularis — the LCD keyboard that paved the way for every LCD keypad since. While we weren’t quite able to feature Jon’s hands-on images in our feature story, we figured you might appreciate them!
Psst: if you’ve got the even earlier Optimus Maximus lying around, I’d love to try it!
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Apple’s Sunny imagines a cozy future where screens fade into the background
The murder mystery was a chance for showrunner Katie Robbins to imagine a different kind of sci-fi vision.
A year after the first images leaked, more details on the next version were revealed by an Italian retailer, according to HueBlog.com.
The Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box 8K will support HDMI 2.1 allowing it to analyze both 8K and 4K content at 120Hz, up from just 60Hz, previously. It’s expected to arrive in mid-September for €262.49, or around $285.
I’m not saying you should go crowdfund a Bionic Bird X-Fly, as you’ll hear in my hands-on video below. I’m just saying that biomimetic ornithopters are surprisingly fun — and way less disruptive than your typical whiny quad-propeller drone!
Olympians unboxing folding phones is my new favorite video genre. Watch members of New Zealand’s swimming team unbox their new Galaxy Z Flip 6 phones — in gold, naturally — which were supplied by Olympic sponsor Samsung. Not only is it delightful when they discover the screen is on “both sides,” the guys and I agree that it’s time for a foldable iPhone, too.
Two new must-have Android apps
Plus, in this week’s Installer: a new space-biz doc on HBO, EA Sports College Football is back, and the silliest Apple Watch accessory ever.
A few weeks with the Daylight DC-1 tablet: rethinking screen time
So far, this thing doesn’t seem like a very impressive tablet. But Daylight is more a display company than a tablet company — and the display is pretty great.
With burners that pack 10kw of peak power, this induction stove from Impulse Labs can boil a liter of water in 40 seconds. (That’s 100 degrees Celsius for most of the world).
Developed by former Google Glass and Oculus engineer Sam D’Amico, the stove has a built-in battery and works with a standard 120v outlet. It launches later this year for $6,000.
Gadgets are getting weird — and so are iPhone homescreens
On The Vergecast: Trump, Apple betas, and a round of ‘is this anything?’
Four months after releasing its first sub-$400 smartphone, Nothing is teasing a new addition to its A-series lineup.
On Monday the company posted just a single plus sign on X, and today added an event page to its website revealing a July 31st at 5AM ET announcement for the new Phone 2A Plus. Expect more teases from Nothing over the next two weeks.
Why pay for tools you don’t need when repairing or modding a console? iFixit has released four new kits for the Switch, Xbox, Steam Deck, and PlayStation featuring only device-specific tools.
The $12.95 kits include a screwdriver with a small selection of bits, tweezers, a brush, picks, a spudger for prying open housings, and an anti-static wrist strap so you don’t accidentally fry your hardware.
The Eve Weather — a battery-powered E ink display that can measure temperature, humidity, and your weather trend — is now available in a Matter version. Existing devices can be upgraded to the new smart home standard.
Matter brings compatibility with Google Home, Samsung SmartThings and Amazon Alexa, along with Apple Home. The device costs $79.95 and works with Thread. Eve has committed to upgrading all of its Thread devices to Matter.
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HMD has announced the Skyline, a $499 Android phone with an emphasis on repairability and creator-friendly features like a 50-megapixel selfie camera with autofocus. It’s also one of the first phones to support the MagSafe-like Qi2 charging standard — or will be when it ships in August. Bet we’ll see a few more new Qi2 phones around that time, too.
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Bailey Hikawa is best known for her handmade smartphone cases, but this unique creation — just two exist — features much older tech.
It’s a bespoke toilet seat embedded with a myriad of iconic 2G and 3G cellphones including the original Motorola Razr, Samsung sliders, and an assortment of BlackBerrys. One person’s e-waste is another person’s treasure.