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Nathan Edwards is The Verge's Senior Reviews Editor. He has been writing and editing reviews of computer hardware and consumer tech since 2007, including seven years at Wirecutter and five at MaximumPC. He enjoys mechanical keyboards, cargo bikes, making his life more complicated while trying to make it less complicated, and developing new hyperfixations. He lives in the Houston area. His French is terrible, but his Dutch is worse.
In our review of the LG StanbyME TV (the stick one, not the suitcase one) we called it “a so-so TV on a stellar stand.” And you can get a better TV for less, but not with that sleek, wheeled stand. It even has a battery.
It’s on sale at Amazon for $800. The suitcase one is also on sale.
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Out here in the Texas 'burbs, we're under an extreme heat advisory, and more likely to see an electric Hummer than a Microlino.
All the more reason to read this Ars Technica piece on the history of the microcar and imagine pulling up to a café in a Citroën Ami, sharing a parking space with a Canta and a Twizy, somewhere a little cooler — in several senses.
[Ars Technica]
Toward the end (maybe?) of the I/O keynote, Google threw in a cute little ditty about all the things you can do with Gemini prompts: generate photos of cats playing guitar, find smart things to say about Renoir, etc.
It includes the phrase “There’s no wrong way to prompt,” which, have you met people?
Ryan Norbauer wanted the perfect stabilizer for his upcoming Seneca keyboard, which will start at $3,400 (not a typo). And so, armed only with impossibly high standards, an unbelievable tenacity, and a “cash bazooka,” he set out to invent it.
[Ryan Norbauer]