Honeybees routinely travel up to 2 miles (3 km) from their hive in search of food before returning home, with remarkable accuracy. Relative to body size, this is comparable to a human traveling hundreds of miles and finding their way back without a map, compass, GPS, or smartphone. Despite possessing brains smaller than a sesame seed, bees accomplish this feat with astonishing efficiency. Now, researchers have adapted those same biological principles into a drone navigation system that can guide lightweight flying robots home using just 42 KB of memory.

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Category: Drones, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Delft University of Technology, Navigation, Bees, Biomimicry

Think speakers are a simple paper cone that vibrates to translate electrical signals into sound? Like much of the tech we feature, there’s rather more to it these days – as the European debut of a new high-end wireless speaker system from Scotland has just demonstrated.

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Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Hi-fi, High-resolution, Bluetooth Speakers, Audiophile, Digital music

Rather than has folks on customer-facing or collaborative setups having to constantly swivel a monitor around for people on the other side of the desk, Philips has launched a dual-sided business monitor with a Full HD screen front and back.

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Category: Computing, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Philips, Monitor, Display, Screens

Humanoids may be winning marathons and getting factory jobs, but after spending a few days with around 100 different robots of all shapes and sizes, one thing was clear: There's a chasm separating viral demonstration video and reality.

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Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology

Tags: Unitree, UBTECH, Galbot, EngineAI, Shenzhen, Humanoid, Robot Fighting, Artificial Intelligence

Imagine being a police officer entering the chaos of a home where a husband is in the middle of beating his wife.

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Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Police, Crime, Washington State University

Leica has been in the premium imaging business for more than a hundred years. After testing the waters with a few industry partnerships, the iconic brand launched its first smart projector in 2022. Now the range is expanding with the addition of the Cine Compact 1.

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Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Leica, 4K UHD, Laser, Projectors

Imagine putting on a VR headset and suddenly finding yourself standing between rows of tomato plants. You can walk the aisles, crouch beside a struggling seedling, and check its soil moisture and temperature in real time. That’s the idea behind a system developed by engineers at Binghamton University, State University of New York: a digital twin, or live 3D replica synchronized with real-world sensors, that links your physical greenhouse to a virtual one you can access anywhere.

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Category: Virtual Reality, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: VR, Agriculture, Binghamton University, Plants, Artificial Intelligence, Digital twin

The latest compact smartphone camera from Thermal Master may look a fair bit like its earlier pocket-sized model we covered, but looks are deceiving – and the new P4 makes some pretty big advances that you'll see as soon as you plug it in.

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Consumer Electronics, Thermal Imaging, Artificial Intelligence, Digital imaging, Photography, Portable Video, Portable, Reviews

When I first saw the Woojer vest about seven or eight years ago on Kickstarter, I remember thinking that it sounded fun, but maybe a little gimmicky. Either way, I wanted to try it. So when Woojer recently reached out and asked if I wanted to review it, I said, "Heck yeah, send it over!" Now that I have it and have spent many hours using it in various scenarios, I think I've concluded whether it's worth the ~US$350 price of admission for a vest fitted with bass-thumping transducers.

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Haptic, wearable electronics, Games, VR, Reviews

Despite garnering unflattering nicknames like "the snow shovel," "the boat paddle," and "the plank" for its simplicity and no-fuss design when it was introduced to the public in 1951, the Fender Telecaster has proved to be an incredibly versatile instrument that morphs depending on who is playing it.

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Category: Music, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Fender Telecaster, Fender, Guitar

"Ground Control to Major Tom," the evergreen lyrics to David Bowie’s 70s hit, Space Oddity. What’s odd is that, despite huge advances in satellites themselves, much of the physical infrastructure connecting those spacecraft to Earth still relies on large mechanically steered dishes, a model increasingly strained by the rise of massive low-Earth-orbit constellations.

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Category: Telecommunications, Technology

Tags: UC San Diego, Antenna, Satellite, Spacecraft

While it’s not exactly a household name, Boox tablets have steadily made their way into the e-reader market that’s long been dominated by Amazon’s Kindle. But the Boox Go 10.3 Lumi makes a strong argument for reading tablet of choice, because it’s much more than just a device to read a book on.

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: E-book, E-reader, E-Ink, E-Paper, Books, Portable, Device

When I reviewed the Luba 2 AWD 3000HX in September, I was seriously impressed. It's quiet, very capable, kind of fun, and made me feel like a neighborhood hero while sending it from house to house mowing everyone's yards.

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Category: Around The Home, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Lawnmower, Lawnmowers, Reviews, Garden, Autonomous

In microgravity, walking doesn't exist. Balance doesn't exist. What does exist is the need to grip surfaces, manipulate tools, move through narrow corridors, and not go flying every time you push against something. Two legs solve none of those problems.

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Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology

Tags: Robots, Space exploration, Maintenance, assistant robot, Humanoid

Portable projectors nothing new, but as the tech has steadily improved in recent years, they've become great tools for comfy viewing in TV-unfriendly places. Lately, we've seen a push toward smarter, more self-contained designs, including Yaber's portable projector with built-in Google TV and Aurzen's own tri-fold Zip pico projector, both of which try to cut down on the fiddly setup that usually comes with projector ownership.

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Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: roku, Projectors, HD, Portable

Hobbyists may have wished for a third hand at times, when having to pause work in order to reset a vise clamp, but AxiGlide – a dual-axis vise currently on Kickstarter – offers a new angle on how such devices work.

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Category: Around The Home, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Kickstarter, xxKickbooster, Tools

Until now, pretty much all humanoid robots have come with an eye-watering price tag. Rotaku, a startup from the San Francisco Bay Area, thinks that's a solvable engineering problem and made its first move to change that.

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Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology

Tags: Affordable, Robots, Learning

Portable projectors have come a long way from the simple movie-night gadgets they used to be not so long ago. Recently, companies have been adding features like built-in streaming platforms, better speakers, automatic setup, and outdoor-friendly designs.

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Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: xxKickbooster, Kickstarter, Karaoke, All-in-one, Projectors, 4K UHD, Portable, Google TV

The first humanoid "training school" for robots of all shapes and sizes will open its doors in July, bringing together more than 100 different models made by a host of companies. As well as mastering real-world skills, the humanoids will provide unique data that'll be used to advance the bots that follow in their footsteps.

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Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology

Tags: China, Robot Factory, School, Training, Artificial Intelligence, Humanoid

I've always felt like the Kindle could do with a better way to flip ebook pages. DuRoBo might have solved exactly that problem, with a little dial on the side of its compact E Ink device.

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: eBook, Kindle, E-Ink, ePaper, Reading, Android

This year Fender is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Telecaster, and Nashville was chosen to host the Tele Town birthday party.

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Category: Music, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Fender, Fender Telecaster, Guitar, Features, Interviews

Don't sweat it if you didn't know there's such a thing as a wearable air conditioner. It's not a miniature version of the real thing in your home, and only a couple of brands make this sort of thing, so they haven't yet gone properly mainstream.

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Category: Wearables, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Sony, Air Conditioners, Gadgets

Gaming monitor refresh rates have been steadily climbing over the years: from 144 Hz to 240 Hz, 360 Hz, and beyond, with each jump promising a slight visual feedback edge for competitive players.

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: LG, Gaming, Monitor, Screens, Performance, HD

Sony's celebrating the 10th anniversary of its flagship 1000X series of headphones with a special release, the 1000X The Collexion.

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Headphones, Sony, Noise-Canceling

Anker's audio hardware brand Soundcore has expanded its Liberty lineup of wireless earbuds with a new feature-packed model aimed at productivity nerds.

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Earbuds, Earphones, Translation

If you’re a fan of Buster Keaton’s 1928 silent film The Cameraman, and are intrigued by his portrayal of a street photographer who processes his own film, then you might want to check out the Alfie BOXX camera currently on Kickstarter.

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Category: Photography, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Kickstarter, Film Cameras, Retro

After giving us a preview ahead of this year's CES, Samsung's just launched its new Odyssey G8 (the G80HS, to be specific), which it claims is the first-ever gaming monitor that's capable of an incredible 6K resolution.

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Monitor, Gaming, Samsung

With the new Osmo Mobile 8P, DJI's borrowing a handy feature from its high-end Ronin gimbals for mirrorless cameras for its latest smartphone stabilizer – and then taking things up a notch.

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: DJI Innovations, Gimbals, Photography, Cameras

Though many of us take grid power for granted, if it goes down for any reason many of us are left in the dark. The Sierro is a new compact home backup system designed to keep your most important devices, like your fridge, router, or CPAP machine, running through an outage.

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Category: Around The Home, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Kickstarter, Battery, Backup, Power, Compact

You can already work and game on a virtual screen using the current crop of augmented reality glasses – but what if you're a demanding gamer who lives for high-fidelity graphics and buttery smooth animation?

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Games, Asus, Glasses, 3D Glasses

Flossing regularly is great for your teeth, but the single-use plastic picks add to the ever-growing problem of household waste. A Swedish design team has a better solution, in the form of a sleek flosser that's made to last a lifetime.

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Category: Around The Home, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Product alternatives, sustainable design, Dental, Teeth, Kickstarter

Turkey-based upstart Shark Instruments is taking the fight to higher-end guitar makers with advanced manufacturing capabilities. Its latest industry-first feature: adjustable frets.

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Category: Music, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Guitar, Modular

What better place to pull the covers off of your latest and greatest pocket camera than the Cannes Film Festival? "By unveiling the Osmo Pocket 4P at one of the most prestigious stages in global filmmaking, DJI signals a bold evolution of the Pocket series from a creator tool into a cinematic imaging device capable of professional-grade storytelling," says the company.

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: DJI Innovations, Camera, Pocket, Actioncam, Gimbals

Terminal B at LaGuardia Airport in New York has unveiled Bridget, a life-sized, hyper-realistic AI hologram that can hold a real conversation – answering questions about gates, baggage claims, and VIP lounges. The technology is a signal that the way we navigate airports is changing from static signs and apps to conversational digital guides, and several major hubs are already competing to define it.

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Category: Technology

Tags: Airports, Navigation, Interactive, Holographic, Artificial Intelligence

Fraimic wants to turn AI art into something you can put on your wall, rather than forgotten images somewhere in your phone's gallery. And honestly? That's a pretty neat idea.

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Category: Around The Home, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: E Ink, E-Ink, AI Art and Music, Creative AI, Home decor, Reviews

Rugged phones are not for everyone. They're generally huge and heavy, though most come with a long-life battery and all can withstand a beating. A relatively new name in the space has gone mini for a tough cookie that's also an actioncam.

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Category: Mobile Technology, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Rugged, smartphones, Actioncam, Compact

Back in the olden days of the previous millennium, long before the digital revolution compressed entire albums and even movies into ultra-high-fidelity files that users could download in seconds, hundreds of millions of people relied on physical tape to store albums on cassettes (or 8-tracks) and video on low-resolution VHS cassettes.

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Category: Computing, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Pennsylvania State University, Memory, Tape, Adhesive

Huawei's latest XPixel smart headlights upgrade automotive lighting from a safety feature into a full-color projection system that can play movies, render games, and guide drivers – all from the front of the car.

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Category: Technology

Tags: Huawei, Headlight, Projectors

Arcade machines are large, heavy, and take up a lot of space. Even though they're fun and have a cool retro look, they can definitely feel out of place in people's homes. And that’s fair – not everyone wants their living room to look like a 1990s pizza restaurant. But what if you could own a machine that was easy to put away when not in use? That’s exactly the idea behind Swap Arcade.

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Category: Games, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Kickstarter, Video Games, Gaming, Furniture, Transformable

For years, machines have navigated the world color-blind. LiDAR sensors – the laser-based eyes of self-driving cars, industrial robots, and inspection drones – build precise 3D maps of their surroundings, but everything is built of monochrome geometric shapes. Ouster's new Rev8 sensor family aims to change that, not by bolting a camera onto a LiDAR unit, but by fusing color directly into every point of data the sensor captures.

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Category: Technology

Tags: LIDAR, Colors, All-in-one, Chips

reMarkable’s new Paper Pure refines the E Ink notebook formula with a more responsive display, longer battery life, and improved integration with digital workflows.

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: E-Ink, Tablet, E-reader, Digital Media, Notebook

Tens of thousands of people rely on service dogs every day. They assist people with visual impairments, mobility disabilities, hearing loss, seizures, PTSD, and many other medical conditions. Service dogs are not just great companions – they are proven to significantly improve quality of life by helping people live more independently.

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Category: Good Thinking, Technology

Tags: Dogs, Service animals, Disability

Whether your laptop is your main source of income or you just use it for entertainment, running out of juice just when things get interesting can be a major annoyance. The Edge power bank has been designed to alleviate such things.

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Kickstarter, Laptop, Battery, xxKickbooster

Let's answer the question in the headline right away: probably not. But it's worth thinking about why that might be the case, despite this being an interesting idea in some regards.

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Category: Computing, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Productivity, Office, Lenovo, MWC 2026, Pico projector

Bose is bringing back the Lifestyle badge after ages for a new range of speakers meant to grace your living room. With their feature sets and pricing, they'll go head to head against the latest offerings from Sonos, and the hope is that (mostly) new audio engineering chops for these three models will win you over.

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Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Bose, Speakers, Speaker, Subwoofer, home theater

UK-based design team Increment Labs has introduced the LMW-V1 Light Meter Watch, which they tout as the world's first watch designed with a built in light meter for photographers who struggle to master manual settings.

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Category: Photography, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Kickstarter, Watch, Wristwatch, Light

This is one of the few review proposals that I had to get permission from my better half for ... and frankly, she told me no, but I did it anyway.

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Category: Around The Home, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Wet and dry vacuum cleaner, Vacuum, Reviews, Automation, iRobot

Looking for an action cam that can take fish-eye 360° shots but don't have a lot of cash to splash? One option is the Akaso 360 Action Camera aimed at the budget-conscious beginner. We took an in-depth look at it to see how it stacks up.

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Category: Photography, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Actioncam, Reviews

It is said that during the gold rush, people were so focused on gold that they forgot the “goldmine” that was shovels. In the AI and clean energy boom, where infrastructure and applications are the focus, one company is betting on the most fundamental of shovels: raw materials. Introducing Earth AI, an Australian-founded, US-headquartered mineral exploration company that uses artificial intelligence to discover critical mineral deposits faster and more efficiently.

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Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Mining, Metals

Blackstar has not only crammed a guitar amp into a little box the size of a Bluetooth speaker, but also packed it with high-tech features to get a vast array of tones out of it to practice any style of playing, anywhere they'll tolerate you.

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Category: Music, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Amplifier, Guitar Effects, Guitar, Bluetooth Speakers, Speaker

Google's just launched the Fitbit Air, a screenless wearable that slips onto your wrist to track your fitness activities, sleep, and other health stats. It's a lot like the Whoop Band and others you've seen on the market – and it comes in at a compelling price point without the need for a subscription to cover the basics.

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Category: Wearables, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Fitness, Health, Wearable, Artificial Intelligence, Fitbit, Google

Engineers have been experimenting with alternatives to the traditional mouse for years, producing pen-shaped, flat, and even ring-shaped mice. And just when it seems like we’ve seen it all, UK-based startup NextAxis Design has introduced an egg-shaped mouse called Ovo, currently available for backing on Kickstarter.

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Category: Computing, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Mouse, Kickstarter, Ergonomic

LG’s new UltraGear evo GM9 monitor pairs a 5K panel with Hyper Mini LED tech, aiming to deliver brighter, sharper, and faster high-end visuals for gaming.

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: LG, Gaming, Monitor, Performance

When the cityscape frustrates urban photographers with uneven terrain or limited spaces, photographic gear company Silence Corner strikes back with the Viperpod – a hybrid tripod designed to hang anywhere in seconds for unencumbered solo shooting.

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Category: Photography, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Tripods, Kickstarter, xxKickbooster

Audible is opening a pop-up "bookless bookstore" in New York City, turning audiobooks into a social experience with listening lounges and live events.

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Category: Technology

Tags: Store, New York, Immersion, Audio, Dolby, Reading

For decades, the idea of a sub-two-hour marathon occupied a near-mythical place in endurance sport. Like Roger Bannister’s four-minute mile, it represented a physiological and psychological frontier that seemed just beyond human reach. That barrier finally fell in an official race at the 2026 London Marathon on April 26th, when Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe ran 1:59:30, followed moments later by Ethiopia’s Yomif Kejelcha in 1:59:41.

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Category: Sports, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Running, World Records, Shoes, Adidas, xxShowcase

My favorite part of watching the Olympics was viewing the long telephoto lenses used by the photojournalists, and dreaming of one day owning one of those expensive lenses. With this latest design from Reeflex, a European brand committed to pushing the limits of mobile phone photography, I'm one step closer to meeting that goal without breaking the piggy bank.

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Category: Photography, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Kickstarter, xxKickbooster, Lens

Power banks are a dime a dozen, but this one caught my eye with a feature I haven't seen before: a built-in solar panel to recharge it using the power of the sun.

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Rechargeable+Battery, EDC, Outdoors and Camping, Charger, Kickstarter, xxKickbooster

A research team supervised by Assoc. Prof. Theo Hughes-Riley from Nottingham Trent University has designed a smart vibrating pillow sleeve prototype, to alert people who are deaf to fire and burglar alarms. The device was recently presented at the Association for Computing Machinery CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, at the Barcelona International Convention Centre in Spain.

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Category: Good Thinking, Technology

Tags: Nottingham Trent University, Deaf, Sleep, Alert, Hearing Impaired

Dictation tech for typing on your computer and mobile devices has gotten way better and more accessible over the last few years, thanks to sophisticated AI models. But an upcoming device can remove even more friction from the process of getting words onto your screen, by simply reading your thoughts.

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Category: Wearables, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Brain-computer interface, EEG, Electroencephalography (EEG), wearable computing