Amazon Alexa Tablet 12 Pro: Google Play, Nanomatte Screen and Alexa+ for $499
Fire tablets were the cheap seats. This is Amazon buying a ticket to the front row. The Amazon Alexa Tablet 12 Pro is a 6.5mm aluminum slab with a 12-inch, 2.8K, 120Hz screen, a 4nm 8-core chip, up to 16GB of RAM, Alexa+ baked into the OS and, for the first time, the full Google […]
OutIn Nano 2: A 740 g Self-Heating Espresso Machine With Twice the Battery
No kettle, no outlet, no excuses. The OutIn Nano 2 is a 740 g, water-bottle-sized espresso machine that heats its own water and pushes it through at up to 21 bar. A 5,000 mAh battery gets you up to 9 shots per charge from room-temperature water, and 45W USB-C refills it in about 100 minutes. […]
Kindle Click: $34.99 Bluetooth Remote That Turns Kindle Pages for You
Treadmill readers, under-the-covers night owls, and tray-table flyers: here is the official clicker. Kindle Click is a pocket Bluetooth remote that turns Kindle pages forward and back so your e-reader can stay parked on the stand, the pillow, or the bike tray. Price: $34.99. It launches October 28, 2026 (pre-order now; new orders are already […]
Wokyis M5 Retro Dock: Mac mini Gets a 1984 Glow-Up
Your Mac mini is a beige-ish cube that screams 2024. The Wokyis M5 Retro Dock drops a tiny Macintosh face on top so 1984 can crash your desk setup – with a 5-inch sidekick display, a port party, and an M.2 slot for people who still believe in local storage. The 10Gbps tier often lands […]
KitchenAid Luminaire: The Mixer That Lights Up Dessert
Most stand mixers just knead. The KitchenAid Design Series Luminaire (model KSM50GSVXBP) kneads and then turns the fluted glass bowl into a countertop nightclub. MSRP is $699.99 for the Artisan Plus tilt-head in new Blue Peppercorn with a crinkle finish. Under the glow: a 5-quart glass bowl, integrated bowl light, Precision Speed Control with Soft […]
Logitech Mobi Fold: The Pocket Brick That Clicks Quietly
Laptop trackpads are fine until they are not. The Logitech Mobi Fold is the Arc-mouse spiritual successor that folds into a ~2.2 x 2.5 inch pocket rectangle, weighs about 2 oz, and costs $79.99. Unfold to power on; fold to power off. Theater kids for cursors, rejoice. Specs that matter on a cafe table: Adaptive […]
Kindle Scribe Colorsoft: Big Notes, Now With Actual Color
Amazon finally put color on the big write-on Kindle. The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is an 11-inch paper-ish slab for reading, annotating, and scribbling notebooks without pretending grayscale highlighters are a personality. List pricing lands around $630 for 32GB and $680 for 64GB – which is “mortgage a coffee habit” money, not “impulse at checkout” money. […]
AirTag 2nd Gen: Same Puck, Farther Precision Finding Flex
Lost keys are a personality trait. The Apple AirTag (2nd generation) is Apple’s second crack at making that trait temporary. Same coin-sized puck vibe, same Find My network party tricks – but Apple’s second-gen Ultra Wideband chip stretches Precision Finding up to about 1.5x farther, and the built-in speaker is pitched as up to 50% […]
XTEINK X3: A 58g Pocket E-Ink Reader That Clings to Your Phone
Your phone is a casino. The XTEINK X3 is the opposite: a 3.7-inch e-ink slab that weighs about 58g, measures roughly 0.2 inches thick, and exists to steal those dead minutes between “boarding group C” and “please stow your tray table.” Street pricing usually floats around ~$63-79 depending on the day and the seller mood. […]
OTOTO Croc Chop: Meal Prep, but Make It a Crocodile
Meal prep should not look like a crime scene. Or maybe it should — if the perpetrator is a smiling crocodile. The Fullstar x OTOTO Croc Chop is a countertop vegetable chopper/spiralizer dressed as a gator with commitment issues: press the lid, collect the carnage in a catch tray, pretend you meant to julienne that […]