Data Centers Are Not Draining America’s Water. Here’s the Math
A viral TFTC post says US data centers use about 17 billion gallons of water a year, versus about 500 billion for golf courses and 27 trillion for farm irrigation. We checked the numbers with LBNL, GCSAA and USGS data, and they hold up. We also cover the fair points about local siting and indirect water.
Apple Finally Lets You Touch the MacBook Pro Screen
Sixteen years after Steve Jobs said touchscreen laptops make your arm want to fall off, Apple put touch on the MacBook Pro, along with a 2000-nit tandem OLED PROLED XDR display.
Ryobi MICROTECH: A $50 Electric Screwdriver for the Tiniest Screws in Your House
Ryobi’s MICROTECH FVD02K is a pen-sized electric precision screwdriver with just 0.2 Nm of torque, an LED ring, 50 tiny 4mm bits and a fold-out case where the driver pops up when you open it. Here is what the $49.97 Home Depot exclusive does well, and the catches.
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 […]
CORSAIR XENEON EDGE: A 14.5-Inch Touch Widget Strip That Mounts Anywhere
Your PC tells you a lot. Your main monitor should not have to listen. CORSAIR XENEON EDGE is a 14.5-inch, 2560 x 720 touchscreen shaped like a candy bar that lives wherever you have room: inside the case on a 360 mm fan mount, stuck to anything steel with its magnetic back, or on your […]
TCOMAS EXIT D3 Pro: A 360 mm AIO With Three Screens and Glasses-Free 3D
One screen on a pump head is old news. TCOMAS EXIT D3 Pro bolts three 3.95-inch screens around the block and wraps them into a little open-front box, so a matched scene on all three panels reads as a glasses-free 3D diorama sitting inside your case. TCOMAS calls it the world’s first triple-display liquid cooler. […]
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 […]
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 […]
TimeXplayer V2: The Matchbook Mouse That Doomscrolls
Most travel mice still want a whole palm. The TimeXplayer V2 from Mivix is a matchbook with opinions: about 38 g, roughly 51.5 x 45 x 13.5 mm, two buttons, a clickable scroll wheel, and a 2.4 GHz dongle that hides inside the shell. Crowdfund early birds have hovered near $49-$55 against an ~$85 planned […]
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. […]