Unitree H2-X Is a Kung Fu Robot Bodyguard That Flips Off Cars
Unitree’s H2-X “Kung Fu Legend: Guardian” backflips off cars, kicks in doors and lifts a car in a wild promo. Here is what is real, what is staged and what we still do not know.
Google Fitbit Edge: Week-Long Battery, Real GPS, $179
Google has spent the year building a wearable ladder. At the bottom sits the screenless Fitbit Air. At the top sits the Pixel Watch 5. The new Google Fitbit Edge is the rung in the middle: a slim tracker with a real screen, built-in GPS, an ECG app and up to a week of battery, […]
Bronson Coffee Machine: Grinds, Froths and Cleans Up After Itself for $1,299
Every super-automatic espresso machine promises “one touch” coffee. Then it hands you a drip tray, a puck drawer, a milk wand that smells like last Tuesday and a cleaning schedule. The Bronson coffee machine, from a small team in Melbourne, Australia, wants to fix the part after the coffee. It grinds whole beans on a […]
ROG Xbox Ally X20: A See-Through 20th Anniversary Handheld With a 7.4-Inch OLED
Remember see-through game consoles? ROG does. To mark 20 years of Republic of Gamers, ASUS built the ROG Xbox Ally X20: a translucent black handheld with a gold internal frame, a bigger 7.4-inch OLED screen and AMD’s Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme inside. It went on sale October 15 for $1,299, or $2,499 for a bundle […]
China’s Four-Drum Washers Give Your Socks, Undies and Sneakers Their Own Rooms
Somewhere in China, your gym socks, your baby’s onesies and your muddy sneakers no longer have to share a bath. Four-drum washing machines are a real thing there: one tower, four separate drums, each with its own water in and water out. Everyday clothes get the big drum, underwear and baby clothes get tiny private […]
Hatch Sleep Clock: Contactless Sleep Tracking From Your Nightstand, No Subscription
Every sleep tracker wants something from you: a ring to charge, a watch strapped to your wrist, a monthly fee to see your own data. The Hatch Sleep Clock wants a spot on your nightstand. That is it. It watches your breathing and micro-movements from across the bed, figures out your sleep stages, and does […]
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 […]
Apple HomeView: A $299 Siri AI Smart Display That Knows Who Is Looking
Apple finally built the kitchen-counter screen. Apple HomeView is a 7-inch square Liquid Retina smart display on a domed speaker base, running the new Siri AI on an A18 chip. It recognizes up to six people by face and flips to each person’s own Home Screen, messages and calendar. Price: $299 for either the tabletop […]
This Flat Robot Slides Under Badly Parked Cars and Re-Parks Them
Parked like a jerk? In one Hangzhou parking lot, nobody calls a tow truck. A guard pulls out his phone, a flat robot cart slides under your car, grabs all four tires, lifts it off the ground and drops it neatly into a proper parking spot. No hook, no chains, no drama. In China, rather […]
Matic: The Camera-Only Robot Vacuum and Mop That Scored a WIRED 10/10
Every robot vacuum says it is smart. Matic actually earned it: WIRED gave it a rare 10 out of 10 and called it the best robot vacuum it has tested. There is no lidar puck on top. Matic sees with cameras only, builds and keeps its map on the robot instead of in the cloud, […]