Gadgets Archive

I would have absolutely designed a PS5 controller with more battery life and Hall Effect joysticks, but I have no imagination. Instead, Sony crammed its own brand-new toolless hot-swappable joystick modules into a pad that already housed not one, not two, but four motors: two for haptic feedback and two for its amazing adaptive triggers.

“Scan of the Month” may technically be a marketing effort for one particular company’s CT machine, but I won’t look a gift horse in the mouth: it’s awesome to see precisely how Lego figures and EpiPens work with these X-ray like images. I can’t get enough.

I recently took the $949 Dyson Zone out for a walk down Fifth Avenue. I’ve got a more in-depth hands-on, but you can also come along for the ride in this TikTok. New Yorkers might not care about this sort of thing, but would you wear the Zone in public?

Which hair styling gadget gives you the best curls? Victoria Song put Dyson’s original Airwrap (not the updated 2022 model) to the test against the Shark FlexStyle to see which one had the best results and to see how those held up checking in a few hours later,

A trend I’ve noticed about modern phones is they have crossed the threshold for being too thick and heavy to make cases comfortable. Adding a case has always introduced more thickness and weight — that’s the trade-off with getting better protection. But I spent months looking for something for my iPhone 13 Pro that didn’t make the thing miserable to hold and came up empty.

The 2018 iPad Pro came out over four years ago, but it remains an impressively capable tablet. Apple has released three updates since then and added some minor features that may matter to your specific workflow (or not).

International debates over the true inventor, super influential companies you’ve never heard of, and a key moment in the global tech industry: all that and more in the story of a little tiny thumb drive. Fun weekend read, this one.