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Sean Hollister

Sean Hollister

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    Sean Hollister
    I haven’t charged my wireless gaming mouse in two and a half years.

    That’s no exaggeration, it’s just me checking in on my 2022 story about the Logitech Powerplay Wireless Charging System, now on sale at Amazon for its best price in two years.

    Mind you, that price is $94, not including a compatible mouse... but in hindsight, I’d gladly pay it.

    Note: If you buy something from this link, we might get affiliate revenue.

    A Logitech G502 Lightspeed mouse on Logitech’s epic wireless charging mousepad.
    A Logitech G502 Lightspeed mouse on Logitech’s epic wireless charging mousepad.
    Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge
    Asus ROG Ally X review: the best Windows gaming handheld by a mile

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    In some ways, it’s even better than Deck.

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    Sean Hollister
    Sean Hollister
    Say hello to the Elgato Stream Deck’s great-grandpa.

    Before he left The Verge, my colleague Jon Porter was able to try the Optimus Popularis — the LCD keyboard that paved the way for every LCD keypad since. While we weren’t quite able to feature Jon’s hands-on images in our feature story, we figured you might appreciate them!

    Psst: if you’ve got the even earlier Optimus Maximus lying around, I’d love to try it!

    <em>By 2012, the keys already looked much like the Stream Deck’s lenses.</em>
    <em>They’ve got that concave, inverse </em><a href="https://thevergetoday.pages.dev/23706779/stream-deck-pop-bubbles-bubbledeck"><em>bubble-wrap effect</em></a><em>.</em>
    <em>We couldn’t resist adding Verge icons and Verge-y colors.</em>
    <em>Bonus: Here’s the keyboard’s industrial designer, Timur Burbaev, holding up the lens assembly on our video call.</em>
    <em>The inside of the lens array.</em>
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    By 2012, the keys already looked much like the Stream Deck’s lenses.
    Photo by Jon Porter / The Verge
    Sean Hollister
    Sean Hollister
    You can now stream Major League Baseball (in the US) for $6 a month.

    “For the first time, U.S. subscribers can stream MLB Network 24/7 including select out-of-market games,” writes MLB. It’s $5.99 a monthor $6.99 to bundle live audio for every MLB team.

    For football, NFL Plus costs $6.99 a month. Basketball is $14.99 a season for NBA League Pass, though the 2025-2026 season will now come to Amazon Prime Video as well.

    Sean Hollister
    Sean Hollister
    More drones should flap like real birds.

    I’m not saying you should go crowdfund a Bionic Bird X-Fly, as you’ll hear in my hands-on video below. I’m just saying that biomimetic ornithopters are surprisingly fun — and way less disruptive than your typical whiny quad-propeller drone!

    Sean Hollister
    Sean Hollister
    Beloved indie game publisher Humble Games has reportedly laid off all staff without warning.

    They published gems like Slay the Spire, Signalis and Void Bastards, just released Bo: Path of the Teal Lotus, and were set to publish Monaco II here’s a full list of games.

    But now Humble Games, an offshoot of the Humble Bundle, is apparently just the latest casualty of crippling video game industry layoffs.