Sean Hollister

Senior Editor

The Cruz BlenderCap lets you make smoothies and shakes on the go

Sean HollisterOct 3, 2023

Sean HollisterOct 2, 2023

The most ridiculous gaming monitor ever sold is now on sale.

A wickedly curved 57 inches of quantum-dot-enhanced mini-LED pixels. Two 4K 240Hz screens side by side, stretching across your entire field of view. On sale today for $2,500 at Samsung, with Best Buy and Newegg coming soon.

I’d warn you away from Samsung’s monitor lottery after reviewing two previous-gen models myself, but maybe they got it right this time?

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The 57-inch Odyssey Neo G9 Dual 4K.

Image: Samsung

Sean HollisterOct 2, 2023

The sneaker PC is real — just $3,500.

It began as a case mod in 2020, then Cooler Master said it’d sell the thing. Now, you can get a badass robot kick that runs Windows on an RTX 4070 for $3,500 at Amazon. “Place your order and we’ll email you when we have an estimated delivery date,” sez the retailer. There’s a 4070 Ti model too.

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Sean HollisterOct 1, 2023

TIL someone got the amazing analog Space Command remote to control Alexa.

No batteries, no infrared — just the original “clicker” TV remote’s ultrasonic pings translated into digital commands by an Arduino computer, which then speaks in a robotic voice to get Alexa to do your bidding.

Here’s our Button of the Month about the 1956 gadget — and its service manual.

‘There’s no tracing Xbox 360 chat,’ claimed guy now charged with insider trading

Sean HollisterSep 29, 2023

Now you can water-cool your PS5, too

Sean HollisterSep 29, 2023

AMD FSR3 arrives tomorrow in its first two games.

AMD chief gaming architect Frank Azor confirms to me that Forspoken and Immortals of Aveum will be the first, with 12 other games announced and 16 studios committed to the tech.

FSR3’s big new feature is like Nvidia’s DLSS 3 frame generation, but not proprietary — it can imagine new frames between existing ones, boosting your framerate, with rival GPUs too. Wonder how my 3060 Ti will do.

Sean HollisterSep 28, 2023

I like the look of these mini vertical Maingear gaming PCs.

The Revolt has a integrated handle that folds flush into the case, a pop-out headphone holder, toolless side panels, and separate cooling zones for the CPU and GPU — and the $2,099 Platinum configuration seems a solid price for a prebuilt RTX 4070 machine with i5-13600K, 32GB of DDR5 and RGB.

The highest-end configs seem overpriced, though, and what’s with the low storage capacities? BYOSSD. Hyte also sells the case by itself for $130.

Sean HollisterSep 28, 2023

Say it with me: AI VR legs.

Remember the whole microscandal about Zuck’s VR legs?

Well... Meta is now using “machine learning models that are trained on large data sets of people” to let developers give you generative AI legs in the Meta Quest 3.

More new dev toys here.