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    Here’s an hour of shimmering water droplets exploding from a balloon in ultra slow motion.

    When you slow down escaping water to 82,000 frames per second, it looks unreal — like magic pixie dust glittering in the light. Here’s an entire hour of that. I’m mesmerized.

    Just the latest example of a slow-mo camera unlocking the fourth dimension; in this case, it’s a Phantom TMX7510 operated by The Slow Mo Guys.

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    Sean Hollister
    AMD announces Fluid Motion Frames 2: less lag, less jitter when it’s faking more frames for you.

    You can try the technical preview now if you’ve got RX 7000 or RX 6000 series discrete GPUs; it looks like it’ll also come to some laptops and handhelds with 780M integrated graphics.

    Like Nvidia’s DLSS 3, AMD’s AFMF imagines new frames between existing ones for higher FPS — with many tradeoffs and caveats. AFMF 2 may reduce them.

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    Sean Hollister
    I tried the Sharge Pouch: a power bank, charger, cable, and fashion accessory in one.

    $99 is pricey — and at 36Wh capacity and 40W PD output, it’s for small gadgets (1.5 charges for Z Flip, nearly full charge for Switch Lite). It only charged a Steam Deck 25 percent while playing 40 minutes of Animal Well. And the cable’s bead-like port covers kind of bang around.

    But where else can you get charger, battery and cable in a single tangle-free package? Nice strong magnets, too.

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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