Gadgets

There are certainly more affordable ways to rig your home with smart lights, but the company’s newest “budget” kit is still a great option that sets you up with four color, 800-lumen E26 bulbs and a Hue Bridge. It’s currently on sale at Amazon for $89.97 ($10 off), its lowest price to date.

We still don’t know much about the AR glasses Samsung is building with Google, but Jay Kim, Samsung’s EVP of the company’s mobile division, tells CNBC the device will connect to your phone and have a built-in camera at “your eye level.”

Alongside new versions of its MCON sliding gamepads, at CES 2026 OhSnap showed off a new version of its thin phone grip that adds a folding kickstand that can support a phone in portrait or landscape orientations. The Snap Grip Stand is available for preorder now for $49.99 and expected to ship starting on March 20th.

The beloved, single-season cartoon series from 2014 is launching on Blu-ray on April 7th. Several retailers are offering preorders for $19.99, including Amazon, Walmart, and Gruv, although only the latter is offering 15 percent off for first-time customers with the offer code FIRSTGRUV15. The series is also streaming on Hulu.

Retailer Alto Music has leaked a new portable sampler by Akai that looks inspired by the company’s MPC60 and MPC3000, according to Synth Anatomy. The streamlined $399 Akai MPC Sample will pair 16 pads with a color screen, a mic and speaker, a sampling engine, a sequencer, various effects, and a host of audio ports on the back.

The slick handheld — which works with nearly 3,000 Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance cartridges — is available directly from Analogue in black and white for $239.99, a $20 price hike. It’s expected to ship in June, provided it doesn’t suffer the same delays that have previously plagued the company’s other retro console.

After announcing a compact trackball at CES 2026 called the Nape Pro, Keychron is embracing portability again with a new wireless keyboard that can fold in half. The $64.99 Keychron B11 Pro features concave ABS keycaps with a low-profile scissor mechanism, a 250mAh battery, an ergonomic split Alice layout, and Bluetooth, USB-C, or 2.4GHz wireless connectivity.

The Infinix Note 60 Ultra, launching today in Malaysia, was codesigned with Italian auto designer Pininfarina. I’m not sure I see much of its influence in the phone’s dot matrix rear display or odd inspirational lockscreen quotes, but the sports car-shaped SIM tool and wireless charger do give off a very specific energy.

We have new Macs, new iPhones, new iPads, new Studio Displays, and more to talk about, and for once Nilay and I are in the same place – so we’re going to hop on a stream and talk it all out live!

It’s just a concept, but it’s fully functional at the big MWC show. Even the mix-and-match magnetic accessories seem to all work on the prototype we tested.

If your Nintendo Switch or Switch OLED Joy-Con controllers have joystick drift, the Nitro Deck is a nice upgrade. Just slide your console into this all-in-one controller, which features Hall effect sticks, plus larger buttons, sticks, grips, and triggers. The retro mint color scheme is now $29.99 (usually $49.99) at Amazon.

The Climacool sneakers I reviewed last year are now available in an all-white colorway, complete with ghost stripes and white laces. The $160 Climacool Laced kicks are 15 percent lighter, thankfully, and available to buy worldwide from adidas.com and via the Adidas app. The $140 slip-ons are back in stock too.