Gadgets

Ninja’s Creami Deluxe 11-in-1 Ice Cream Maker makes it easy to whip up everything from frozen yogurt and ice cream to Italian ice, gelato, and frozen coffee at the press of a button. Right now, Woot is selling it in refurbished condition for $99 with a 90-day warranty, which is $150 less than buying it new.

Following an Asteroids-themed watch in early 2025, Atari has once again collaborated with Nubeo on a new mechanical timepiece now featuring the Missile Command battlefield recreated on its face in all its pixelated glory. It’s available now for $500 and limited to 100 pieces for each of its four color variants.

Luxury / trashy phone brand Vertu is back with its first book-style foldable, the Alphafold, an “AI command center” for busy rich people. It sounds like it’s found its audience.

The Aqara U500 lineup includes three separate models. There’s a “Rim Lock” for standard entrance and interior doors that doesn’t require a mortise, a “Gate Lock” for metal grille-style doors, and even a lock that’s designed for glass doors. They’re only available in Europe for now though.

According to leaker and journalist Sonny Dickson, that is, who shared photos of iPhone 18 dummy units — though these look like Pro models, due this fall, with the regular 18 likely launching next spring. Dickson got last year’s iPhone 17 colors almost dead-on, meaning this brand new cherry color is probably accurate.

The Baseus PicoGo AM52 is marked down to $39.29 (about $31 off) at Amazon when you use code AM52CODE at checkout. The compact, magnetic battery pack clips directly to the back of newer iPhones, giving you an extra 10,000mAh of juice when you need it most. It supports Qi2.2 for 25W wireless charging or 45W via the USB-C port, which are nice touches for such a small battery.

As spotted by Android Authority, the Pixel Buds app is getting updated with a new icon in the same style as the recently-updated Google Workspace icons. Google is also tweaking the app’s landing page, which will now show all the Pixel Buds headphones paired with your phone on one screen.

Gaming and a renewed interest in physical media like VHS tapes (mixed with good ol’ nostalgia) continue to drive the niche CRT market, which had a boom during the pandemic after some restoration struggles. From Minnesota parking lot deals to global capers, the lure of scan lines holds strong.

New FCC filings hint at the imminent launch of four new devices, which appear to magnetically dock to a mysterious “debug tool.”

In an email sent to Kickstarter backers shared by a Verge reader, Hyper says that following efforts to “resolve supply chain and production challenges” it can’t deliver its HyperSpace Trackpad Pro “to the standard and timeframe expected.” Full refunds to backers or a credit to Hyper’s online store with a $50 bonus are being offered.

Acer is leading off its early Computex announcements with a new 2-in-1 laptop, the Swift Spin 14 AI. It’ll pack Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Plus and X2 Elite chips when it arrives in the US in August (July for other regions), and it’ll also include a stylus stored its chassis. Neat.

This is Acer’s Aspire Go 15 AG15-Q31P, a budget laptop built on Qualcomm’s just-announced Snapdragon C platform. Acer didn’t share its price or release date by the time I wrote these words, but Qualcomm says the platform unlocks roughly $300 laptops — despite RAMageddon. Corners cut, surely. The specs we know are here.

The Alphafold costs $6,880 (and that’s if you want to slum it with a calfskin finish), with more expensive options including alligator leather, gold, and diamonds. That gets you a year-old Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chip, a five-megapixel telephoto (yes, five, not 50), and an AI agent called Hermes.

Well, I was too busy putting the finishing touches on my feature about the Enhanced Games to notice that the company is now offering a $10 million prize for sprinters who can break Usain Bolt’s 100m record of 9.58 seconds at the Enhanced Games 2027. Oh boy. Here we go.

As the Wall Street Journal reports, SK Hynix and Micron both passed the milestone this week. The spike in value for the world’s three largest DRAM manufacturers follows a months-long global memory shortage, driven by demand from AI data centers, that’s causing prices to skyrocket on everything from phones to game consoles.

Anker’s wall charger is capable of delivering up to 140W for a single USB-C device, or splitting it between up to four devices. Its bottom-facing port array is its most notable trait, reducing the likelihood of it falling out of your outlet. Normally $79.99, it’s now $59.99 at Best Buy and on Best Buy’s eBay page.