After scoring $575 million in funding earlier this week, Whoop is suing Bevel — a startup that has marketed itself as “Whoop, but for the Apple Watch.” The complaint centers on whether Bevel copied Whoop’s app, a claim the former denies. Can’t lie… I feel like I’ve seen 10,000 versions of this app design over the last decade.
The latest addition to My Play Watch’s collection of gaming wearables is a $79.99 Mega Man version, available for preorder soon, with themed watch faces, sounds, and matching straps. Instead of distracting you with notifications it includes a custom version of the NES’ Mega Man 2 playable on the watch’s small touchscreen.
Today only, you can grab a refurbished last-gen Kindle with ads and 16GB of storage for $44.99 ($65 off) from Woot with a 90-day warranty when you use code 25OFF. That’s a great deal since it’s very similar to its successor, my favorite cheap e-reader, with the same sharp 300ppi display, USB-C support, and long battery life in a pocketable design. Read my review.
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Digital health screeners weren’t a thing until the Apple Watch. It’s shaped how we think about wearables ever since.
The company has given the all-aluminum NES 40th edition of its Retro 68 Keyboard an Apple II-inspired makeover. The new AP50th Limited Edition features a shell, keycaps, and buttons all made from aluminum alloy, and for $499.99 it will ship in June 2026 with a pair of matching wireless programmable buttons.
TCL’s Nxtvision TV can’t quite compete with Samsung’s latest Frame models or the art-inspired Hisense TV we recently featured on the site, but it includes a bezel, supports up to 144Hz variable refresh rate, and runs on Google’s excellent TV software. It’s also on sale at Amazon and Best Buy starting at 629.99 ($370 off), an all-time low.
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I mean, it’s not technically April Fools’ since you can actually buy the artificial turf-covered skins, just like you could last year. But this year, they come with a free matching “Blue Sky” skin and the amusing video below.
Check out what Owen thought of them in last year’s hands-on.
The Oura Ring Pet isn’t real, but based on the Instagram comments, some people really want this.
The best part about this review is that he plays it (mostly) straight. One of my favorite April Fools’ Day gags I’ve seen this year.
Josh.ai, a company that creates custom smart home automation systems, announced a new accessory called Josh MindControl for April Fools’. The monolithic box (with a dash of RGB underlighting) is capable of “intuiting your intentions” so it can “immediately understand what you would like to do, even if you didn’t fully know yet yourself.”
One way to reduce screen time? The Scrōll Stoppr by Yahoo. Who knows if it actually ships, but these are listed in the TikTok Shop at a price of $4.99 with free shipping for anyone who’s tried every other way to put their phone down.
Woot is selling the Corsair Vengeance 32GB (2 x 16GB) kits of desktop DDR5 RAM with a max clock speed of 6,000MHz for $269.99. It’s still pricey, but considering the kit is selling for $379.99 at other retailers, this a good deal to jump on if you’ve been waiting for a decent discount amid the ongoing memory crisis.
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Satechi’s April Fools’ prank this year solves a problem humanity has faced ever since we started wrapping our feet in fabric tubes: missing socks. The FindAll Socks incorporate small Apple Find My-compatible trackers so you can quickly find one or both when they inevitably go missing.
Because everything is gambling now, Elgato has imagined a slot machine add-on for its handy button and dial-equipped accessory.
While today’s update adding MCP hooks for AI bots to press virtual Steam Deck buttons is more real than the lever, Elgato is releasing this free Slotius plugin today for “purely entertainment” reasons — you can’t win a jackpot, but you can spin the reels.
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0A portable turntable is probably the way to go if you’re starting out, but I might choose something cheaper.
WaterField Designs is celebrating Apple’s 50th anniversary and April Fools’ Day with a couple of new carrying cases for vintage Apple gear.
There’s a backpack for the Macintosh SE/30 made from waxed canvas and leather, and a belt-worn holster for the Apple Newton. They’re both priced at $2,026, and neither is available for purchase.
Not because they’re so ugly, it’s because Garmin wearables that track skin temperature during sleep — like the Fenix 8 and Forerunner 970 — can now feed that data to the FDA-cleared Natural Cycles birth control app to show the wearer’s daily fertility status.
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says Nothing plans on launching AI smart glasses during the first half of 2027. The upcoming glasses will reportedly come with built-in cameras, microphones, and speakers, while offloading AI processing to a user’s smartphone and the cloud.
