IFA 2026: the biggest tech and gadget announcements – The Verge The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts. 2026-09-01T16:00:38+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/rss/stream/986178 https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/verge-rss-large_80b47e.png?w=150&h=150&crop=1 Jennifer Pattison Tuohy <![CDATA[Homey just made the smart home controller I hoped Apple would build]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=987462 2026-09-01T12:00:14-04:00 2026-09-01T13:00:00-04:00
Homey’s new tactile touchscreen controller has a rotary dial for controlling lights, climate, music and more.

Smart homes have gotten really good at making things really complicated. Turning on a light can involve multiple steps, compared to just flipping a switch. Homey, the Dutch-based smart home platform owned by LG, thinks it has a solution.

This week it launched the Homey Portal, a touchscreen smart home controller that looks very promising, if very expensive. Preorders open today at an introductory price of $249/€249, with units shipping in December.

A 2.8-inch round touchscreen device with a stainless steel dial, the Homey Portal can sit on a desk or mount to the wall and is powered by a USB-C cable. You tap the icons to control devices li …

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]]> Andrew Liszewski <![CDATA[Shelly’s new $50 security camera watches your home without a subscription]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=987436 2026-09-01T11:38:13-04:00 2026-09-01T11:19:17-04:00 A white version of the Shelly Camera mounted to a ceiling above a living room.

After launching a budget-friendly flood sensor last month with impressive battery life, Shelly announced a new $49.99 security camera today that can be used without any additional subscription fees - although that's still an option if you want to expand its capabilities.

The Shelly Camera will be available soon from the company's online store and other resellers in black or white. Although competitors like Wyze have released 2K security cameras for $40, Shelly's first camera is limited to 1080P with a wide field of view that stretches 110 degrees horizontally and 70 degrees vertically with night vision capabilities. But there's no battery, …

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]]> Dominic Preston <![CDATA[Get ready for a really busy month of smartphones]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=986236 2026-09-01T12:00:38-04:00 2026-09-01T09:00:00-04:00 Various brands of some of the best phones of 2024
At what point are there simply too many phones? | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge

We're not even half a day into September, and two new smartphones have already launched: the Poco F9 Pro and F9 Ultra. We're expecting more this week, as the IFA trade show kicks off in Berlin, before we get new iPhones a week after that. And that's only the beginning of what promises to be an exceptionally busy month for smartphone launches.

For the decade I've worked in the industry, tech journalists have always spoken in hushed tones about the dreaded "Techtember," when just about every tech company on the planet seems to be in unspoken agreement that it's time to launch new products in time for the holiday buying season. (It's followed, …

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]]> Jess Weatherbed <![CDATA[TP-Link’s first Wi-Fi 8 router is almost here]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=987277 2026-09-01T06:18:36-04:00 2026-09-01T06:18:36-04:00 The TP-Link Archer 8 Ultra and Deco 8 Ultra.
Here you can see the Archer 8 Ultra (bottom) and the Deco 8 Ultra (top). | Image: TP-Link

The Wi-Fi 8 standard is far from finalized, but TP-Link is almost ready to release its first hardware targeting the next-gen spec. It unveiled the Archer 8 Ultra tri-band router and Deco 8 Ultra mesh system at IFA 2026, which utilize the upcoming IEEE 802.11bn standard to "address the connectivity problems people actually notice" instead of focusing on speed upgrades, according to TP-Link's announcement.

The Archer 8 Ultra features 18 internal antennas, and can deliver wireless speeds of up to 19Gbps and 10Gbps over wired connection. The Deco 8 Ultra mesh system provides up to 22Gbps over wireless and 10Gbps wired connectivity, according to …

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]]> Thomas Ricker <![CDATA[JMGO’s very bright all-in-one projector looks ideal for gamers and sports]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=985986 2026-08-31T18:34:58-04:00 2026-08-31T18:00:00-04:00
JMGO’s Iris Ultra Max 4K 120Hz Google TV projector. | Image: JMGO

JMGO's 4K 120Hz Iris Ultra Max all-in-one Google TV projector is now available outside China. It gets its name from a new dual-iris system that lets it produce an impressive 10,000:1 native contrast, according to JMGO. It boosts the contrast - always an issue with projectors - by placing two separate physical apertures (irises) along different points of the internal optical path to control light scatter and brightness far more aggressively than a single iris can. It also promises to produce a very bright 6,500 ISO lumen image from its triple-laser light engine.

Last year at IFA, 6,000 lumens from an all-in-one projector was breaking new gro …

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