Mixed reality ain't cheap
HTC's Vive XR Elite does VR and AR for $1,099
Step aside, Meta. Take another look, Apple. There's a new boss in town.
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Scraps transformed
Countertop contraption could change cooking composting
Composting is a great way to manage food waste, but what can apartment dwellers do? That's what this box is for.
Nanoleaf 4D
These are the coolest TV lights I've ever seen
Reflect lights off your wall? Naaaaah. Nanoleaf wants you to decorate your whole wall with an array of LED panels and bars that will extend your screen aallll the way.
Inside and out
Stick Ring's latest security camera to your windshield
Ring is diving into the dashcam market with a connected dual-camera system that checks boxes I didn't even know I had.
A laptop with a twist
Meet the laptop that twists and turns
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The new Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Twist is designed to offer you the best of both worlds, with a gorgeous OLED display combined with an e-ink display that works with Windows and is perfect for those simpler tasks.
I don't know if I'm AFEELA-ing it
The Sony-Honda electric car finally has a date: 2026
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The joint venture between Sony and Honda has been teased for a few years now, but it finally has a name and a release date: AFEELA, and 2026.
This little guy is just the start
Samsung's newest smart home hub is tiny — and a wireless phone charger
This is the kind of multi-tasker I can get behind.
At least it's not a subscription?
Hue's new TV sync app is preposterously expensive
There's a new Philips Hue Sync TV app for Samsung TVs that'll scan the colors on your screen and light up your room. But... it's absurdly expensive. Could it possibly be worth $130?
The natural order of things
Roku is finally making its own TVs
For a company that started off making small and affordable little streaming boxes, Roku's come quite a way.
Finally.
Apple's MagSafe wireless charging will soon be everybody's Qi2
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A few years ago Apple did the best thing in years for wireless charging: they added magnets. Soon we'll start seeing that on non-iPhones, and that makes me happy.
Pee on it
Withings' latest gadget belongs in the toilet
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There's a lot to like about urine. No really, medically speaking it's a treasure trove of real-time information about your body. But what are you supposed to do to unlock to potential of your pee?
Ripe check passed
Stick your 'cados in the fruit hole
Sometimes tech can be really impressive, but you still find yourself asking... why?
Eighteen inches. Eighteen!
The latest Dell and Razer Blade gaming rigs are a laptops in name only
When a laptop is this big, is it really a "laptop" anymore? It's hard to say, but it's also hard to say that the new Razer Blade 18 and Dell Alienware M18 aren't impressive machines.
Shower pods?
Kohler wants to be the Keurig of your shower
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These pods are supposed to make your shower feel more like a spa, at least for a few minutes. Luxurious? Maybe. Wasteful? Absolutely.
All the pixels
Dell takes on Apple with a 6K beast of a monitor of its own
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Apple's Pro Display XDR has some competition from Dell. The new UltraSharp 32 6K is coming for the $5,000 Apple beast with its own high-resolution display with great color accuracy and HDR.
Checking all the boxes
Samsung finally made my absurd dream monitor
The Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 checks all the boxes I've long wanted in a monitor upgrade: it's stupid wide, has great resolution, and awesome color fidelity. The only question is how much this thing will cost me.
But not in an angry way
Dell's working on a laptop you can tear apart with your bare hands
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Alright, you need a pokey thing to get disassembly started, but Dell's Luna concept laptop is super repairable.
Exclusive First Look
This full-QWERTY phone is CrackBerry’s first hands-on exclusive in years!
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CrackBerry’s first hands-on exclusive in years (but not the last … ) is Punkt’s MC01 Legend, a full-QWERTY phone that’s sure to make former BlackBerry diehards salivate.
The Unihertz Titan Slim looks like a BlackBerry lawsuit in the making
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If it looks like a BlackBerry, types like a BlackBerry, then it must be a BlackBerry, right? WRONG. What you're seeing in the photo above is the next phone with a physical QWERTY keyboard to come from Unihertz. Unihertz has made some other PKB phones in recent years, including the beefy Titan and the smaller Titan Pocket. While those device models were BlackBerry-esque in nature, the Titan Slim takes this parody of a BlackBerry to a new level. Can you say BlackBerry KEY2 clone?! The specs...
Officially official
OnwardMobility officially announces it is shutting down
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In case there was any doubt remaining following my recent bursting of the BlackBerry 5G keyboard phone bubble, today OnwardMobility updated their website to say thank you for the support and let everyone know they are shutting their doors for good: To all of our valued followers, supporters and partners: We want to thank you all for the tremendous amount of support that you have given us since we first launched OnwardMobility. However, it is with great sadness that we announce that...
Time to Move Onward
After declaring itself not dead, OnwardMobility is (apparently) dead
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Update: February 18th: OnwardMobility officially announces it's shutting down While no public acknowledgement has been made by BlackBerry or OnwardMobility yet (and it's hard to say if we'll ever see a formal announcement though I hope we do as they really owe the community one), word is now getting out that OnwardMobility's initiative to bring a 5G BlackBerry to market is no more....
Cha Ching
BlackBerry cashing in on legacy patents to the tune of $600 Million
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In a move that makes it even more apparent that BlackBerry has moved beyond making phones, today the company announced it has entered into a patent sale agreement, netting the company $600 million. WATERLOO, ON, Jan. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB), announced today that it has entered into a patent sale agreement with Catapult IP Innovations Inc., a...
PLACE YOUR BETS
OnwardMobility Declares Itself Not Dead...
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Onward Mobility, the company that promised to deliver a 5G BlackBerry Smartphone in 2021 then fell off the face of the planet, today posted to their website an update and declared themselves NOT DEAD: To all of you who have patiently waited so long for updates from OnwardMobility, we are humbly aware that we owe you some form of communication as we enter 2022. And to misquote Mark...
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BlackBerry Reports Q2 Fiscal Year 2022 Results
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BlackBerry has now reported their Q2 Fiscal Year 2022 results with revenue exceeding expectations.
First of its kind.. 🌊
BlackBerry introduces Flood Risk and Clean Water Monitoring Solution
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Partnering with the University of Windsor, BlackBerry today announced a new flood risk and clean water monitoring solution based on BlackBerry AtHoc.