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Air One: The Personal eVTOL Promising Quiet Commutes And Two Hidden Tradeoffs
Air One arrived in public view as a deceptively simple idea: make flight as accessible as driving by removing complexity and wrapping the machine in redundancy.
The company behind it, AIR, positions the two-seat electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (personal eVTOL) as safe, quiet, and e ...
Virtual Stream Deck: How A $30 Touchscreen Turns Any PC Into A Macro Powerhouse
Elgato quietly shifted one of the constraints around macro hardware when it shipped Virtual Stream Deck. The software promises to move the Stream Deck experience off proprietary buttons and onto any display that can host a virtual panel. That is interesting because it reframes what actually costs mo ...
Glow Desk: How Projecting Your Desktop Becomes Useful And Where It Stops
What if your desk was not just furniture but an active workspace? The Glow Desk idea is exactly that: use a top-down projector to make the desktop itself a display that blends with your keyboard and mouse.
The early reveal is surprising and important. The real significance here is not that it loo ...
DDPAI Z90 Master Turns Dash Cams Into Content Studios, But Storage And Privacy Matter
CES 2026 rarely delivers subtle product pivots, but DDPAI managed one anyway. The Z90 Master reframes what a dash cam can do by fusing high fidelity capture with editing workflows and interior imaging that reads like a studio trick. That repositioning is the meaningful shift, because it changes what ...
Humanoid Robot Running: Figure AI’s Humanlike Gait And Deployment Potential
Seen in motion, the robot no longer looks like a prop. It reads like a person moving through space: feet lift, arms counterbalance, and tiny corrections appear in the joints without a visible command sequence. That shift matters because locomotion determines the environments where a robot can actual ...
Offline Voice Assistant On Raspberry Pi 5 That Actually Feels Alive And Still Hits Hard Limits
Building a compact, self-contained voice assistant on Raspberry Pi 5 is achievable and useful, but it exposes the real engineering tradeoffs in privacy, responsiveness, and hardware design. This article follows a practical tutorial that ties Whisper, a local language host option (for example Ollama) ...
Xeneon Edge: Ultrawide Touchscreen Control Center For Streaming, Sim Racing, And Productivity
The Xeneon Edge reframes what a small secondary display can do. Instead of acting as a tiny mirror of your desktop, it serves as a persistent control surface for live widgets, chat, and system controls. That shift matters more than raw pixel count or bezel size.
In practice, this means reclaiming ...
AheadForm Origin M1: Lifelike Robot Face, Tradeoffs And Risks
The viral clip of the AheadForm Origin M1 does one thing very efficiently: it convinces you that a machine is looking back. Within seconds the robot blinks, shifts gaze, and makes tiny facial adjustments the human visual system reads as intention. That immediate psychological presence is the design ...
Xpeng Iron Humanoid: What It Means For Robots, Chips, And Developers
When Xpeng rolled Iron onto a stage, the spectacle was obvious: a human-like form walking with natural fluidity, a curved 3D head display, and hands with extensive articulation. That visual matters, but it masks a strategic choice that shifts how robots collect the kind of data needed to work around ...
Divoom Times Frame Review: How This Smart Frame Reshapes Desktop Workflows
Most people assume digital photo frames are glorified slideshows that end up in a drawer of forgotten gadgets. The Divoom Times Frame takes a different route by treating a small display as a living surface, mixing community-driven pixel art, live widgets and ambient lighting to become an expressive ...
ChargeUnie G2 Review: MagSafe 3-In-1 Charger And Foldable Wireless Charger Tradeoffs
ChargeUnie G2 arrives as the tidy answer to a tangle of cables and bedside clutter. It folds flat, aligns an iPhone with MagSafe, cradles an Apple Watch, and accepts earbuds, while showing status on a small LCD. That visible feedback and compact form change how people interact with daily charging ro ...
NanoFlow i2 Air Portable Mouse Review: 35 Gram Pocket-Friendly Fingertip Design
The compact mouse world is shifting away from simple miniaturization and toward purpose-built mobility. Designers now trade broad palm contact for fingertip control to make a device truly pocketable and light enough to travel with every day.
The NanoFlow i2 Air arrives with a clear design argumen ...
EthyloKey Alcohol Detection Keychain: Instant Skin Contact Test And The Tradeoffs
Before you get behind the wheel there is a small, quiet decision that determines everything. EthyloKey promises to turn that decision into a single, unambiguous action: a touch, a color, and an immediate cue about whether to drive.
That promise - convenience at the point of choice - drives the pr ...
Naya Connect: How This Modular Keyboard Ecosystem Replaces The Mouse For Creative Work
Few product ideas sound more comfortable than one device that replaces a mouse, a separate trackpad and a handful of macro keys. Naya Connect promises precisely that by folding multiple input methods into a single modular dock that snaps into a low-profile keyboard ecosystem.
The real significanc ...
Cavorite X7 Shows Why It’s The Most Futuristic eVTOL In 2026
The Cavorite X7 is not pitched as another short-hop air taxi. Horizon Aircraft positions it as a hybrid electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft built for regional missions where range, speed, and the ability to land without a runway matter.
The real significance here is not that the Cavori ...