Hardware

Yes, the Pixel Watch is the thing. Google undoubtedly took some of the wind out of its own sails (and, perhaps, sales) by talking up a number of products we won't be seeing for several months — and, in one case, a year — but let's focus on the here and now for a moment. Well, a

At Google's I/O developer conference, the company announced that it’s opening its second physical store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The company says the new store is the first of its “neighborhood stores” and will offer shoppers a similar hands-on experience to its first-ever p

The last thing we need in this world is more guns. But we’re getting them whether we like it or not, so wouldn’t it be nice if those guns had safety mechanisms like our phones, making them impossible for anyone but their owners to use? That’s what Biofire is building, and it has r

A long, long time ago, before the iPod, MP3 players were badly designed devices with insufficient storage. The market was ripe for a change, and Steve Jobs, who had returned to Apple four years prior, was ready to give it to us. On October 23, 2001 the company released its first music player with a

In late-April, Indiegogo announced a new CEO. Becky Center — formerly of Healthjoy and Groupon — stepped into the role following Andy Yang's quiet exit in late-2021. From the outside, at least, the crowdfunding service looks to be on more solid ground than when Yang took the reigns

Last October marked 20 years of the iPod. It's a remarkable run in the cutthroat, always-iterating world of consumer electronics. And while it's undoubtedly true that life hasn't been particularly fruitful for the music player in a product lineup that includes various iPhones and iPads,

Born as the Mavic Mini, back in late-2019, the Mini hits a nice sweet spot for casual drone flyers. It's far more capable that the Spark — which, while fun, never nailed the landing. Instead of being a super-casual selfie drone — of the variety Snap is currently attempting with Pixy

Hardware, as the saying goes, is hard; but there remains an opportunity for startups that focus on specific niches to build viable businesses. In the latest example, reMarkable, the Oslo, Norway-based maker of a simple and slick $299 e-paper tablet of the same name, says that it has passed 1 millio

Market watchers were anticipating a rough quarter for Peloton, but not quite this bad. The beleaguered connected fitness company missed revenue estimates by $6 million, reporting $964.3 million — that's down from $1.26 billion from this time last year. Losses for the quarter hit $757.1 mi

“I'm happy to not be royalty,” Simone Giertz laughs. “I'm happy to be a woman who does things.” YouTube's one-time Queen of Shitty Robots didn't renounce her crown so much as outgrow it. A few years back, the time came to put away the breakfast machine, the lipstick robot an

Meta announced today that it’s integrating its Horizon Venues event experience into its social virtual reality Horizon Worlds platform. Horizon Venues is currently a separate app dedicated to attending live events in VR that uses the same avatars as Horizon Worlds. On June 6, users will be ab

“Anyone want to see what I unearthed when I cleaned out my garage and found photos of everything I've ever made?” Tony Fadell tweeted in mid-April. It was a rhetorical question. Anyone with a passing interest in the last two decades of consumer hardware would jump at the opportunity to see

In February, Peloton CEO John Foley stepped down as the connected fitness pioneer cut 2,800 jobs. No one could say the news was unexpected. The firm was experiencing dramatic turmoil after flying high from pandemic sales and then falling back down to Earth. Add to that 2021's massive product re

Teams have tried a number of different ways to get the lower half of the face into the act with VR. That includes, and I'm quoting directly here, “a tiny robotic arm that could flick a feather across the lips or spray them with water.” They've also largely ruled out a piece that directl