Tapo’s new solar floodlight camera soaks up the sun to light up your yard at night
Tapo's new solar floodlight camera soaks up the sun to light up your yard at night Tapo’s new solar-powered pan-tilt camera adds a bright floodlight. | Image: Tapo TP-Link’s Tapo smart home brand announced a new solar-powered outdoor security camera with pan-tilt capabilities, 2K video recording, and an 800-lumen LED floodlight. Tapo says the C615F […]
These Oakley smart glasses are perfect for weekend warriors and T-ball coaches
These Oakley smart glasses are perfect for weekend warriors and T-ball coaches The Oakley Meta Vanguard glasses make me look like a sports dad. Slipping on the $499 Oakley Meta Vanguard, I feel the power of Patagonia-clad authority figures wash over me. I am no longer a tired tech reviewer in the thick of review […]
Kohler’s new toilet camera provides health insights based on your bathroom breaks
Kohler's new toilet camera provides health insights based on your bathroom breaks Using an expanding clamping mechanism the Kohler Dekoda installs on most toilets without tools. | Image: Kohler Knowing what’s coming out of your body can be just as useful for maintaining a healthy lifestyle as being choosy about what goes into it. As […]
Oura redesigns app with expanded stress tracking
Oura redesigns app with expanded stress tracking The redesigned Oura app includes new features to help users track and manage their stress levels. Oura is launching a redesigned app with expanded stress-tracking insights as it develops new blood pressure features that could identify signs of hypertension. The updated Oura app will introduce a new Cumulative […]
The Sony Watchman was must-see TV
The Sony Watchman was must-see TV To understand the Sony Watchman, you have to go back. Way back. Back to when “TV” wasn’t just a way to refer to any piece of content between 20 and 89 minutes, available on every screen everywhere for a few bucks a month. In 1982, when Sony first started […]
Time to catch ‘em all again
Time to catch 'em all again Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 102, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, happy spooky season, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about personal chefs and TikTok’s […]
TiVo won the court battles, but lost the TV war
TiVo won the court battles, but lost the TV war TiVo could have been a contender. In the 2000s, TiVo reached heights few companies ever achieve. Like Google and Xerox, its name became a verb. People had to “TiVo” the new episode of Battlestar Galactica or game 4 of the Red Sox vs. Cardinals, not […]
8BitDo’s new collection celebrates the NES’s 40th anniversary
8BitDo's new collection celebrates the NES's 40th anniversary As part of its NES40 collection, 8BitDo’s Ultimate 2 controller is getting its most dramatic makeover yet. | Image: 8BitDo Forty years ago today, the Nintendo Entertainment System launched in North America, and to help celebrate the anniversary, 8BitDo has announced a new NES40 collection. It features […]
The future I saw through the Meta Ray-Ban Display amazes and terrifies me
The future I saw through the Meta Ray-Ban Display amazes and terrifies me Can you tell if I’m looking at a display, or just pretending for the camera? Outside a florist-cum-coffee shop in upstate New York, a row of vintage cars gleam in the sun. It’s unseasonably warm for early October, so there’s a veritable […]
Pokémon Legends: Z-A Rotom Phone review: better camera, higher jumps
Pokémon Legends: Z-A Rotom Phone review: better camera, higher jumps Image: Nintendo | Image: Nintendo Though the Pokémon games’ Rotom Phones haven’t really changed all that much design-wise over the past few years, each generation has introduced new functionalities that made upgrading a no-brainer. Sword / Shield‘s Rotom Phone – the very first one – […]