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For years, Philips Hue and Nanoleaf have basically ignored each other’s existence, each building its own walled garden of bulbs, strips, and panels. That’s changing. At IFA 2026 in Berlin, Signify — the company behind Philips Hue — announced a partnership with Nanoleaf that lets you bring Nanoleaf’s geometric wall panels into the Hue ecosystem for the first time. The centerpiece is a new accessory called the Philips Hue x Nanoleaf Wall Light Module, a small clip-in adapter that costs $39.99 (£34.99) and attaches directly to a compatible Nanoleaf panel. Once it’s connected, you can control those panels from the…
Logitech just announced the MX Keypad, and it’s a genuinely weird little product category: a physical macro pad built specifically for developers juggling multiple AI coding tools at once. If you’ve ever found yourself alt-tabbing between GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, VS Code, and IntelliJ mid-thought, trying to remember which agent you told to do what, this is aimed directly at that exact headache. The pitch is customization without limits. Every key on the MX Keypad can be mapped to trigger prompt macros, refactor commands, or launch specific tools, and any key can control one app or several at once. Logitech’s…
Google just announced it’s teaming up with Nevoya and the Center for Green Market Activation to get 25 electric semi trucks (plus the charging infrastructure to actually keep them moving) running on a new all-electric route between Houston and Dallas. It’s part of a bigger 63-truck rollout that’s reportedly the largest known deployment of Class 8 battery electric trucks (the big rigs, essentially) anywhere in Texas. Here’s how the arrangement actually works, because it’s not as simple as “Google bought some trucks.” Google isn’t operating these things directly. It’s receiving environmental attribute certificates (EACs) tied to the project’s emissions reductions.…
AWOL Vision showed up to IFA 2026 with a new flagship, and it’s an interesting one. The company’s new AWOL LuxVision is being called the world’s first 4K 120Hz ultra-short-throw projector with optical lens shift, which is a mouthful, but the short version is: this thing is aimed at people who want a massive home theater screen without turning their living room into a permanent movie-theater installation. The headline number is 6000 ISO lumens of RGB triple-laser brightness, which is the kind of spec that actually matters day-to-day, since it’s what lets the picture hold up in a normal, sunlit…
Lexar just turned 30, and instead of throwing itself a quiet little office party, it showed up to IFA 2026 in Berlin with what might be the most oddly satisfying storage announcement of the year: a portable SSD that’s thin enough to make you forget it’s a hard drive at all. The drive is called the Muse, and the headline spec isn’t speed; it’s shape. We’re talking about a single-piece metal chassis that tapers from about 3.8mm down to a razor-thin 1mm at the edge, built with a magnetic system that snaps directly onto the back of a MagSafe-compatible iPhone.…
In a surprising move for a company looking to be a leader in both the cloud space and video game industries, Microsoft has made a daring decision that will cause millions of gamers to lose out on the available time they have playing their favorite games on Xbox consoles. The company is setting restrictions for all Game Pass subscribers, limiting them on how much time they can spend playing their favorite games via the cloud each month. A decision that seems to move in the opposite direction when just about everything is pushing to be in the cloud, including new…
If you just got done settling into your Wi-Fi 7 router, upgrading your whole smart home setup, and finally figuring out which band your smart plugs actually connect to, I’ve got some news for you. The industry is already onto the next thing. Say hello to Wi-Fi 8, or as the IEEE nerds like to call it, 802.11bn. And no, before you ask, this isn’t going to be one of those “buy it now or get left behind” situations. At least not yet. Here’s the thing that’s going to throw a lot of people off. Every single Wi-Fi generation before…
Lexar has announced a new NVMe series with its Thor Ultra PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSDs. The series will feature read speeds of up to 11,000MB/s and write speeds of up to 10,000MB/s (depending on capacity/model), allowing it to compete with some of the more popular options out there. Although it won’t be the fastest NVMe series available, the specs still shine enough to impress even the most powerful users and come with an acceptable manufacturer’s warranty. Specifications: Capacity 512GB, 1TB, 2TB, 4TB Form Factor M.2 2280 Interface PCIe Gen5x4 Speed 512GB: Sequential read speed/write up to 9900/5000MB/s, random read/write up…
Here we are, once again with the opportunity to sit down and pair our ears to that extravagant delight that is sound. I have been obsessed with sound and music since I was a small child, when I first picked up my father’s Sennheiser HD 414 headphones. Since then, I have experienced an endless list of models, enjoying every moment (mostly). Now, we get to the pleasure of talking about the Audeze LCD-5s Open-Back Planar Magnetic Headphones. Fresh to the shelves this year, this is the company’s latest flagship design that hopes to capture fans who have enjoyed earlier experiences,…
The professional and prosumer industries have seen a huge uprising of affordable Intercom systems that have been taking on big-brand names to deliver access to those who are unable (or unwilling) to spend top dollar for these solutions. Now Saramonic ups the temperature as well with its new Saramonic WiTalk Base, which brings huge features to its wireless headsets and more pressure to everyone else. If you are familiar with intercom solutions and have researched some of the more affordable options, you’ve likely heard of names like Saramonic, Hollyland, Comica, Godox, and others. These brands seek to shake things up…