The 15 Best Devices From CES You Can Buy Now (2021)
ces 2021GearGear / Gear News and Events January 15, 2021 0
In many ways, CES 2021 was different than any we on the Gear team have attended before. Instead of running around Las Vegas poking all the things and becoming seriously dehydrated, we sat at home and watched briefing after briefing on Zoom. But CES is still the festival of... Read more
Samsung Galaxy S21, S21+, S21 Ultra: Price, Specs, Release Date
GearGear / Gear News and EventsGear / Products / PhonesUnpacked January 14, 2021 0
At the beginning of 2020, weeks before the first US cities went into lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Samsung showed off a batch of new phones. Pricing for the least expensive of the lot, the Galaxy S20, started at an astonishing $1,000. Almost a year later, we’re still... Read more
CES 2021 Liveblog: Top Highlights From the Show
ces 2021GearGear / Gear News and Events January 12, 2021 0
Who needs buttons when you have screens? Debuting on the Mercedes-Benz EQS electric luxury sedan this year, the MBUX Hyperscreen is a 55.5-inch-wide display that spans the entire dashboard. It’s made up of three haptic OLED touchscreens under one continuous piece of Corning Gorilla glass. The driver and front... Read more
CES 2021 Liveblog: Live Highlights From the Consumer Tech Showcase
ces 2021GearGear / Gear News and Events January 11, 2021 0
The Chinese home entertainment brand Konka is introducing a new line of smart home devices to its North American offerings. With a basic lineup of security cameras, video doorbells, smart plugs, and lights (with some variation in each group), all controlled by a singular app, the company is hoping... Read more
A Literal Child and His Mom Sue Nintendo Over ‘Joy-Con Drift’
GearGear / Gear News and Eventsout of control October 6, 2020 0
A boy and his mother today filed a class action lawsuit against Nintendo for not doing enough to fix a hardware problem common among Nintendo Switch controllers. It is one of several legal efforts related to the issue of “Joy-Con drift”—a phenomenon where the Switch Joy-Con controllers make in-game... Read more
The Ring Always Home Cam Flies Around Inside Your House
Buzz BuzzGearGear / Gear News and Events September 24, 2020 0
Tech product launches in the year of 2020 involve a kind of perspective whiplash that makes it more difficult than usual to decide whether or not you really need the thing. There’s the consideration of whether the gadget fits into your life right now, at a time when our... Read more
Here’s the Real Reason You Miss the Nokia 3310
birthday brickGearGear / Gear News and Events September 2, 2020 0
The brick. It’s not a particularly flattering nickname, especially for something that’s gained cult status, especially for a piece of technology. Twenty years after its debut, though, the Nokia 3310 still wears the moniker proudly. People used to love it for what it could do. But maybe they miss... Read more
A Startup Is Testing the Subscription Model for Search Engines
GearGear / Gear News and Events July 6, 2020 0
In November 2017, Sridhar Ramaswamy—the head of Google’s $95 billion advertising arm—left the company after a scandal concerning advertisements for major corporations found on YouTube videos that put children in questionable situations. Ramaswamy told The New York Times that shortly after that incident, he decided that he needed to... Read more
iOS 14 Features: Every New iPhone Feature Apple Showed Off
GearGear / Gear News and EventsGear / Products / Phones June 23, 2020 0
The iPhone’s software is getting a facelift this year. At its virtual WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference), Apple previewed the many upgrades coming to your iPhone in the next version of its mobile operating system, iOS 14. Notably, your home screen could look very different in the future, and the... Read more
Best Summer Game Sales (2020): Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, PC, and More
GearGear / DealsGear / Gear News and EventsGear / Products / Gaming June 11, 2020 0
E3, the annual videogame conference, has been canceled—not because it tweeted something it shouldn’t have, but in the literal sense. It’s among the many conventions forced to shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic. You can still watch all of the virtual presentations from game developers and console makers... Read more