Hardware

Clash Royale might be compact enough to fit on your iPhone, but the game’s competitive ambitions are anything but small. Just last week, Supercell—the maker of both Clash Royale and predecessor Clash of Clans—announced the Crown Championship, a massive tournament … Continue reading →

Heavy duty, compact and tough as nails. Perhaps the last flashlight you’ll ever need. That’s how J5 Tactical describes their V1-Pro. A super bright 300 lumens LED produces an intense beam of light up to 600 feet with high, low … Continue reading →

If you’ve had your eye on some Apple gear recently, Best Buy’s got some sale prices worth considering. The big box retailer has chopped $200 off the price of the MacBook Air, and has made the Apple Watch Series 2 $70 … Continue reading →

The newly-announced Echo Show is available for pre-order in black or white and will start shipping on Wednesday, June 28. Right now if you buy two of them and enter the code SHOW2PACK at checkout, you’ll activate a special $100 discount. … Continue reading →

Amazon’s Echo is getting a touchscreen. The online retailer introduced the Echo Show on Tuesday, and it looks exactly like the images that popped up online last week. The $230 Echo Show features a 7-inch touchscreen and dual 2-inch stereo … Continue reading →

Blue Microphones has finally convinced me that active noise cancellation needn’t be a crime against nature. Call me old-fashioned, but the concept of battling noise by introducing noise—albeit of an opposite frequency, so that the two sound waves theoretically cancel … Continue reading →

Lexar’s microSD-to-Lightning reader makes it easy to move all your favorite content to & from your iOS device on the go. So whether you’re offloading stunning action photos from that sporting event, or dramatic video from your drone, or if you … Continue reading →

In the age of high definition video streaming, you can’t get very far with 200MB of mobile data. That appears to be the reason T-Mobile quietly killed its Free Data for Life program on Sunday. Originally introduced in 2013, Free Data … Continue reading →

Pixomatic 3 ($5 on the iTunes Store) makes short work of the most thankless of all image editing tasks: Separating a foreground image from its existing background. Whether it’s repurposing an object in another design or creating double exposure effects, … Continue reading →

Juanita Roushdy has a question about continuing to use a version of Pages she prefers: I have an iMac running Mac OS X 10.6.8 and uses Pages ’09 (version 4.1), which I absolutely love and use for all kinds of … Continue reading →