Month: September 2022

In defense of the RGB mouse pad

Gadgets Recently, The Verge’s reviews team has been making an effort to get rid of some of the ancient products we have lying around our office. We have donated or thrown away some truly prehistoric gadgets. But there was one device that, the second I laid eyes on it, I knew I needed to rescue. […]

Apple’s iPad mini is $100 off, plus the rest of the week’s best tech deals

All products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team, independent of our parent company. Some of our stories include affiliate links. If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. All prices are correct at the time of publishing. This week’s tech news may have been dominated […]

The Morning After: Everything Apple announced at its Far Out event

Apple’s long-awaited Far Out event was a showcase of all the gadgets the company is now ready to sell us. The new iPhone 14 was blessed with a super-size sibling, and the iPhone 14 Pros ditched the notch for a lozenge-shaped punch hole in its display. Sorry, the people at Apple are insisting we call […]

This third-party Steam Deck dock adds an M.2 SSD expansion slot

Jsaux You still can’t buy the official Steam Deck Dock from Valve, presumably because the company is too busy making a bajillion actual Steam Decks. But, of course, where there are portable game machines, there are weird little companies ready and willing to sell you weird little gadgets that plug into them. In this case, […]

SlashGear’s Best Of IFA 2022

Chris Burns/SlashGear After a couple of years of largely virtual tech conferences (and events of all sorts, for that matter), we’re back to in-person action at IFA 2022 in Berlin. This year’s conference isn’t nearly as massive as it’s been in the past, but some of the biggest brands have come packing top-tier tech all […]

Dell XPS 13 Plus laptops are suffering serious screen issues

Adam Patrick Murray/IDG Auto industry experts will tell you that if you buy a brand new car in its first model year, you should expect to encounter some weird quality issues. Something similar applies to gadgets. Take the radically redesigned XPS 13 Plus, for example: Dell’s streamlined take on its perennially popular ultraportable appears to […]

How to make HomeKit see more of your gadgets with Home Assistant

Mind over Matter — Tiny server can unlock greater powers in not only HomeKit, but Google and Alexa. Kevin Purdy – Aug 22, 2022 9: 07 pm UTC Enlarge / The Apple Home application is seen on an iPhone screen on November 15, 2017. The Home app allows people to control accessories in their home, […]

Power Up Anywhere With the Best Travel Adapters

Photograph: Getty Images International Plug Types and Universal Adapters What Type of Adapter Do You Need? There are 15 plug types in use across the world. Type A and Type B are used in the US, Canada, Mexico, and Japan; Type C is common across Europe, South America, and Asia; Type E and Type F […]

‘Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed’ hits PC, PlayStation and Xbox on October 18th

Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, a four vs. one multiplayer game, will arrive in the midst of spooky season. The game will hit the Epic Games Store, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S on October 18th. You can either play as a ghost or one of four Ghostbusters trying to hunt it down […]

Adidas will now sell you a pair of solar-powered headphones

Solar-powered gadgets are nothing new — Logitech has sold keyboards you never have to plug in for over a decade now. But an audio headset where barely-there solar cells blend into the design? Until this week, we’d only ever tried one of those. Now, there are at least four. On Tuesday, Adidas announced the RPT-02 […]