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EcoFlow’s DELTA 3 Plus And Smart Extra Battery: Product Line Impermanence Curiosity
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EcoFlow’s DELTA 3 Plus and Smart Extra Battery
Denser batteries translate into notably smaller form factors, at least in some cases.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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LED Illumination Addresses Ventilation (At The Bulb, At Least)
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LED illumination addresses ventilation (at the bulb, at least) - EDN
A unique mechanical design aspires to remove heat from this LED light bulb’s insides, but you still need to keep external ventilation in mind.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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A Fresh Gander At A Mesh Router
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October 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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RingConn: Smart, Svelte, And Econ(omical)
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The RingConn smart ring: A review
When the worst you can come up with about a product is “it’s too shiny,” that’s likely reflective of a ringing endorsement (pun intended).
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October 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Apple’s M5: The SoC-And-Systems Cadence (Sorta) Continues To Thrive
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Apple's M5 SoC
The new M5 next-gen application processor has been released, with various systems surrounding it. Must be October again!
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October 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Inside Walmart’s Onn. 4K Plus: A Streaming Device with A Hidden Bonus
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October 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Can A Smart Ring Make Me An Ultrahuman Being?
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Can a smart ring make me an Ultrahuman being? - EDN
When competitor disputes devolve into debates about whether images of manufacturing facilities are real or photoshopped, that’s just sad.
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October 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Amazon And Google: Can You AI-Upgrade The Smart Home While Being Frugal?
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October 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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(Dis)assembling The Bill-Of-Materials List For Measuring Blood Pressure On The Wrist
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A teardown of a wrist-based blood pressure monitor
Regularly monitoring blood pressure is key to good health. But “garbage in = garbage out” as-always applies when it comes to analysis.
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September 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Debugging A “Buggy” Networked CableCARD Receiver
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September 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Meta Connect 2025: VR Still Underwhelms; Will Smart Glasses Alternatively Thrive?
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Meta Connect 2025: Will smart glasses thrive?
Does an integrated display, coupled with a clear view of what’s around you IRL (vs VR headsets), get smart glasses to “smartphone killers”?
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September 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Class D: Audio Amplifier Ascendancy
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September 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Apple’s 2H 2025 Announcements: Tariff-Touched But Not Bound, At Least For This Round
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September 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Diagnosing A Flickering LED Light Bulb
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September 9, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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The Smart Ring: Passing Fad, Or The Next Big Health-Monitoring Thing?
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Comparing the three top smart rings
What good is convenience if the data, and results based on it, are hit-and-miss?
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September 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Tearing Apart A Multi-Battery Charger
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Tearing apart a multi-battery charger - EDN
What do you do with a device that’s absent promised flexibility and is finicky and definitely not “mint”-y? You demand money back from the seller, then tear it apart to satisfy your curiosity!
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September 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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If You Made It Through The Schtick, Google’s Latest Products Were Pretty Fantastic
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August 26, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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The Google TV Streamer 4K: Hardware Updates On Display(s)
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August 26, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Broke MoCA II: This Time, The Wall Wart Got Zapped, Too
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Broke MoCA II: This time, the wall wart got zapped, too - EDN
Another lightning storm, another dead coax networking adapter. But did the lightning actually cause the hardware failure(s) this time?
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August 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Audio Amplifiers: How Much Power (And At What Tradeoffs) Is Really Required?
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August 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Assessing Vinyl’s Resurrection: Differentiation, Optimization, And Demand Maximization
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August 12, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Disassembling A LED-Based Light That’s Not Acting Quite Right…Right?
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August 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Perusing Walmart’s Onn. 4K Pro Streaming Device With Google TV: Storage Aplenty
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A teardown of Walmart’s onn. 4K Pro Streaming Device
The SoC in this streaming media box is a minor-at-best upgrade from that in its predecessor, but the DRAM and NVM capacities deliver upticks.
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July 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Firmware-Upgrade Functional Defection And Resurrection
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July 22, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Dissecting (And Sibling-Comparing) A Scorched Five-Port Gigabit Ethernet Sswitch
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July 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM