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Apple HomeView vs Echo Show: Which Smart Display Should Run Your Kitchen
Apple HomeView puts your lights, FaceTime calls, music and calendar on a 7-inch screen that recognizes who is standing in front of it. It needs an iPhone in the house. Echo Show works with any phone and costs less. HomeView ships November 13.
Amazon's New Devices: Google Play Tablets, Thinner Kindles and 4K Ring Cameras
Amazon's new Alexa tablets run the full Google Play store, so the apps on your phone install on a 12-inch screen with a pen and keyboard. The Kindles got thinner and lighter, and Ring's new cameras record in 4K. Most of it ships between October 14 and 28.
RTX Spark Laptops Put Big AI Models on Your Lap, Offline
The first RTX Spark laptops run a large AI model on the plane, with no cloud account and nothing leaving the machine. They ship October 16. The Surface Laptop Ultra is on Amazon preorder, and three laptops you can buy today cover the same jobs.
The Minions Kevin Router: Why It Sold Out, and the Price Where It Makes Sense
Kevin gives a VR headset or a small apartment its own fast 6 GHz band, from a yellow Minion that sits on your desk. It sold out after one post went viral. Buy it at $100 or less; at today's $137.99, other routers give you more for the money.
Meta VR Glasses: A Private Cinema in 100 Grams, and What to Buy Until 2027
Meta's VR Glasses put a movie screen and a multi-monitor workspace into a pair of glasses you can wear through a long flight. They arrive in spring 2027 for $1,299.99, and five headsets and display glasses you can buy today cover most of the same jobs.
The Best SSDs to Buy in 2026
SSD prices doubled in the first half of 2026, paused over the summer and are climbing again. Five drives worth buying at today's prices, and the upgrades to skip while NAND is expensive.
The Best Computers for Running AI Locally (2026)
Run a chatbot, a coding assistant or an image generator on your own desk, with no subscription and nothing leaving your house. A machine's memory sets which models it can load, and these five cover models from 8B to 70B.
Acer's Project DualPlay Mini Turns a Handheld Into a Laptop
Project DualPlay Mini flips an 8-inch Windows handheld into a tiny laptop with a backlit keyboard. Acer showed it at IFA 2026 as a concept, and a brand this size backing the idea could pull it out of its niche.
The Best Monitors in 2026, by the Job
Nine desks, nine answers. Color work, multitasking, a second screen for the laptop, gaming, and the 5K Mac display that costs a thousand dollars less than Apple's.
Best RAM for the Ryzen 7 9800X3D
DDR5-6000 CL30, 32 GB, two sticks. The spec has not changed since launch. The price has, and so has the brand you should pay it to.
The GPU Buying Guide: What to Buy in August 2026
The memory shortage reached graphics cards. Five picks across the lineup, and one tier we are telling you to skip.
Best Item Trackers in 2026
Bluetooth trackers all look like the same little disc. They differ in one thing that counts, the finding network behind each one, and in a few extras worth paying for: an e-ink screen, a rechargeable wallet card, a 700-day battery.