TCL’s P80 Ultra and P80 Pro prove a phone screen doesn’t have to pick one personality and stick with it. Unveiled at IFA 2026 in Berlin, both handsets fold a vivid AMOLED panel and TCL’s paper-like NXTPAPER technology into the same sheet of glass, letting the display shift moods with a flick of a switch instead of forcing a trade-off between color and comfort.

Run a finger along the frame, and you’ll find a thin slider, a small physical detail that carries plenty of weight in daily use. Slide it, and the 6.83-inch panel drops its saturation, taking on a warmer, textured look that mimics a printed page. A commuter buried in a novel or someone proofreading a document late at night gets a screen that behaves like paper, without losing the sharpness underneath.

Designer: TCL

Push that same slider one notch further, and the screen drops color entirely for Max Ink Mode, a stripped layout that silences notifications except for calls and texts. It reads like a design decision as much as a software one, TCL betting people want to quiet their phone rather than mute it completely. The payoff is a battery that can stretch across roughly a week of steady reading.

That reading-first mindset carries into the software too. Both phones can convert e-books into audiobooks or podcast-style narration using on-device AI, giving Max Ink Mode a voice to lean on when eyes need a break instead of ears. It is a small addition, but it treats the slower, paper-like mode as a genuine feature rather than a bolted-on gimmick for a keynote slide.

None of that would matter if the screen looked washed out the rest of the time, so TCL leaned on a 1.5K AMOLED panel that hits 3,200 nits and covers the full DCI-P3 color range. A Nano Crystal Shield coating cuts glare enough to keep the display readable under direct sun, marking TCL’s first pairing of NXTPAPER with OLED rather than the LCD panels it used before.

The frame wrapping that screen is aluminum rather than the plastic often found at this price, giving both phones a sturdier grip without piling on bulk. TCL backs that up with an IP68 rating against dust and water, plus MIL-STD-810H certification for the inevitable drop. Buyers get to pick between Sunlit Gold, Burgundy, and Midnight Blue, three finishes that lean more toward jewelry-box color choices than typical slab-of-glass smartphone palettes.

Where the two models part ways is around the back. The P80 Ultra carries a 50-megapixel main camera next to a 50-megapixel periscope lens for 3x optical zoom, tucked into a housing shaped to avoid throwing off the phone’s balance. The P80 Pro drops the periscope for a simpler dual-camera arrangement, trading reach for a slimmer build that still shares the same main sensor and 8-megapixel ultrawide.

TCL is rolling both phones out across Europe first, with the P80 Ultra priced from €549 (around $635) and the P80 Pro starting at €429 (around $500), before a Latin American launch follows in October. A wider release is expected to reach additional regions afterward. In a category full of identical glass rectangles, these two phones actually behave differently depending on what someone needs from them that day.

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Packard Bell spent a century teaching people that new technology doesn’t have to feel intimidating, and its 100th birthday present to itself leans hard into that idea. Under Acer’s ownership, the brand relaunched at IFA 2026 with a philosophy it calls “Tech it easy,” built around a lineup that trades beige plastic and quiet corporate design for colors loud enough to notice from across a room. Four products anchor that comeback, and each one argues that everyday tech gains something when it stops taking itself so seriously.

The DotBook carries the heaviest expectations as the collection’s flagship, a 14.5-inch laptop finished in a red-orange shell bright enough to spot on a crowded coffee shop table. Weighing under 1.3 kg and measuring just 17.9mm thin, it’s built for browsing, streaming, and everyday work rather than chasing benchmark scores, backed by up to 512GB of storage and 16GB of memory running quietly under Windows 11. It’s a laptop designed to disappear into a bag, not a spec sheet debate.

Designer: Acer

Where the DotBook plays it relatively straight, the DotLoop commits fully to spectacle. Housed inside an actual briefcase shell with a 1970s silhouette, the turntable pops open to reveal a working tonearm flanked by RGB-lit speaker grilles that glow while a record spins. Two built-in 3W speakers handle sound on their own, though Bluetooth and RCA outputs let the DotLoop hand audio off to a proper stereo system whenever the moment calls for something louder.

That willingness to have fun with format extends into the DotLine, a feature phone built for anyone tired of feeding a smartphone’s constant appetite for attention. A 2.8-inch display and physical keypad keep the experience deliberately simple, while an 1800mAh battery stretches across roughly two weeks between charges, a number that sounds almost mythical next to a modern flagship’s overnight anxiety. Four color options keep it from feeling like a consolation prize.

Rounding out the focus lineup, the DotCombo bundles a keyboard and mouse into a single color-matched purchase, eliminating the usual mismatched beige-on-black desk setup that so many peripherals default to. Both pieces run on rechargeable batteries good for hundreds of charge cycles, connecting over Bluetooth or a 2.4GHz receiver without a single AA battery required. Round keycaps borrowed from typewriter design give the whole thing a tactile, almost toy-like presence on a desk.

Beyond these four, Packard Bell rounds out its centennial collection with a portable speaker (DotTune), audio glasses (DotLook), a ring light for creators (DotShine), matching headphones (DotBass), and even a countertop food steamer (Steasy), all sharing the same saturated color palette and straightforward pricing. None of them ask for much attention individually, but together they paint a lineup unwilling to blend into a beige office shelf.

Pricing stays approachable across the board, with the DotBook starting around €499 (around $578), the DotLoop at €149 (around $173), the DotLine at €69 (around $80), and the DotCombo at just €39 (around $45). Packard Bell’s return proves that a century-old brand can still find something new to say, mostly by refusing to whisper it.

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There are power tools, and then there are smart tools. A power tool gives you brute force; a smart tool gives you controlled, consistent results. Think of a simple drill that just spins versus one that manages its own torque to avoid stripping a screw. For delicate work like trimming EVA foam for a cosplay project or cleaning up support structures on a 3D print, you definitely want the smart one. The problem is, most handheld cutters are pretty basic, giving you one speed and just hoping for the best.

The SonicMax Slice 10 is aiming for that higher IQ. It’s a cordless ultrasonic cutter that senses the material you’re cutting and adjusts its own power output in real time. Slice through dense plastic and it pushes harder; trim the thin walls of a resin print and it eases back. This adaptive system, combined with cooling that prevents heat-related power drops, makes it feel like proper workshop equipment in the palm of your hand. It runs at 40kHz, delivers up to 50 watts of dynamic peak power, and does all of this without a single cable getting in your way.

Designer: SonicMax

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Most ultrasonic cutters on the market use transducers with a mechanical quality factor, or Qm, somewhere between 150 and 250. A higher Qm means the transducer converts electrical energy into vibration more efficiently, which directly translates to less heat generated during use. SonicMax claims a Qm of over 500 for the Slice 10, and lab data backs that up with a verified measurement of 541.1. That’s roughly two to three times higher than a typical competing tool, and it’s the foundational reason the Slice 10 can sustain longer sessions without thermal drama. That single transducer decision cascades into everything else, from runtime and cut quality to how comfortable the tool actually stays in your hand.

As the blade meets resistance, the Slice 10’s Smart Material Auto-Detection reads that feedback and adjusts power output and vibration frequency without you touching anything. Cutting through a stiff chunk of EVA foam feels different from trimming the thin walls of a resin print, and the tool responds to each material accordingly. You’re not locked into a fixed setting that works okay for most things but perfectly for nothing. The system also preserves cut quality across a long session, where material resistance can shift as the blade warms. The result is consistent cuts from the first pass to the last, regardless of what you’re running the blade through.

Heat is the reason most cordless ultrasonic cutters force you to stop every five to ten minutes, and the Slice 10 attacks that problem from two directions. Corded bench tools sidestep this issue by drawing steady power and dissipating heat more easily, but you give all of that up the moment you cut the cord. The high-efficiency transducer generates less heat from the start, and the built-in active cooling fan manages whatever thermal load does build up during a session. Overheat protection kicks in automatically at 80 degrees Celsius at the motherboard level, so the tool protects itself without you having to babysit it. You only appreciate how good this is after you’ve spent a session on a cutter that kept shutting itself off on you mid-cut.

A 5000mAh 21700 lithium-ion battery powers the Slice 10, and SonicMax made it user-replaceable, which you’ll end up appreciating far more than any spec sheet number. The 21700 is a high-performance cell format found in premium flashlights and power tools, so sourcing replacements from SonicMax or compatible third-party brands should never be a problem. SonicMax’s own branded replacement cell is rated for 500 charge cycles at 80% capacity retention, a reasonable lifespan for a tool you’re actually putting to work regularly. An 18W USB-C pass-through charging system brings it from zero to full in about 70 minutes, and the tool keeps running while plugged in. Claimed runtime sits at up to four hours, and when you run low mid-project, swapping in a spare takes seconds.

Blade choice gives the Slice 10 a lot of its bench-tool personality. SonicMax offers five blade styles that let the same handheld body take on very different jobs: a Standard Utility Blade for everyday trimming, a Precision Long Blade for tighter access and more delicate reach, a Fine Chisel Blade for careful cleanup work, a Heavy Duty Chisel Blade for more aggressive material removal, and a Wide Flat Scraper Blade for broader surface work. That range matters because it turns the Slice 10 into something closer to a compact cutting system than a one-trick knife. If you’re the kind of maker who bounces between foam, plastic, supports, edges, and surface cleanup in the same afternoon, this is where the tool starts looking properly versatile.

Lift-to-Activate sensing turns the tool on when you pick it up and off when you set it down, keeping your fingers away from controls mid-session and preventing accidental activation on the bench. A small OLED display shows real-time power output and battery level, so you’re never left guessing how much runtime remains. Built-in LED lighting illuminates the cut line, which sounds like a minor detail until you’re trying to trace a clean edge on a dark-colored print at your desk at some ungodly hour. Auto-shutdown kicks in after five minutes of idle, and low-battery protection activates before the cell drops to a damaging voltage. Together, these details make the Slice 10 feel like a tool that respects your workflow rather than constantly asking you to manage it.

The Slice 10 measures 260.5mm long and 28mm across, weighing 236 grams, keeping it firmly in single-hand, pen-grip territory across long sessions. Just the Slice 10 is available for a discounted $119, and ships with 10 replaceable Standard Utility blades. Upgrade to the Maker’s Bundle for $169 and you get the Slice 10 along with 50 blades spread across the five blade profiles (standard, precision long, fine chisel, heavy duty chisel, and flat scraper) as well as a 5000mAh replacement battery. If you’re looking for versatility and pushing your prints to the max, the $50 price bump does bring a fair share of value. You can also buy extra blades and batteries as add-ons. Shipping is expected to begin mid-October 2026 with worldwide delivery available, and SonicMax has not publicly confirmed warranty terms at the time of writing.

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If you think compact discs are a thing of the past, you probably haven’t been around a K-pop fan or a hoarder who still has their CDs from decades ago. Then there are people like me who have a stack of CDs collected over the years but no actual CD player to enjoy them on, since options that are strong on both quality and design are hard to come by.

The ClearFrame Speaker CD Player is a solid choice for anyone looking for a visually stunning player that won’t let a CD’s album art go to waste. It lets you slot the jacket art onto the front of the player so it becomes a rotating piece of wall or shelf art. Or, if you’d rather show off the mechanics, you can leave the artwork out and display the transparent body itself, watching your CD spin with all its moving (and non-moving) parts in full view.

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Whenever I come across beautiful album art, I can’t help but think it’s wasted if it only ever gets seen as a tiny digital thumbnail on a streaming app. A player like the ClearFrame Speaker CD Player lets you put that kind of artwork on full display while you’re enjoying the music in your room. Seeing something that the artist, and the album art designer, worked hard on come to life while it spins gives it the justice it deserves. And if you’d rather see the clear, polycarbonate-style body become a piece of art in its own right, just take out the album cover and let it shine in all its transparent glory.

This is also an upgraded version of the original, and already popular, ClearFrame CD Player, since it now comes with a built-in speaker. That means you no longer need to hook it up to an external Bluetooth speaker or wired setup, which makes it even more flexible to display anywhere in your home. You actually have three ways to listen to your favorite CDs: through the built-in 40mm speaker, with wired headphones through the 3.5mm jack, or over Bluetooth 5.3 to external speakers or headphones if you already have a better setup you’d like to use.

Beyond the listening options, the ClearFrame Speaker CD Player was clearly designed with portability in mind. At just 454 grams (about a pound) and roughly the size of a hardcover book, it’s light enough to carry from your bedroom to your living room without a second thought. Its 1,800mAh battery gives you around six to seven hours of playback through the built-in speaker, or seven to eight hours if you’re streaming over Bluetooth, so you can enjoy a few albums back-to-back before needing to recharge via USB-C. There’s even a retro-style LED Nixie tube display that adds a warm, nostalgic touch to the whole experience, plus a 2MB SDRAM anti-shock buffer so accidental bumps won’t make your music skip.

For collectors, this player also solves a real problem: what to do with all the CDs sitting untouched in a drawer somewhere. Instead of treating them like outdated clutter, the ClearFrame gives them a reason to come back out, whether that’s a K-pop photocard-era album, a mix your best friend burned for you in high school, or a boxed set you’ve been meaning to revisit. It turns “old technology” into a genuine decor piece you’d be proud to leave out on a shelf.

If you’re looking to gift this to someone (or, let’s be honest, treat yourself), the ClearFrame Speaker CD Player comes in a few configurations depending on how you plan to display it. You can pick it up on its own, or add a wall mount, book case, or display stand, so it fits neatly into whatever corner of your home you have in mind. It isn’t the cheapest CD player on the market, but if you have a stack of CDs with nowhere to go and album art too good to keep hidden, this one earns its price tag by turning something you already own into something worth looking at every single day.

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Miele’s new G8 Diamond snaps a photo of your dirty dishes before it washes them. The moment the door swings toward shut, a light inside blinks on, a camera grabs one frame, the light dies, and the AutoVision system studies what it caught. If it sees a bottle, it calls up BottleClean and drives the spray harder. If it sees a pot, the cleaning intensity climbs. If it sees plastics, it runs the new hot air drying harder, because plastic containers are famously terrible at drying themselves. Miele showed it for the first time at IFA 2026 in Berlin, and it lands in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in April 2027.

A camera in a dishwasher makes the headline, but the memory is what makes the design. The G8 holds onto that bottle it clocked at breakfast, so stacking dinner plates on top of it by eight in the evening changes nothing. Layer in AutoDos and its PowerDisk granulate, measuring out its own detergent since 2018, then set an app rule that says wait until 80 percent full and never before 10pm, and the machine stops consulting you altogether. Miele has spent decades selling dishwashers on the promise that they scrub so you do not have to. This one wants to think so you do not have to.

Designer: Miele

Here’s the part that actually impressed me. AutoVision doesn’t run a video feed you can scrub through in the app. It fires once, right as the door clicks shut, and the machine works from that single image for the entire cycle. Load a wine bottle at breakfast, stack it under a mountain of lunch plates by evening, and the G8 still treats it as a bottle, because it saw it once and that was enough. The only real caveat came from Miele’s own team at IFA: keep bottles roughly central and pots in the lower basket, since the spray arm still struggles to reach the far corners. Vision only helps if the water can follow it there.

What makes this genuinely new isn’t the word AI, which every appliance brand at IFA 2026 was throwing around like confetti. Most of those claims are turbidity sensors, the kind that read how murky the wash water has become and adjust accordingly. LG’s SenseClean works that way, and Samsung has filed similarly around soil detection. A turbidity sensor knows the water is dirty. It has no idea why. Miele’s camera identifies the actual object sitting in the rack, a considerably harder computer vision problem, and one that both LG and Bosch have patented around for years without shipping a consumer dishwasher built on it. Miele is putting an object-recognition camera inside a box you can buy next spring, not just inside a patent filing.

Around that camera sits a decade of quieter automation finally clicking into place. AutoDos, with its PowerDisk granulate, has been dosing detergent on its own since 2018, and Miele still claims nobody else in the category offers true automatic dispensing. ExcellentDry adds a hot air system with three fixed levels, chosen once and then applied forever, aimed squarely at the plastic containers that usually come out of a cycle still damp at the base. The cutlery drawer becomes a genuine third tier, one side droppable for coffee cups, and a new touch display replaces the old dial logic. Set the app to run only past 10pm and only above 80 percent full, or tie it to your solar output, and the dishwasher stops asking permission for anything.

None of this works if you don’t trust the camera’s judgment, and Miele knows it. “Intelligence can be programmed. Trust has to be earned,” said Dr. Axel Kniehl, the company’s Executive Director of Marketing and Sales, at the IFA press conference, and it’s the one line from the whole reveal that actually admits the stakes. AutoVision only functions if enabled by the user, according to Miele’s own release, which suggests it ships switched off by default. Fair enough. Handing a machine the authority to decide how hard to scrub your grandmother’s pans is a bigger ask than letting it dose its own detergent, and Miele seems to know it needs to earn that permission slowly rather than assume it.

The G8 Diamond won’t reach a single kitchen before April 2027, and even then only in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, so everything here is still a promise rather than a lived-in product. But the promise is the interesting part. For a century, appliance makers competed on how much physical labor they could remove. Miele is the first one at this scale betting the next fight is over who you trust to make the fifty tiny decisions labor never touched in the first place.

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Ce jeu, ou plutôt cette expérience, je vous le dis tout de suite, ça ne va pas changer votre vie. Au contraire, ça risque même d'aggraver vos PTSD en rapport avec les sports d'hiver. Moi, ça va, je ne suis jamais allé à la montagne en vacances l'hiver, parce que je n'étais pas assez richou étant + jeune, donc, c'est au moins un trauma que je n'ai pas !

Dans Line Rider , vous tracez une ligne à la souris, vous appuyez sur play, et un petit bonhomme en luge dévale la pente que vous venez de dessiner à pleine balle. Voilà c'est tout !

Alors, je pense que si vous êtes un ancien, vous connaissez forcément, parce que ce truc n'est pas de première fraîcheur. C'est sorti en 2006 sur DeviantArt . Ça a été créé par Boštjan Čadež, un étudiant de l'Académie des Beaux-Arts de Ljubljana, pour un devoir de son cours d'illustration. À l'époque, il y a eu quand même 10 000 personnes qui l'ont vu dans les 24 heures de la sortie du jeu. Et un mois plus tard, on en était à 4 millions de vues et 325 000 téléchargements du jeu.

Notez quand même que la toute première version n'avait même pas de gomme et c'était volontaire de la part de Boštjan. Sauf qu'aujourd'hui ce n'est plus le Flash de 2006 que vous lancez mais une réécriture complète pour le web moderne, signée David Lu avec Matthew Henry et Tobias Bessler.

Et la réécriture a pris du muscle puisque vous avez maintenant trois types de ligne (la bleue qui porte, la rouge qui accélère, la verte qui ne sert qu'au décor), des calques, une pelure d'oignon pour suivre la trajectoire, jusqu'à six lugeurs en même temps, et un moteur de scripts pour piloter la caméra ou la gravité.

Attention quand même : Ne lancez que des scripts dont vous connaissez la provenance ^^. Par contre, n'oubliez pas que les lignes ont un sens. Si vous les tracez de la gauche vers la droite, elles feront office de sol. Par contre, si vous les tracez dans l'autre sens, votre petit gugusse va s'y cogner par en dessous ou la traversera sans la voir s'il y arrive par le dessus.

Vous pouvez aussi glisser un fichier audio dans l'éditeur pour caler l'animation sur la musique. C'est comme ça que la communauté sort ses morceaux de bravoure, genre les 39 millions de vues de la piste que DoodleChaos a synchronisée sur "In the Hall of the Mountain King".

Je n'ai plus mes 5 hectares de jardin et de forêt, snif snif.... Maintenant c'est un immense jardin de 15 mètres carrés dans lequel je n'ai encore rien planté. Il y a des framboisiers, une pelouse en souffrance++ et deux ou trois trucs qui servent surtout de litière aux chats du quartier. Dans la maison, j'ai également deux spathiphyllums, ces fleurs de lune que tout le monde a chez soi, et une Monstera achetée chez Ikea.

Et je ne sais absolument pas m'en occuper. ^^

Alors quand je suis tombé sur HortusFox , j'ai regardé ça d'un autre œil que d'habitude. Il s'agit d'une application web que vous installez chez vous, qui est développée sous licence MIT depuis 2023 par un type tout seul, Daniel Brendel, qui va vous permettre de gérer toutes vos plantations et autres plantes vertes en intérieur.

Reste à comprendre ce que ça fait vraiment, parce que ce n'est pas ce à quoi on s'attend... Ça n'est pas vraiment un conseiller, ça ne va pas vous dire par exemple quand arroser votre Monstera, ni diagnostiquer une feuille jaune.

C'est simplement un carnet de bord, point. Vous déclarez vos lieux (le salon, la cuisine, la serre), vous y rattachez vos plantes avec leurs photos, vos notes et un journal, et vous créez des tâches dont c'est vous qui fixez l'intervalle. Le système vous rappelle alors ce que vous avez à faire selon l'échéance que vous avez décidée, et il garde la trace de ce que vous avez fait.

Dit comme ça, ça paraît maigre, sauf que quand vous êtes cinq à passer devant les mêmes pots de fleurs, c'est super pratique ! Est-ce que quelqu'un a arrosé pendant les vacances ? Est-ce que le petit s'est occupé de ses plantes carnivores ou pas ? Là, la réponse est dans le journal de la plante et pas dans la tête de X ou Y qui a mis son téléphone en mode avion.

C'est d'ailleurs ce qui fait sa différence. Plusieurs comptes partagent le même espace, avec les tâches en commun, un inventaire du matériel et même un chat de groupe pour se laisser des mots.

Plant-it , l'autre projet libre du genre, repose exactement sur la même philosophie. À la base, c'était également une application web, mais comme il y avait trop de bugs , l'auteur a préféré supprimer la version qu'il hébergeait. Et Plant-it est ainsi devenu une simple application Android. Adieu les versions web et la version iOS.

HortusFox, lui, a fait le chemin inverse et garde son serveur, mais du coup il n'a aucune application native en face : le dépôt Android du projet est archivé depuis 2024, ce qui fait que pour savoir ce qui se passe, vous devrez ouvrir la page web pour voir l'état de vos plantes. Je vous laisse deviner si mon fils va penser à ouvrir un onglet tout seul pour ses plantes carnivores... lol.

Ce n'est pas grave, je me suis acheté ces petites Oyas pour les plantes vertes (lien affilié), et ça fait super bien le taf pour garder la terre un petit peu humide en permanence.

Ça s'installe en Docker Compose avec une base MariaDB. Pas de SQLite, pas de PostgreSQL et n'attendez pas que ça change parce que ça demanderait trop de boulot à l'auteur... L'interface est également disponible en onze langues dont le français. Au niveau de la vie privée, il n'y a pas vraiment de télémétrie, il faut juste savoir que l'identification des photos passe par l'API de Pl@ntNet , qui est gratuite jusqu'à 500 identifications par jour, et la météo par OpenWeatherMap. Ces deux-là réclament donc vos propres clés, et vous n'êtes pas obligé de les activer. Les données botaniques, elles, viennent du GBIF sans rien demander.

Et si vous voulez juste identifier vos plantes sans monter un serveur, j'avais déjà parlé des applis qui font ça .

Un point quand même avant que vous ne lanciez le docker compose : Une XSS stockée a été remontée le 11 août 2026 dans la version 5.9, qui est la dernière en date. Cela veut dire que n'importe quel membre de votre espace HortusFox peut glisser du JavaScript persistant dans les notes d'une plante, qui s'exécutera ensuite chez tous ceux qui la consultent, admin compris ( CVE-2026-72559 ). Donc mettez bien cette application ailleurs que sur Internet et assurez-vous que votre grand-mère ou vos enfants ne sont pas des petits hackers en herbe.

Amusez-vous bien avec vos plantes vertes !

Le 24 août dernier, X Corp. a envoyé une lettre de mise en demeure au développeur de Nitter et une autre à celui de XCancel (une instance célèbre de Nitter). Le délai accordé était très court (environ 24h), et depuis, les deux services sont hors ligne.

Alors que s'est-il passé ?

Nitter, c'était sept ans de travail bénévole pour lire les posts publics de Twitter puis de X sans avoir besoin de compte, sans pub, sans JavaScript et surtout sans laisser son adresse IP à Elon Musk et ses sbires. On remplaçait x.com par nitter.net dans l'URL, et on lisait ce qui nous intéressait. Y'avait même des extensions de redirection automatique qui le faisaient pas à notre place. Et XCancel qui venait de fêter ses 2 ans, c'était tout pareil !

Aujourd'hui la page d'accueil de XCancel affiche ces 4 lignes qui disent en gros que le service est arrêté jusqu'à nouvel ordre. Celle de Nitter n'est pas plus bavarde et son mainteneur, zedeus, cherche un avocat et refuse de commenter.

Notez qu'aucun tribunal n'a été saisi et qu'une simple lettre a suffi.

Ce que X reproche à ces 2 services, c'est un "usage illicite et un contournement de son API", plus une violation du Texas Harmful Access by Computer Act et du Lanham Act. TechCrunch, qui a pu lire le courrier , rapporte une accusation plus précise qui est que Nitter aurait accédé à des comptes X et à des jetons de session pour récupérer le contenu en douce.

Aux États-Unis, en tout cas, "aspirer" des pages web publiques n'a rien de criminel. Mais le problème, c'est que Nitter ne fonctionne plus comme ça depuis des années. Si on analyse son code, on se rend compte que depuis que Twitter a supprimé les comptes invités début 2024, Zedeus, le développeur de Nitter, a mis en place un tout autre système.

Pour contourner les limites imposées par X.com, il a développé un script tools/get_session.py qui prend en arguments un identifiant X, un mot de passe, un secret à double facteur et un chemin de fichier.

Et là-dedans, il embarque en dur une paire de clés API, se déclare auprès des serveurs de X comme LE client Twitter officiel pour Android en version 10.21 tournant sur un OnePlus A3010, fait passer le flux de connexion par cloudscraper, génère le code à double facteur à la volée, et récupère un jeton OAuth qu'il écrit ensuite dans un fichier.

Au niveau des identifiants, c'est l'hébergeur de l'instance qui les fournit puisque depuis la coupure de 2024, faire tourner Nitter imposait de le relier à un vrai compte X. On est donc très loin du robot anonyme qui lit une page publique. C'est un client officiel simulé, avec des identifiants valides, et c'est exactement ça que la lettre de mise en demeure décrit.

Donc voilà, le problème est bien plus compliqué que du scraping simple. Ce sera donc à un juge de trancher sur le fond.

Depuis, le dépôt GitHub est passé en lecture seule, archivé et selon Zedeus, d'autres instances ont reçu des courriers du même genre. De son côté, X ne s'est pas encore exprimé publiquement sur cette affaire.

Reste la question qui nous intéresse : On fait comment pour lire la merde fasciste de X sans compte maintenant ? Bah honnêtement, y'a pas grand-chose... Moi, je vous recommande d'arrêter d'aller là-dessus pour votre propre bien-être. Mais si vraiment vous êtes accro, le pont ActivityPub bird.makeup répond toujours présent et permet de suivre un compte X public depuis Mastodon. Toutefois, il ne vous affichera pas un fil de discussion direct dans le navigateur comme le faisait XCancel ou Nitter.

Après pour un post précis, il reste éventuellement la Wayback Machine, à condition que quelqu'un ait archivé le tweet avant. Sinon, bah faudra vous reconnecter sur X à l'ancienne avec votre compte...

Source : Techdirt

"Maintenant", ce n'est pas qu'un adverbe à la con pour apprécier l'instant présent ou faire péter ses ordres comme votre Belle Mère ! C'est également un conteneur à lancer, qui se connecte en lecture seule à un socket Docker pour réaliser en un battement de cil, tout l'inventaire de votre home lab !

Il relève ainsi l'état de chaque conteneur, ses healthchecks, ses boucles de redémarrage, ses logs, et vos projets Compose regroupés comme vous les avez écrits.

Ensuite, tout ce qui vous alerte pour de bon se déclare à la main. Les checks HTTP et TCP se configurent sous la forme de labels sur les conteneurs à surveiller. Par exemple, un maintenant.endpoint.http avec son intervalle et son seuil d'échec, un maintenant.endpoint.tcp pour la base...etc. Pas besoin donc d'aller mettre votre gros nez dans un fichier de config spécifique.

Vos tâches planifiées reçoivent chacune une URL à appeler quand elles finissent comme ça si la sauvegarde de trois heures du matin ne se manifeste pas, vous êtes prévenu. Vos certificats HTTPS sont surveillés et signalés cinq fois avant leur expiration, un mois avant puis de plus en plus près. Il compare aussi l'empreinte de vos images à celle publiée sur le registre, ce qui vous permet ensuite de savoir lesquelles ont pris du retard sans lancer des docker pull à l'aveugle. Ah et il sert une page de statut publique pour vos utilisateurs.

Le tout tient dans un binaire Go qui occupe environ 17 Mo de RAM et qui se repose sur une simple base SQLite.

Par contre, l'édition gratuite (Community) gère une seule machine. Si vous voulez du multi-hôte, il faudra passer par la case payante. Toujours en gratuit, il y a aussi des plafonds... Vous avez le droit uniquement à 10 endpoints, 5 heartbeats, 5 certificats, 3 composants de page de statut et uniquement 7 jours d'historique.

Attention quand même, y'a 2 choses à savoir avant de vous enflammer et de poser ça sur une machine exposée sur le net. Il n'y a aucune authentification intégrée, et de ce que j'ai compris, c'est assumé ! A vous donc de mettre en place un reverse proxy et un Authelia ou un Authentik devant.

Pour situer "Maintenant" par rapport à d'autres solutions que je vous ai déjà présentées, Beszel fait les métriques par conteneur sans aucun plafond gratos, mais pas les checks HTTP. Uptime Kuma lui, fait les checks, mais ses monitors doivent être créés un par un dans l'interface, sauf à lui greffer AutoKuma pour lire les labels. Donc, il n'y a pas vraiment de solution tout-en-un gratuite...

A découvrir ici !

Je ne sais pas vous, mais chez moi, mes câbles USB-C se ressemblent tous. Et dans le tas, j'en ai qui chargent mon MacBook deux fois plus vite que d'autres. Et franchement, en les regardant, je ne peux pas vous dire lesquels sont les plus efficaces. Alors que mon Mac, lui, apparemment, il le sait déjà.

En tout cas, c'est ce que j'ai compris en allant lire le site de WhatCable. Ce qu'ils expliquent, c'est qu'à chaque branchement, le contrôleur de port d'un Mac Apple Silicon envoie un message à la puce que certains câbles embarquent et récupère sa fiche d'identité : débit annoncé, ampérage, fabricant. De ce que j'ai compris, macOS range la réponse dans le registre IOKit sous forme d'objets bruts, et ne l'affiche nulle part en clair. Snif...

Et c'est cette réponse que WhatCable va chercher, puis traduit. L'app vit dans la barre de menus, vous branchez un câble, et elle vous dit alors instantanément lequel des trois maillons plafonne la charge : Soit le chargeur, soit le câble, soit le Mac lui-même quand sa batterie est presque pleine.

Et vous obtenez le même verdict côté débit.

L'app confronte aussi la fiche du câble à sa spécification USB-PD et lève un carton jaune quand quelque chose cloche. Ça peut être l'identifiant fabricant à zéro, les bits réservés utilisés de travers...etc. Moi, je parle bien ici de contrefaçon de câbles, mais l'app reste très prudente dans sa formulation. Elle signale juste des trucs bizarres, et elle ne dit jamais qu'un câble est une contrefaçon.

Après, la plupart des câbles sous 60 W n'ont aucune puce à interroger, donc il n'y a rien à lire, et certains ne répondent correctement qu'avec un appareil branché à l'autre bout. Sur les ports USB-C en façade d'un Mac mini ou d'un Studio, aucune donnée de câble ne remonte non plus. C'est à cause de l'architecture d'Apple.

Côté matériel, il vous faut donc un Mac Apple Silicon sous macOS 14 minimum, les Mac Intel ne publiant pas ces données du tout. L'app est gratuite et son code est sous licence MIT, sauf le dossier des fonctions Pro où là, faudra débourser environ 10 €.

Si vous avez Homebrew, vous pouvez installer l'app rapidement comme ceci :

brew install --cask darrylmorley/whatcable/whatcable

L'app est même en français si vous avez séché les cours d'anglais. Bref, de quoi trier votre caisse de câbles sans vous planter...

OpenAI a annoncé qu'il allait couper l'accès de ses modèles à Cursor, l'éditeur de code dopé à l'IA que s'arrachent les développeurs. En cause, le rachat de Cursor par SpaceXAI, l'entité née de la fusion des activités IA d'Elon Musk.

Officiellement, OpenAI laisse du temps. La coupure est fixée au 12 novembre 2026, soit le délai le plus long permis par le contrat, même si Cursor peut décider d'arrêter plus tôt.

Le motif, lui, est assez clair. OpenAI dit ne pas pouvoir faire confiance à SpaceXAI pour respecter ses conditions d'utilisation, en s'appuyant sur son expérience des entreprises de Musk qui violent les contrats.

Il faut dire que les deux camps se détestent depuis un bail. Musk a été l'un des premiers investisseurs d'OpenAI, avant de claquer la porte en 2018 quand on lui a refusé le contrôle du conseil. En 2024, il a attaqué OpenAI en justice pour l'empêcher de devenir une société commerciale. En mai dernier, un jury lui a donné tort sur toute la ligne.

Surtout, OpenAI ressort dans l'affaire une révélation gênante du procès. Lors d'un contre-interrogatoire, Musk a reconnu que xAI avait entraîné ses propres modèles à partir des réponses d'OpenAI, une technique appelée distillation. Autrement dit, faire apprendre son IA en recopiant celle du voisin. Difficile, ensuite, de laisser Cursor entre les mains du même Musk sans se poser de questions.

OpenAI en profite pour mettre en avant son prochain modèle, Astra, et une vigilance accrue sur son usage. Un modèle que l'entreprise a d'ailleurs ralenti récemment, après que ses agents se sont échappés de leur bac à sable pour aller taper sur la plateforme Hugging Face.

Du côté de Cursor, le patron Michael Truell relativise. Il assure qu'OpenAI ne pèse que 5 pour cent des usages de l'outil, et que les discussions continuent pour trouver une sortie de crise. Anthropic, le grand rival, a tout de suite tendu la main, en promettant plus de puissance de calcul pour faire tourner ses modèles Claude dans Cursor.

Résultat, Anthropic récupère des développeurs sans lever le petit doigt, pendant que Musk et OpenAI continuent de se regarder dans le blanc des yeux.

Source : OpenAI

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Lexar m'a envoyé en test une carte microSD un peu particulière, car hors normes. C'est une "Silver Plus" de 2 To. Oui oui, 2 To. On parle là d'un bout de plastique grand comme un ongle, deux grammes sur la balance, dans lequel Lexar a réussi à fourrer 2 To de stockage. Autant dire plus que le disque qui équipe mon MacBook Pro d'1 To, sauf qu'ici, ça se glisse tranquillement dans un drone.

La carte est notée comme pouvant encaisser une vitesse de 255 Mb/s en lecture, et 180 Mb/s en écriture, tiens que ça. Mais ce qui m'intéresse vraiment ça va être les cas d'usage.

Prenez un vidéaste qui part filmer avec un drone ou une caméra d'action, du genre DJI Osmo ou Insta360, en 4K et même en 8K sur les derniers modèles. Avec une carte pareille, il tourne des heures sans jamais voir poper le message "carte pleine" pile au moment où l'action démarre.

C'est tout con, mais quand on a déjà raté un plan parce qu'il fallait changer de carte, on mesure le luxe du truc, et croyez-moi, ça m'est déjà arrivé. Plus de bouts de plastique à jongler dans la poche, plus un seul égaré dans l'herbe en pleine rando. Une carte, un voyage entier dessus.

Même logique pour un photographe qui shoote en RAW, ce format brut que les boîtiers crachent sans compression, pratique à retoucher mais horriblement lourd. Là où une petite carte se remplit en un mariage, celle-ci encaisse des milliers de clichés sans râler.

On vous l'a dit, la vitesse suit, avec ces 180 Mo/s annoncés qui absorbent tranquillement le débit de la 4K et de la 8K, sans lâcher la moindre image en chemin.

Et ne réduisons pas l'intérêt de ce genre de produit au petit monde de la vidéo, parce qu'une console portable ou un Steam Deck avalent aussi ce format, tout comme pas mal d'Android, et 2 To c'est confortable. Notez que c'est une gamme que je connais bien, puisque je l'utilise aussi sur les cartes SD plus classiques pour mon appareil photo Fujifilm.

Le hic, vous vous en doutez, c'est l'addition. Lexar n'en a pas produit des masses, et le produit est dur à trouver, tout comme son prix. Mais en attendant, vous pouvez vous rabattre sur la version 1 To ou 512 Go , qui sont distribuées sur Amazon !

Voilà, on est donc là sur un produit hors normes, qui parlera forcément à ceux qui veulent le meilleur stockage dans leur appareil.

Microsoft is continuing to refine Windows 11 through its Insider testing program, and the latest experimental update brings a mix of small but noticeable changes to some familiar Windows tools. The update focuses on File Explorer Home, Magnifier, and Print Management. While two of the changes improve the everyday Windows experience, Microsoft is temporarily pulling […]

Microsoft is making a useful change to Windows 11 File Explorer that should make it much easier to preview downloaded files without undoing the security protections introduced last year. A new “Preview anyway” button is being tested for the Preview pane. It will let users view a trusted downloaded file after File Explorer warns that […]

Si comme moi, vous aimez les livres, ce que je vais vous raconter aujourd'hui va vous rendre fous ! Hier, 404 Media a publié une enquête qui suit le trajet d'un AirTag. Mais pas n'importe lequel... C'est un AirTag qu'un libraire a glissé, à la demande de la rédaction, dans un livre parti au sein d'une commande d'un millier d'ouvrages. Et son terminus va vous surprendre (ou pas, parce qu'on commence à les connaitre les lascars...) : un entrepôt Amazon de Las Vegas.

Ce qu'on apprends dans l'article de 404 Media c'est qu'en fait, là-bas, une équipe interne baptisée VGT3 reçoit des tonnes de cargaisons de livres, en découpe les reliures et les passe au scanner afin d'en numériser les pages.

Pour la blague, le logo de cette équipe est un tyrannosaure gueule ouverte qui semble dévorer un livre. Ironique n'est-ce pas ?

Des salariés du site racontent eux-mêmes sur un forum d'employés Amazon, que les livres ne survivent pas à l'opération.

Et c'est ça qui rend dingo tout le monde, moi le premier !

Amazon, interrogé, a répondu qu'il achetait des livres par des canaux commerciaux pour "développer et améliorer ses produits et services". Oui, c'est vague mais c'est fait exprès.

Maintenant, calmez vos palpitations cardiaques, ce qu'ils numérisent (et détruisent), ce ne sont pas des incunables , c'est-à-dire des livres anciens édités avant l'invention de l'imprimerie (donc faits à la main). Les libraires interrogés précisent en effet, que les commandes en gros n'incluent jamais les ouvrages les plus anciens sans codes ISBN. Ce qu'ils achètent en fait, ce sont des titres sans presque aucun marché de revente, tirés à peu d'exemplaires ou écrits dans une langue que peu de gens lisent.

Et c'est pile poil ce qui fait leur valeur pour un entraîneur de modèle IA. Ces textes n'ont jamais été numérisé, donc ils n'ont jamais été aspirés par personne, et ont été imprimés avant que le web ne se remplisse de slop IA. Ces livres-là ne sont pas vraiment "précieux" mais comme ils sont rares et de niche, ils sont convoités par les géants de l'IA.

Maintenant ce qui me met en colère quand je lis cet article, c'est surtout cette histoire de destruction du bouquin... Parce que numériser un livre sans l'abîmer, ce n'est pas un rêve utopiste d'archiviste, hein... C'est possible avec des machines qu'il est facile de se procurer. Je pense par exemple à ce ScanRobot autrichien qui est sur le marché depuis 2007 et déjà vendu dans plus de soixante pays.

Voici ce que je considère être une excellente nouvelle pour tous les utilisateurs de GIMP ! L'équipe derrière le projet est en train de préparer le successeur du XCF, son format de projet depuis 1997. C'est même devenu le plus gros chantier du mainteneur Jehan, et ce qui se dessine ressemble fortement à une espèce d'archive zip bourrée de XML.

À ce jour, ce bon vieux XCF stocke toute sa data dans un seul bloc qu'il faut alors relire et réécrire en entier, à chaque enregistrement. C'est lourdingue et c'est pour ça que sur sa roadmap, la team GIMP explique qu'un format basé sur une archive permettrait de charger les données à l'usage et d'ouvrir des projets bien plus lourds.

Le zip + du XML est une vieille recette côté graphisme. GIMP figure d'ailleurs déjà parmi les applications compatibles OpenRaster , dont la spécification décrit une archive zip contenant un document XML pour la structure des calques. Sauf que l'OpenRaster sert à échanger des images entre éditeurs, alors que ce nouveau format devra contenir un projet de travail complet.

Grâce à ce nouveau format, GIMP promet des sauvegardes plus rapides, puisqu'il n'y aura plus que les parties modifiées à mettre à jour. Et l'auto-save deviendra enfin faisable. Woohoo !!

Par contre, le vrai morceau, celui qui compte, arrivera plus tard. En effet, GIMP 3.6 doit apporter la gestion des pages et l'animation directement dans le logiciel, à la place du vieux plug-in d'animation bien connu des galériens que vous êtes ^^. Ce sont 2 fonctions que le XCF encaisse mal, comme tout ce qui devient gros ou compliqué, finalement...

Mais rassurez-vous, vos vieux fichiers ne partent pas à la benne pour autant car GIMP s'engage à charger les XCF dans toutes ses versions à venir. Jehan a même corrigé ce printemps, dans ce code XCF, un bug oublié depuis 1999 .

Alors je sais que vous êtes trèèèès impatients, mais les détails techniques sont encore en cours de conception, et la version de développement 3.3.2 qui doit ouvrir le bal se fait attendre. La 3.4 avance donc sans date ce qui fait que la roadmap reste flexible et évolutive.

D'ici là, c'est GIMP 3.2.6 qui arrive, avec les classiques corrections de bugs, en attendant cette épiphanie qui changera le quotidien de beaucoup de graphistes adeptes du libre !

Source : Development Update, August 2026

Most people who drink sparkling water have settled into one of two habits. They either haul home cans and bottles from the grocery store every week, or they own a countertop soda maker that never leaves the kitchen. The Roam SodaTop is designed for everyone caught between those options: a 32oz insulated bottle that carbonates still water on demand, wherever you happen to be.

The home soda maker does what it promises, but it’s also a fairly large appliance with a permanent spot on the counter and plastic bottles that aren’t built to travel. Your sparkling water stays fresh for however long it sits in the fridge. Step outside, and you’re back to buying packaged drinks. It’s a frustratingly common situation for something meant to be a simple habit.

Designer: Mohini Boparai

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That’s the gap the SodaTop fills. The system pairs a stainless-steel bottle with a compact carbonation mechanism powered by small CO2 canisters. The bottle was engineered to handle carbonation pressure, with specially threaded fittings that most regular water bottles simply aren’t built for. Roam describes it as the world’s first insulated bottle that instantly carbonates water, and looking at the category, it’s hard to argue with that framing.

Using it takes just a few steps: fill the bottle to the marked interior line, drop in the CO2 canister, and twist the cap into place. The water is sparkling in about three seconds, and a pressure-release mechanism keeps the carbonation locked inside until you’re ready to drink. There’s no pumping, no separate carafe, and the whole thing takes less time than opening a can.

What makes that genuinely useful is the size. The SodaTop is roughly one-fifth the footprint of a standard countertop unit, compact enough to slip into a bag or a kitchen drawer without drama. Whether it’s on a work desk, a hotel table, or brought along on a day out, fresh sparkling water goes wherever the bottle goes, which is something no countertop soda maker can claim.

The bottle itself does more than hold the mechanism in place. Triple-wall construction keeps drinks cold for up to 24 hours and ice for up to 48 hours, well ahead of the plastic bottles that come standard with most home soda systems. That thermal advantage also matters for carbonation, since cooler water retains CO2 more efficiently and keeps the fizz from fading before the bottle is empty.

On the inside, Roam uses what it calls MirrorTech, a mirror-polished steel surface that the brand says keeps carbonation crisp for longer, resists odor buildup between uses, and discourages flavor transfer. The wide-mouth opening makes adding ice and pouring easy, while a visible fill line inside takes the guesswork out of how much water to add for consistent carbonation every time.

The CO2 canisters are made from recycled steel and are fully recyclable, so when they’re empty, they go straight into the recycling bin with no return shipping involved. Roam positions the ongoing cost at as little as $0.55 per canister for subscribers, framing that as roughly half the cost of buying pre-packaged sparkling water. Cutting out single-use cans and bottles also noticeably reduces household waste.

Roam also offers Natural Flavor Essence Drops designed to pair with the SodaTop, available in eight varieties: Ginger Root, White Peach, Sicilian Lemon, Yuzu Lime, Blood Orange, Strawberry, Grapefruit, and Mango. All are zero calorie, zero sugar, and plant-based. They’re also certified keto, paleo, vegan, gluten-free, kosher, and non-GMO, so they turn sparkling water into a flavored drink without any of the sugar baggage.

The SodaTop comes in three finishes: Pebble, Sage, and Charcoal, each with a contrasting accent at the base that gives it a quietly distinctive look. The silhouette reads more like premium drinkware than a gadget, which is probably the whole point. It’s the kind of object that fits on a desk, gets tossed in a bag, and doesn’t look out of place in either setting.

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The Labor Day weekend has a way of separating gear that belongs from gear that ends up in the car boot. Not by price or feature count, but by how well each object earns its spot before the drive out begins. A Labor Day weekend runs on a different logic than a single overnight. The fire has to hold. The food has to be worth cooking. Everything else has to justify the weight it occupies.

The seven objects here cover the full range: fire, power, cooking, light, water, sound, and one small tool that navigates all of it after dark. What connects them is a commitment to solving a specific outdoor problem with enough precision that the solution becomes the whole reason you own it. Pack these, and the only question left is where to go.

1. Portable Fire Pit Stand

The fire pit category is full of oversized objects that need a truck bed and a second person to manage. The Portable Fire Pit Stand sidesteps that entirely. Precision-cut black steel plates resist warping under sustained heat, assemble without tools, and fold flat when the trip is over. What you get at the campsite is a fire that earns its place as both a functional heat source and the visual anchor every site needs to feel worth sitting around past sundown.

The stand elevates fire off the ground, making it viable on sensitive terrain and at campgrounds where ground fires are restricted. That single design decision opens up far more sites than a standard ring allows. The black steel construction does not bow or distort after repeated use the way cheaper alternatives do, and the footprint is compact enough to work on a picnic table or against a stone wall. It is the kind of gear that earns a permanent place in the kit after a single evening out.

Click Here to Buy Now: $119.00

What we like

• Heat-resistant steel construction holds its shape through repeated use across multiple camping seasons
• Elevated design meets leave-no-trace standards on campgrounds where ground fires are restricted

What we dislike

• Steel construction adds weight that backpackers counting grams will notice over a long carry
• No integrated grill grate, which means a separate purchase for cooking directly over the fire

2. Blavor Power Station + Camping Lantern

Most portable power stations look like they were designed by someone who has never spent a night outdoors. The Blavor PN-W43 solves that by building a 4W LED camping lantern directly into the form factor. The result is a 64,000mAh device barely bigger than a tall water bottle that covers five charging pathways — solar, AC, car adapter, USB-C, and micro USB — with bidirectional 100W fast charging and a digital display that keeps battery status visible in the field without guesswork.

The real value is how naturally the two functions coexist. When the lantern is on, the power bank is right there. When you are charging devices overnight, the ambient glow handles the tent interior without a separate light source. For campers who have always carried both a dedicated lantern and a backup battery pack, the consolidation alone pays for the weight before the first night ends. A lanyard ships in the box, which tells you someone at Blavor has actually camped.

What we like

• Five charging pathways give genuine flexibility across grid-connected and fully off-grid environments
• Lantern and power bank coexist without compromising each other — the dual function feels designed in, not added on

What we dislike

• At 236.8Wh, capacity suits a weekend trip rather than an extended off-grid expedition
• The cylindrical form can sit awkwardly alongside flat gear in a structured pack

3. Camprit TiStove

Five flat pieces of Grade 5 titanium, two foldable legs, and three interchangeable cooking panels that together weigh under 1.5 pounds and pack completely flat. The Camprit TiStove reconfigures for boiling, grilling, or searing depending on which panels you assemble, and the extra panels double as a windshield. As heat accumulates over a season, the titanium changes color naturally, giving each stove a visible record of every meal cooked on it. Yours becomes genuinely yours over time.

There is no ignition system to fail at altitude, no gas canister threading to seize in the cold, and no assembly logic that requires reading a manual after dark. The pieces lock together without fasteners and disassemble in seconds. Compatible with wood, gas burner, and alcohol, it adapts to whatever fuel the terrain allows rather than locking you into a single system that can fail or run out. For anyone who has stood over a dead stove in the cold, this addresses the problem where it starts.

What we like

• Packs completely flat under 1.5 lbs with three interchangeable cooking configurations for different meal types
• Compatible with any fuel source, removing dependency on a single system in the field

What we dislike

• Requires a separate burner or fuel source — nothing is self-contained out of the box
• Titanium panels need careful packing to avoid scratching each other in transit

4. All-in-One Grill

Made in Japan from stainless steel, the All-in-One Grill approaches camp cooking from a completely different position than the TiStove. Where that one is built for portability and fuel flexibility, this is built for the campsite where you are staying put and eating well. A modular lid system converts it between six distinct cooking methods — barbecuing, frying, grilling, steaming, smoking, and stewing — without requiring separate cookware for each. One object covers an entire outdoor kitchen without asking for a second bag.

Japanese stainless steel holds heat evenly, cleans without drama, and does not carry the flavor of every previous meal the way cast iron can. For a long weekend where the grill is the centerpiece of three evenings rather than a convenience, this is the object that makes the drive worth it. The modular configuration grows with the meal rather than limiting it, and the compact footprint fits the full camp kit without demanding its own dedicated storage alongside everything else.

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What we like

• Six cooking methods in one stainless steel body remove the need to pack separate cookware for different meals
• Japanese stainless steel construction holds heat evenly and cleans efficiently after each use

What we dislike

• At $449, the investment makes the most sense for campers who cook seriously rather than occasionally
• Charcoal and wood fuel require ash management that demands more effort in the field than gas alternatives

5. NoxTi Tritium Keychain

A 45mm CNC-machined Grade 5 titanium cylinder weighing 10.7 grams. The NoxTi carries a tritium vial inside a precision quartz tube with 92% light transmission and glows continuously for 25 years through radioactive decay. No switch, no battery, no charging. Tritium beta particle decay strikes a phosphor coating and produces light as a straightforward byproduct of existing. At a campsite, it marks your tent entrance, your keys at the bottom of a bag, and your gear in the dark without asking anything of you in return.

The ceramic-tipped glass breaker at the tail end adds genuine emergency utility without changing the form. When the vial dims after two decades, the titanium body stays: press the old tube out, slide a new one in. Six glow colors are available, including Apple Green for maximum visibility and Red for preserving night vision. Two silicone O-rings hold the vial suspended and centered inside the shell, which creates the impression of looking into a piece of precision engineering rather than anything from a keychain rack.

What we like

• 25-year continuous glow powered entirely by physics, with no battery, no charging, and no failure point to manage
• Fully user-serviceable titanium body becomes a platform you keep and update indefinitely across decades of use

What we dislike

• Glow output is intentionally faint — it marks and locates in the dark but does not illuminate a surface
• The tritium light source needs a short explanation before the value proposition fully lands for first-time buyers

6. GoSun Flow Solar Water Purifier

Water is camping’s most basic constraint, and the GoSun Flow addresses it at the source. A solar-powered three-stage cartridge filter eliminates 99.99% of waterborne pathogens while pumping one liter of clean water per minute from any freshwater source. The system compresses into a backpack, and the flexible faucet clamps to branches, tables, or tailgates — opening to 58mm — turning any water access point into a functional camp station. USB power keeps it running when solar is unavailable.

It doubles as a portable handwashing station and solar-heated shower. Thirty minutes of sun delivers a five-minute warm shower, which changes what clean means across a three-day trip without the bulk of carrying a separate shower bag and a purifier as two distinct items. The filter handles 1,000 liters before replacement, and the power bank driving the pump recharges through an integrated solar panel. For anyone who has ever compromised on hygiene to protect pack weight, this removes that trade-off before you even start packing.

What we like

• Purifies 99.99% of pathogens and delivers a solar-heated shower from a single system that compresses into a backpack
• 1,000-liter filter life with USB power backup covers a full camping season without resupply

What we dislike

• Cannot process saltwater, which limits utility at coastal campsites
• Multiple components increase the number of parts to track and keep together across a multi-day trip

7. RetroWave 7-in-1 Radio

The RetroWave earns its place in a camping kit through an argument that has little to do with aesthetics, even if the aesthetics are genuinely good. A tactile tuning dial, compact body, and warm visual language drawn from classic Japanese radio design make it worth looking at. What it is actually doing is more pragmatic: running AM, FM, and NOAA weather radio without an app, streaming via Bluetooth when connectivity holds, and charging via solar panel and hand-crank when it does not. Seven functions, one charging cable.

Smart speakers go silent when Wi-Fi drops. Earbuds die at the wrong moment. Phones drain precisely when you need them most. The RetroWave does not ping you, does not demand ideal conditions, and does not need a charging window before it becomes useful. It plays, charges other devices, lights, signals, and tells the time across a full weekend without complaint. At the end of the trip, it goes back into the same bag it came out of, ready for the next one.

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What we like

• Seven functions in a single body remove the need to carry and manage multiple separate items across a trip
• Solar and hand-crank charging keep it fully operational off-grid with no outlet access required at any point

What we dislike

• The retro aesthetic can read as decorative to buyers who have not yet used it in an actual off-grid situation
• Shortwave reception quality varies depending on geographic location and surrounding terrain

The Campsite Has Always Been Good. The Gear Finally Caught Up.

The equipment on this list shares one quality that outdoor gear rarely earns: it removes a specific friction from the experience without replacing it with a different one. The fire stand works where others cannot. The purifier turns proximity to water into access to clean water. The stove adapts to whatever fuel the terrain provides. Each object was designed around the constraint it actually faces in the field, which is the harder and more honest design brief.

A Labor Day weekend with gear this considered starts to feel different from the first hour of setup. Not because everything is easier in an obvious sense, but because the small decisions have already been made. Where the water comes from. How the fire holds through the night. What you reach for in the dark. These are solved before the weekend begins, which leaves the actual weekend free to be what it was always supposed to be.

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Scanners haven’t changed much in how they occupy a workspace. A flatbed sits in the middle and claims that real estate whether it’s in use or not. Overhead models are more flexible, but they still tend to take up a fixed spot in any setup. For anyone working from a compact home office or shared studio, that trade-off rarely gets a proper answer.

Joyusing’s ScanMax 320 approaches the problem from a different angle, quite literally. Rather than occupying the center of a workspace, it’s built to sit at the edge of a desk, positioned in the corner while its arm reaches overhead. It handles documents, books, artwork, and large-format materials up to A2 size, without taking over the surface it’s meant to serve.

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Folded down, the ScanMax 320 measures 355mm x 68mm x 51mm, slim enough to slip into the included carrying bag and move between rooms without any effort. It runs entirely on USB-C power, so getting started means plugging in a single cable. There’s no proprietary adapter to hunt down, no driver installation ritual, and nothing complicated to deal with before the first scan. You can directly use the ScanMax 320 as a live presenter camera, and scanning as well as other advanced features simply require the free Joyusing Scanner intelligence software.

The shooting area extends to a full A2, or 594mm x 420mm, with a 32-megapixel sensor capturing at up to 380 DPI. That covers blueprints, double-page book spreads, large technical drawings, and oversized artwork in a single pass. An intelligent auto-switching system detects whether the material is A2 or A3 and adjusts accordingly, so there’s no manual input needed between sessions.

Overhead scanners tend to have a lighting problem, particularly near edges or when capturing materials that aren’t perfectly flat. The ScanMax 320 uses a rectangular illumination system shaped to match the scanning area, distributing light evenly and keeping shadows from washing out fine detail near the sides. Three brightness levels, at 30%, 70%, and 100%, are accessible with a single touch for quick adjustments in different environments.

Book scanning is where overhead devices tend to earn their keep, and also where they tend to frustrate. Pages curve at the spine, fingers get in the way, and binding shadows creep in from the edges. The ScanMax 320’s software handles most of this automatically, applying auto-flattening, finger removal, de-skewing, and shadow removal without manual adjustment. Book mode, paired with the included finger cots, keeps pages steady for continuous capture.

Once everything is captured, the software’s OCR engine converts printed text into editable, searchable files, with support for 180 languages and export options including Word, PDF, and TXT. A page of Japanese text, a technical report, or a multilingual research paper can go from physical to fully searchable in seconds, turning raw captures into documents you can actually search, copy, and share.

What’s less obvious about the ScanMax 320, and arguably more interesting, is that it also functions as a live visual presenter. Point it at a printed page, a hand-drawn sketch, or a physical object, and the feed goes live to whatever screen or projector it’s connected to. For a teacher going through annotated notes or a designer reviewing a layout with a client, that extra mode earns its place quickly.

Software compatibility covers Windows, macOS, and several Linux distributions including CentOS, Ubuntu, and Debian, though macOS users will find some features limited compared to the Windows version. Everything connects over USB-C, keeping the setup free of dongles and extra cables. Built-in annotation tools allow for direct markup of scanned content, which makes it easier to prepare materials before presenting or sharing them.

There’s something refreshingly considered about a scanner built to work with your desk rather than on top of it. The ScanMax 320 doesn’t ask you to clear space or rearrange anything. It folds, parks at the edge, and gets on with the job. Whether you’re archiving a collection, digitizing a sketchbook, or presenting something in a meeting, the fact that it stays in its corner is, in itself, the point.

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The next evolution of Apple's AirPods is out in the wild after a leaked video was posted online. Known as AirPods Ultra, the new wireless earbuds look basically the same as regular AirPods, albeit with a thicker stem.

Hiding inside the new AirPods Ultra are discrete cameras that enable something called "Visual Intelligence." According to Tom's Guide, these cameras aren't intended to record live video or snap photos, setting AirPods Ultra apart from the likes of Meta's AI Glasses, which are raising some very serious privacy concerns.

What I wasn't expecting next was an announcement from Razer's Min-Liang Tan explaining that the company's Project Motoko, unveiled as a concept at CES 2026, is actually a real product that's "coming soon."

At CES we unveiled Project Motoko: an AI native headset with dual cameras in the earcups. It sees what you see, hears what you hear. No display needed.Started as a concept. Not staying one. Coming soon.What's the first killer use case for wearable AI? pic.twitter.com/MCmrcnUdZMAugust 19, 2026

Razer's tackling of this idea involves a full wireless gaming headset with cameras built into the earcups. They're certainly not as hidden as the cameras on Apple's leaked implementation, but I don't think they're aimed at the same end goal.

In the leaked Apple video, a person picks up a book and looks at the cover. Siri (or some other assistant) then says that "your world becomes savable" — all you have to do is whisper into your own ear that you'd like to save what you're looking at.

The new AirPods Ultra are expected to show up at Apple's next special event in September, but already there is a lot of backlash regarding privacy. Glasses (or really any tech) that record everything around you are already being banned due to privacy concerns, and I hope that Apple indeed uses some method that captures info without saving actual photos.

Razer's Project Motoko is not like the rest

Razer is taking a different approach to a video-infused audio device. Rather than hiding the cameras in tiny earbuds, it's slapping them onto what appears to be a rather high-end wireless gaming headset.

Each earcup has an FPV camera designed to sit at eye level, allowing it to better quantify what you're actually looking at. Razer says its cameras offer a wider field of view than is humanly possible, and that they can pick up "symbols, text, and details."

Motoko can use a bunch of different AI models (Grok, OpenAI, and Gemini are mentioned), and Razer says it can be a "powerful data collection tool" to train language models. The headset runs on a Snapdragon chip.

A demo video on the Razer website explains that Motoko "hears, interprets, and answers in the moment." The accompanying video certainly seems to show that the headset's cameras are recording the entire time, much like AI glasses.

Razer pegs it as a "personal full-time AI assistant" that "stays keyed into your schedule, preferences, and habits, while adapting effortlessly to anything else you might ask." I'm reminded immediately of Lenovo's Qira AI assistant.

Privacy concerns aside, who's going to wear a gaming headset all day?

Razer makes a lot of concept devices, and not all of them make it into the hands of consumers. The fact that Razer is going ahead with Motoko hot on the heels of the AirPods Ultra leak means the company must truly believe there's something there worth pursuing.

But my first thought was, "Who wants to wear a gaming headset all day?" Never mind the privacy concerns; gaming headsets are great for a few hours at a time, and usually best if you're not active.

Razer's vision for Motoko seems to go against that. A small FAQ section on the official website explains the potential everyday uses for Motoko:

The possibilities are endless. Whether you’re cooking and need step-by-step guidance, traveling and want real-time translations, working and managing tasks hands-free, repairing something with instant audio instructions, or gaming with immersive AI-driven guidance—Motoko adapts to every scenario. Its AI-powered vision and audio awareness make it more than a headset; it’s your always-on companion for smarter living, wherever life takes you.

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Is everyone suddenly going to be wearing a bulky gaming headset everywhere they go? Not likely, especially during any tasks that require a bit of sweat. When Motoko actually launches, it had better be the most comfortable headset ever made if Razer wants it to be successful.

Windows Central's take on Razer Motoko

Razer's Motoko headset probably has the best chance of succeeding amongst PC gamers. It is, after all, a gaming headset. But, speaking from a bit of experience, I can say that a lot of PC gamers couldn't care less about letting AI help with video games. Whether or not Motoko's appeal actually goes mainstream remains to be seen.

I want to know if you'd buy something like Razer's Motoko when it launches. Would you use it for gaming? For something else? Are you concerned about eroding privacy due to the prevalence of these video capture devices? Let me know in the comments section below!

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