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Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 Wayfarers get a modest discount at Amazon
Ray-Ban Meta’s Gen 2 Wayfarers in Shiny Black with green lenses are down to $359.99 at Amazon, from $379. That’s $19.01 off, or about 5%, on the camera glasses. It’s a small cut on the classic square frame, and it…
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Fairphone Fairbuds 2 bring user-replaceable batteries to US earbuds for $119.99
Fairphone's $119.99 Fairbuds 2 let you swap the batteries in both earbuds and the case yourself, with hybrid ANC, LDAC, Bluetooth 6.0, and 40 hours of total battery life.
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Sony’s WH-CH730N Noise-Canceling Headphones Drop to $128
A good pair of noise-canceling headphones can make a busy office, daily commute, or long flight easier to handle. The challenge is finding over-ear headphones with effective noise reduction, comfortable construction, and enough battery life for several days without paying…
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5 Nonessential Kitchen Tools Totally Worth the Storage Space
You open a kitchen drawer looking for a vegetable peeler and find three gadgets you haven’t touched in months. One promised to save time. Another looked useful in a cooking video. Now they’re taking up space that could hold the…
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Harbor Freight’s $19.99 Mini Toolbox Gives Small Tools a Proper Home
Small tools have a way of disappearing into crowded drawers. Screwdriver bits get mixed with charging cables, spare screws end up in random containers, and pocket knives compete for space with everyday accessories. A full-size tool chest is excessive for…
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Ridge’s $99 Leather Wallet Makes a Case for Carrying Less
Ridge's $99 Midnight Black leather wallet holds up to 12 cards in a 6mm stack, adds an outside cash strap and RFID blocking, and fits a front pocket.
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This Citizen Star Wars Watch Hides Its Best Detail at 11 O’Clock
Citizen's $450 Luke Skywalker Eco-Drive watch puts a glowing green lightsaber at 11 o'clock on a 43mm steel case with 100-meter water resistance.
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10 Best UPS Battery Backups in 2026
Ten UPS battery backups sorted by job, from a 1500VA pure sine wave workstation unit to an $84 box that keeps the router alive, plus how to size one by watts.
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Leatherman Rebar Puts Pliers First, With 16 More Tools Alongside
The Leatherman Rebar packs 17 tools, including replaceable wire cutters, into a 6.7-ounce plier-first multitool with a 25-year warranty for $99.95.
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This tiny keyboard phone puts privacy controls under a physical switch
Brax Wink is a small phone with real keys, a headphone jack and a switch on its top edge that you can flip without opening a menu, though its pitch is not nostalgia for its own sake, since it pairs…
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Kershaw’s Dawnstar Takes a Different Shape for Everyday Cutting
A standard pocketknife handles most everyday cutting jobs, but its blade shape is not ideal for every material. Rope, cord, straps, and flexible packaging can slide along a conventional edge during pulling cuts. A hawkbill blade addresses that problem with…
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Buying a Makita tool as a gift? Check the battery before the box
A tool-only Makita can be a useful gift for someone who already owns the right batteries. Buy from the wrong platform, though, and you’ve also handed them a battery-and-charger shopping trip. The Makita name alone doesn’t tell you whether their…
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Belkin’s Infinity Folio lets the iPad mini shed its cover without losing its case
Belkin’s Infinity Folio lets you lift an iPad mini off the desk without carrying a folded front cover behind it. The cover detaches magnetically, while a separate shell stays around the tablet’s back and corners. The case is built for…
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Samsung W27 charges $2,660 for a Fold8 Ultra in gold, and only China can buy it
CNY 18,999 is trifold money. Converted at current rates it lands at about $2,660, the bracket where Huawei sells a phone that folds twice. Samsung’s W27 folds once. Under the gold trim it is the Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, a…
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3 cordless workshop fans for a crowded bench, a wider work area or a clear floor
Ryobi, Makita and Milwaukee offer different fan sizes, aiming controls and power options for dry indoor workspaces.
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Auk Mini 2 gives your countertop herb garden a slower pace when you’re away
A countertop garden doesn’t stop growing just because you’re eating somewhere else for a few days. Auk Mini 2 has a setting for that: Slow Mode, which reduces plant growth and water consumption. It’s a useful option when you’re traveling,…
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Klein’s RT250 outlet tester tells you more than whether the power’s on
A lamp lighting up tells you an outlet has power. Klein’s RT250 adds information the lamp can’t: a voltage reading, an indication of common wiring faults, and a timed check of a GFCI’s response. Its backlit screen spells out the…
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Arduino’s USB Camera brings a ring light to your next vision project
The Arduino USB Camera puts a camera, microphone and adjustable ring light in one USB accessory for projects that need to see and hear. Pair it with an UNO Q or VENTUNO Q, and you can feed those inputs into…
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Can’t Mount a Camera Outside? Eufy’s $80 Window Camera Offers Another Option
Installing an outdoor security camera becomes complicated when drilling is prohibited, exterior wiring is impractical, or a rental agreement restricts changes to the property. Homeowners have the same reason to skip exterior mounting when the job is watching a driveway,…
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Local AI on the ASUS ProArt P16 gets useful when the job is specific
Bolt pulled facts from a short product packet correctly on my ASUS ProArt P16. Add a pile of unrelated material, though, and it chose the wrong Raspberry Pi variant in all three attempts. Getting a usable answer depended on the…