Pocket-lint - Gadgets

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:54:24 GMT

IKEA is back at it again with its impressive knack for making tech that doubles as decor. From smart lighting to basic cable organizers, the global home and furniture giant sells all sorts of devices and accessories hidden throughout its carefully curated demo rooms and spaces.

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Fri, 12 Dec 2025 12:00:15 GMT

When it comes to crafting gift ideas for others around the holidays, I'm about as useless as a paper hammer. If my friends and family don't directly hint at something they want, there's little to no chance I hit the nail on the end in regard to what they open during the holiday season.

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Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:35:47 GMT

I have more E Ink devices than I can count, and still the display technology continues to amaze me. For the first time ever, I have a paper-like device that strays from the Kindles and tablets I've cherished for so long: an E Ink digital picture frame.

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Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:00:16 GMT

I'm sure I don't need to sell most people on this, but when it comes to troubleshooting tech issues, it's always best to pick the cheap options first. When my old Razer laptop was dying this summer, for example, I didn't immediately start shopping for a new one -- I seized on a suggestion from my wife to try repairing Windows from a bootable USB stick. At a certain point, I was forced to admit defeat and buy a new PC, but it would've been ridiculous to jump straight to spending thousands of dollars.

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Thu, 04 Dec 2025 01:00:17 GMT

I've probably made this reference once too often, but there's a joke that despite what the acronym stands for, USB isn't very universal. There have been many different connector types over the years, not to mention many different speeds, which can leave people scrambling for different cables, or wondering why a file transfer seems to be taking forever. It's better than what came before, or than Apple's defunct Lightning format, but that's not saying much.

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Sat, 29 Nov 2025 20:00:15 GMT

Looking back, I think home networking has been the tech I've encountered the most trial-and-error with in my life, barring the bad old days of DOS gaming. Despite my best efforts, there's always been one problem or another to deal with. It doesn't help that I'm usually on the cutting edge of tech, at least compared with many households. Most people don't have an arsenal of smart home accessories on top of multiple devices they're assigned to review.

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Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:00:15 GMT

One of my favorite industry intersections is between wellness and tech. Wearables put hyper-personalized data right at your fingertips, sleep-focused devices are shaping up to be better than melatonin, and all sorts of gadgets exist with the aim of improving tiny (or massive) aspects of your life.

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Wed, 26 Nov 2025 01:00:16 GMT

Today, USB accessories are more common than ever, thanks as much to the rise of USB-C as anything else. It's really about the juice USB-C can deliver -- whereas a lot of older accessories had to be low-energy or use a separate power supply, many products with USB-C can run entirely off one cable. Heck, there are portable USB-C monitors, which would've been impossible to fathom just 15 years ago.

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Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:47:14 GMT

Power is a necessary wonder. Power bills are a necessary evil.

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Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:58:22 GMT

Around fifteen years ago, USB flash drives were all the rage. As a portable means to store digital files and to transfer them from one computer to the next, thumb drives were compact, convenient, and downright ubiquitous in the consumer tech space.

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