Eyes Of Gadget and Tech
Hold on to your helmet. A Corvette ZR1, with 1,064 horsepower, was let loose by Chevrolet-theid and beyond record-breaking. Consider the redefinition of everything you thought you knew about American performance. This is not a Corvette; it is a screaming, tire-shredding monument to excess-arguably the fiercest production Chevy to ever claw its way out of…
2017: Handhelds flatlined. The Vita gasped, while the 3DS felt its own dwindling. Then came Nintendo’s bombshell: the Switch. The hybrid consoles spearheaded a portable revolution, proving that power and portability need not be at odds. With its sortie, it grew into a titan, poised to perhaps become the best-selling console of all time. The…
Clean that old iPad! Has it been buried under a pile of tech relics? Just before donation, it is about to get a second chance. We are converting it from a digital dinosaur to a dazzling digital photo frame. Imagine thousand-plus iCloud memories freed from the cloud and elegantly displayed. Forget dishing out more money…
The future is here! Nintendo Switch 2 has been finally launched, letting the untouched gaming harmony descend upon humankind. Some fortunate gamers are seemingly having a time in their pixelated paradise with pre-orders being delivered on time, while a very few others-i.e., me-just managed to throw chance out the window with an impromptu GameStop grab!…
For decades, the dance in GPU land had almost become a predictable affair: NVIDIA releases a giant shady power, and AMD warms itself to scrambling for a budget alternative. Recently, the script has been flipped. AMD Radeon RX 9070 series performed beyond expectations to prices that just made NVIDIA sweat. Now, entering the ring is…
Saying that American electric minivans are a rarity almost tells the whole story. And that very scarcity makes the VW’s ID.Buzz all the more attractive. You’ve got to forget about “fitting in”-this modern microbus is a great conversation generator. I felt like a celebrity the whole week with the vehicle; strangers approached me in parking…
The last couple of weeks have been absolutely frantic at Engadget. There have been so many gadgets landing on the desks that one waves. From a dive into fine looking cameras, earbuds that serenade, loud GPUs, to a pop-and-go portable display. But that’s not all-we’re also rereviewing two big-screen titans from the spring and booting…
Yet another fight with an old enemy: my smartphone. Like millions of others, I too am tossed into the vortex of its disruptions, trying to be mindful about time and mostly failing. I reinstall social media apps only to uninstall them yet again. Work-oriented apps have been outright denied entry to my phone unless I…
Cassian Andor wanders precariously toward destruction. Rogue One sealed his fate by condemning him to flame and glory in rebellion. That doom casts nothing but a shadow in the first season of Andor, following his descent from petty thief to defiant spy; it is a suffocating presence. The final season is promising something much worse-the…
