Tag: Consumer Discretionary
Drop’s BMR1 PC speakers are almost really good
At some point over the years there’s been a shift in what PC speakers look like. Many of you may remember plugging in a pair of small, often beige, units into the back of your PC (where the PCI sound card was) and pretending to enjoy the results. Over the…
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Fujifilm’s Instax Pal is a tiny digital camera that lets you print later
With its latest Instax camera, Fujifilm has separated the camera from the printer. The Instax Pal is a tiny palm-sized 4.9-megapixel (MP) camera that takes digital photos, then lets you print them to the bundled Instax Mini Link 2 printer with a variety of effects via the new Instax Pal…
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Talos Principle 2 and the quiet subversion of optimistic sci-fi
“What are we willing to fight for? What do we deserve, morally speaking? What is our place, our relationship with the universe, with nature?” During a preview of The Talos Principle 2 in August, series writer Jonas Kyratzes posed 19 questions about the essence of humanity in just 90 seconds.…
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Spider-Man 2 is following the Sony sequel playbook, and I’m not mad about it
Spider-Man is easily one of the most recognizable fictional characters of the last 50-plus years, appearing in countless iterations across comics, movies, cartoons, video games and other media I am surely forgetting. Fans will argue about the best iteration — but for my money, the Spider-universe Insomniac Games introduced in…
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How to take a screenshot on an Apple Watch
You can take a screenshot on your iPhone, your MacBook, your iPad, you name it. But what about your Apple Watch? If there’s an alert you want to keep safe, or you want to show off your personalized watch face to a friend, you can easily do that without whipping…
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The Morning After: Nintendo’s Direct showcase marks the return of a classic
This week, Nintendo's Direct livestream showcased a bunch of new games for the Switch, and an awful lot of them featured the company mascot (and movie star) Mario, if not his brother Luigi,Princess Peach and moreDonkey Kong. And this is all on top of the incomingSuper Mario Wonder. To start,…
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