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This is the best way to put a microscope in your pocket

by James Vincent

Using a microscope to get a closer look at the world around you has never been easier — especially when you have your phone to help. There are quite a few clip- and stick-on lenses that turn your smartphone’s camera into a basic microscope, and...

Electric Objects’ new EO2 display put cool internet art in my sad bedroom

by Ashley Carman

I always judge a piece of art by whether I’d put it on my wall. Let me be clear: I cannot afford art, but when I go to museums, I like to picture the Picassos and Monets hanging around my dream house. A startup called Electric Objects knows people...

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Snapchat Spectacles are here and they are ridiculously fun

by Bryan Bishop

When Snap, Inc. announced earlier this year that it had created a pair of video-recording sunglasses called Spectacles, it was a little hard to get a handle on just what the end result would be. Snap was new to the hardware game, and more...

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A closer look at Microsoft’s crazy Surface Dial puck

by Tom Warren

Microsoft unveiled its Surface Studio PC last month, alongside a crazy-looking Surface Dial puck. The new accessory is, perhaps, the most surprising and unique part of the Surface Studio. It's a big puck that is designed to be placed on the...

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Up close with Nintendo's adorable Famicom Classic Mini

by Sam Byford

Today, Japan saw the release of the most powerful gaming console on the market alongside what may well be the least. For about a tenth of the price of the PlayStation 4 Pro and probably even less of the power consumption, you can pick up...

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The Klok-01 watch turns heads and dials

by Vlad Savov

It’s hard to make an original wristwatch these days. But hard doesn’t have to mean impossible, as evidenced by the Swiss-made Klokers Klok-01 that I’ve had the pleasure of testing over the past few weeks. This watch, funded on Kickstarter and...

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If you’re an iPhone user, this is your best hope for a VR controller

by Adi Robertson

Merge VR’s universal remote is a Google Daydream-style motion controller designed for any mobile headset.

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VR eye tracking could shape your relationships with virtual people

by Adi Robertson

The pupil-tracking Fove VR headset is now open for preorder.

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Roli's Blocks are a new kind of surface for music-making

by Paul Miller

Most people, in my experience, like music. Many people, in my experience, would like to make music. But have you ever tried to make music? It's kind of difficult! There are so many different notes, and you get one note wrong and blam now it just...

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The new MacBook Pro looks and feels so good it's unreal

by Dieter Bohn

The new MacBook Pro is here — literally available for preorder today — and I’ve just tried it. The best thing I can say about is simple: everything about it looks and feels so good I almost didn’t believe it. We’ll start with the marquee feature,...

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iSKN Slate digitizes your paper doodles in real time using magnets

by Dami Lee

Earlier this year, I tried out a bunch of digitizing products like Livescribe’s line of Smartpens and the Moleskine smart writing set. Equipped with camera-barrelled pens and special dotted tracking paper, they all worked flawlessly to transcribe...

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Microsoft is shrinking its Surface Book gap

by Tom Warren

Microsoft's new Surface Book might look a lot like the old one, but there's one subtle change that the company didn't highlight at all at its event today. Comparing both last year's model and the new Surface Book, it's clear that Microsoft has...

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Microsoft’s new Surface Book looks very much like the old one

by Tom Warren

Microsoft surprised everyone with a refresh of its Surface Book today, but it's not a design overhaul at all. At an event in New York City this morning, I got a chance to get a closer look at the new Surface Book, and it looks very much like the...

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Microsoft's Surface Studio is a stunning desktop computer

by Dan Seifert

Microsoft just announced the latest member of its Surface family, the Surface Studio. An all-in-one machine, the Studio is targeted toward creative professionals and has features and design traits that make creating artwork with the device easier. ...

The Here One wireless earbuds let you manipulate the world around you

by Sean O'Kane

It’s February in New York City, and I’m at a basement music venue in Brooklyn. I’m waiting to see Chumped, one of my favorite young punk bands, play one of their final shows. An opening act is playing pretty, slow indie music — which I’m fine...

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Duet Pro turns your iPad into a high-end Wacom tablet

by Dami Lee

If you've never heard of Duet Display and you're the owner of an iPad, do this one good thing for yourself and download it immediately. Yes, it's $20, but that's a steal for an app that lets you use your Mac or Windows PC as a second monitor,...

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Razer's new 17-inch gaming laptop has an amazing mechanical keyboard, costs $3,699

by Vlad Savov

Today Razer is overhauling its biggest and baddest machine, the 17.3-inch Razer Blade Pro, with a formidable spec sheet and probably the best keyboard ever attached to a laptop. Specced to be a true "desktop inside your laptop," the new Blade Pro...

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Kodak's new Ektra smartphone would rather just be a camera

by James Vincent

Have you heard of the assassin bug, an insect that eats the insides of its rivals and then wears their hollowed-out corpses like trophy armor? Cool, well, in totally unrelated news, there’s a new Kodak phone coming out. Yes, digital photography...

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LeEco's 'Super Bike' has enough gadgets to save your life or kill you — your call

by Dieter Bohn

I just took LeEco's new "Super Bike" for a spin — or at least I spun the wheels in place. It's an electric bicycle that's coming to the US soon, though on the ground here LeEco's representatives were cagey about when that might be. It may take a...

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This is the LeEco LeSEE Pro self-driving electric car

by Dieter Bohn and Andrew Hawkins

The grand unveiling of the LeEco LeSEE Pro electric car didn't go exactly as planned. After a long shaggy dog story involving a car accident, sleepless nights, and Michael Bay, it turns out the car made it to LeEco's grand event. Which meant I had...

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Here's a first look at Microsoft's new Paint app for Windows 10

by Tom Warren

Details on Microsoft's plans to redesign its famous paint app for Windows 10 started leaking over the weekend, and now an early version of the app has appeared online for anyone to download. Microsoft is completely overhauling its Paint app, and...

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Oculus’ new wireless prototype could be VR’s next great leap

by Adi Robertson

“Inside-out tracking” is an almost magical phrase in VR. It refers to virtual reality that doesn’t require external cameras or towers in order to let you move through digital space — which, more than simple processing power or image quality, is...

I built a beautiful VR avatar in the Oculus Rift

by Adi Robertson

Earlier today, at its Connect keynote, Oculus announced a new avatar system for its Rift — and eventually Gear VR — headsets. Yes, the avatar is not exactly a new piece of technology, even in VR. You can already build an avatar in AltspaceVR or...

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Sony's new cameras show just how drastically photography is changing

by Sean O'Kane

Sony held an event in Manhattan today to announce two new cameras: the RX100 Mark V and the A6500. It was a relatively low-key event as far as Sony events tend to go — the A6300 launch featured basketball players and sparring matches, for example...

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The Naim Uniti simplifies hi-fi audio by acting as an all-in-one wireless hub

by Vlad Savov

Naim Audio is, like most of the best audiophile companies, a small outfit producing super high-end gear at dear prices and building up fan loyalty through a fanatical commitment to over-engineering. Its latest product line is called the Uniti and...

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Google Daydream View is the coziest VR headset

by Adi Robertson

When Google revealed its Cardboard virtual reality platform back in 2014, it launched an endless series of conversations in which I tried to explain why a $20 piece of cardboard wasn’t the same as an Oculus Rift. The two might both get called...

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Google Home is smart, loud, and kind of cute

by Dieter Bohn

It’s finally here, the smart speaker that Google announced in May at its I/O conference. And the biggest thing to know is that it’s priced to beat its main competitor, at $129 to the Echo’s $179. I got a brief chance to mess around with the Home...

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Google’s Pixel and Pixel XL phones are refined, not radical

by Dieter Bohn

Here they are, at long last, the Google Phones. Technically, they’re called Pixel and Pixel XL. I’ve spent slightly longer with both than we usually get at a typical tech event hands-on, and so I have a few impressions to share. But the most...

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The Chromecast Ultra has a clever fix for massive 4K video streams

by Dieter Bohn

What can you say about a Chromecast — specifically the new Chromecast Ultra? Like the one that came before it, it’s a circular disc with a tiny HDMI cable sticking out of it. Like all Chromecasts, it streams video directly from the internet, but...

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The Google Wifi routers are little white pucks you can scatter throughout your house

by Dieter Bohn

Google just couldn’t stop releasing new hardware products today. It’s part of a new strategy: instead of letting other companies take its software and make stuff, Google is making the first version itself. Just so with the Google Wifi, a router...

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This high tech Dutch raincoat is designed for bicycle commuting

by Thomas Ricker

A raincoat review, on The Verge? I know, I can hardly believe it myself. But that was before I received an early sample of the Cyclist Raincoat from a small Dutch company called Senscommon. No, it doesn’t contain any electronics — but it’s still...

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24 hours in Civilization VI: my ongoing war with bazooka-wielding barbarians

by Rich McCormick

The last time I played Civilization VI, at E3, China needed more crabs. This time, Japan needs more guns. It's the beginning of the 20th century and I've pulled my adopted country through 5,000 years of history. I've invented planes, discovered...

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