Brad Linder    A basic calculator is a tool for quickly performing quick arithmetic functions. But graphing calculators are basically programmable computers. While they’re designed as math aids for students, engineers, and others hackers have been porting games like DOOM to run on graphing calculators for...

Brad Linder    The LinkStar H K V is a port router with two Gigabit Ethernet ports, two . GbE ports, and support for WiFi and Bluetooth . . It’s also a tiny device that measures just x x mm . x . x . . Available for from Seeed Studio, the pocket sized router is an updated version...

Brad Linder    Chinese mini PC maker CWWK’s X P mini PC is a small fanless computer powered by an Intel Alder Lake N low power processor and featuring two . GbE LAN ports, and two HDMI . ports. It first launched in late and is available from AliExpress or the CWWK website for around and up. Now ...

Brad Linder    The Playdate is an unusual and ambitious handheld game console. The console has a bit display and a set of simple controls that includes a hand crank. Instead of enabling support for existing games, the folks behind the Playdate partnered with indie game developers to create a bunch of new...

Brad Linder    This week Heineken and HMD announced a brand new phone that does far less than most modern phones. The Boring Phone is G flip phone that’s designed to be a distraction free device for phone calls and text messages, but not much else. And it’s a limited edition device that will only be available...

Brad Linder    The Nintendo Wii is relatively small by game console standards, measuring x x mm . x . x . . But that doesn’t mean it couldn’t be smaller. Hardware modder James Smith took the guts of a Nintendo Wii and put them into a new custom case that’s about the same size as a The post...

Brad Linder    The Samsung Galaxy Tab A is an Android tablet with an inch, x pixel display featuring a Hz refresh rate, a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, quad speakers, and optional support for G LTE networks. When the tablet first came to the United States earlier this year it sold for ...

Brad Linder    The Intel Processor U is a watt, core, thread chip based on Intel’s th gen Raptor Lake architecture. It’s basically the lowest performance Raptor Lake chip available, but it should deliver substantially better single performance than Intel’s Alder Lake N chips for budget devices....

Brad Linder    Acer launched its first Chromebook Plus branded laptops last fall, with a inch model powered by AMD Mendocino processor options and a inch version featuring th gen or th gen Intel Core processors. Now the company is expanding its Chromebook Plus family with a new inch model powered by...

Brad Linder    After years of blocking third party app stores from iPhones and iPads, Apple has changed its rules regarding installation of apps from sources other than its own App Store at least in Europe. The changes come in response to the European Union’s Digital Markets Acts, and Apple’s not particularly...

Brad Linder    The Volla Tablet is a . inch tablet with a x pixel display, a MediaTek Helio G processor, GB of RAM, GB of storage, and support for optional accessories including a backlit keyboard cover and a digital pen. But what really makes it stand out from most tablets is the software...

Brad Linder    The Boring Phone is a modern cellphone that’s designed to do less than most. You can use it to make calls and maybe send text messages if you remember how to do T texting. But this G flip phone doesn’t support mobile data and doesn’t run apps or games except for Snake . It’s designed to offer ...

Brad Linder    The developers behind OpenWrt have been offering an open source, Linux based operating system for routers and other embedded devices for two decades. So far the team has primarily focused on making software that can be installed on existing hardware. But earlier this year developer John Crispin...

Brad Linder    The first Windows PCs with Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chips are expected to launch this year, and if you trust the official benchmarks released by Qualcomm and confirmed by a number of independent journalists , Qualcomm has finally achieved its goal of developing chip that offers better...

Brad Linder    Samsung has introduced the fastest LPDDR X memory chip to date, with support for speeds up to . gigabits per second. The company says its LPDDR X memory also brings storage capacity and power efficiency improvements. Mass production is set to begin in the second half of , which means...

Brad Linder    The first major wearable built around AI hit the streets last week and the Humane AI Pin was widely panned by reviewers as a buggy, overpriced mess that fails miserably to deliver on its promise. But a startup called Limitless is hoping to do better by doing less. The upcoming Limitless Pendant...

Brad Linder    The GEEKOM A is a mini PC with support for up to an AMD Ryzen HS processor and strong performance for such a compact PC. Ian recently reviewed a model with GB of RAM and TB of storage that has a list price of . But GEEKOM is running a sale that lets you The post Daily Deals ...

Brad Linder    Most of Hardkernel’s single board computers, development boards, and handhelds are powered by ARM based processors. But the company has been selling x models with Intel processors under the ODROID H brand since . And now Hardkernel has launched its highest performance ODROID H series...

Brad Linder    AMD is bringing its Ryzen PRO chips for laptop and desktop computers into the AI age. The company’s new Ryzen PRO Series processors are basically business class versions of the Ryzen Mobile chips that launched last year, meaning they have the same Zen CPU cores, RDNA integrated...

Brad Linder    Earlier this month Apple updated its App Store guidelines to allow developers to distribute retro game console emulators for iOS and iPadOS for the first time. But it was unclear at first whether that meant all emulators were welcome, or if this was just a way to let game publishers offer...