Chris Stokel-Walker

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Ozlo Sleepbuds

Most sleep gadgets just track slumber. Ozlo’s tiny, squishy bluetooth earbuds are smarter, adjusting to your sleep. You can listen to audiobooks or playlists until accelerometers in the buds detect you’ve dozed off. Then they...

By Chris Stokel-Walker

Meta Ray-Ban Display

Mark Zuckerberg’s September demonstration of Meta’s Ray-Ban Display and its accompanying Neural Band didn’t go off without some hitches—the tech glitched a few times on stage—but the wearables are impressive. A 600-by-600 pixel display on...

By Chris Stokel-Walker

Osteoboost

Osteoporosis weakens bones as we age, affecting 50 million Americans, and women disproportionately. Half of all women will fracture a bone in their lifetime, according to Laura Yecies, CEO of Osteoboost, and hip fractures in...

By Chris Stokel-Walker

Dreo TurboPoly Fan 707S

Keeping cool is tricky. Fans are one weapon, but their dutiful oscillations don’t always hit the spot. Dreo’s TurboPoly Fan 707S, which can be adjusted to stand from 39 to 44 inches high, has a...

By Chris Stokel-Walker

Pando AI Pi

Supply chains are complicated. Pi—a suite of AI agents from the U.S. startup Pando AI—manages them. Powered by 16 commercial LLMs, Pi plugs into ERP and transport systems, reads contracts and invoices, and autonomously handles...

By Chris Stokel-Walker

Bambu Lab H2D

Bambu Lab is one of the best known names in 3D printing, and its new H2D printer is its best equipped yet. The device’s dual nozzle setup can print as thin as 0.2 millimeters. Materials...

By Chris Stokel-Walker

Honor Silicon-Carbon Battery

Lithium-ion batteries—which most devices currently use—are hitting their density limits, capping how slim foldable devices can be. Honor’s new battery design allows them to compact materials while extending battery life. After launching a silicon-carbon battery...

By Chris Stokel-Walker

Sway TPSea Flex

Plastic bags are one of retail’s biggest eco-bugbears. But Julia Marsh, CEO and co-founder of Sway, created an environmentally-friendly alternative with TPSea Flex: a glossy, translucent film spun from farmed seaweed that can be fed...

By Chris Stokel-Walker

Brinter 3D BioPrinted Tissue

Ruptured rotator cuffs and torn ACLs heal slowly after conventional suturing—then often fail when the joint gets back to work. Brinter 3D-prints three-layer implants using bioinks made from living cells and biomaterials, whose polymer core...

By Chris Stokel-Walker

Logitech Spot

Hybrid offices waste space and energy because managers lack data on how rooms are really used. Logitech’s Spot is a palm-sized puck that can stick to walls and sense when employees are in meeting rooms,...

By Chris Stokel-Walker

QTPIE Automated Road Test System (ARTS)

QTPIE turns the driving exam into a phone on the dashboard: its dual cameras and sensors watch road and driver, scoring speed, head-turns, and lane discipline while an AI voice guides each maneuver and issues...

By Chris Stokel-Walker

LiberLive C1

So many looking to sing and play guitar hit roadblocks when calloused fingers and complex chords get in the way. The C1 makes it easier to play a song by swapping steel strings for two...

By Chris Stokel-Walker

ReMarkable Paper Pro

Modern notetakers have to dodge distracting apps and alerts on their tablets. The Paper Pro from reMarkable introduces a focus-first canvas: an 11.8-inch e-ink screen that’s capable of displaying 20,000 colors. The tablet is also...

By Chris Stokel-Walker

Waiting for Ideas PP-1

Conventional record players still rely on delicate tonearms that intimidate casual listeners. PP-1, a sculptural aluminum deck from Paris creative studio Waiting For Ideas, flips things—literally. Place a record upside-down on the device, and a...

By Chris Stokel-Walker

Apple AirPods Pro 3

At a certain price point, active noise cancellation earbuds perform pretty similarly. But Apple’s AirPods Pro 3, announced in September, are “a massive leap forward,” says John Ternus, Apple’s senior vice president of hardware engineering....

By Chris Stokel-Walker

Squarespace Blueprint AI

Consumer-friendly web design relies on templates, making every website look the same. Blueprint AI, Squarespace’s AI-guided builder, asks a handful of questions and instantly spins up unique web designs, including imagery curated by the company’s...

By Chris Stokel-Walker

Samsung The Frame Pro

Building on its predecessor’s success, Samsung’s The Frame Pro, released in April, tries to make technology less intrusive in your home. It mounts with a customizable frame to mimic a gallery wall, blending in with...

By Chris Stokel-Walker

Moft Snap-on Phone Stand & Wallet

Moft’s clever magsafe wallet has enough space for two credit cards—or a handful of bills—in the small vegan leather slab that attaches to the iPhone’s MagSafe connector, leaving your camera clear for quick snaps. The...

By Chris Stokel-Walker

Hedgehog Go

The discomfort of squelchy wet socks or damp gear can be an offputting problem during outdoor sports, but travel-sized dryer Hedgehog Go, which can be used on boots, gear, and hair, offers solace. The 12.3...

By Chris Stokel-Walker

Swear

Deepfake disinformation erodes public trust. Swear’s digital DNA fingerprints every pixel, audio sample, and metadata in real time when you take a video, and writes the hashes to the blockchain, so any later tweak—even one...

By Chris Stokel-Walker
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