The school year is coming up quickly, and Best Buy is helping to ease the financial burden of getting a laptop. HP’s OmniBook X Flip is $649.99 (usually $1,299.99), and has a 14-inch OLED panel with a 1920 x 1200 resolution, which is great for YouTube or homework, a Ryzen AI 5 430 CPU, 16GB of LPDDR5X memory, and 512GB of storage.
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At $75 early bird Kickstarter or $90 retail, the Sharge Disk Pro 2 Ultra is a magnetic USB-C hub that doubles as a Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 dock, triples as a bring-your-own-SSD, and unlocks speedy ProRes storage for iPhone. Update: Here’s my full hands-on preview.
If you missed last week’s record-low Kindle Paperwhite deal, you can still buy the Kindle Paperwhite Kids for $154.99 ($25 off) at Amazon and Best Buy, matching its second-best price this year. Since it includes the same waterproof Kindle along with a two-year warranty, a year of Amazon Kids Plus, a case, optional parental controls, and no ads, it’s a great value for adults and kids alike.
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Android Authority points to a report from Smartprix that says Nothing’s “repositioning itself as an AI-first company,” with a slate of upcoming devices that includes AI-enabled earbuds and a smart speaker from its CMF brand. Nothing’s also reportedly planning to launch a new smartwatch and second-generation Nothing headphones.
I’m not too proud to admit that I already went ahead and purchased the Lego Game Boy for $47.99 at Macy’s. This 421-piece set features buttons you can press, two game cartridges, and lenticular screens that almost mirror the real handheld. If you don’t want to pay for shipping, you may be able to get it shipped to a nearby store for free. Read our review.
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This prototype is a fully functional Game Boy Pocket, with a removable Game Boy Camera module and interchangeable CS-mount lenses! It’s from 8-bit photog Crissa Graves, who previously made a Game Boy Camera that fully fits inside a cartridge. “You can still play Tetris and Pokemon one-handed,” she tells me — but no speaker.
Microsoft said Thursday that it’s been rolling the app out “over the past month” to supported TVs running Hisense’s VIDAA OS. The company announced earlier this year that the app was on the way.
The Xbox app is also available on select Samsung TVs, Amazon Fire TV devices, and LG TVs.
The HoverAir Versa is the next entry from the flying selfie cam company. No date or price yet, but it should hit Indiegogo in August. I’d wait for retail: We liked X1, but X1 Pro had lots of early issues, and the company can’t legally ship its Aqua (or likely this Versa) to the US at all.
