Gadgets

The company already makes spatial reality displays for professional applications like medical imaging, but its new ELF-MN1 will target consumers when it launches in Japan on December 11th for around $343. Powered by a connected smartphone or PC, the 6-inch, 3,840 x 2,160-pixel display uses eye-tracking to create a convincing stereoscopic image that can be viewed at up to a 25-degree angle off the center of the screen.

The strange-looking Signature 27 — an Android flagship poised to rival the S26 Ultra, with a Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chip and Bang & Olufsen speakers — is nearly here. Motorola says it’ll reveal the rest of the phone next week. Will we find out Graphene’s software support plans then too?

Steve Jobs once said touchscreen laptops were a terrible idea. Now Apple is shipping one. The Verge’s Antonio Di Benedetto tells us all about the new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR, how MacOS is changing for touch, why a laptop user might want a touchscreen, and whether MacBook and iPad are destined to become one.

Would you believe I’ve only got 14 more prize packs to give away? Not 14 prizes, 14 packs, but I started with 31 so we’re more than halfway there. Thing is, I’ve got more items I’ll need to giveaway or drop at charity thrift because The Verge doesn’t keep the gadgets we test. You can enter our giveaway each week — so long as you do before each deadline of 9AM ET Wednesday. Tell a friend!

The CMF by Nothing Speaker M is on sale for $89 ($20 off) at Amazon and Walmart. The colorful Bluetooth speaker features swappable panels and knobs, along with customizable sound settings, and can pair with a second Speaker M for stereo sound. It’s also well-suited for outdoor use, thanks to an IP68 water and dust resistance rating and up to 18 hours of battery life.

JerryRigEverything belatedly got hold of a Trump phone for a midterm special durability test, including a blunt recounting of the president’s track record so far. It features more evidence that the T1 Phone is an HTC in disguise, including a repeat of iFixit’s clever trick of swapping motherboards to prove the phones are identical inside and out.

The new touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro’s redesigned chassis is only slightly thinner than the Mini LED model — especially comparing the 14-inchers, shown here. It’s when you pick them up that you really notice and can appreciate the lighter weight.

Similar to Twelve South’s recently launched Airfly View dongle that can connect wireless headphones to non-Bluetooth devices, iFi is introducing a new version of its UP Travel dongle that can wirelessly receive audio, too. The $129 UP Travel Max adds Bluetooth 5.4 and support for the aptX Lossless codec, plus Auracast for broadcasting to an unlimited number of listeners with compatible headphones.

The new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display has a section in System Settings for Touch Display controls. Much of it is for toggling similar gestures to the trackpad: Mission Control, Show Apps, Show Desktop, etc. You can turn off touchscreen funcions entirely, but that’s buried in Accessibility settings.

The Beats 360 have only been out for about a month, but Amazon is already offering $21 off the sweat-resistant ANC headphones, bringing the price down to $329 for a limited time. The current discount applies only to the black model, but hey, you can always swap the knit ear cups for something more colorful if you’re feeling adventurous. Read our review.

Now that pixel-pushers, editors, musicians, and artists will have their fingers all over the new MacBook Pro’s screen, Apple has updated the listing for its $9 polishing cloth to include support for eradicating fingerprints from that PROLED XDR display.

The world has plenty of guitar amps, but amps designed for synths are much rarer. Moog’s new Model 210 ($999) and Model 112 ($799) are full-range, flat-response (FRFR) cabs designed especially for synths, keyboards, drum machines, and other electronic music instruments. There are no tubes here, but they do have a fully analog signal path.

I love the idea of waking up to a The Legend of Zelda themed alarm clock, but I’m less in love with the idea of silencing an alarm by handling a tiny pointed replica of the Master Sword when I’m still half asleep. The alarm clock, and a collection of other Zelda-themed items, will be available as part of an upcoming Banpresto merch lottery in Japan.

The mouse features a rechargeable battery, three DPI presets, Bluetooth or 2.4Ghz wireless connectivity, a carrying case that unzips into a mouse pad, and its housing is made from 60 percent recycled plastic sourced from returned Happy Meal toys. Unfortunately just 4,000 of them were made and only sold in China last week. To the eBay!

It’s a time frame the company has suggested before. It says a “virtuous cycle” (well, virtuous for memory manufacturers at least) is seeing AI productivity gains lead to increased demand, maintaining pressure on supply even as SK Hynix ramps up production. It’s already signed agreements to sell more than half the RAM it’ll produce through 2028.

The company “has discussed” that price for the 14-inch, M5 Pro-equipped laptop it’s planning to announce at its “Pro and tell” event tomorrow, according to Bloomberg. That price would be a $400 premium over the M5 Pro MBP that’s on sale now.