Fender’s first wireless headphones have a long-lasting, replaceable battery
Fender Audio, the consumer electronics brand owned by the famous guitar maker, has announced its first pair of wireless headphones at CES 2026. What sets the Mix headphones apart from the competition are impressive battery life, a modular design that allows the ear cups and headband to be swapped to alternate colors, and a focus on longevity with a battery that's easy to access and swap.
When they launch this year the Mix headphones will initially be available in olympic white and skyscraper black color options for $299.99. That's considerably cheaper than Sony's $450 flagship WH-1000XM6 headphones that debuted last May. We haven't had a ch …
Fender’s new Bluetooth speakers can play audio from four sources simultaneously
Fender, the guitar maker also known for its amps and speakers, has a new consumer electronics brand called Fender Audio making its debut at CES 2026. In addition to a new pair of wireless headphones, Fender Audio has announced a pair of portable Bluetooth speakers called ELIE, which is short for "Extremely Loud Infinitely Expressive."
The ELIE speakers will be available in two sizes, but both versions can be connected to a second unit to create a stereo pair, or you can connect and sync up to 100 of them to fill a larger space with sound. They also both support a unique feature letting you listen to audio from up to four different audio inp …
What to expect at CES 2026
The biggest tech show of the year kicks off next week, as some of the industry's top players show up to Las Vegas for CES 2026. We'll be there to see all the new product demos we can and to bring you the most exciting news from the show. Follow our coverage for a preview of all the new tech these companies are planning to launch in 2026.
Expect to see the usual suspects: laptops, smart home gadgets, and TVs, and a whole lot more wearables and health tech. We're anticipating seeing more products with AI integration. Also, robots. Perhaps, humanoids even.
CES 2026 officially starts on Tuesday, January 6th, but stay tuned for news and annou …
The Clicks Communicator is a Blackberry for your phone
You ever find yourself thinking, "I wish my phone had a phone?" Good news, friend. Clicks - the company behind the QWERTY keyboard case for your iPhone - has just the thing: the Clicks Communicator. It's intended as a kind of complement to your smartphone for when you just want to stay in touch without all the other distractions of your device. The Communicator comes with a full QWERTY keyboard, along with its own cellular connection, so you can leave your main phone behind. But that privilege comes at a price: $499, to be exact.
Let's set aside the fact that the Communicator costs as much as a Pixel 9A and focus on the glorious gadgetness …
The Clicks Power Keyboard is also a backup battery for your phone
Clicks is expanding beyond keyboard cases and bringing its QWERTY keys for phones to another format: a magnetic power bank accessory with a slide-out keyboard. The Power Keyboard offers a 2150mAh battery that can top off a phone battery via MagSafe or Qi2 wireless charging, but its real superpower is its full keyboard that can connect to your phone or smart device over Bluetooth. I love a multitasking battery pack, and a keyboard for my phone that I can throw in my bag? Sounds even sweeter.
The Power Keyboard offers a range of extendable positions to accommodate different sized phones. It'll also work in landscape mode, or over Bluetooth wi …
Punkt’s German-made MC03 smartphone comes to the US this spring
Punkt, the Switzerland-based, privacy-focused phone maker, is trying the whole "smartphone" thing again. The MC03 improves on some of the disappointing features of its previous effort, the MC02, while maintaining its security focus. Likewise, its software still comes with a subscription fee: the first year is included free, but it's $12 per month after that. On top of that, the MC03 is Punkt's first phone to be assembled in Europe rather than Asia, making good on its promise from earlier this year.
The MC02, released last year, wasn't exactly a critical darling. Punkt seems to be addressing some of those criticisms with a more modern 6.67-i …
The Trump phone just missed another release date
Where's the Trump Phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump Phone's whereabouts. As usual, we're still waiting for a response. In the meantime, it's missed yet another of its promised release dates.
When we started writing about Trump Mobile regularly, it all began with a simple post pointing out that the company's T1 Phone had missed its original release date. Now, three months later, it's missed another one.
When it was announced in June, the Trump phone was promised to launch in both August and September (one of the many impossible details in the launch announcement). At …
SpaceX will lower Starlink satellites to reduce collision risk
After one of its Starlink satellites exploded and another narrowly avoided colliding with a Chinese satellite, SpaceX says it will lower the orbit of thousands of Starlink satellites to increase safety.
Of the over 9,000 Starlink satellites currently operating in low Earth orbit, SpaceX says it'll lower about 4,400 from 550km above the Earth's surface to about 480km in the months ahead. This ensures the satellites deorbit faster when something goes wrong or when they reach end of life, and it also reduces the likelihood of collision since "the number of debris objects and planned satellite constellations is significantly lower below 500km," …
Samsung adds much needed brightness to its Freestyle projector
The Freestyle Plus all-in-one portable projector features 430 ISO lumens, or "nearly twice the brightness of the previous generation," according to Samsung. Great! But also a little strange since both the original and second generation Freestyle projectors listed "550 lumens" on their respective spec sheets.
See, projector makers are notorious for playing fast and loose with the lumen spec. So much so that Epson has been on a legal rampage over the last few years. As a result, companies like Anker, Yaber, AAXA, Xgimi, AWOL vision… even Dr. J have all been forced to restate brightness measurements in industry standard ISO lumens. That's goo …
Petkit’s first automatic wet food feeder keeps track of how much your pet eats
Petkit has announced two new automated machines at CES 2026 designed to feed and care for your pets using AI-powered cameras that track their behavior and provide health insights that may otherwise go unnoticed.
Launching sometime in April 2026, the Petkit Yumshare Daily Feast is one of the first automatic dispensers that works with wet food. The machine can provide up to 7 days of meals and uses an NFC-based tracking system to automatically remove a serving if it hasn't been consumed after 48 hours. UVC lighting helps sanitize the delivery of fresh meals, while an AI-powered 1080P night vision camera with a 140-degree field-of-view tracks …