Combined sales of different Amazon and Google devices exceeded HomePod mini figures in Q1 2022, yet Apple's device grew 29% year-over-year to become the top-selling smart speaker. Apple share doubled in the smart speaker market during 2021 thanks to the HomePod mini, and now new figures show Apple's sole smart speaker is continuing to sell well in 2022.

It’s got actual physical buttons.

With Apple discontinuing the original HomePod last year, users were eager for a new iteration of the company’s bigger smart speaker. Although its mini version is slowly expanding globally, it feels that Apple’s audio ecosystem is lacking a more powerful speaker.

Is that a Google tablet or a Samsung tablet from 2014?

Time to put yourself to sleep.

How to Recycle your old gadgets in 2022? E-waste (Electronic waste) has become one of the most common problems across the world where disposing of your old device can become a headache. Most people exchange their old devices when they buy a new one.

3D printing can be a time-consuming and expensive hobby — even if you try to do it on the cheap. It feels like I’ve adjusted, replaced, or upgraded half the parts on my Ender 3 Pro. It’s been fun, but never easy.

Did you ever listen to music via bluetooth and got a call? Did the quality get a lot worse? What happened to all those fancy codecs?

AirPods are a fantastic product. However, the small annoyances that occur when using them don't allow it to fall under the category of Apple products that “Just Work”. These are the gripes I've had after many years of AirPod usage. I'm currently on my third pair.

Huawei has disguised these headphones as lipstick

Waking up is hard; sometimes you need more than a little chiming alarm to get you out of bed. When [Vinnie Satriale] started unconsciously switching his alarms off, he went all out, deciding to build a Nerf sentry blaster to wake him up instead.

If you have diabetes, or ever suspected that you might, you will have done the poke-your-finger-and-drop-blood-on-a-stick thing until your finger goes numb. Finger-prick blood glucose monitoring is the de facto standard, but AI company Scanbo wants to put an end to all that, replacing the droplet with some off-the-shelf diagnostic tools and a big helping of data analysis.

The CharaChorder is a new kind of typing peripheral that promises to let people type at superhuman speeds. It’s so fast that the website Monkeytype, which lets users participate in typing challenges and maintains its own leaderboard, automatically flagged CharaChorder’s CEO as a cheater when he attempted to post his 500 WPM score on the its leaderboards.

Apple's second-generation AirPods Pro will feature support for Lossless audio and a charging case that can emit a sound for location tracking purposes, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.

It’s no bigger than a drinking glass, and it fits easily in the palm of the hand. It resembles a pepper grinder—or perhaps a hand grenade.

My colleague Tom once introduced you to a modern toaster with two seemingly ingenious buttons: one to briefly lift your bread to check its progress, and another to toast it “a bit more.” I respectfully submit you shouldn’t need a button at all.

Despite its failed AirPower experiment a few years ago, Apple is reportedly still working on a multi-device charger for its products. According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple is developing a multi-device charger, as well as short and long distance wireless charging technology for its idea of a future where all major devices “can charge each other.”

They really don’t make ‘em like they used to

From the Hydrogen One to that MacBook keyboard.

Razer is taking on the COVID-19 pandemic by launching its new Zephyr face masks, which are designed to keep gamers safe — if you’re brave enough to wear them in public. Though the Razer Zephyr, originally announced as Project Hazel, has a similar black-clad aesthetic as most of the company’s gaming laptops, the gaming-forward, RGB-lit dual fans on your face could make the contraption seem a bit ostentatious as a face covering. Don’t expect to go incognito when you’re donning the Zephyr.