Flipping over this mouse reveals one of the more atypical design decisions being made: the lack of a bottom shell. Instead of an entire underside, there is a thin frame around the circumference of the mouse that holds six feet in place. Between them is a chasm that reveals the entire PCB and battery. Photograph:
It’s also pretty good looking as countertop appliances go, a bar that Breville’s products tend to clear easily. The “dark noir” brushed steel is handsome, the controls intuitive, and the ceramic-coated top is clean and will likely stay that way over time, more so than a traditional stainless top. Over the summer, I brought the
Ports remain the same. Two forward-facing USB-C 3 ports (up to 10 gigabytes per second), as well as a headphone jack and a power indicator light. On the back, there are three Thunderbolt 4 ports, HDMI 2.1, an Ethernet jack, and the power adapter port. Using the available USB-C ports and HDMI on the back,
Three months ago, Nvidia took the wraps off its RTX Spark “superchip” and a handful of future laptops that would use it. It felt like a consequential moment in the history of the PC, despite all the questions that remained. And now, as announced at the IFA 2026 tech show in Berlin, we’ve had our first hands-on
As far as the Asus’ appearance goes, the side bezels are a bit large, and the top and bottom bezels aren’t the same size, which I find visually off-putting. Nicely, though, the amount of adjustability is impressive. This stand can swivel, tilt, rotate into portrait mode, and the height can shift 5 inches. The stand
The AW3926QW has an RGB stripe tandem OLED panel produced by LG. At the moment, it’s one of just two ultrawide monitors to offer the panel, which is also available from LG’s UltraGear Evo GX9. I recently tested the 27-inch Asus PG27UCWM, another RGB Strip OLED that I was impressed by, but it’s a standard