AI Surveillance Cameras Can’t See Through This Jacket
The last time I really thought about what my outfit was doing for me, I was considering whether my summer dress made me look like…
privacy
Most Laptops Mute Your Camera in Software, This One Cuts the Wire
The privacy conversation around laptops tends to happen entirely in software. Operating systems add permissions dialogs, apps get granted or denied microphone access, and browsers…
Google Built a Translation Device That Doesn’t Need Google’s Own Cloud
Real-time translation has quietly become one of the most useful things AI can do, and most of the solutions doing it well are deeply dependent…
A Designer Just Answered Facial Recognition With a Medieval Visor
Facial recognition has become one of the fastest-growing forms of infrastructure in public life. Cameras in airports, transit systems, retail spaces, and city streets capture…
This Google-Free Phone Is IP68-Rated and Has a Replaceable Battery
Most smartphones ship with an assumption baked in: that you’re fine with your data running through Google’s servers, your habits feeding its algorithms, and its…
Someone Made The E-Ink Kindle Smartphone That Amazon Refused To Make
Amazon has spent nearly two decades perfecting the Kindle, turning it into the default eReader for millions of people, and in all that time they’ve…
This Finnish Privacy-focused Linux Phone Wants You to Forget Google Exists
Finland gave us Nokia, the company that taught an entire generation what a mobile phone could be before the iPhone rewrote the rules. That legacy…
The Brax open_slate is a modular tablet that lets you actually own what you buy
Most tablets arrive as sealed objects with decisions already made for you: storage is fixed, the battery is buried somewhere inaccessible, and the operating system…
Punkt. MC03 Is a Smartphone You Buy With Money, Not Your Data
Most phones make a familiar bargain: free services and slick apps in exchange for constant tracking, profiling, and data being treated as currency. The line…
Jolla Phone Returns with a Physical Switch to Cut Off Mics and Tracking
The mobile OS graveyard is crowded. Symbian, MeeGo, Firefox OS, Windows Phone, all killed by iOS and Android’s duopoly. Most people quietly accepted that those…
PhoneCam brings a sleek and discrete body cam for ordinary people at MWC 2025
Dashboard cameras, more popularly known by the name “dashcams,” have pretty much become a staple of modern vehicles. Although they don’t exactly prevent accidents from…
Amazon Echo Spot returns with a fresh new look that ditches the camera
We rarely hear about new smart speakers these days. Either they have died off or that all wireless speakers are expected to be smart anyway….