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Falling prices, rising solar attachment rates, and grid reliability worries have pushed home batteries from a niche add-on to a default line item on solar quotes — and increasingly a standalone purchase.
Meta sold over 7 million Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2025 and locked up 76.1% of the market. Google's competing Android XR glasses don't ship until autumn 2026 — and the two companies aren't even building the same product.
Smart locks have been a liability for a decade — dead batteries, laggy apps, unreliable Bluetooth range. Two separate engineering fixes shipping in 2026 attack both root causes at once, and together they change whether a smart lock is worth trusting with your front door.
Smart ring shipments grew 88% in a single year while smartwatch growth stalled. Here's why the ring form factor is winning the health-tracking category smartwatches used to own.
Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses moved 7 million units in 2025. Google is launching Android XR audio glasses with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster this fall. Samsung is co-developing display glasses. After Google Glass failed spectacularly in 2013, something has quietly changed — and it's not the technology.
The Connectivity Standards Alliance finalized Matter 1.5 in November 2025, adding cameras and video doorbells for the first time. Samsung SmartThings ships it. Apple, Google, and Amazon still don't. Here's the practical state of the smart home in 2026.
Active noise cancellation used to justify a $300 price tag. In 2026, it ships in $49 earbuds. The real battleground has shifted to biometric health tracking, real-time AI audio processing, and ambient hearing augmentation — and not every manufacturer is ready for the transition.
Silicon-carbon anodes are ending the era of incremental battery gains. Phones with 5,000–7,000mAh batteries in slim designs are already shipping — and the chemistry behind them changes everything.
Apple's AirPods Pro 3 received FDA clearance as over-the-counter hearing aids in 2024, enabling them to amplify speech and correct mild-to-moderate hearing loss — transforming a $249 consumer product into a regulated medical device and threatening to upend an industry long dominated by five companies charging $3,000–$7,000 per pair.
Apple's AirPods Pro 3 and Google's Pixel Buds Pro 2 now offer genuine real-time conversation translation, while Sony's WF-1000XM6 and Bose's QuietComfort Ultra 2nd Gen take a different path — here is what works, what does not, and which pair to buy. From 1-second latency figures to 70-language support, this guide cuts through the marketing to show you the real state of AI translation earbuds in 2026.
Wi-Fi 7 promises multi-gigabit speeds and dramatically lower latency, but the real gains depend on hardware and use cases most homes do not have yet. Here is an honest look at what 802.11be actually delivers today.
Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses sold more than 4 million units in 2024 and proved that people will wear AI on their faces if the hardware is lightweight and the glasses look normal. Now Google has shipped Android XR glasses, Samsung is in the race, and the category is suddenly competitive in a way it hasn't been since Glass Enterprise Edition.