The impossibly-cool-looking Pocket Scion is a ‘biofeedback instrument’ that connects directly to plants, bathing you in the electronic sounds of, err, nature

Sometimes, you want a device simply because of how freaking cool it looks, and today is one of those times. The Pocket Scion seems to have fallen from the pages of a sci-fi novel, except its functionality is arguably even cooler. This cryptically-designed device responds to small changes in bioelectricity generated by natural organisms, like…

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I’m already dreaming about the Steam Deck 2, and the upgrade at the top of my wishlist is a sleeker, lighter form factor

I’ve not touched my Steam Deck in months. Were it not for my other half commandeering it as a dedicated visual novel machine and chewing through Higurashi’s hundreds of thousands of words, the Valve handheld would have been getting dusty. It’s not that I’m averse to gaming handhelds—I won’t tell you how many hours I’ve…

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The world’s first ‘true 8K’ ultra-wideband gaming mouse is here, complete with a glowing dongle that’s supposedly less prone to unwanted interference

I’ll be honest—I haven’t experienced many 2.4 GHz wireless connection issues running multiple devices at once. Still, it seems inevitable that in our tech-filled homes, this particular wireless band is eventually going to become saturated and disconnection problems will become more frequent. Two of our hardware team have had such issues, so they’ll be particularly…

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If you can’t wait for the new Borderlands, I genuinely recommend BL3’s solid DLC campaigns—which aren’t nearly as obnoxious as the base game

Borderlands 4 is on the horizon, but if your trigger-finger’s itchy, you might do some shooting and/or looting beforehand—and while I had plenty of fun with Borderlands 3, I wouldn’t recommend its base game without a huge asterisk. That huge asterisk being, “this story’s kinda insufferable and it’ll be buzzing in your ear throughout the…

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