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FKCaps: Exciting – If Imperfect – Topre Keycaps Option for Fujitsu Realforce Keyboard

December 31, 2025December 31, 2025 - by Avi Greengart - Leave a Comment

TL;DR: If you like keyboards with Topre switches, there are few aftermarket keycap options. FKCaps has a Minitel-inspired version with a great URSA profile, but the set’s color is off and is inexplicably missing a few keys for my Realforce PFU keyboard – one of the few Topre options. Topre keyboard switches have some of the qualities of cheap rubber dome keyboards and some of the best mechanical switches. They’re quiet like the cheap stuff, tactile like mechanical switches, and smoother and often significantly more expensive than both combined. There aren’t that many keyboards that use them, with most coming …

Computing

Quick Take: HP OmniBook X Flip 16

December 25, 2025December 25, 2025 - by Avi Greengart - Leave a Comment

I need to get through my backlog before the new product barrage at CES! This is HP’s OmniBook X Flip 16, an Intel-powered 2-in-1. Highlights: Cons: At over 4 lbs it’s too bulky for use as a handheld tablet, but fine as a budget digitizer with the pen, or for use in tent mode for media consumption or presentations. Overall, it’s a solid value in the maxxed out configuration I’m testing, and an absolute bargain in mid-tier configurations on sale in the $700’s. Entry models start in the $500’s and the performance hit is acceptable but you lose the gorgeous …

Smartphones

OnePlus 15 Review: Specs Monster

December 22, 2025December 23, 2025 - by Avi Greengart - Leave a Comment

The OnePlus 15 offers specs you simply don’t find on other smartphones outside of China. U.S. carriers aren’t offering this one, either, but consumers can buy them directly. Finally. After a month of teasing and then a formal announcement, OnePlus had to wait for the U.S. government to reopen so the FCC could rubber stamp its approvals for sale in the U.S. In the meantime, OnePlus has started talking about the OnePlus 15R – a lower spec’d model – and the OnePlus Pad Go 2 tablet, but the OnePlus 15 is now available for general sale and it’s worth considering. …

Accessories / Gaming

Seagate Has An Astro Bot 5TB Game Drive Because Gaming is Supposed to be Fun.

December 16, 2025December 17, 2025 - by Avi Greengart - Leave a Comment

If you have a modern PlayStation and you’re adding games this holiday season, you may be running out of storage. Sure, you could buy an NVMe SSD drive for the fastest solution, but large capacities are expensive, and thanks to the ongoing AI datacenter memory shortage, getting more expensive every day. Hard drives are a great way of adding significant capacity at more reasonable prices, but they suffer from being boring. Seagate has solved this problem with a Limited Edition Astro Bot Game Drive. It typically costs around $20 more than the plain white version, but adds more than $20 …

Accessories

Review: Microsoft “Artifact” Holiday Sweater 2025

December 12, 2025December 12, 2025 - by Avi Greengart - Leave a Comment

When I started this site I promise I wasn’t planning on writing about sweaters, but Microsoft has a modern tradition of selling limited edition ugly tech sweaters and sending them to a few media and analysts. At this point, I have a small collection of the things, so a quick review of the latest model: This year’s #MicrosoftUglySweater, “Artifact,” is not actually all that ugly if you are the type to wear gadget-oriented shirts or socks (in other words, me). It is made of 100% soft-knit acrylic (i.e., plastic that feels like soft cotton) and comes in sizes XS – …

Accessories / Audio

HyperX Cloud Mini wireless solves a key problem for kids’ headphones: kids have to want to wear it

December 7, 2025December 7, 2025 - by Avi Greengart - Leave a Comment

When considering buying headphones for children, most people recognize the need to choose a unit that protects their hearing — typically with an 85 db cutoff that prevents the hearing damage that can occur with exposure to music or noise above this level over long periods of time. However, that is only the start. Children’s headphones also need to be sized appropriately, durable enough to survive at least some abuse, simple to keep charged if they are wireless, can work with 3.5mm headphone jacks (especially for use at school), and are something the child wants to wear. That last one …

Smartphones

Samsung Announces Galaxy Z TriFold

December 2, 2025December 2, 2025 - by Avi Greengart - Leave a Comment

Samsung just announced the foldiest of its foldable phones yet: a 6.5″ phone that folds out in two directions into a 10″ tablet. The 2160 x 1584 inner screen can be configured with three 6.5” phone-sized app windows or any number of other configurations, including a fully windowed on-device DeX environment. When open, it is just 3.9 mm thick; closed it is 12.9mm, roughly equivalent to a Galaxy S25 Ultra in a case. It weighs 309g, about a third heavier than a Galaxy S25 Ultra with that case. Like the Galaxy S25 Ultra, the Galaxy Z TriFold is powered by …

Displays / Television

Samsung’s New Display Tech: Micro RGB TV. Maximum Color, Near Maximum Price

September 18, 2025December 2, 2025 - by Avi Greengart - Leave a Comment

Samsung recently launched a new type of TV: micro RGB. Due to the sheer size (115”) and cost ($30,000) of the new micro RGB TV sets, Samsung isn’t sending out review units, so I headed over to the company’s new U.S. headquarters in Northern New Jersey to get eyes on. Samsung didn’t allow me to calibrate the set or even watch content I’m already familiar with, so this is not a review, but I was able to get a good idea of what this technology is capable of and where it fits in the market. Micro RGB is yet another backlighting …