Back in the day, Verizon proved their expansive reach with the spokesperson who asked “Can you hear me now?” With the spokesman pulling a Benedict Arnold and moving to T-Mobile, Verizon is now called the “Network America Relies On,” proven by their 4G LTE network covering 99% of the U.S. population, and 5G network expanding […]
If WIRED doesn’t write about Brooks running shoes more often, it’s because they’re so good and so reliable that it simply doesn’t occur to us. We just buy the next edition of the Brooks Ghost and carry on with our day. After all, how often do you have to think about your favorite hoodie or […]
Nomad routinely tops many of our accessory buying guides. Its wireless chargers, iPhone cases, and Apple Watch straps are well made and functional with a stylish aesthetic, albeit a little pricey. That’s resolved with the Nomad Black Friday Sale event, which has discounts of up to 30 percent off select products, and up to 80 […]
Boutayna Chokrane is a product writer and reviewer at WIRED. Before joining the Gear team, she was a music editorial fellow at Pitchfork. She also worked as a freelance journalist, covering fashion, art, and culture for Vogue, Rolling Stone, the Cut, and others. She graduated from Northwestern University with a… Read more
Honorable Mentions • Skylight 10-inch Frame for $170: This frame was a previous honorable mention, and it’s still a solid frame. We like other frames better for the price, including the new Skylight Frame 2 (especially with its Snap Frame accessories). • Cozyla frames: We tried a few from this brand. Photo quality was great […]
Back in 2020, the HyperX QuadCast S was the USB microphone every Twitch streamer seemingly had on their streams. Now, the QuadCast 2 S is here to try to one-up its predecessor. And what does it bring to the table? A lot more LEDs, for starters. The original QuadCast only lit up in red, while […]
The Neural DSP Quad Cortex is undeniably one of the finest guitar amp modelers in the world. For a certain kind of gigging musician who wants to minimize bulk and doesn’t require much in the way of effects, it can pretty convincingly re-create any number of amps, and has plenty of options for bread and […]
The last electric mountain bike I tested cost $8,000. That’s a lot of dough, and a lot of working parts to troubleshoot when things go sideways, as they eventually will with any bike. Alternatively, the Clip, which markets itself as the “first plug-and-play bike-upgrade device” starts at $500 and doesn’t even need a companion app. […]
Three years ago, while strolling through an American mall with his wife, Volkan Yilmaz once again found himself mulling a question that had been on his mind for years. They’d just passed a Louis Vuitton store, its signature monogrammed bags visible through the window. “I’d always wondered why these bags cost thousands of dollars, especially […]
The world is full of feel-bad news. Here’s something to feel good about: Automatic emergency braking is one of the great car safety-tech success stories. Auto-braking systems, called AEB for short, use sensors including cameras, radar, and lidar to sense when a crash is about to happen and warn drivers—then automatically apply the brakes if […]