The smart home mavens at SwitchBot are showing several new products at CES 2025, including an innovative video doorbell that comes bundled with a dedicated 4.3-inch display. They’ve also taken the wraps off a versatile retrofit smart lock that will work on just about any type of entry lock.
It’s that display that really sets the SwitchBot Video Doorbell apa
Two displays? Three displays? When you need a true laptop workstation, you go with five displays — and Plugable’s UD-7400PD, powered by the DisplayLink DL-7400 chipset, does just that.
As the name indicates, this isn’t a Thunderbolt dock. Instead, Plugable’s new dock uses the DisplayLink protocol, essentially compressing and splitting the signal across seve
For years, it’s been more important to have enough memory, than fast enough memory, but that’s all starting to change. While you still need to make sure you have plenty of RAM for the games you want to play and the apps you want to run, faster DDR5 memory kits will absolutely improve your system’s performance, whatever you’re doing. New DDR5 kits ar
If you’re working with high-resolution video like 4K or 8K, then there is one guarantee to your work: You’re going to produce a monstrous quantity of data. That in turn often means working with many inadequate memory cards. They’re not big enough to store all your data, and certainly not fast enough to get it off the card in a timely manner. But that’s just the price
The long-standing advice for PC storage for gamers, workers, and everyone in between has always been, “Just use an SSD.” It didn’t matter too much if you were using a PCIe 3 SSD, a PCIe 4 SSD, or even an older SATA SSD. The on-paper performance advances in the top drives just didn’t deliver the kind of real-world advantages that would make it worth recommending them
If there’s one component in PCs that hasn’t really changed much over the past couple of decades, it’s memory. While newer memory generations have offered faster speeds and greater capacity support, there have been few new features or evolutions of the standard that make a difference all by themselves. But that all changed in 2024 with the emergence of CUDIMMs—so diff
It’s not enough to just expect your gaming chair to keep you cool during hot summer days anymore. No, it should also keep you warm when your bones start frosting over in the winter.
If that sounds like a pipe dream, it’s not. Razer’s Project Arielle, announced at CES 2025 in Las Vegas this week, is one such chair, capable of turning down the heat o
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When I think of Razer, I think of two things: RGB lighting, and expensive. But surprisingly only one of those applies to the Handheld Dock Chroma, a USB-C dock designed for the Steam Deck and similar PC-based handheld gaming gadgets. The 6-in-1 dock-slash-stand should work with any of them, and do so for $79.99 USD.
That’s not cheap, certainly — it’s more
Do you love Fortnite? Don’t lie, I know at least some of you reading this do. I play the game without a hint of shame, even if I have to turn on what I call Old Man Mode and do it in no-build. I’m not fan enough to buy a Peely the Banana-themed portable SSD to show my fanhood, but hey, you do you. SanDisk is here to let you fly that flag in 1TB or 2TB capaci