Alex Cranz
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The Coolest Gadgets of 2020
It didn’t feel like it, what with a major pandemic and massive financial crisis, but 2020 was actually an incredible year for gadgets. For companies like Apple and Microsoft, this could have been a landmark year were it not for everything else going on. While the competition for our attention this year was steep, there…
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The Best Game Controller Maker Is Making Gaming Headsets Now, Too
Scuf has made some of the best controllers I’ve ever held, and now the company is introducing a new headset that promises customisability, but not in the way you’d expect.
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Playing Mario Kart IRL Is a Shockingly Good Time
While there are plenty of places where you can pay to put on a Mario cap and tool around in a go-kart making like it’s the Rainbow Road, real-life Mario Kart lacks the fun power-ups and gentle mayhem of the video game. I assumed Nintendo’s Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit, which lets you drive a…
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I Miss Videodiscs, the Fragile Garbage That Shaped My Childhood
When I talk about the discs I watched videos on as a kid people assume I mean laser discs, or maybe I’ve confused my decades and mean DVDs, or even video CDs. There’s an assumption that I’ve just misremembered things, but that’s because the capacitance electronic disc, or videodisc (or in my house just “disc”),…