
A Look Back at the New Gear We Discovered This Week
A week’s worth of product news, reviews and buying guides, all in one place.

A week’s worth of product news, reviews and buying guides, all in one place.
By Gear Patrol

The best way to catch up on the day’s most important product releases and stories.
By Gear Patrol

The best way to catch up on the day’s most important product releases and stories.
By Gear Patrol


The bad news with tech is it’s quickly outdated.
By Darren Murph

Gleason’s Boxing Gym has been in operation for 78 years, first in the Bronx and now in DUMBO, and is a legend among boxers for producing countless world champions and staying strong as the sport itself declined from its golden years.

These 20 New York City adventures represent a panoply of off-the-radar activities one can do with a free afternoon, evening or day to explore — plenty of which you’ll be surprised to learn even exist in a bustling metropolis.
By Gear Patrol

Wearable tech is a growing and increasingly diverse market; they all track distance and calories, and most tell time. They all have their pitfalls — battery life, compatibility, reliability, size, price — but what determines the best device is your individual needs.
By Tucker Bowe

Now that the content is beginning to arrive and prices are right, it’s time for consumers and video professionals to use 4K monitors. A whole crop of 4K displays have been announced by all the big names in electronics (save for one…we’re waiting on you, Cupertino), and the variety combined with esoteric naming conventions can lead any well-minded consumer to bouts of madness.

iRobot Braava Floor Mopping Robot You’re likely familiar with Roomba, the robot floor sweeper, so a robot floor mopper makes a great bit of sense. The Braava comes in two flavors: the 320 utilizes dry or damp microfiber cloths; 380t models have an onboard reservoir to re-moisten cloths if necessary and have a larger battery than their smaller siblings.
By Nick Caruso

Laser beams. Why aren’t laser beams everywhere?
By Gear Patrol

American Harvest Vodka Usually when we think of vodka we think of a certain debonair chap from overseas, or, of course, Russia. But what if the man who created a famous French vodka decided to create a new vodka right here in the U S of A?
By Nick Caruso

There was a time when shopping for a cell phone was ridiculously simple. You’d waltz into the nearest Radio Shack, browse through a handful of demo devices anchored onto the wall, and spend a good four to five Benjamins on a BlackBerry 8700 or RAZR V3 (or the Nokia with the changeable covers, which was awesome).




An iPhone killer it is not, but that doesn’t mean the CDMA users can’t have a decent looking phone this fall with Verizon’s new line up, namely the LG Voyager from Verizon. The full touchscreen on the outside of the Voyager hides a massive QWERTY keyboard (no touchscreen typing woes here) on it’s clamshell interior giving you the best of both worlds and the conveniences each has to offer.
By Eric Yang