Captured on Nintendo Switch (docked) Did you know that the F-16 first flew 50 years ago, just a few months ago? It is currently enjoying its Block 70 overhaul, in case you were worried that air forces around the world are still flying technology that is half a century old. In the meantime, Bait fight … Read more
Image: Bandai Namco Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown originally released in 2019 nearly five years after Ace Combat: Infinity and four years after the release of Assault Horizon Legacy+ on 3DS. It was the first game in the main series in over a decade and returned the series to Strangereal, the franchise’s fictional stand-in on … Read more
The Sonos Ace The design story starts with Marcel Breuer’s Wassily chair. Bauhaus’s iconic modernist design represented an idealized balance between contrasts – soft and hard, simple and complex, machine versus the human body – and provided the Sonos design team with a perfect aesthetic and functional template for designing what became the first headphones … Read more
Sonos decided to enter the headphone market in May with the launch of the Sonos Ace headphones. The $449 Sonos Ace headphones have some enticing design elements and features you won’t see in Apple’s headphones, so we thought we’d compare them against the $549 AirPods Max to see which is ultimately better. In terms of … Read more
Google has been working on the Fitbit Ace LTE for the past two to three years, and it shows. In my brief use of the Fitbit-branded Wear OS device, what strikes me most – as someone outside the intended child/parent audience – is how much of an end-to-end experience it offers. From the basic podcast … Read more
The Fitbit Ace LTE is Google’s latest Wear OS device and aims to encourage kids (ages 7 and up) to be healthy through games, while also serving as a parent-child communication and real-time location device. Mobile connectivity, the Fitbit Arcade, and other features require a monthly or annual Fitbit Ace Pass subscription. Practical: The Fitbit … Read more
Ace – that’s not only the name of Sonos’ just-announced wireless headphones, but also how good they seem to be. Should their biggest rivals, namely the Sony WH-1000XM5, Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones and Apple AirPods Max, be concerned? They would be stupid if they didn’t. The Ace has a lot in common with one or … Read more
There’s so much riding on the new $450 Sonos Ace headphones. With demand for the company’s speakers and soundbars waning since the pandemic, Sonos could use a hit product — or at least a strong debut in a huge product category . The Ace certainly could be, but these headphones come in the shadow of … Read more