The Flowtica Scribe AI Note-Taking Pen combines the functionality of a traditional writing instrument with advanced AI features, offering a practical way to capture and organize information. According to Chan’s Tech Review, the pen supports audio recording for up to 30 hours on a single charge and includes AI-driven transcription capabilities. It also digitizes handwritten […]
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The Samsung Galaxy S27 Ultra is rumored to introduce an innovative feature: self-healing glass. This innovative material, reportedly developed in collaboration with Corning, could enable the device to recover from minor scratches, marking a significant advancement in smartphone durability. While the exact details of its implementation remain speculative, the potential inclusion of this technology highlights […]
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Maximizing focus in a short amount of time is achievable through structured methods, as explained by Tina Huang. One approach involves integrating systems like LifeBot combining Hermes and Obsidian, which dynamically adjusts your daily schedule based on real-time data. For example, the LifeBot system created by Tina prioritizes high-focus tasks during peak energy hours and […]
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Have you ever found yourself wishing for a dedicated numbers row on your iPhone keyboard? If so, you’re not alone. While the default iOS keyboard lacks this feature, there’s a straightforward solution that doesn’t involve downloading third-party apps. By allowing the Vietnamese VNI keyboard in your iPhone’s settings, you can unlock a layout that includes […]
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The combination of SteamOS and the Radeon RX 960XT on the Minisforum 895D7 delivers a surprising level of performance in a compact form factor. As highlighted by ETA Prime, the system pairs the AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX processor with the world’s first low-profile RDNA 4 GPU, offering 16GB of VRAM and support for resolutions up […]
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Apple has officially confirmed its highly anticipated September 9th event, where it will unveil a range of new products, including the much-awaited iPhone 18 Pro and the company’s first-ever foldable smartphone, the iPhone Ultra. This event represents a pivotal moment for Apple, not only introducing innovative devices but also expanding its ecosystem into new and […]
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Your iPhone is more than just a communication device; it’s a versatile tool capable of enhancing productivity, creativity, and organization. By using the right apps, you can unlock features that transform how you work, create, and manage your daily life. In the video below, iReviews delves into eight essential apps that can elevate your iPhone […]
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Most of the AI money right now is betting on robots. Hundreds of embodied-AI startups and their backers are convinced that a bipedal machine will eventually become the household’s operating system, rolling from room to room and handling everything. Endong Zhang, the founder and CEO of LiveLarge Home Inc., thinks that’s the wrong frame, and he’s pretty candid about it.
A robot, he points out, has limited battery life, limited field of view, and can only be in one place at any given moment, which makes it a fairly weak candidate for running a multi-room household with several people in it. His counterproposal is that the building itself is the smarter infrastructure bet, and he’s building a company around exactly that.
The company Zhang founded in 2023 spent its first few years looking more like a serious California construction operation than a tech startup, delivering more than 20 accessory dwelling units (ADU) and residential projects across the Bay Area and Los Angeles.
Endong Zhang – Founder and CEO, LiveLarge Home
In July 2026, LiveLarge revealed the Flagship L-Space, a standalone AI-native room environment and the clearest physical statement of Zhang’s thesis so far. Light, sound, air, privacy glass, and a voice assistant called Lila are coordinated as one system rather than a pile of separate apps, organized around three modes: Focus, Reset, and Passion.
The conceptual core of Space AI is a deceptively simple question: can AI give every household some version of what a housekeeper provides? Zhang keeps returning to the housekeeper image because it captures something the smart home industry never quite cracked. A housekeeper reads the room, observes what’s needed, and acts without being told every small step. A traditional smart home, by contrast, receives a command or follows a fixed rule, and it doesn’t understand the situation, decide what should be done, or make a plan. “Without a human housekeeper,” Zhang says, “the home itself has to listen, observe, understand, decide and act.” That’s the jump LiveLarge is trying to make. LLMs, multimodal models, and a maturing robotics ecosystem are what make the timing feel genuinely different now rather than aspirationally so.
The room integrates a 5.1 surround sound system, adaptive lighting, fresh-air circulation, a 4K short-throw projector, and privacy glass into a single coordinated environment, all orchestrated by an AI assistant called Lila. The three modes, Focus, Reset, and Passion, were shaped directly by early users rather than invented in a whiteboard session. “People do not really want smarter devices,” Zhang told us. “They want to focus better, relax, recover, or spend time on something they care about.”
LiveLarge makes some deliberate engineering choices when it comes to privacy, with pretty straightforward reasoning: a room that watches, listens, and learns is exactly the kind of product that erodes trust the moment something leaks. The first rule is to do as much computation locally as possible, and L-Space uses an NVIDIA Jetson Orin as its local AI computer, with a large part of the sensing, data processing, storage, and inference happening inside the product. Sensitive information, including conversations, biometric signals, and usage data, can stay local.
The system uses voiceprints to recognize regular users, each user has a separate history and profile, and User A cannot access User B’s conversations or usage records. The full permission system is still in development, but the architecture already accounts for different access levels across family members, guests, and service providers. Zhang’s framing is tidy: “Personalization only makes sense within the permission given by the user.”
The Flagship L-Space is what Zhang calls a “concept car,” and the analogy holds up across more dimensions than the marketing might suggest. The Standard and Flagship models share the same core Space AI platform, but the key addition in the Flagship is vision: locally processed computer vision that lets Lila recognize individual users, read gestures, and actually observe what’s happening in the room rather than waiting to be addressed.
Vision is, in Zhang’s view, one of the most important sensors for a future AI-native home, and once AI can actually see a space, many services that are difficult today become possible. He’s testing facial identification and gesture control as more natural interaction layers on top of voice, and all of it runs on-device because visual data inside a home should never casually leave the building. “The engineering question is simple,” he says. “If AI can really understand a room, what useful services can it provide to the people inside it?”
The biggest lesson in getting from concept car to delivered product is that a lab demo and a product are different engineering objects. In the lab, every cable, firmware version, network condition, and room setup is controlled. A delivered L-Space has to survive shipping, installation, startup, software updates, and daily use. The customer also needs to set it up quickly, understand how to use it, and trust that the basic functions will keep working over time.
At current production volumes, many subsystems still use consumer-grade components, and the challenge of packing computing, storage, networking, IoT control, audio, projection, sensors, and actuators into a compact structure without compromising acoustics or airflow is, as Zhang puts it, closer to vehicle electronics than construction. “A feature is not finished when it works once,” he told us. “It is finished when it works repeatedly in the customer’s space.”
What the home looks like ten years from now, in Zhang’s telling, reads more like a tech product manifesto than an architecture brief. The house becomes a device in the same way a phone or laptop is a device: one integrated hardware and software system where every new appliance, robot, or sensor plugs into a shared runtime rather than living as yet another isolated smart product.
He also believes the intelligence shouldn’t stay tied to any specific building. “If you move, the home model, preferences and memory should move with you,” he says. “The new house becomes the new body, but the agent continues.” For designers, he sees a real reskilling moment coming, one where sensor placement, robot clearances, and interaction architecture start sitting alongside floor plans and material palettes as standard deliverables.
LiveLarge’s roadmap for the second half of 2026 includes bringing Space AI into ADU and broader residential products, which means the concept car phase has a fairly clear expiry date. You can see what the company is building at livelargetech.com.
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Your laptop has two USB-C ports. Your desk needs dual monitors, wired internet, an external drive, a charger, and somewhere to plug in your SD card. So you have a dongle for the monitors, a second dongle for Ethernet, a third one that lives in your bag and migrates to the wrong bag constantly, and a power brick sitting on the floor because there is nowhere else for it to go. The setup works. It looks like a tech garage sale.
These five products fix that. Not by adding more stuff to your desk, but by replacing the specific things that cost you time and attention every single workday. Each one earns its footprint with a clear answer to a real problem. The HubKey handles your dongle situation and your physical controls. The OrigamiSwift handles your mouse. The Logitech MX Brio Ultra handles your camera. The Rocketbook handles your notes. The Rolling Clock handles your time zones.
Count the adapters on your desk right now. There is a display dongle, a USB-A hub, an Ethernet adapter, and a charging brick that has lived on the floor for six months. The HubKey Gen2 replaces all of it with one cable back to your laptop. Dual 4K 60Hz HDMI outputs, 100W PD charging, 2.5 Gbps Ethernet, 10 Gbps data, SD and TF slots, and a 3.5mm jack — simultaneously, without throttling. Most hubs make you choose between charging and full performance. The HubKey does not.
What actually separates it is the top panel. Four shortcut keys and a central knob handle volume, mute, screen lock, and screenshots without touching your keyboard. It runs plug-and-play on Windows, macOS, Linux, and Steam Deck out of the box, with an optional driver that unlocks 170 preset combinations and a fully custom mode when you want it. Simple and immediate on day one. Deeper when you need it.
If you travel with a laptop, you own two mice. The real one on your home desk. And the compact, slightly uncomfortable one in your bag that you use everywhere else and quietly resent by 2 pm. The OrigamiSwift folds flat to 4.5mm, which is thin enough to slip between notebook pages without leaving a visible bump. It unfolds in under half a second into a full-sized ergonomic shape that sits naturally in your hand. At 40 grams, it weighs less than your wallet.
The tracking precision has nothing to do with its size. The Bluetooth connection is reliable. The fold mechanism feels deliberate rather than fragile, which matters because it is the interaction you repeat every time you sit down. At $85, it costs less than most dedicated desktop mice and does something none of them can: it works equally well in your carry-on and at your home desk without asking you to choose between comfort and portability. The folding mouse has been a category of compromises for years. This one is not.
At some point this year, you saw your own face in the corner of a video call, and it looked like you were dialing in from a parking structure. Flat, gray, slightly soft around the edges. That is your built-in laptop webcam doing its best with a sensor roughly the size of a fingernail. The Logitech MX Brio Ultra runs a 4K sensor with AI-powered auto-framing, and the gap between what it produces and what your laptop camera produces is not subtle. It is the difference between looking like you prepared for the call and looking like you rolled in from the hallway.
Logitech is the default answer for a reason. The MX Brio Ultra is what Wirecutter recommends, what the r/homeoffice community lands on after every comparison thread, and what most people in a serious remote setup are already running. The AI framing tracks you as you move and keeps the shot composed without any input from you. At $200, it sits at the top of the mainstream webcam market, and it earns that position by being the camera you set up once, forget about, and still look good on every call six months later. No fiddling with tracking zones, no hour in settings. It works the way a Logitech product always works: immediately and without drama.
You have a stack of Post-its on your desk right now that you bought six months ago, used about a third of, and will eventually throw away when they stop sticking. Then you will buy another stack. Then another. The Rocketbook Reusable Sticky Notes break that cycle by doing something Post-its never could: you wipe them clean with a damp cloth and start over. Same note. Indefinitely.
The material feels like real paper, which matters more than it sounds. Other reusable note products go rigid and plastic and remind you every time you pick one up that you are using something weird. The Rocketbook version is thin and flexible, and the writing experience with a Pilot FriXion pen is close enough to a regular sticky note that the novelty wears off quickly and the habit takes over. The adhesive strip rinses clean and resticks the same way, so the note goes back on the monitor, the cabinet, or the edge of your desk exactly where you left it. The Rocketbook app photographs each note, transcribes your handwriting, and sends it to whatever cloud storage you already use, which means the thought is archived before you wipe the surface. You get the speed of analog and the permanence of digital without running an AI meeting bot or opening another productivity app.
Before every Slack message you send to someone on another continent, you do the math in your head. Or you switch tabs. Or you pull up a world clock widget and then forget what you were doing before you opened it. The Rolling World Clock removes that entirely. It sits on your desk and shows you the time in every zone you track, physically, without touching a screen. You glance at it the way you glance at your coffee cup. No context switch, no arithmetic, no interruption.
At $49, this is the least expensive thing on this list and the one with the fastest daily return. The rolling display mechanism is considered, the design language sits cleanly next to other deliberate desk objects, and a physical clock requires no charge, no connection, and no subscription to do its job. That combination is rarer than it should be in 2026. The only maintenance it asks for is a manual adjustment twice a year for daylight saving time, which you were going to forget anyway, but at least now you have something specific to blame.
Most home offices are assembled rather than designed. You know this because you built yours one order at a time, and the result is a surface full of things that coexist without quite agreeing. These five products are not a redecoration. They are five specific decisions: what your desk connects to and how you control it, how your mouse travels, how you look on a call, where your thoughts actually go, and how you read time without leaving a screen.
Together they cost less than most standing desks and do considerably more. The HubKey alone replaces a pile of adapters and adds physical controls your keyboard never had. The Logitech MX Brio Ultra makes your next video call the last time anyone asks if your connection is bad. The OrigamiSwift, the Rocketbook, and the Rolling Clock handle the small frictions that accumulate across a full workday without ever announcing themselves. That is what justifying every dollar actually looks like. Of everything on this list, the OrigamiSwift is the one I reach for first every single morning — not because it is the most impressive spec on paper, but because it removed a daily annoyance I had accepted as permanent. Turns out the right mouse for your desk and your bag was always the same mouse; it just needed someone to fold it properly.
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