Gaming mice have always had a specialization problem. The ones built for MMOs come loaded with thumb buttons that feel excessive the moment you switch to a shooter. FPS mice are clean and fast but leave MOBA players reaching for keyboard shortcuts that shouldn’t need to be there. Buying two mice for two genres has been the practical answer, which is also the least satisfying one.
The Razer Naga V3 Pro addresses that directly. It ships with three magnetic side plates that swap out in seconds, each designed for a different genre of play. The 12-button grid suits MMOs, the six-button layout covers MOBAs and battle royale games, and the two-button plate clears the side for FPS use. One mouse, three configurations, and the same right-handed ergonomic shape throughout all of them.
The side button system itself isn’t new to the Naga line, but the V3 Pro brings the rest of the hardware up to the same level as what’s inside Razer’s top-tier esports mice. The Focus Pro 50K Optical Sensor Gen-3 powers tracking with up to 50,000 DPI and 390 IPS, the same sensor found in Razer’s dedicated competitive mice. Gen-4 optical switches handle clicks with a rated life of 100 million actuations and are designed to eliminate the bounce clicks that can misfire at the worst moments.
The scroll wheel also gets a meaningful upgrade here. The HyperScroll Tilt Wheel Gen-2 offers four distinct modes: Free-Spin for fast document scrolling, Tactile for click-by-click precision, Precision Tactile for finer steps, and Smart-Reel for automatic switching between modes. In an MMO, cycling through inventory with Free-Spin feels different from navigating a skill tree in Tactile mode, and having that level of control in the wheel itself is something most mice don’t bother offering.
Battery life holds up across both wireless modes. On HyperSpeed 2.4 GHz, the Naga V3 Pro runs for up to 155 hours; switch to Bluetooth and that extends to 280 hours. The mouse body weighs 112 g without a side plate, with the 12-button plate adding 20 g, the six-button adding 17 g, and the two-button adding 15 g. That last configuration brings the total down to where FPS players tend to want it, and the weight difference is noticeable enough in practice.
Up to 23 programmable buttons are available depending on the active plate, down from 23 to just two when the FPS plate is on. The pinky rest is also a button, lockable from the underside when not wanted, which adds one more control point without requiring any reach. Double-injection molded legends on the side buttons ensure the labels don’t wear off under daily use.
What the Naga V3 Pro argues, quietly but consistently, is that genre-specific peripherals don’t have to mean genre-specific hardware purchases. The plates snap off and on without tools, the transition between configurations takes less time than a loading screen, and the underlying hardware is good enough that nothing feels like a compromise.
Somewhere in your house right now, there is a perfectly good iPad/Android Pad doing absolutely nothing. Maybe it is the one you replaced two years ago when the new model came out, or the one your kid borrowed and never gave back, now sitting on a nightstand charging for no reason. It has a great screen, solid processing power, and more capability than most factory-installed car infotainment systems from the last decade. The problem was never the tablet. The problem was always that nobody made a convincing way to put it in a car and have it behave like an actual car display, CarPlay and all. HERMIX NANO is a credit-card-thin wireless bridge device that finally does exactly that.
Roughly the shape and size of an iPod Classic, the HERMIX NANO is a compact wireless hub that sits in your car, pairs to your phone, and turns your mounted tablet or phone into a fully functional smart car infotainment display. It supports wireless CarPlay for iPhone and wireless Android Auto for Android, designed for vehicles without a built-in display, or for drivers tired of slow and outdated factory systems. Plug in the included 1080p backup camera and the tablet automatically switches to a reverse view the moment you shift into reverse, no manual tapping required. Who knew that a $74 device could transform your existing car and tablet into a new car experience that you’d otherwise pay tens of thousands of dollars for.
Mounting an old tablet PC to your dashboard and opening Google Maps already works, technically. But a tablet stuck in a car still behaves like an iPad or Android Pad, which means you are dealing with a regular tablet interface, regular apps, regular notifications, and a screen layout that was never designed around driving. HERMIX NANO changes the operating system experience entirely by turning that tablet into a proper CarPlay or Android Auto display, with the simplified app grid, large touch targets, voice-first controls, and glanceable navigation layout people already know from newer cars. That shift is the whole point. Instead of juggling a tablet UI meant for the couch, you get a driving interface built around quick inputs, cleaner menus, easier media control, and maps that make sense when your eyes need to get back on the road in about half a second.
Setup involves installing the device, connecting the power, and downloading the HERMIX NANO app, and the whole process requires no tools, no rewiring, and no dashboard modification of any kind. You power on the HERMIX NANO, find it in the app, connect via Bluetooth, pair your phone, and you are done. After that first pairing, the connection happens automatically every time you get in the car. iPhone users get wireless CarPlay with Siri, navigation, music, calls, and every app Apple has approved for CarPlay, while Android users get wireless Android Auto with Google Assistant, Google Maps, Waze, Spotify, and the rest. Whether you are on Android or iOS, the Hermix Nano app is available free on Google Play and the App Store, and unlocks all features immediately.
The HERMIX NANO also packs a 1080p HD backup camera that mounts to the rear of your car – the moment you shift into reverse, HERMIX NANO automatically wakes the camera up, with no manual operation needed, instantly turning the tablet into an HD large-screen rearview mirror that gives a clear view of every blind spot (again, something your existing iPad or Android Pad wouldn’t do). A backup camera that routes to a full tablet screen is a meaningfully better experience than one squeezed onto the three-inch display of a typical aftermarket head unit. Shift back out of reverse and the infotainment interface returns immediately, with no settings menu and no manual switching. The result is a clearer view of blind spots and greater confidence when parking. For anyone navigating tight urban lots daily, this alone is a compelling reason to pay attention.
On the tablet version of the HERMIX NANO app, a dedicated split-screen feature unlocks a more flexible display experience, with multiple customizable modes including HUD Mode. HUD mode gives a simplified navigation view for distraction-free driving, Mini Map mode delivers a real-time compact navigation display, and Family Album mode showcases selected photos and videos for a personalized in-car screen experience. The HERMIX NANO features five customizable physical buttons on the device body, allowing you to personalize controls based on your driving habits. Easily access frequently used functions such as volume adjustment, track switching, phone calls, and map launch. A long press of the “OK” button allows manual rear camera activation, providing safer and more convenient control while driving.That last one is genuinely useful if you want to check what is behind you while parallel parking without actually putting the car in reverse. The display also auto-rotates based on how the device is mounted, whether portrait or landscape, adapting instantly with no manual setup required.
For global compatibility, the system supports left-hand drive and right-hand drive modes, letting users switch the UI layout according to their vehicle setup for optimal visibility and comfort. The HERMIX NANO interface automatically switches between Light and Dark Mode according to surrounding brightness, providing optimal visibility and a comfortable viewing experience during both daytime and nighttime driving.Firmware updates push wirelessly through the app, meaning the device can improve over time without any physical servicing. By combining automotive-grade hardware, seamless wireless connectivity, and deeply integrated software, HERMIX built a compact smart hub that transforms devices people already own into a complete in-car smart experience. The obvious audience is anyone driving a vehicle more than five years old, but it is equally relevant for drivers whose factory systems simply never matched the software quality of modern CarPlay and Android Auto.
The HERMIX NANO is priced at $99 retail, with early pricing at $74 for a single kit that includes the device, a 1080p HD rearview camera, a USB-Type C cable, a Type C-to-C cable, and a user manual. A two-pack runs $138 and a three-pack $178 at early pricing, and a tablet car holder add-on is available separately for $9. Shipping is estimated to begin in October 2026, covering the US, Canada, the EU, the UK, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and most other major markets. The Hermix Nano app is already live and free on both the App Store and Google Play.
The vase has been a solved problem for centuries. You put water in it, you put flowers in it, you set it on a table and call it a day. It’s functional. It works. But Dresden-based designer Ole Müller looked at that formula and decided the whole thing was missing something far more interesting: the flowers themselves.
His piece, the Blumentasche, is German for “flower bag,” and the name does most of the explaining. Made from a thin sheet of brushed stainless steel with a flat rectangular profile, a rounded handle, and a precise grid of circular perforations across its surface, it looks, at first glance, exactly like a minimalist metal tote you might spot in an architecture firm’s waiting room. The vase part only reveals itself when stems begin threading through those perforations, one by one. It was designed in Dresden and handcrafted in Bavaria, details that feel consistent with the object’s particular kind of discipline.
That single design decision changes everything about how you interact with a floral arrangement. Instead of flowers disappearing into a container where only the blooms peek out at the top, every stem, every leaf, every branch becomes part of the composition. The arrangement isn’t just something sitting passively in a vessel. It’s a structure you actively build, where height, spacing, and direction are choices you make deliberately. You stop just buying flowers and start actually arranging them.
My first reaction when I saw the Blumentasche was genuine confusion about whether it was a vase, a wall-hanging, or a sculptural object that happened to hold flowers. The answer is probably all three, and I think that’s the point. Good design tends to resist easy categorization. It makes you look at familiar things slightly sideways until you can’t quite unsee the new version.
What it does particularly well is use tension. The steel grid is perfectly geometric, rigid, and controlled. Flowers, by definition, are none of those things. Leaves go rogue. Stems curve. Blossoms turn wherever they please. When you thread them through that orderly grid, the contrast doesn’t compete; it creates. The geometry gradually softens as stems fill the openings, and the whole object shifts from a steel sheet into something closer to a living relief sculpture. It changes every time someone arranges it, and changes again as the flowers age.
Handcrafted in Bavaria, the piece reflects a kind of material honesty that feels increasingly rare. Brushed stainless steel isn’t trying to look like anything other than what it is. There’s no warm wood accent or soft matte coating designed to make it feel more approachable. It earns its place in a room through form alone, and that takes a certain confidence in the design.
I also appreciate that it trusts the person using it. Traditional vases make flower arranging somewhat passive. You fill them, place them, and the container does the structural work. The Blumentasche hands the composition entirely back to you. Each stem has to be considered individually. Where does it go? How far through? Next to what? For anyone who has ever stood in a kitchen rearranging a bunch of tulips for ten minutes without quite knowing why, this is an object that actually makes room for that instinct.
Whether it works as well with a casual grocery store bouquet as it does with thoughtfully selected individual stems is a fair question. I suspect it rewards intention. A single branch of cherry blossoms threading through those perforations probably looks extraordinary. A mixed supermarket bunch might tell a less coherent story. But I’m not sure that’s a criticism. It’s more of an invitation to be a little more deliberate about what you bring home.
The Blumentasche sits at that specific intersection of product design and art object where the most interesting work tends to live. It doesn’t shout. It doesn’t explain itself. It just asks you to look at flowers differently, and once you do, the conventional vase starts to feel like a missed opportunity.
Wall chargers have always been the most ignored piece of any desk setup. They sit behind monitors or under tables, doing their job without asking for attention, which is exactly the problem. As charging accessories have multiplied, so has the tangle of identical black bricks cluttering power strips and nightstands. None of them give you a reason to look twice, and most people prefer it that way.
Divoom’s Dipow 35W is a direct challenge to that indifference. Built around a 64×64-pixel LED display housed in a compact, retro diving-helmet-shaped body, it makes a case for chargers that actually earn a spot on the desk rather than getting shoved behind furniture. It’s still a proper 35W GaN fast charger, so the personality doesn’t come at the expense of the performance that matters.
The diving helmet shape goes beyond aesthetics; it gives the charger a defined body that keeps the pixel display facing outward when plugged in. It’s a small distinction, but a deliberate one. The rounded proportions and careful build make it feel less like a tech accessory and more like a desk object that earns its place alongside everything else you’ve arranged.
The display is the obvious conversation starter, but there’s more to it than a looping animation. Through the Divoom app, you can choose from over 1,000 community-created designs, draw your own pixel art, or have it cycle through 18 different clock faces throughout the day. It lights up only when plugged in, so it behaves like an accessory rather than another screen demanding your attention.
GaN technology keeps the body compact and cool even at peak output. The single USB-C port delivers up to 35W, enough to bring an iPhone 15 Pro Max to 56% in just 30 minutes according to Divoom’s own testing. Built-in safety features cover overheating, overvoltage, overcurrent, and short circuits, so it’s doing its actual job reliably while the pixel display handles the entertainment side.
For travel, the 90° foldable pins and protective silicone boot keep the prongs safe without adding bulk. At 44.3 × 42.3 × 41.3 mm and 86 g, it slips easily into a bag, though something this visually interesting tends to end up on a desk more often than packed away. It catches a second look at a shared workspace or coffee shop table.
The Dipow 35W retails for $35.99, available in black or white. For a fast charger that also functions as a customizable pixel display, the asking price sits close to what most plain USB-C bricks already cost. It’s a small distinction that ends up mattering more than expected once the charger is sitting in plain sight with something worth showing on its screen.
Most laptop sleeves are built around a simple promise: keep the bad stuff out. Padded walls, tight zippers, and water-resistant fabrics form the standard playbook for protecting a device on the move. That approach works until it doesn’t, because moisture doesn’t always announce itself. It seeps through aging seals, collects inside ports, and builds up from humidity alone, long before any obvious wet encounter has even occurred.
The UAG 16-inch Ultimate Laptop Sleeve with DRYOUT® Active Moisture-Removal Technology treats that gap as its entire reason for existing. Rather than focusing only on keeping moisture away, it’s built to actively remove it after exposure has already happened. It’s a fundamentally different premise for a laptop sleeve, and one that makes more sense given how unpredictable daily carry actually is.
DRYOUT® is the patented technology woven into the sleeve’s lining, and it works more actively than the name suggests. Rather than simply blocking moisture, it pulls it from the device directly into an absorbent core where it’s trapped until the panel resets. Sunlight, direct heat, or forced airflow recharges the system, making it reusable. Independent testing puts its absorption capacity at more than 10 times that of rice.
What that means in practice is that the sleeve doesn’t stop working the moment the threat passes. Slide a damp laptop in after a downpour, or a condensation-covered device after moving between climates, and the lining starts drawing out moisture from ports and seams that still hold water long after the surface looks dry. It’s dealing with moisture that conventional bags, by design, can’t reach.
The sleeve doesn’t neglect the physical side either. A 600D PU-coated exterior houses an Atilon foam layer and a soft Nylex fleece interior, handling impacts and scratches the way a rugged sleeve should. It accommodates laptops up to 16 inches as well as tablets, detachable keyboards, and other similarly sized electronics. A stretch front pocket covers accessories, and low-profile tote handles make it manageable to carry on its own.
Recovery time depends on the severity of exposure. After light contact with rain or humidity, the DRYOUT panels need two to five hours to pull moisture out. After full submersion, that window extends to three to 12 hours. Neither is quick, but the process is passive; there’s nothing to do except let the sleeve work. That’s a different kind of reassurance from merely hoping a seal held.
The laptop sleeve is part of a broader UAG x DRYOUT collection that launched in late July 2026, which also includes a 22L backpack, a roll-top backpack, a tech tote, a crossbody sling, and dedicated recovery pouches for phones and earbuds. The DRYOUT technology runs through every product in the line, making moisture recovery an integrated feature rather than an emergency afterthought.
The sleeve retails for $69.95, which is firmly on the premium end for laptop carry accessories. That’s easier to justify once you account for what the padding alone can’t do; conventional sleeves don’t actively pull moisture from a device’s ports or internal seams. For daily commuters, frequent travelers, and anyone who’s ever pulled a laptop out of a wet bag, the distinction matters.
