Logitech’s New Wireless Gaming Headset Completely Ditches the Dongles
The Logitech G Astro A50 X promises to solve a pretty common issue for console gamers. What issue exactly? Find a single wireless headset that works across multiple consoles and connects to your PC...
View ArticleYamaha’s Taking Me Back to 2001 With Its New Five-Disc CD Player
It seems the universe is always trying to push us back in time. We just saw JBL releasing a turntable like it’s 1994. Yamaha is returning to the glorious Y2K with its new CD-C603RK rack-mountable CD...
View ArticleHere’s How a Walking Pad Can Help You Get Your Steps In, Even While Working
When you have a desk job, you likely spend the majority of your day stuck in a chair, gazing at a computer screen. After a particularly long day, and despite your best intentions, sometimes the last...
View ArticleFitbit Cops $11 Million Fine for ‘Misleading’ Australians
The ACCC’s case against Fitbit in Australia (which we initially reported on here) has led to to the Google-owned wearables maker being fined $11 million dollars by the Federal court. Specifically,...
View ArticleMeta’s Ray-Ban Glasses Now Have Thoughts About Your Pants
Meta’s long-promised AI-enabled vision features for the company’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses are finally incoming, allowing the onboard AI to see, hear, and interpret its environment through the glasses’ 12...
View ArticleGrimes Enters the AI Race With a Baby Grok Doll
Grimes, the futuristic pop singer and mother of Elon Musk’s children, is working on a plush AI toy named “Grok” with the Silicon Valley startup Curio. The toy reportedly has no relationship or...
View ArticleFinally, You Can Buy an Apple AirPods Pro USB-C Case Separately
The rumors are true. If you need to replace or switch to a USB-C charging case for your Apple AirPods Pro, you will no longer have to spend $399 on a new pair. Apple is finally selling its new USB-C...
View ArticleClean Up With up to $550 off During Dyson’s Early Boxing Day Sale
While Boxing Day doesn’t officially start until December 26, that hasn’t stopped Dyson from getting ahead of the pack with some early sales. The cult-favourite vacuum brand is currently slashing up to...
View ArticleGizmodo Australia’s Favourite Tech Gadgets of 2023
Wow, it’s the end of the year again? Barely noticed. Now that we’re in December, it’s time to start reflecting on our favourite gadgets of 2023. We had another great year of gadgets, from phones to...
View ArticleWhy You Should Use a Long HDMI Cable
A while back, we wrote about ethernet cables and the reality of ethernet cables retaining high internet speeds over longer-than-normal cables. In this article, dear reader, I’m happy to confirm that I...
View ArticleThe New Samsung SmartTag 2 Is IP67, So You Can Put It On Your Cat
Samsung has redesigned the SmartTag to make it more versatile, more durable and have a longer battery life. But how does the Samsung SmartTag 2 stack up against the Apple Air Tag? And do you need one?...
View ArticleFinally! A Use For The Web Browser On Your TV
You know how there’s always “an app for that”? Sometimes there is no app for that. Remember when it took 1000 years for Paramount Plus to have an easily available app on all platforms? Both subscribers...
View ArticleWhat We Liked and Didn’t Like About the Phones of 2023
Every year, we review a lot of tech at Gizmodo Australia, and 2023 was a particularly big year for phones. Apple, Samsung, and Google are constantly pumping out new models, and even as we write this...
View ArticleFlightless Bird: E-Scooter Company Bird Declares Bankruptcy
Electric scooter company Bird is flying south for the winter, and it might be a very different kind of fowl by the time it returns. The Miami, Florida-based micro-mobility company known for allowing...
View ArticleSkullCandy’s Crusher ANC 2 Sensory Bass Headphones Are An Expensive Novelty
I am a firm believer in having a pair of headphones for every situation. I have headphones for: walking around, running outdoors, running indoors, weights, cycling (different ones for wet and dry...
View ArticleLogitech Astro A50 X Review: Ditching All Your Dongles Means Dealing with a...
The initial pitch for the $750 Logitech Astro A50 X Lightspeed headset sounds like an infomercial. It’s as if a revived, gamer-ified Billy Mays made a 30-second TV pitch sounding off: “Are you tired of...
View ArticleThe Most Disappointing Gadgets of 2023
While 2023 was a big year in consumer tech and had some clever innovations to show off, not everything was a smash hit, to say the least. Whether it was subpar performance, a troubled launch, or a...
View ArticleHDMI vs Display Port: Which Is Better for TVs and PCs?
Hi, Zac here, computer and TV cable connoisseur. I love going down a rabbit hole of talking about different kinds of cables, mulling over long ethernet and HDMI cables in the past, and why they’re not...
View ArticleSamsung’s New Robot Vacuum Is Scarily Intelligent
Robot vacuums have always used sensors to detect furniture and identify your spaces, but of course, you’d expect one coming out in 2024 to be significantly more intelligent. In the era of AI-powered...
View ArticleDell’s Is Betting Big on AI With Its New XPS Laptops
Remember the Dell XPS Plus 13 released at CES last year that we weren’t the biggest fans of? Dell just released a revamped version of that, called the XPS 13, along with two new XPS size variants, the...
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