AirPods Pro 3 are looming on the horizon—sure, they’ll probably come loaded with new tricks and marginally better sound. Great. Wonderful. But let’s be honest for a second: do you really care?

Especially when you can snag the V2 for $150 and call it a day? That’s exactly what I did. Pulled the trigger on the V2 and never looked back. Sometimes the smart move isn’t the newest option—it’s the one that doesn’t mug your wallet while still getting the job done like a champ.

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Finally. Ricoh has unleashed the GR IV—a long-awaited evolution in a bloodline of pocket cameras that’s been killing it since the goddamn film days.

If you’ve never tangled with the GR series, know this: it’s the street shooter’s secret weapon. Compact, fast, and absurdly sharp. Now, with the IV, things get even meaner—onboard memory, snappier autofocus, improved Wi-Fi, and a brand-new lens to tie it all together.

This isn’t just an update—it’s a refined instrument of photographic mayhem.

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NuPhy makes keyboards… and they are probably most known for their compact iPad solutions. Today, they announced the Air75 – another iPad centric 75% keyboard that a lot of people are apparently really excited about.

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My photo archive has ballooned into something obscene—thousands of shots, terabytes of chaos—so I had to expand the digital warehouse. And because I edit directly off these drives in Lightroom, they can’t be lazy. I need speed. Responsiveness. No stuttering, no spinning beach balls of death.

Thunderbolt 5 just landed, but my Mac doesn’t give a damn—and neither does my wallet. So Thunderbolt 4 it is. For the enclosure, I went with the OWC Express 1M2. Fanless, whisper-quiet, and blessedly cool. I suspect the chunkier form factor and all those heat-dissipating fins are doing God’s work. $90 well spent.

As for the drive, sure, everyone drools over the Samsung 990 Pro—but I’m not made of gold and bourbon. I pocketed the extra $50 and grabbed the 990 Evo Plus instead. 4TB for $250.

The result? I’m clocking over 3000MB/s for under $400. That’s a hell of a deal, boys. Run it till it melts.

Polaroid just lobbed a new instant camera into the void, and for the first time in years, it might actually be worth a damn. This isn’t some plastic nostalgia trap—it’s got a real lens system, sonar autofocus, and a flash all crammed into a body that doesn’t look like a Fisher-Price experiment gone wrong.

Whispers from the front lines—actual instant shooters—say it works. Imagine that. A functioning instant camera in 2025. It’s a goddamn miracle.

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Anker has been killing it in the whole “outdoor power” department lately. And it looks like they are about to drop a pretty impressive battery powered cooler. According to the marketing, it will cool to 32-degrees in just 15 minutes and will keep there for over four days. Not bad.

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Sigma has always been the wild card of the camera world—never afraid to roll the dice while the others play it safe. I respect that. Their new BF is yet another example of their reckless brilliance.

This thing is a tiny, brutalist slab of aluminum with a full-frame 24MP sensor lurking inside. No nonsense. No dead weight. Just raw imaging power in a body that looks like it was forged in a machine shop at midnight.

The sensor? Fantastic. The body? A work of art. The user interface? Well, Sigma isn’t exactly Leica or Fuji, but at least they’re not Sony. This little beast could be a game-changer for run-and-gun filmmakers.

Oh, and did I mention it’s L-mount?

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Ah, Christ. Another day, another Leica cash grab—some fever-dream marketing ploy designed not for photographers but for the sort of people who think owning a Leica makes them part of some elusive, well-heeled cult. This time, they’ve cooked up a grip—an absurd little contraption that turns your iPhone into a machine that not only spies on you but also pretends to be a real camera.

I’ll give them this: the Leica FOTOS app is slick. Almost dangerously good. And yeah, maybe this grip makes it a little more enjoyable. But not $329 enjoyable. Maybe $100 enjoyable.

Patience, my friend. Let the suckers take the hit first. When the euphoria wears off, they’ll be dumping these things on the used market for a fraction of the price. That’s when you strike.

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