Tolino Vision Color: Tolino starts new e-reader with stylus The colorful e-book reader Libra Colour from the Canadian company Kobo was already presented to you in April. A quarter of a year later, the device is now also coming to the German market under the branding of the Tolino Alliance and is being marketed here as the Tolino Vision Color. Starting today, the device is officially available for 199 euros, the accompanying stylus, Tolino Stylus, is available for 69.99 euros from the Tolino Alliance partners. These include not only leading German book retailers such as Thalia, Mayersche, Weltbild, Hugendubel, and Osiander but also Libri, with its approximately 1,300 independent bookstores across Germany. Together, they position the duo of Tolino Vision Color and Tolino Stylus as perfect for the summer and…

The Best Prime Day Gaming Deals The Best Prime Day Gaming Deals Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge If you’ve worked hard this year, you deserve to play even harder, and you can do that on a modest budget with some of the Prime Day gaming deals available right now. Amazon’s Prime Day 2024 sale is currently live and offers plenty of discounts on video games, controllers, headsets, storage, and other gear and accessories to level up your experience. We’re seeing new all-time low prices on some of the top games that have released over the past couple of years. There’s a healthy assortment of titles to consider, whether you’re playing on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, or Xbox Series X / S. There’s also quite a few deals for…

The Best TV and Streaming Device Deals for Prime Day The Best TV and Streaming Device Deals for Prime Day Yes folks, I am happy to report that the briefcase TV is on sale. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Conventional wisdom says that if you want the very lowest prices on a 4K TV you wait until Black Friday / Cyber Monday in November, but Amazon’s Prime Day can offer some solid discounts during the dog days of summer. And what you plug into your TV is just as important, especially since many modern TVs have terrible built-in audio that sounds tinny or leaves spoken dialogue difficult to hear, and app interfaces that are slow and annoying to use. Thankfully, some of these shortcomings can be countered…

The OnePlus Pad 2’s Vibrating Stylus Feels Almost Like Writing on Paper The OnePlus Pad 2’s optional Stylo 2 stylus vibrates to simulate the feeling of pen on paper. With a larger 12.1-inch screen now powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 mobile platform, the new OnePlus Pad 2 brings several performance upgrades to the company’s original tablet. But the most interesting is an optional new stylus accessory that simulates the pen on paper experience using vibrations. The new Stylo 2 stylus is now made with a leather-like material, offering improved grip, a jump from 4,096 to 16,000 levels of pressure sensitivity, swipe controls, and a linear motor inside that makes the tip vibrate to give you that feeling of a pen writing on paper. There are other improvements as…

The Best Prime Day Phone and Accessory Deals You Can Get Right Now Take a couple hundred bucks off the price of a Pixel 8. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge It’s the most Prime-iest day of the year, which is to say, Prime Day is back. Also back: some of the best prices of the year on phones and accessories. It’s an especially good time to stock up on things like chargers, cables, and stands, but if you’ve been waiting for a good price on a Pixel phone or one of Motorola’s new foldables, well, your patience is about to be rewarded. The Best Prime Day Samsung Galaxy Deals Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra - $XXX (Original price $YYY) Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4 - $XXX (Original price…

Bird Buddy’s New AI Update Lets You Name Your Backyard’s Frequent Flyers Bird Buddy’s New AI Update Lets You Name Your Backyard’s Frequent Flyers The Bird Buddy smart bird feeder is getting a collection of new features as part of a recently announced Nature Intelligence update. The feeder’s ability to identify the species of a visiting bird is being expanded, and users will now get notifications when individual birds stop by. The company describes the Bird Buddy’s new Name That Bird feature as being a non-invasive form of bird tagging — a practice that usually keeps tabs on the movements of birds using trackers or tags physically attached to their legs. The Bird Buddy instead relies on images captured by the smart feeder’s camera and AI image recognition that can…

The Best Prime Day Deals for Some of The Verge Staff’s Favorite Gadgets The Best Prime Day Deals for Some of The Verge Staff’s Favorite Gadgets Amazon’s fall Prime Day event is underway! For more deals we recommend across all categories, check out our full roundup. Every month or so, we like to ask our staff about their favorite stuff — whether it’s board games, smart tech, or kitchen gadgets. And the results are usually very different, very interesting, and a lot of fun. Since Amazon is currently pushing a lot of deals through its current Prime Day sales, we looked through some of our recent “favorites” articles and found deals on a lot of the devices we like. So we thought we’d list a few in case you have…

The Best Smart Home Prime Day Deals You Can Get Right Now The Best Smart Home Prime Day Deals You Can Get Right Now Photo by Alex Cranz / The Verge Amazon’s Prime Day 2024 runs Tuesday, July 16th, through Wednesday, July 17th, and is an excellent way to stock up on smart home gear. I spent hours sifting through the best deals to bring you my picks for the best bargains. Grab some serious bargains on robot vacuums, smart kitchen gadgets, and lots of smart plugs. Plus, smart lighting favorites Philips Hue and Lutron Caseta have some select savings on their popular products. Read on for all the latest deals, and be sure to check back, as I’ll keep this updated throughout the sale. Best deals on Amazon Echo…

The best Apple Watch deals for Amazon Prime Day The best Apple Watch deals for Amazon Prime Day The Apple Watch often sees its fair share of limited-time discounts throughout the year, but Amazon’s Prime Day offers a chance for someone to shop deals across most available models all at once. For this Prime Day, we’re seeing some worthwhile sales across the range of the 2022 Apple Watch SE, Apple Watch Series 9, and even the pricey Apple Watch Ultra 2. Most of these require an Amazon Prime subscription, but Amazon’s excellent $100 discount on the Ultra 2 does not. While most Apple Watches are pretty similar at their core (iOS notifications on your wrist, fitness tracking, health metrics, etc.), it’s the extra features added or omitted from some models…

Picking the Perfect Portable Console Picking the Perfect Portable Console Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge We’re in the middle — or maybe just at the beginning — of a revolution in portable gaming. From the Switch to the Steam Deck to the Playdate to the Pocket, you’re spoiled for choice when it comes to consoles that fit in your backpack. But what if you really only play one game, and that game doesn’t work on most of those consoles? You’re in for a lot of Wi-Fi testing, a lot of questions about remote play and cloud streaming, and some complicated buying decisions. On this episode of The Vergecast, The Verge’s Sean Hollister and Alex Cranz join to help us solve a very specific gaming problem. We start by talking…