Gear News of the Week: Honor Teases a Bizarre Robot Phone, and Kohler Debuts a Toilet Sensor

Prices begin at $325 for the carry-on version, $375 for the checked size, $395 for a larger checked version, or $995 for the entire family set. I’m planning on utilizing the carry-on model this weekend, and it simply paired with my iPhone. In each different respect, it’s a standard bag—it has your customary polycarbonate shell with a (I’ve to say) garish embossed July brand on the facet; smooth-rolling wheels, bumpers, and leather-based finishes. There’s additionally an inset ejectable USB-C battery.

July’s CaseSafe makes it so you do not have to fuss with AirTags, however that also would not cease me from saying you possibly can improve your present carry-on equally with an AirTag and an influence financial institution, and it will not price you anyplace close to $300. —Adrienne So

Fujifilm’s New Instax Has Two Cameras

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Fujifilm announced the Instax Mini LiPlay+ this week, an replace to its 2019 Mini LiPlay digital camera. The LiPlay+ is, like its predecessor, a hybrid digital camera and Instax printer. In truth, little about the principle digital camera appears to have modified. It nonetheless has a 28-mm equal f/2 lens that information roughly 5-MP pictures to the sensor.

Fujifilm has added a second digital camera on the again, although, for taking selfies. It’s a 23-mm equal f/2.2 lens, however what’s form of enjoyable is the power to create what Fujifilm calls “layered photos,” taking pictures each lenses on the similar time, superimposing, for instance, a circle of a selfie on prime of a background. Alas, there doesn’t appear to be a strategy to make this an precise double-exposure picture, which seems like a missed alternative (particularly since Fujifilm’s different cameras, just like the X100 collection, have lengthy had a double-exposure mode).

The different new function right here expands on the unique LiPlay’s capability to file audio and connect it to a print through a QR code. Now it isn’t simply audio however an animated video with sound and music. The Fujifilm Instax Mini LiPlay+ will probably be accessible later this month for $235. —Scott Gilbertson

GrapheneOS Will Come to Another Phone

The security-focused, Android different working system GrapheneOS has introduced it should quickly be accessible on telephones aside from the Google Pixel. The builders mentioned in a post on Reddit {that a} “major OEM” will quickly be added to GrapheneOS’s checklist of supported telephones. No manufacturers have been talked about, however many customers are guessing it is going to be OnePlus, given the corporate’s previous help for CyanogenMod, one other Android different. The GrapheneOS builders do say that whichever telephone it seems to be, it is going to be equally priced.

In a follow-up post, the builders clarified that the telephone maker is “definitely serious about working with us. That’s how we have security partner access.” They additionally explicitly say it’s not Fairphone, which sells a separate model operating one other Android different, e/OS. —Scott Gilbertson

Roku Leans Into AI for Its TV Interface

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Roku has introduced some nifty software program upgrades coming quickly to its common streaming gadgets and TVs, they usually lean closely on synthetic intelligence. Roku Voice now options AI searches, permitting you to ask issues like “What’s Barbie about?” or “How scary is The Shining?” and get a useful reply. Roku can also be including simpler entry to film trailers, higher trying to find exhibits to look at, and an easier interface that can assist you perceive what’s streaming the place.