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Battle of the Modern Cassette Players: Fiio CP13 vs We Are Rewind

Fiio CP13, We Are Rewind, and a Sony Walkman WM-EX660.

Reading Time: 12 minutes. I wrote about...

The Kodak Charmera: A Charming Mini Camera

Kodak Charmera on a remarkable tablet with other items around its size, like guitar picks

Reading Time: 10 minutes. I’ve always had...

Clicks Keyboard for Razr Review: A Bygone Era Returned, Poorly

A Motorola Razr with the Clicks keyboard. Other items are in the background for size comparison. It's about the height of an iPhone 13 mini, but slightly wider. It has a Blackberry phone-like shape

Reading Time: 9 minutes. The Clicks keyboard...

Ploopy Adept Review: Quite Possibly my Favorite Trackball

Ploopy Adept with a pocket notebook, some cassettes, a Playdate console, all roughly around the same size, at least in footprint. Also they're all yellow and purple.

Reading Time: 6 minutes. A little over...

Lost Records: Bloom and Rage — The Tape 2 Review

Lost Records: Bloom and Rage screenshot. A girl walks alone in the woods in the late afternoon

Reading Time: 8 minutes. I reviewed the...

Mode Tempo Review: Why Do I Even Own Other Keyboards?

Mode Tempo keyboard

Reading Time: 7 minutes. Why not have...

Lost Records Bloom and Rage Tape 1 Spoiler-Free Review

Four girls crossing a log bridge in Lost Records Bloom and Rage

Reading Time: 20 minutes. Don’t Nod made...

Life is Strange Double Exposure Review

Screenshot: Deck Nine/Square Enix

Reading Time: 25 minutes. Life is Strange...

ProtoArc EM03 Review A Callback to a Classic, and Something New

ProtoArc EM03 with a keyboard for scale. It's actually quite large, being taller than an HHKB-layout keyboard (no function row)

Reading Time: 6 minutes. There’s usually not...

Lamy Safari Note+ Review: Pencils vs Pens

Lamy Safari Note Plus and Apple Pencil 2 together

Reading Time: 8 minutes. I keep a...

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