Articles by Grigor Baklajyan

Somewhere around 2021, laptop makers just gave up on having fun. You don’t even need to open the lid anymore—you already know it’s going to be a thin slab of gray aluminum with dark keys and a trackpad. My MacBook..

Ever since the Berlin announcements dropped, Doc Brown has been stuck in my head: “Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.” Back to the Future Part II put a flying DeLorean in the sky and set an expectation that 40 years of..

Incremental refreshes don’t deserve trophies. For years, Berlin’s IFA Innovation Awards have rewarded brand persistence over actual progress—until now. I’ve had a tab open with IFA 2026 breakthrough innovations since the Innovation Awards results went live, and it keeps getting..

Every memory maker I’ve followed in 2026 has been talking about one customer, and it wasn’t me. Nobody fills a server rack with pocket-sized drives, of course, though the flash inside them comes off the same wafers, and enterprise contracts..

I watched IFA’s opening from my laptop in Armenia. My teammates were already in Berlin, jumping from booth to booth. It didn’t take long before robots seemed to be everywhere. Four-legged machines wandered past camera crews. Nearby, a humanoid wrote..

Lenovo wheeled out another rollable notebook at IFA in Berlin, and my instinct was to file it under trade-show theater. Concept laptops tend to make a splash on the floor and disappear soon after. Lenovo’s ThinkBook VertiFlex is a good..

I had Belkin’s IFA materials open in one tab and my phone’s battery settings in the other, which tells you most of what you need to know about my week. From IFA to CES, Belkin shows up with a lineup..

I followed CES 2026 the way I follow most of January, through a laptop and far too many browser tabs. The products that fascinated me were the cool ones, though some crossed into stupid territory. From AI in a hairbrush..

Pokémon is 30, and the anniversary drop arrives September 16. Every card in a booster pack is foil, and every pack hides one of 30 Pikachu illustrations. Fair warning before you scroll, though. Nothing below is a card or a..

I’ve watched Physical AI get pitched from conference stages all year (not just by chip companies with plenty to sell). NEURA Robotics is having a go at IFA in Berlin, in front of an audience that wants to know whether..

Most of what I see coming out of IFA 2026 is last year’s laptop with a different sticker. Then ASUS put up the ProArt P16, the ProArt P14 and a small box called the ProArt GR1X, and the CPU in all..

I’ve been thinking about a tiny printer for my mother’s Etsy plans. She makes handmade pieces and has considered opening an Etsy shop for about a year, but still hasn’t listed anything. My head of content pointed me toward the..