Articles by Grigor Baklajyan

Insta360 is sending mixed signals with the Luna Pro. On one hand, it’s marketed to lifestyle vloggers who just want quick clips and auto-tracking. On the other, it packs built-in timecode—a broadcast-level feature meant for multi-camera production crews. The announcement..

Global smartphone shipments will drop 12% YoY in 2026, marking the lowest annual volume since 2013—but that slump doesn’t slow the foldable phone market as it enters a new competitive phase. Foldable shipments should grow 20% in 2026, with Apple..

Apple opened AirPods 5 preorders a day after the keynote. One question then swallowed the owner threads whole, asked by anyone holding AirPods 4 with ANC and wondering whether a pair bought last year had already been made to look..

As an advertising copywriter, my best ideas often come from ordinary moments—overhearing a funny comment at the dog playground, noticing someone use a product in an unexpected way, or spotting a clever line on a billboard. However, short-term memories last..

My coworkers spent years giving me grief about my obsession with foldables, and? They weren’t wrong—early hinges felt like high-school science projects. But now Apple has released the iPhone Duo, complete with an absurdly complex 100-plus-part hinge, abandoning two decades..

John Ternus walked on stage after a movie-trailer bit, said hello, and suddenly Apple’s biggest show of the year belonged to a new CEO. Before taking the top job, he headed hardware engineering. You can tell. He gets as worked..

Sony brought two Vice City DualSense controllers to State of Play, and my eye went to the touchpad first. An oversized VI, printed dead center. Palm trees are molded into the plastic itself, the shells shift color as light moves..

Seven straight days of IFA will break anyone. You go from Wi-Fi whitepapers to folding phones and camera toothbrushes until your brain turns to mush. I was counting on CanJam SoCal to be a low-key recovery, but the drop of..

I braced for the usual creator tax going into Berlin week. A microphone refresh, a firmware promise, then everyone goes back to arguing about television brightness. The best IFA 2026 gadgets for content creators ended up being the story of..

My phone was face-down on the couch while I was mid-Call of Duty match. Then Acer started talking about a handheld you can type on, and just like that, I lost the game. Berlin usually hands out new colorways and marginally..

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..