You’d think that the start of summer would mean a slowdown in gadget announcements, but that was simply not the case. We blogged live from Computex in Taipei and then hit up Apple’s WWDC in Cupertino to check out the new Siri AI and all of the “27” software updates coming this fall. And while we weren’t there in person, there were two major smart glasses unveils at Augmented World Expo (AWE), one that looks promising and the other that’ll make you look like an absolute dweeb.
There simply were too many newsworthy gadgets from June that we couldn’t include them all on this list. We recommend checking out our reviews and gadgets pages if you want to catch up on everything.
It’s nice to have new gadgets to look forward to, but if there’s one dark cloud that rained over this month (and will loom over it for the foreseeable future), it’s that prices for devices are going up—way up. Because AI data centers have snapped up the global supply for flash-based memory and storage, consumer tech companies are being forced to pay more to the companies making those components for whatever leftovers they can procure. Those increased component prices are being passed on to consumers, and as a result, even tech giants like Apple have had to raise prices. Some companies, like Xbox, have raised game console prices three times within the last year.
