Gear News of the Week: Google's Pixel 10a Arrives Soon, and Valve Delays Its Steam Hardware

In an update connected its blog, Valve says its extremity is inactive to vessel the Steam Frame, Steam Controller, and Steam Machine successful the “first fractional of the year.” But it besides indicates that specifics astir pricing and motorboat dates are successful flux, saying that “limited availability and increasing prices” connected retention and representation are forcing Valve to “revisit” these issues. That sounds a batch similar terms increases, thing that astir each PC shaper has already warned astir successful caller products coming successful 2026. Companies similar Dell and HP are doing everything they tin to unafraid supply, including moving with Chinese representation manufacturers for the archetypal time.

The representation shortage has been caused by a immense spike successful request for AI successful information centers. The 3 superior representation manufacturers successful the world, Samsung, Micron, and SK Hynix, person each but abandoned the user marketplace successful favour of supporting AI information centers. Prices connected off-the-shelf PC representation began to emergence successful September and October, and truly ramped up successful the pursuing months, present up to 4 times the retail terms (especially with DDR5 RAM). Now we’re seeing the fallout successful conscionable astir each merchandise imaginable. There's nary wide way guardant to however this volition resolve, but we're inactive waiting to spot however large the interaction volition truly beryllium connected PCs and caller products similar the Steam Frame and Steam Machine. —Luke Larsen

Fitbit Founders Launch Luffu, a Family Caregiving App

Yes, that’s right—it’s pronounced “loo-foo,” similar “love.” After founding (and selling) Fitbit, James Park and Eric Friedman realized that successful summation to safeguarding their ain idiosyncratic health, they were besides taking attraction of everyone else’s, too. The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) and the National Alliance for Caregiving estimated that successful 2025, astir 1 successful 4 adults was a caregiver of either school-aged children oregon older parents. Luffu is simply a caller level that lets caregivers easy entree each the wellness accusation they need—prescriptions, laboratory tests, and more—without having to benignant done antithetic devices, calendars, oregon portals.

Luffu is AI-powered (because of people it is), but the founders importune that the AI acquisition volition spell mode deeper than being conscionable a wellness chatbot. Luffu’s AI volition scope done your family’s data, larn patterns, and proactively connection personalized guidance and easy-to-understand advice. It volition besides fto everyone successful your household log medications, diets, oregon different wellness accusation successful 1 level for sharing crossed wellness portals with doctors. Luffu assures america that privateness and information of your information volition beryllium the apical priority, and users tin power however overmuch accusation is shared.

We’ll request to support privateness top-of-mind, due to the fact that arsenic befits the founders of the hugely fashionable wearable, Luffu volition commencement arsenic an app acquisition earlier expanding into hardware. I’m precise funny to spot what a fittingness tracker that keeps way of your household arsenic a unit, alternatively of conscionable you, volition look like. —Adrienne So

Dexcom Redesigns Its App With AI-Enabled Features

Monitoring your glucose spikes is 1 of the easiest (well, cheapest) ways of nudging you towards healthier behaviors without having to instrumentality medication. Dexcom, which makes 1 of the 2 astir fashionable commercially disposable continuous glucose monitors, is continuing to amended its ain proprietary acquisition wrong the Dexcom app.

Last year, Dexcom launched astute nutrient logging successful the Dexcom app, wherever you tin conscionable instrumentality a representation of what you’re eating, and the app volition log what it is. This year, the institution is expanding the diagnostic by breaking down calories, carbohydrates, protein, fat, and dietary fibre successful your meals and including substance hunt and barcode scanning. The app volition besides connection Daily Insights with 3 personalized, actionable proposal cards and contextual understanding.

I utilized to interest that monitoring your glucose was portion of a larger inclination (along with macromolecule powders and GLP-1s) that reflected a broader displacement successful assemblage ideals and could pb to disordered eating. However, arsenic Dr. Diane Stadler, a dietitian and prof astatine Oregon Health & Science University, pointed out, patients with disordered eating person a disorder. There are a batch worse ways to suffer value than by prioritizing thin macromolecule and fibre and walking astir aft each meal. —Adrienne So

Blink’s Outdoor Security Camera Goes 2K

The latest information camera from Amazon’s fund marque is the Blink Outdoor 2K+. The main leap for this fifth-generation camera compared to the Blink Outdoor 4 is simply a higher solution of 2560 x 1440 pixels. Support for 2K is accelerated becoming the modular now, and we’ve seen Google’s Nest cams, among others, measurement up recently. It’s bully quality for location information fans due to the fact that sharper footage makes it easier to admit subjects, packages, pets, and vehicles.