The time has come for me to chime in on this whole AI gadget craze.

Two new gadgets aren’t worth your money. One absolutely is.

Here it is, my take on what Humane, Rabbit and Meta are doing to free us from smartphones:

🆕 COLUMN:
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/the-ai-gadget-that-can-make-your-life-betterand-two-that-definitely-wont-c51f49f0?st=a458i34feop0n13&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

🆕 VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhzno-IjuiY

And full video on YouTube, featuring our new phone-dropping drone™: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=967CHiGqyAA

Remember the iPhone that still worked after it fell out of an Alaska Airlines plane at 16,000 feet?

I couldn’t shake figuring out how it survived. So I launched some iPhone 14s and Galaxy S23es 300 feet into the sky to find out.

🆕 COLUMN AND VIDEO: https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/why-an-iphone-can-survive-a-drop-from-a-plane-but-not-from-your-kitchen-counter-57453ca9?st=9uqa298hbwakydm&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Joaquin Oliver died in the Parkland shooting six years ago.

Now with AI he's speaking again—and calling elected officials.

My column / video, which published hours before ANOTHER shooting:

https://wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/ai-brings-back-voices-of-children-killed-in-shootings-7d72cb8d?mod=tech_lead_story

@pmcg ha! Is this the QR code they put in the newspaper? I guess those don’t always work? Hope you got the story at some point!

I decided it was time to get a computer on wheels—AKA an EV.

So I tested 5: Ford Mustang Mach-E, Hyundai Ioniq 5, Kia EV6, Tesla Model Y, Volkswagen’s ID.4.

Then I narrowed down to 3—the Ford, Tesla and Hyundai—and took them on an epic road trip.

Then I decided to lease one...

COLUMN: https://wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/best-evs-under-60000-dollars-3eed42f9

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh8ZDiekQQY

And now we're on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnWmFm006Pg

@Daika I appreciate you sticking around to watch for so many years!

Heat is killing our batteries. 🪫 So I stuck an iPhone and Samsung Galaxy S under a commercial grade heat lamp to find out a few things:

🌡️ What temp will you get the needs-to-cool-down alert?
🔋 Will fast charging speed up the alert? How about recording video?
🥶 How can you keep the phone cooler?

New column and video with all those answers and more: https://www.wsj.com/articles/i-tried-to-melt-a-bunch-of-smartphones-to-find-out-how-you-can-save-your-battery-d75066d1

@Daika wow! This is an amazing throwback. Thank you for reminding me how far I’ve come—and how much older I look.

Heat is killing our batteries. 🪫 So I stuck an iPhone and Samsung Galaxy S under a commercial grade heat lamp to find out a few things:

🌡️ What temp will you get the needs-to-cool-down alert?
🔋 Will fast charging speed up the alert? How about recording video?
🥶 How can you keep the phone cooler?

New column and video with all those answers and more: https://www.wsj.com/articles/i-tried-to-melt-a-bunch-of-smartphones-to-find-out-how-you-can-save-your-battery-d75066d1

@frozencanuck @mimsical HI GUYS!

It's the tech billionaire death match you've been waiting for...

Yes, MUSK vs. ZUCK action figures.

They're jacked. They're ready to fight and explain what this ridiculous fight is really about. OK, I do the explaining.

Latest @WSJ video and column here:https://www.wsj.com/articles/beyond-musk-vs-zuck-how-the-big-tech-rivalries-are-shifting-7430185e

Sometimes you just have to hit the streets with a printer, laptop and a giant battery to generate some AI art and make total strangers' photo dreams come true.

My 🆕 video testing out some crazy AI photo tools, including #AdobeFirefly #midjourney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKoFc14mpMs

@gruber @colin to be fair, John has tried to book me. I just am bad at following up and then he is bad about following up to my not following up.

And my latest video where I blow up balloons with a leaf blower to explain how markets tend to balloon after Apple enters them.

And yes, I do birthday parties and board meetings.

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFmiHEMYd50

The VR / AR headest of today are nerd helmets.

Can Apple change that?

My latest column / video: https://on.wsj.com/42KhULc

My AI voice clone fooled my family, bank and Evan Spiegel. And my video clone + a script from ChatGPT made a pretty decent TikTok.

We’re all going to be just fine.

My latest video and column on the crazy—and creepy—world of voice and video AI.

COLUMN: https://on.wsj.com/3NnZbjU

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/t52Bi-ZUZjA

@dcseifert I can't wait to buy all new shirts with pockets

Thieves are stealing iPhones and passcodes. Then they immediately flip on a hidden switch called the recovery key to prevents victims from ever getting back into their Apple accounts.

The next chapter in the iPhone theft saga, with @nicolenguyen

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-iphone-setting-thieves-use-to-lock-you-out-of-your-apple-account-716d350d

And my latest video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCfb9Wizq9Q