Casio has been making digital wristwatches for half a century. But one of the company’s newest models is way too small to wear on your wrist – it’s basically a ring that looks (and functions) like a digital watch, complete with a display, stopwatch, and alarm functionality.
The Casio CRW-001-1JG will be available in Japan next month for about $130. Perhaps one of the most surprising things? It’s a waterproof design with a user-replaceable battery that should only need to be swapped out once every two years or so. There’s no word on whether you’ll be able to buy one outside of Japan anytime soon.
Casio’s first smart ring has innovative features like a stopwatch and flashing alarm [The Verge]
Casio’s CRW-001-1JR is a ring designed to look like a classic Casio wristwatch, with an illuminated LCD display that shows time and includes alarm and stopwatch functions.
Anbernic Win701 handheld gaming PC on the way [Baidu]
The Anbernic Win701 is a handheld gaming PC that was originally expected to ship in 2023 with a Ryzen 7 7840U processor. Now it looks like it could be coming soon with Ryzen 7 8840U instead.
MSI Claw 8 AI+ [CES 2025]
The MSI Claw 8 AI+ handheld gaming PC will be one of the first with an Intel Lunar Lake processor. According to the description on a CES 2025 award page, it will also have one of the biggest batteries available, at 82 Wh.
Orange Pi 4A low-cost octa-core SBC is powered by Allwinner T527 Cortex-A55 AI SoC with a 2TOPS NPU [CNX Software]
Another day, another credit card-sized (or Raspberry Pi-sized) single-board computer. This one features an octa-core ARM Cortex-A55 processor, an NPU with up to2 TOPS of AI performance, up to 4GB of RAM, and support for up to three storage devices thans to an eMMC socket, microSD card reader, and M.2 2280 connector.
Sony’s new PlayStation Portal update lets you stream PS5 games from the cloud [The Verge]
The PlayStation Portal was originally a gaming handheld that could only do one thing: stream games over WiFi from a PS5 console connected to your network. But now Sony is rolling out an update that lets PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers beta test cloud streaming. That means you’ll be able to stream games over the internet even if your PS5 is turned off or you don’t have a PS5.
It seems like enough features are missing for now that the services is unlikely to appeal to folks who don’t already have a PlayStation console, but it’s conceivable that the future of console wars could be less reliant on physical consoles… after all, Microsoft has been trying to convince us that just about anything can be an Xbox if it can stream Xbox games.
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