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Spoot: Spotted Early keeps microphone in one place: 3 stories so far. The section currently leads with “Garmin finally lets you yell at your bike computer”, “This desk slides out of sight and hides your work life like a secret”, and “Anbernic's next dual-screen handheld trades nostalgia for a Snapdragon kick”. Garmin finally lets you yell at your bike computer. The FUSEBOOX slides your entire office into a cabinet and pretends it never happened. Spoot: Spotted Early New things, caught while they're still new and a little weird. Spoot finds fresh gadgets, clever inventions, crowdfunding campaigns,… The list below is every microphone story on Spoot: Spotted Early, newest first.
Garmin finally lets you yell at your bike computer
Garmin finally lets you yell at your bike computer. The Edge 1060 now has a microphone and a speaker, so you can bark commands at it instead of poking a sweaty touchscreen while dodging a pothole. That's the good news. The better news is it talks back, which means you might finally get turn-by-turn directions without taking your eyes off the road. Voice control has been sitting in our phones and smart speakers for years, so it's almost weird it took this long to show up on a bike computer. But here it is, and it makes immediate sense for anyone who's ever nearly swerved into a hedge trying to zoom in on a map.
This desk slides out of sight and hides your work life like a secret
The FUSEBOOX slides your entire office into a cabinet and pretends it never happened. That's not just tidiness, that's a vanishing act. Putting a laptop away doesn't solve every problem with working from home. A video call still needs some privacy, and recording a voiceover beside the laundry basket is its own special kind of hell. So this desk hides the whole scene, and honestly, the audacity of it is charming. It's a secret handshake with your own four walls. We've seen flexible spaces before, like that motorhome with a work desk that hides a Murphy bed, but there's something delightfully feral about making your home office disappear entirely. The question is whether the magic trick holds up when you actually need to grab a pen mid-zoom.
Anbernic's next dual-screen handheld trades nostalgia for a Snapdragon kick
There's a specific joy in a hinge that clicks with intent, and Anbernic clearly understands it. The RG DDS is the next step in the company's dual-screen evolution, swapping the retro charm of the RG DS and RG DS Plus for a Snapdragon core that promises actual kick under the hood. It's still 3DS-inspired, sure, but this isn't a nostalgia trip; it's a hardware upgrade with a familiar silhouette. We're gently skeptical about how well Android plays across two screens, but the potential is delicious. If you're the type who circles back to the weird and wonderful, keep this one on the tab. And while you're at it, the $146 Await camera reminds us that sometimes the best tech is the stuff that makes you slow down. Stay spooty.