Gadgets are getting weird — and so are iPhone homescreens

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On The Vergecast: Trump, Apple betas, and a circular of “is this anything?”

By David Pierce, editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with implicit a decennary of acquisition covering user tech. Previously, astatine Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired.

Jul 19, 2024, 1:09 PM UTC

Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge

In 2024, it’s ever gadget season. But successful these blistery mid-July weeks, aft splashy announcements from Samsung and Motorola and earlier we spot what’s coming from Google and Apple, it’s officially Weird Gadget Season.

On this occurrence of The Vergecast, we dive into the galore weird gadgets that surfaced this week: an iPod-y Apple Watch accessory, an AI-powered Canon camera, the extremely gangly Essential phone that ne'er made it to market, and more. We speech astir them all, ever asking the important question: is this anything?

But earlier we get to the weird gadgets, we spell done immoderate of the large quality of the week. After the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, the existent authorities of societal media contented moderation has revealed itself... and it’s beauteous bleak. We speech astir what it means that the conspiracy theories are everywhere, and whether that’s going to alteration anytime soon.

After that, we sermon what’s successful the caller Apple nationalist betas, from the iPad’s impressive but quirky Math Notes feature to the new Phone Mirroring tool that is some large and benignant of ridiculous. Then it’s weird gadget time.

If you privation to cognize much astir everything we sermon successful this episode, present are immoderate links to get you started, opening with the aftermath of the Trump shooting:

And connected Apple betas:

And successful the “is this anything” gadget bonanza:

And successful the lightning round:

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