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Unistellar Odyssey Pro Smart Telescope Review: Fast, Fun, Easy, and Expensive

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The Odyssey Pro Smart Telescope is among Unistellar’s smallest and lightest reflector-based systems. It makes viewing and capturing the night sky as simple as clicking a few buttons on your smartphone or tablet. It is small, light, easy to travel with, and it has an actual viewfinder (powered by Nikon optics) allowing users to start viewing the night sky in less than five minutes.

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Yashica City 100 Review: Camera or Scamera?

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Compact point-and-shoot cameras are more popular than ever. I thought they would be gone forever, replaced and surpassed by the modern smartphone but boy, was I wrong. The compact digital camera is experiencing a renaissance and Yashica has jumped into the fray with its City series of cameras to capitalize on the hype.

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Canon PowerShot V1 Review: Sony Better Watch Out

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The PowerShot name belonged to some of the best Canon compact digital cameras ever made but it has faded into obscurity of late. However, in the spirit of excellent cameras such as the Canon PowerShot G1X, we now see a return to the storied lineup. The $900 Canon PowerShot V1 has arrived and this latest vlogging camera has everything charming and powerful about its predecessors.

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Canon EOS R50 V Review: Canon’s Competitive Creator Cam

Years after the success of the first Sony ZV cameras, manufacturers keep introducing “vlogging cameras” to the market despite the release of the near-perfect vlogging platform, the DJI Pocket 3. However, I do feel that there is some need for more of a “Creator Camera” that can be used for web calls, podcasts, and product videos.

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Geekom A6 Review: Sub-$500 Mac mini Competitor Is Surprisingly Good

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Over the last few weeks, I’ve been testing the Geekom A6 mini PC as my main working computer for editing/retouching photos as well as streaming and even gaming, (it’s the first “real” PC I’ve used in more than 15 years so I just had to). While this tiny device is not the fastest or most powerful computer out there, it offers a surprising level of performance at a very easy-to-swallow $449 price.

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