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Every year over 200,000 people descend on Berlin for IFA, the largest tech trade show in Europe. Some of the world’s biggest manufacturers turn up to demo everything from appliances to smartphones to smart home gadgets, and this year should be no different.

IFA itself runs from September 4th to 8th, but most of the biggest news arrives in the day or two before the show officially opens to the public, so keep your eyes peeled for news as it breaks.

The Verge is on the ground in Berlin to see the biggest hardware launches in person and put them through their paces, and we’ll be collecting all the news, announcements, and hands-on demos and videos right here.

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- The best tech and gadgets announced at IFA so far

Today, 57 seconds ago Dominic Preston

We spent the week testing IFA’s best (and weirdest) gadgets, ask us anything

Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge

I’m Dom Preston, a news editor here at The Verge, and I’ve spent the last few days roaming the trade show halls together with senior smart home reviewer Jen Tuohy, putting as much as we can to the test. Read Article >

Today, 57 seconds ago Thomas Ricker

Bluetti launches ‘e-generator’ to take on noisy, stinky, polluting gas generators

Works great on a sunny day. Image: Bluetti

Bluetti doesn’t want you to call the Pioneer 5000 a solar generator (SoGen) even though that’s what it is. What makes it slightly different from other large power stations that can be charged off solar — aka, a SoGen — is the dolly cart and up to 18KW of instant surge power available to start heavy equipment like air compressors, water pumps, and industrial motors. It features IP65 resistance to water and dust, and is designed to operate in temperatures from -20°C to 55°C. So, yeah, it’s a rugged, powerful SoGen.

Whatever you call it, Bluetti wants you to consider it instead of a gas-powered generator for job sites, events, emergency response teams, or the home. A single unit built around a 5.12kWh LFP battery can be expanded to 35kWh — enough to keep the average American home running at full blast for just over a day. It can combine AC and solar input to charge at 6.2kW. Read Article >

Today, Two hours ago Emma Roth

Reolink’s latest pan-and-tilt security cam can last six months on a single charge.

The wireless OMVI 2i Ultra camera also has a built-in 6W solar panel that can keep the camera charged in 30 minutes of daily sunlight. It comes with an 8-megapixel wide-view camera that offers a fixed view of your yard, while a 5-megapixel pan-tilt camera can track and zoom in on activity.

Today, Two hours ago Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

This NAS company wants to run your local smart home

Ugreen’s HomeAgent H100 Pro hub combines local storage, on-device AI, and a new voice assistant, Uliya, to run your smart home. Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge

Ugreen, known for its phone power banks, chargers, and NAS storage solutions, is moving into the smart home — in a big way. This week at the IFA tech show, the company launched its HomeAgent smart home platform that combines security camera storage, on-device AI, and smart home control in one system, managed by a voice assistant called Uliya, with the promise that everything runs locally.

At the core of Ugreen’s HomeAgent system is a hub that acts as the brain of your smart home, running a local-first AI (with some caveats) that you can interact with using natural language via Uliya. There are three hub configurations to choose from, each of which stores all data locally and processes video footage on-device, keeping it local and private and without monthly subscription fees. Albeit likely at a higher upfront cost. Read Article >

Today, 7:00 AM UTC Emma Roth

Who turned out the lights? Nanoleaf gets deeper into red light therapy and further from smart lighting.

In line with its pivot into wellness tech, Nanoleaf has launched a wraparound LED light therapy mask for your neck, which the company claims “is designed to reach deeper layers of the skin and support faster skin cell renewal.” It offers seven lighting modes and near-infrared wavelengths up to 1072nm.

The Nanoleaf LED Light Therapy Neck & Décolletage Mask costs $149.99.

Today, 7:00 AM UTC Andrew Liszewski

Timekettle’s new earbuds are better at translating videos.