Pocketables

Pocketables is an online technology magazine based in the US that offers a wealth of news, insights, opinions, and in-depth reviews on mobile computing devices and portable tech, catering to readers around the world. Our focus is on gadgets that can easily fit into pockets of various sizes, whether they’re in jeans, jackets, backpacks, or purses. Our team of gadget specialists creates high-quality articles and unique features based on long-term use of products, providing thorough assessments rather than quick, first impressions formed in just a few hours or days.

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Ventus Pro tire inflator review

2 weeks ago | pocketables.com | Paul King

The Ventus Pro is A portable USB-rechargeable tire/ball inflator that can inflate at speeds of up to 24L/min and it weighs a mere 1.13lb/515grams. I was interested in this mostly because hauling a CAT Power Station around while cool and all is a bit of a pain and not possible when I’m on my motorcycle. Also it’s USB so I can just recharge it on what I’ve already got in my car/bike and I’m not tethered near the car with a 12v cable sticking out an open door.
I did something cool with a presentation video and Gemini AI

2 weeks ago | pocketables.com | Paul King

I was given a link to a pre-recorded presentation on child behavior and coping mechanisms that followed the traditional Zoom waste of time scenario with waiting for people to join, technical difficulties with someone, and fortunately a complete text transcript of the entire meeting. I cut and pasted the transcript into Gemini’s buffer putting somewhere around 68K worth of text into the Ask Gemini input area.
Gemini Astra appears to work on pretty much anything I own

2 weeks ago | pocketables.com | Paul King

While I believe you need to have a flagship phone at the moment to get on the Gemini Astra radar, it appears to run on anything with a camera. I had been using it on the Beam Pro before reading that select flagships are getting it and thought “huh, that’s not a flagship phone.” I got it on the flagship phone and now I have it on everything. Anyway, works on every android device I have tested and those go back to the Samsung Tab S6 Lite.
Had my first jellyfish blob on the Bambu A1 Mini and am still working it out

2 weeks ago | pocketables.com | Paul King

A few days ago I printed out a fidget toy that’s basically like a large sheet of paper that’s foldable due to incredibly fine linking. It was cool. I printed one and it was great and both my kids wanted one for school. I went to print another and left the thing to do its thing when I saw the entire bottom had printed successfully. I’ve never had a major problem if the first and second layers were down.
XREAL Beam Pro - a running review

3 weeks ago | pocketables.com | Paul King

The XREAL Beam Pro when combined with the Xreal Air 2 Pro bring the experience I was first hoping for with my Google Pixel 9 Pro XL and the glasses. Unfortunately my phone was not a supported device and as such they were mirrored display wherever I looked. The Beam Pro aims to fill the gaps between the supported devices to the Nebula software that runs the glasses. The Nebula software has not caught up yet to run on Google’s flagship, but did work fine with my wife’s Samsung Galaxy S21.
Oh hey! "Play the news" works again

3 weeks ago | pocketables.com | Paul King

I got in my car and forgot we lives in the Gemini era of AI that can’t do stuff that have been a core functionality of the Google ecosystem for years and asked it to play the news. Today it did. I don’t know when that functionality returned but I’ve been unable to hear anything without asking it specifically for a long long time. Now my little curated selection of media outlets from around the world once again are accessible without opening another app.
Recently YT Music started started skipping, here's what my fix was

3 weeks ago | pocketables.com | Paul King

I’m not sure the exact date, but it was recently that I noticed YT Music was skipping during songs, usually about a tenth of a second. Just enough to be noticed but not enough to *completely* ruin the music. I initially thought the issue was notification related because it’s 2025 and YT Music still doesn’t have something to calm down unneeded notifications (of which I am the subject of hundreds of times a day,) but I managed to recreate this in a do-not disturb environment.
New NotebookLM feature allows you to discover sources, troll

3 weeks ago | pocketables.com | Paul King

If you’re a user of NotebookLM you might have noticed a Discover Sources button next to add source. If you haven’t, that’s just Google rolling it out account by account. My work account has it, my home/pro account does not yet. TL;DR – wondered just how bad I could abuse it to come up with conclusions I wanted with no effort. What this does is more than just source a question, it allows you to create the conclusion of the argument and NotebookLM will cherry pick sources to get you there.
GravaStar Mercury K1 Pro (wired/wireless) keyboard review

4 weeks ago | pocketables.com | Paul King

The GravaStar Mercury K1 Pro (Special edition Battle Worn Yellow) was sent to us by the manufacturer and put into operation on Feb 17. The last 42 days have been spent putting it through its paces as a mechanical gaming keyboard while admiring it as just something that looks perfectly retro-future. The Mercury K1 Pro sits as a piece that has attracted attention solidly since the day I deployed it.
A fairly bad Google experience couple of days

4 weeks ago | pocketables.com | Paul King

Google’s not been working particularly well for me this weekend/Monday, but for once at least my alarm clock wasn’t mysteriously disabled. Saturday my wife asked a Home unit what the weather was and was greeted with a long speech that indicated there were some Gemini capabilities now available and that a link was sent to her phone telling her more about it and the whole thing sounded like Conky 2000 from Pee-Wee’s Playhouse.