Gear News of the Week: There’s Yet Another New AI Browser, and Fujifilm Debuts the X-T30 III

What are the odds that two AI browsers launch in one week? OpenAI announced Atlas on Wednesday, a ChatGPT-powered Chromium browser, but a tiny startup called Nimo also debuted Nimo Infinity, a canvas-style AI browser with a generative user interface.

I first wrote about Nimo several years ago. The startup originally had a vision to build spatial computing smart glasses, very much like Sightful’s Spacetop, and while Nimo chipped away at the project for several years, it finally pivoted.

Nimo Infinity is its first real product (though still in beta), and the software is available for macOS first; a Windows app is in the works. Launch it on macOS, and it’ll take over your desktop, providing an AI canvas to space out all of your work.

The idea is that you connect your favorite apps to Nimo Infinity (the browser is based on Chromium), and rather than interacting with your apps in a traditional way, you can use the AI assistant to pull information from your app and have it generate a “Dynamic App” with a custom interface you can tailor to your taste.

For example, you can ask it to “Create a beautiful daily meeting prep app, ” and it can merge your Google Calendar and Gmail data into a unique interface that blends your schedule with relevant emails so you can get prepared before hopping on Zoom.

There are templates to get you started, but you can also play around with the assistant (largely powered by Anthropic’s Claude) to craft anything from your connected apps—say, a financial dashboard app with data from Google Sheets. And if you’re on a Google Sheet, you can chat with the assistant to have it make changes to the document without fussing with the cells.

I tried to give it a spin, but unfortunately, my “Dynamic App” was stuck trying to create the app for more than 30 minutes. It’s a beta! There’s a bit of a learning curve in figuring out how the entire canvas system works too.

Right now, you can sign up for early access, and Nimo founder Rohildev Nattukallingal tells me that while Nimo Infinity is free with a limited feature set, you can pay $20 per month to access many of the core features, like Dynamic Apps. Add Nimo to the growing list of companies trying to kill apps in favor of an AI-generated interface.

Aura’s New Digital Photo Frame Is Wireless

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Aura, maker of digital photo frames, announced the Aura Ink ($499)—a wireless photo frame that runs on a battery. Unlike the rest of its lineup, which uses LCD screens, the Aura Ink has an e-paper display, like the kind on an e-reader or digital notebook. It’s powered by E Ink’s Spectra 6 tech, which allows pixels to be one of six colors; Aura says it has an algorithm to translate photos into a newspaper-like print style to make it look vibrant and colorful with the limited color range.

Thanks to the e-paper display, the Aura Ink can last up to three months on a single charge, and Aura hopes this design will finally make it possible for folks to hang an Aura frame on their walls without worrying about an unsightly power cord.

Battery life can vary depending on how often the digital frame changes the picture, but the Ink defaults to changing the photo once a day (overnight). That’s due to the 30-second refresh the Ink needs to switch pictures. I’m currently testing this frame, so stay tuned for our review. —Nena Farrell

Bamford’s Mood-Morphing Mayfair 2.0 Watch

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London-based Bamford’s new Mayfair 2.0 is all about modular style blended with watchmaking credentials. But this isn’t an automatic watch. The 40-milimeter Mayfair 2.0 is driven by a Swiss-made Ronda 3540.D quartz chronograph movement—so solid reliability and performance (with central seconds, 1/10-second counter, 30-minute counter) are delivered while allowing this piece to stay within a relatively accessible price point.

But the Mayfair 2.0 is not really about that quartz center. What sets it apart is its versatility: Each watch comes with interchangeable brightly hued outer cases made from high-density polymer that let wearers click on and swap out different-colored shells and straps.

This plug-and-play approach means you get a robust sports timepiece, with 100-meter water resistance, that can change to match your mood or outfit. I’ve tried it out, and although the switching of case covers isn’t as fluid as I’d like it to be (it can get a touch fiddly), it is a quick process, and the end result is a winner.

However, at £495 ($660), this is a fair chunk more than the Blancpain X Swatch Scuba Fifty Fathoms, and that’s a proper automatic diver that’s just as colorful. But, crucially, the Mayfair 2.0 is the one that can change its look in less than a minute. —Jeremy White

Wyze and TP-Link’s New Security Cameras Go Solar

Photograph: Simon Hill

Many outdoor security cameras rely on batteries, making it easy to install them wherever you want, without worrying about running cables. The problem is that batteries run out of power, sometimes pretty quickly if the camera is in a busy spot, and much faster when the temperature drops.

An increasingly popular solution is the inclusion of a solar panel to keep that battery topped up, enabling you to install and potentially never touch the camera again. Both Wyze and TP-Link just revealed interesting solar-powered cameras this week. Let’s talk about Wyze first.

The Wyze Solar Cam Pan ($80) is a 2K outdoor security camera that can pan 360 degrees and tilt 70 degrees. It is IP65-rated, easy to mount, and sports a small solar panel that Wyze reckons can keep the camera running on just one hour of sunlight a day (we shall see as I test through the gray depths of a Scottish winter). The Solar Cam Pan also features AI-powered person tracking, two-way audio, color night vision, a spotlight, and a siren, though you need a subscription, starting from $3 per month, to unlock smart features and get cloud video storage.

Wyze also announced a new, impressively affordable Battery Video Doorbell ($66). We started testing Wyze cameras again recently after it beefed up its security policies, but the repeated security breaches, exposing thousands of camera feeds to other customers, may still give you pause.

Meanwhile, TP-Link is the first manufacturer to combine solar power with floodlight capability in its new Tapo C615F Kit. The similar-looking but larger Tapo C615F is another 2K camera, but it pans 360 degrees, tilts 130 degrees, and, most importantly, has an adjustable 800-lumen floodlight.

TP-Link says its solar panel only needs 45 minutes of sun a day to keep the camera ticking, and it comes with a handy 13-foot cable, so you can install the solar panel in the best spot to catch those rays. The Tapo C615F ($100) is available now, and you can use the promo code 10TAPOFLDCAM to get $10 off if you’re quick. —Simon Hill

Fujifilm Updates Its X-T30 Line

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Fujifilm has released the X-T30 III, an update to the company’s entry-level, SLR-shaped mirrorless X-T30 line. The third iteration of the X-T30 pairs Fujifilm’s familiar 26-MP X-Trans APS-C sensor with the latest Fujifilm processor, the X-Processor 5. The latter means that the X-T30 III is now roughly the same as the X-M5 and X-T50 in terms of internal features. All of Fujifilm’s film simulations are available, as are the subject-recognition AF modes. Video specs also see a bump up to 6.2K 30 fps open gate, and 4K 60 fps with a 1.18X crop.

The body is nearly identical to the previous model; the size, weight, and button/dial layout are the same as on the X-T30 II. The one change is that the control dial is now a film simulation dial, with three options for custom film recipes. The X-T30 III goes on sale in November at $999 for the body, or $1,150 for the body and a new 13- to 33-mm F3.5-6.3 zoom lens (20 mm- to 50 mm-equivalent). —Scott Gilbertson

Intel’s AI Experience Stores

In time for the peak shopping season, Intel is launching a variety of “AI Experience Stores” at a few key locations around the world. We don’t know exactly what they’ll be like, but Intel says these pop-ups will include an “AI-powered shopping experience” of some kind and are based on the initial launch of the trial run store in London last year.

If it keeps that same design ethos intact, these stores will be fairly immersive experiences. There will be lots of AI-driven demos on devices from the wider Windows laptop ecosystem, presumably to help drive interest and curiosity in what PCs can do. Interestingly, it comes on the back of a significant marketing push by Microsoft with its new Windows 11 AI experiences, trying to convince buyers to upgrade and explain some of the new AI features.

Here are the dates and locations below for when Intel’s stores will be open. —Luke Larsen

• New York City: 1251 6th Avenue (10/29 to 11/30)
• London: 95 Oxford Street (10/30 to 11/30)
• Munich: Viktualienmarkt 6 (10/30 to 12/9)
• Paris: 14 Boulevard Poissonniere (11/4 to 11/30)
• Seoul: OPUS 407, 1318-1 Seocho-dong (10/31 to 11/30)