Tech: laptop review (wired magazine) & 2)how apple phones help with car sickness (??) Courtesy of camp tech (and their sources)

1)WIRED magazine has one of the most thorough and comprehensive laptop review programs.

When they update it, we [Camp Tech] pay attention. Here’s the 2026 edition of the Best Laptops, according to WIRED

Luke Larsen, WIRED Magazine, Jun 17, 2026

I’ve been reviewing laptops for well over a decade, sometimes testing over 30 devices per year. As you can probably guess, they aren’t all winners, and many should be avoided, no matter how cheap the discount is. Good news: It’s my job to recommend laptops that fit your budget and won’t make you regret your purchase six months later. So, don’t fall for the marketing, fake sales, or knockoff brands on Amazon. These are my favorite laptops that I’ve tested myself and would highly recommend you buy.

For more guidance, also see my recommendations in specific categories, such as the Best MacBooks, Best Gaming Laptops, Best Chromebooks, Best Budget Laptops, Best Windows Laptops, and Best 2-in-1 Laptops. My guide on How to Choose a Laptop may also help if you’re undecided.

Updated June 2026: I’ve tested a number of new laptops that I’ve added or considered for this update, including the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5x, HP OmniBook Ultra, HP OmniBook 3, Asus Zenbook A16, Acer Swift 16 AI, and Asus TUF Gaming A14. I’ve also included mention of announcements from Computex.

The Best Laptops

I’ve tested laptops for more than a decade. These are the best laptops that I recommend…. see article: https://www.wired.com/story/best-laptops/

2)Do you get motion sickness in a car? Have an iPhone? It can help. The Verge has details on how Apple’s anti-nausea dots can cure car sickness

Apple’s weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness

Vehicle Motion Cues let me read and write in the passenger seat without wanting to die.

by Thomas Ricker, Courtesy of Verge, Jun 16, 2026

I’ll just work from the car, I thought. But after a few minutes of staring at my screen on quick mountain switchbacks I could feel the first signs of cold, coagulated nausea bubbling up from that sweaty place in my gut. I looked to the horizon for relief, but nothing helped… until I remembered Apple’s magic dots.

Introduced in 2024, Apple’s Vehicle Motion Cues promise to tap into your device’s accelerometer and gyroscope to reduce or, in my case, even eliminate the motion sickness felt when trying to use an iPhone, iPad, or MacBook inside a moving vehicle.

It’s weird, but it works!

According to big-S Science, this type of vehicle motion sickness is caused by the eyes staring at a static display while the inner ear feels the car turning, braking, and accelerating. Motion Cues solve this by placing dots around the periphery of the display that move in harmony with the motion of the car. When the car turns right, the dots sweep across the screen to the left; when the car brakes the dots slide forward.

It sounds preposterous, but I’m here to tell you that it actually works. Once enabled, I’ve comfortably read books in the Kindle app on my phone for a few hours at a go, and even written 1,000-word reviews while my wife drove our camper van to the next destination. She uses Apple’s Vehicle Motion Cues now, too, because they’ve been a game changer for how we balance work with life on the road.

Vehicle Motion Cues can be configured under accessibility settings in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. They can be turned on, off, or set to appear automatically when vehicle motion is detected. I prefer to toggle the dots to avoid seeing them when I’m driving the car. The black dots are fairly unobtrusive, but they can interfere with maps, text, and imagery on long straight stretches of road that cause the dots to sit motionless (Apple should dim all the dots in those situations). You can also configure the dot size, color, and density if you want, but I found the defaults to work just fine.

I made it easy to quickly toggle the Motion Cues on and off by double tapping the back of my iPhone. To do the same, head over to Accessibility –> Touch –> Back Tap and set the Double Tap gesture to Vehicle Motion Cues on devices supporting iOS 18 and above.

I’m fortunate that I remembered this obscure accessibility feature that I used almost daily on a recent two-month road trip around Europe. Hopefully you’ll find similar success when traveling this summer.