All posts tagged: Adaptive

The North Face’s new Universal Collection of adaptive camping gear swaps zippers for magnets and adds other accessible features

The North Face’s new Universal Collection of adaptive camping gear swaps zippers for magnets and adds other accessible features

Published by Jenni Sidey

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Sign Up For Goods 🛍️ Product news, reviews, and must-have deals. Setting up a tent in the dark when your hands are cold is hard enough. Add limited dexterity, a prosthetic, or a wheelchair to the picture and most typical camping gear becomes fully unusable. Zippers catch. Doorway sills turn into obstacles. Sleeping bags require a two-handed shimmy. The North Face’s new Universal Collection includes a zipperless sleeping bag, a redesigned three-person Wawona tent, a free-standing daypack, a convertible brimmer hat, and interchangeable camp slippers. All of these products were developed with the brand’s adaptive athletes in order to make them more broadly usable. Universal One Bag: a sleeping bag that ditches the zipper entirely The North Face Universal One Bag Sleeping Bag $270 See It The Universal One Bag replaces the full-length zipper with two magnetic FIDLOCK closures, the same magnetic mechanism you’ll find on helmet buckles and high-end bike accessories. Pull the two halves …

Adaptive Power in iOS 26 Is Boosting Your iPhone Battery in the Background

Adaptive Power in iOS 26 Is Boosting Your iPhone Battery in the Background

Published by skeptic

Other Apple Intelligence features get all the attention, but in iOS 26 one of my favorite tools does its thing quietly in the background. On iPhone models that are capable of running Apple’s AI tech, the Adaptive Power setting is at work behind the scenes to extend battery power, even on many older iPhones. Currently, the iPhone uses as much power as it needs to perform its tasks. You can extend battery life by taking a few simple steps, such as reducing screen brightness and disabling the always-on display. Or, if your battery is running low, you can turn on Low Power Mode, which limits background activity, like fetching mail and downloading data, and dims the screen to help extend battery life. Low Power Mode also kicks in automatically when the battery level reaches 20%. If Low Power Mode is the hammer that knocks down power consumption, Adaptive Power is the scalpel that intelligently trims energy savings here and there as needed. Based on Apple’s description that accompanies the control, the savings will be felt mostly in power-hungry situations such as recording …

Sleep Number P6 Smart Bed Review: Advanced and Adaptive

Sleep Number P6 Smart Bed Review: Advanced and Adaptive

Published by skeptic

Screenshots: Julia Forbes I spoke with Raj Mills, Sleep Number’s senior vice President of partnerships and research. She tells me, “Our AI models take into account foam depth and still maintain the same level of accuracy regardless of how far below the surface of the bed the sensors are.” She shares that they are cohesively performing a ballistocardiograph, which monitors the blood flow generated by the heart and ultimately determines your heart rate score. How effectively they can do so is debatable. Ultimately, I found there was quite a bit of variance in terms of the nightly score calculated on both ends. On good nights, both pointed to higher scores, but the final number could differ by up to 10 points. On the Sleep Number app, I found it concerning that most of the time, my Sleep Score numbers were not as high as I thought they would be—my average for the three-week test period was a 74. Matrix Mattress If you prefer a remote, that’s either a separate cost ($50) or potentially a different …