Tineco’s slick wet-dry vacuums are up to $500 off via Amazon now

It’s the week for discounted appliances, courtesy of Amazon’s 2026 Big Smile Sale. First, we had price drops on Reolink smart home security gear, and now we have hundreds of dollars off Tineco wet-dry vacuums.

If you’re sick of vacuuming and mopping being two separate chores, a wet-dry vacuum might cure what ails you. Made for homes with predominantly tiled or hard floors, wet-dry vacuums do exactly what they say on the tin. Capable of sucking up debris, these appliances also clean up wet messes and stains by using a rotating mop roller.

From now until 22 March, Tineco has up to 56 per cent off its wet-dry vacuum range. Even though the Floor One S9 Artist Steam we’re so keen on isn’t among the discounted products, there’s some good stuff on sale.

One of the highlights is the steam-less version of the Floor One S9 Artist, which is $699, down from $1,199. It’s a stylish appliance with 22,000Pa of suction power, a self-cleaning system, and motorised wheels to make pushing it around easier.

The most affordable of Tineco’s Big Smile Sale range is the $399 Floor One Stretch S6, heavily discounted from its normal $899 price. It dials back the suction power a touch, but the cheaper wet-dry vacuum still has a hot water cleaning system, cutting back the time you need to spend on maintenance.

• Floor One Stretch S6: $399 (was $899)
• Floor One i7 Stretch Steam: $599 (was $999)
• Floor One S7 Artist: $579 (was $899)
• Pure One Station 5: $559 (was $799)
• Floor One S9 Artist: $699 (was $1,199)
• Floor One Switch S7 Stretch: $799 (was $1,199)

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Looks like Samsung’s TriFold phone won’t come to Australia at all

Maybe two folds were just one fold too many: Samsung has stopped production of the Galaxy Z TriFold, just months after it first hit the market, according to overseas reports.

As reported by South Korean publication The Dong-A Ilbo, high production costs led Samsung to stop making the TriFold, a phone with two folding mechanisms and three distinct sections. Apparently, the phone was reasonably popular, routinely selling out in small quantities, despite its US$2,899 price tag.

Samsung even showed the handset at CES 2026 in January, but it seemed that the company’s primary goal was to show off its foldable technology and not to produce a money-making machine.

Australia never got an official TriFold release, and now we never will. Once stock sells out overseas, the only way to get one will be to pay through the nose on eBay — or $8,999 from a Big W Market seller.

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Apple AirPods Max 2 boosts ANC, but keep the same design

Apple announced the AirPods Max 2 overnight, the brand’s first new set of over-ear headphones in more than five years.

Look at the headphones, and you’d be hard-pressed to identify any visual differences between them and the original model. That’s because the physical design is the same; Apple’s H2 processor, the same chip used by the AirPods Pro 3, is the main change.

With this updated processor in tow, Apple claims the AirPods Max 2 produce active noise cancellation (ANC) “up to 1.5x more effective than the previous generation”. The new headphones contain the same number of microphones (nine) as the previous model, so the improvements come from tweaked algorithms powered by the H2 chip.

Apple spruiks a “new high dynamic range amplifier” on the inside of the headphones, along with claims of “even cleaner audio”. Spatial Audio is also said to benefit from better instrument localisation, more accurate bass, and mids and highs that sound more natural.

Image: Apple.

Since the original AirPods Max launched, Apple has added more ANC modes to its in-ear AirPods that the over-ear model missed out on. Adaptive Audio is one of them, balancing noise cancellation and Transparency mode to adjust automatically to the sound around you. It comes to AirPods Max 2, along with Conversation Awareness, which lowers media playback volume when you start talking.

Apple also claims the headphones support “studio-quality audio recording” without an external microphone. Other smarts added by way of the H2 processor include isolating the wearer’s voice during calls and translating languages in real-time when paired with a recent iPhone.

Elsewhere, the AirPods Max 2 look the same as Apple’s headphones from 2020. The 20-hour battery life with ANC on remains, as does the 386.2-gram weight and the Smart Case that leaves the headband exposed.

Apple AirPods Max 2 release date and price

Pre-orders for the headphones open on 26 March, priced at $999 in Australia, $100 more than the launch price of the first iteration. Apple quietly increased the price of the first AirPods Max to $999 midway through last year, so the new model technically costs the same as the now-superseded headphones.

Like the first AirPods Max, the new model comes in five colours: Midnight, Starlight, Blue, Purple, and Orange.

Apple hasn’t set a specific release date for the AirPods Pro Max 2 yet. According to the company’s announcement, pre-orders will arrive “beginning early next month”, coinciding with availability in Apple Stores.

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Cheaper MacBook Neo makes a strong first impression

Putting the brain of an iPhone 16 Pro Max into a laptop might seem odd, but think about it, and Apple’s decision makes a lot of sense. Modern smartphones are basically pocket-sized computers anyway, so while the MacBook Neo might lack the power of its M-series siblings, it does more than enough for users with basic computing needs.

Having recently given Apple’s new budget laptop for a spin, I think the Neo could soon become the new student laptop of choice. Its shortcomings are well documented: only 8GB of memory, an upper limit of 512GB internal storage, and slower USB-C ports. But that likely won’t matter; the MacBook Neo is still well-constructed and powerful enough for what most students need.

It’s also one of Apple’s most repairable laptops in years, which bodes well for younger users. That colourful Citrus finish is also a lot of fun, certainly more so than the comparatively boring silver.

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Save up to $120 on some of our favourite security cameras

Reolink has kicked off a week-long sale on its most popular home security cameras and smart devices, including one that we’re particularly fond of.

From now until 22 March, you can save upwards of $120 across some of the brand’s security range. One of the discounted devices is the Reolink Altas PT Ultra, which comes with a solar panel to power its 4K vision and 360-degree pan and tilt motion.

Normally $359.99 at full price, the Altas PT Ultra is currently discounted to $251.99 via Reolink’s Amazon. It’s a decent price drop on a good security camera, one that can pre-record footage before detecting motion, stores footage locally, and automatically detects subjects — all without a subscription.

For something brighter, the TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi is also on sale. Down to $279.99 from $399.99, it’s another 4K camera with 360-degree pan and tilt functionality. As its name suggests, this camera also comes with a floodlight, beaming out up to 3,000 lumens of brightness, serving two main purposes.

One is to help make nighttime vision even clearer, so you can see any late-night shenanigans in full clarity. The other is to deter would-be intruders or vandals in the first place. Seeing a big, bright light on the front porch will likely make any ne’er-do-wells think twice before acting.

Here’s the main range of sale items as listed on Amazon:

• Reolink Go Ultra + Solar Panel 2: $173.99 (was $299.99)
• Reolink TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi: $279.99 (was $399.99)
• Reolink Argus PT Ultra with Solar Panel: $202.99 (was $289.99)
• Reolink Duo 3 PoE: $216.99 (was $309.99)
• Reolink Doorbell PoE: $119.99 (was $149.99)
• Reolink Altas PT Ultra: $251.99 (was $359.99)

Reolink also announced the AI Box earlier this year, which could add even more features to the brand’s existing cameras.

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MacBook Neo considered Apple’s most repairable laptop in years

Apple seems to have done more than simply make owning a MacBook more affordable when it launched the Neo. According to a recent teardown, the MacBook Neo is considered one of Apple’s most repairable laptops in years.

Compared to many Windows-based PCs, the Neo isn’t perfect from a self-repair perspective, based on iFixit’s analysis, but it’s a lot better than many recent MacBooks. Apple’s $899 laptop still relies on soldered RAM and storage, and some of the screws are fiddly to work with.

iFixit’s repairability score of six out of ten doesn’t seem all that impressive at first glance. However, the folks at iFixit have complained about Apple’s increasingly trickier-to-repair MacBooks for years. The right to repair community assigned last year’s MacBook Air a five, while the M5 MacBook Pro received a lowly four.

With that in mind, iFixit labelled the MacBook Neo the “most repairable MacBook we’ve seen in about 14 years”. One of the laptop’s biggest improvements is a screwed-in battery, moving away from the glue-based design of recent MacBooks. Similarly, iFixit says the screen is also easily fixed, as are the modular USB-C ports.

Students are the prime target audience for the Mac, and if you’ve seen how some kids treat their laptops, you’d know that the need for repairs is inevitable. Apple’s design choices mean that the company isn’t the sole source of repairs; you can DIY or take it to a local computer repairer and save some money in the process.

Image: iFixit.

Interestingly, iFixit also discovered why the MacBook Neo weighs the same 1.23kg as a 13-inch MacBook Air. Despite shedding size in some areas, the Neo’s screen is heavier, while the mechanical trackpad adds plenty of weight.

Even though Apple has some room for improvement, especially compared to Lenovo’s ThinkPad range, the Neo appears to be a step in the right direction.

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I already know which new emoji will be my new fave with iOS 26.4

New features and security enhancements are the important stuff from any software update. But the real sauce is found in the fun and superfluous additions. Naturally, I’m talking about emojis. iOS 26.4 is around the corner, and there’s already an emoji I have eyes for.

Apple recently released the public iOS 26.4 beta for iPhones, paving the way for new-look video podcast support and text prompt-generated music playlists akin to Spotify’s recently launched feature. Just as importantly, the update brought with it a new set of emojis.

Courtesy of the Unicode Consortium, which is responsible for approving the library of emojis you see across iOS and Android devices, there is a swathe of new reactions to get your digits around. Ballet dancers are now represented, as is a sasquatch-like being, simply referred to as “hairy creature”.

But I know the new emoji I’ll be getting the most use out of is “Distorted Face”. Depicting a wide-eyed face from close up, it’s the perfect reaction to receiving shocking news or something completely boggling.

It brings to mind the classic anime trope when a character is about to lose the plot over something. Recreating a fisheye perspective, the perspective gives the sense that something crazy is about to happen (or that it already has). Even the Unicode Consortium’s proposal for the emoji references how iconic the expression is in popular media.

I know it’s about to become one of my most-used emojis, right up there with the Melting Face. Another fun addition is the humble trombone. Much like how a violin expresses mock sympathy (i.e. playing the world’s smallest violin), a trombone would be the perfect shorthand for “womp womp”, a popular online expression meant to mimic a sad trombone noise, making fun of someone’s misfortune.

Anyone with the iOS 26.4 beta can start playing with the new emoji now. As for everyone else, the full public release can’t be too far away.

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