Gear news of the week: Google’s Pixel 10a arrives soon, Valve postpones its Steam hardware

In an update on its blog, Valve says its goal is still to ship Steam Frame, Steam Controller, and Steam Machine in the “first half of the year.” But he also points out that details around pricing and launch dates are in flux, saying that the “limited availability and increasing prices” of storage and memory are forcing Valve to “reconsider” these issues. This sounds more like price increases, which almost every PC maker has already warned about in new products coming in 2026. Companies like Dell and HP are doing everything they can to secure supplies, including working with Chinese memory makers for the first time.

The memory shortage is due to the surge in demand for artificial intelligence in data centers. The world’s three main memory manufacturers, Samsung, Micron and SK Hynix, have all abandoned the consumer market in favor of supporting AI data centers. Prices for off-the-shelf PC memory started rising in September and October, and have actually risen in the following months, now reaching four times the retail price (particularly with DDR5 RAM). Now we’re seeing the ramifications in every product imaginable. There’s no clear path to how this issue will be resolved, but we’re still waiting to see how it affects PCs and new products like Steam Frame and Steam Machine. —Luke Larsen

Fitbit founders launch Luffu, a family caregiving app

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Yes, that’s right, it’s pronounced “loo-foo,” like “love.” After founding (and selling) Fitbit, James Park and Eric Friedman realized that in addition to protecting their personal health, they were also taking care of others’ health as well. The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) and the National Alliance for Caregiving estimated that in 2025, nearly one in four adults will be caregivers to either school-age children or older parents. Luffu is a new platform that allows caregivers to easily access all the health information they need — prescriptions, lab tests, and more — without having to sort through different devices, calendars, or portals.

Luffu is powered by AI (because of course it is), but the founders insist that the AI ​​experience will go deeper than just being a health chatbot. Luffu’s AI will scale your family’s data, learn patterns, and proactively offer personalized guidance and easy-to-understand advice. It will also allow everyone in your family to record medications, diets or other health information in one platform to share via health portals with doctors. Luffu assures us that the privacy and security of your data will be a top priority, and users can control how much information is shared.

We’ll need to keep privacy at the forefront of our minds, because as befits the founders of hugely popular wearables, Luffu will start out as an app trial before expanding to devices. I’m very curious to see what a fitness tracker that tracks your family as a unit, rather than just you, would look like. —Adrian Su

Dexcom redesigns its app with AI-powered features

Monitoring your glucose spikes is one of the easiest (well, cheapest) ways to nudge yourself toward healthy behaviors without having to take medication. Dexcom, which makes one of the most popular continuous glucose monitors commercially available, continues to improve its own experience within the Dexcom app.

Last year, Dexcom launched Smart Food Logging in the Dexcom app, where you can just take a photo of what you’re eating, and the app will record what it is. This year, the company is expanding the feature by breaking down the calories, carbs, protein, fat, and dietary fiber in your meals, including text search and barcode scanning. The app will also provide daily insights with three personalized, actionable recommendation cards and contextual understanding.

I was concerned that monitoring your glucose was part of a larger trend (along with protein powders and GLP-1s) that reflected a broader shift in body ideals and could lead to disordered eating. However, as noted by Dr. Diane Stadler, a registered dietitian and professor at Oregon Health & Science University, patients with eating disorders have… disorder. There are far worse ways to lose weight than prioritizing lean protein and fiber and walking around after every meal. —Adrian Su

Blink outdoor security camera up to 2K

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Amazon’s newest budget security camera is the Blink Outdoor 2K+. The main leap for this 5G camera over the Blink Outdoor 4 is a higher resolution of 2560 x 1440 pixels. 2K support is now quickly becoming the standard, and we’ve seen Google’s Nest cameras, among others, ramp up recently. It’s good news for home security fans because the clearer shots make it easier to identify subjects, packages, pets, and vehicles.