Daniel Cooper

Senior Editor

Daniel Cooper is Engadget’s roving reporter, tackling the topics both big and small that shape our world. He has been writing about the future for more than 25 years, and abandoned a promising career as an intellectual property lawyer to join Engadget in 2011. His interests include climate change, sustainability, transportation, health tech, wearables, the interaction of technology with sexuality, smart tech and the future of arts and culture — oh and Star Trek, he does that, too. He has appeared on BBC News, Cheddar, ABC News Radio and BBC Radio, and his work has been featured in The New York Times and The AV Club, amongst many others. He lives in Norwich with his family, and is only doing this until he can become the executive producer of Doctor Who.

Articles by Daniel Cooper

This ring lets you whisper to your phone, because sometimes we need to use our inside voices
This smart ring lets you whisper, rather than speak loudly, at your assistant of choice.
Squad Mobility’s tiny solar-powered EV is a dream for crowded cities
A small EV with a solar panel in the roof, who could ask for more?
The EcoFlow Delta Pro Ultra is a home battery that can harvest power from 42 solar panels
The new EcoFlow unit can hold up to 90kWh of power.
Formlabs shows up at CES 2024 with more realistic 3D-printed teeth
Formlabs' new dental resin can even be color-matched to your existing teeth.
LifeSpan made a standing desk bike that can charge your phone, if you've got the legs for it
Charge your phone while you pedal.
I'm ashamed how much I love Mercedes-AMG and will.i.am's attempt to turn cars into DJs
Mercedes and will.i.am's MBUX SOUND DRIVE sounds silly, right up until the moment you experience it. Then you'll wonder why it isn't available everywhere.
Mojawa put an AI running coach in its bone-conducting headphones
Do you need help reaching your goals?
Someone made a Peloton-esque display for the world's most ubiquitous rowing machine
Concept2's stubborn refusal to update its Performance Monitors has inspired one startup to build its own.
The Withings BeamO is an all-in-one thermometer, ECG and stethoscope
Withings' latest health device is a multi-use wireless thermometer that'll check your heart health and even listen to your chest.
The Right to Repair movement won its biggest victories in 2023
But the movement can't rest on its laurels going into 2024.
Lexus' LBX is the luxury city car you never knew you didn’t need
It's gorgeous but do you really need a luxury city runaround?
2023 was the year the economics of tech caught up with reality
We're about to see what happens when an industry built on failed bets suddenly has to pay back its debts.
Time to get miserable about the COP28 declaration
The extent of the task in front of us is massive, but nobody's prepared to take the bold action required.
Cooler Master’s Framework case gives your laptop a second life
It takes your Framework mainboard, any old parts you have lying around, and turns it into a small form factor PC for light tasks to give your laptop a second, or third, life.
The Morning After: Is a famous coding influencer fake?
The biggest news stories this morning: A famous woman coding influencer might be a sockpuppet run by a man, Google gets into geothermal energy and Meta stops selling battery straps for the Quest 3.
Doctor Who: The Star Beast reminds us that money isn’t everything
It may have buckets of Disney's cash now, but all it ever needed was a good script and better actors.
The Morning After: Apple will adopt RCS in 2024
The biggest news stories this morning include Apple's embrace of RCS, Amazon the car dealer, and AI game development.
The Morning After: The best early Black Friday deals for 2023
The biggest news stories this morning: Cheap tech, Jon Stewart and the future of robotic hands.
Amazon’s dinky Astro robot is now available as a security guard
But replacing your flesh-and-blood security guard won't be cheap.
The Morning After: iMessage comes to Nothing’s Android phones (for now)
The biggest news stories this morning: Nothing hacks iMessage, How to make working from home easier, and how AI might make weather reporting more accurate.

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