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Touchscreens everywhere!

TechGadgetsGamingTouchscreens everywhere! Plus, in this week’s Installer: A new place to read books, a huge new game for iOS, an impressive new robovac, and more.

到处都是触摸屏！此外，在本周的《安装者》（Installer）中：一个新的读书去处、一款 iOS 上的大型新游戏、一款令人印象深刻的新型扫地机器人，以及更多内容。

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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 150, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, happy Halloween, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)

大家好！欢迎来到第 150 期《安装者》，这是您了解世界上最棒、最“Verge”风格事物的指南。（如果您是新朋友，欢迎加入，万圣节快乐！您也可以在《安装者》主页阅读所有往期内容。）

This week, I was in the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee on a family vacation. It was delightful (and the reason this week’s Installer is a little short). I’ve also been reading about job hunting and 30 Rock and crypto detectives, testing the DuckDuckGo browser after a bunch of you told me to add it to the list, watching the adorable new Pixar short over and over, getting caught up on VisionQuest, playing with my new Pebble Index 01 now that it finally arrived, listening to music on my rad-looking new CMF Speaker S, and eating a worrying number of pumpkin chocolate chip muffins.

本周，我在田纳西州的大烟山度假。旅程非常愉快（这也是本周《安装者》篇幅较短的原因）。我还阅读了关于求职、美剧《我为喜剧狂》（30 Rock）以及加密货币侦探的内容；在你们许多人的建议下，我测试了 DuckDuckGo 浏览器；反复观看了皮克斯可爱的新短片；补看了《VisionQuest》；终于收到了我的 Pebble Index 01 并开始把玩；用我那外观超酷的新款 CMF Speaker S 听音乐；还吃了多得惊人的南瓜巧克力豆松饼。

I also have for you some new gear from Apple and Amazon, a better way to read books on your phone, a resurrected note-taking app, an absurdly expensive robovac, and much more. Let’s do it.

我还为您准备了来自苹果和亚马逊的一些新装备、一种在手机上读书的更好方法、一款复活的笔记应用、一台贵得离谱的扫地机器人，以及更多内容。让我们开始吧。

(As always, the best part of Installer is your ideas and tips. What are you watching / reading / listening to / playing / giving to trick-or-treaters this week? Tell me everything: installer@theverge.com. And if you know someone else who might enjoy Installer, forward it to them and tell them to subscribe here.)

（一如既往，《安装者》最精彩的部分是您的想法和建议。本周您在看什么、读什么、听什么、玩什么，或者给“不给糖就捣蛋”的孩子们准备了什么？请告诉我一切：installer@theverge.com。如果您认识其他可能喜欢《安装者》的朋友，请转发给他们，并告诉他们在这里订阅。）

The Drop: The new iPad Mini. With apologies to the touchscreen MacBook, this is the most intriguing new Apple product of the week. I, too, am annoyed that there’s no ProMotion screen, but I’m excited about thinner and lighter, and I’m very excited about the idea of a functionally water- and dustproof tablet.

精选推荐：新款 iPad Mini。虽然对触摸屏 MacBook 感到抱歉，但这确实是本周最引人注目的苹果新产品。我也对没有 ProMotion 屏幕感到恼火，但我对它更轻薄的设计感到兴奋，并且对一款具备实用防水防尘功能的平板电脑这一概念感到非常激动。

The Alexa Photo Frame. The Echo Show 16 is a cool smart home hub, but $500 is just too much for me. But a $200 digital photo frame that is also, sometimes, only when you need it, a smart home hub and timer-setter? That will end up in my living room. And my parents’. And my in-laws’.

Alexa 相框。Echo Show 16 是一款很酷的智能家居中枢，但 500 美元对我来说太贵了。但如果是一个 200 美元的数码相框，同时在您需要时偶尔充当智能家居中枢和定时器呢？那它一定会出现在我的客厅里。还有我父母和岳父母的客厅里。

nvAlt. One of the all-time great note-taking apps got its first update in forever, and now it can run on modern Macs. (The developer is also working on nvUltra, which is in beta and even better.) If you’re a plain-text notetaker, you’re gonna want to get back into this app.

nvAlt。这款史上最伟大的笔记应用之一终于迎来了久违的更新，现在可以在现代 Mac 上运行了。（开发者也在开发处于测试阶段且功能更强大的 nvUltra。）如果您是纯文本笔记用户，您一定会想重新用回这款应用。

Chromagraph. The director Rian Johnson — yes, that one — worked with his favorite cinematographer to make it possible to process iPhone photos the way they like best. An extremely opinionated camera app from people who have very much earned those opinions. I love it.

Chromagraph。导演莱恩·约翰逊（Rian Johnson）——没错，就是那位——与他最喜欢的摄影师合作，实现了以他们最喜欢的方式处理 iPhone 照片。这是一款极具个性的相机应用，出自那些完全有资格发表这种见解的人之手。我爱死它了。

“I love the iPod. It ruined everything.” This Mic The Snare video is both a very good history of the iPod and a surprisingly cogent theory that the iPod is to blame for some of the worst things about modern life. I still miss my gold iPod Mini.

“我爱 iPod。它毁了一切。”Mic The Snare 的这段视频既是对 iPod 历史的精彩回顾，也提出了一个令人信服的理论：现代生活中一些最糟糕的事情都要归咎于 iPod。我依然怀念我那台金色的 iPod Mini。

Readwise Books. A really nice-looking, really powerful app for buying, reading, and tracking your books. Right now it’s a little bit “better Kindle” and a lot “better Goodreads.” So far I’m mostly using the social feed to get recommendations from strangers, which suits me just fine. This went right onto my Boox Palma homescreen.

Readwise Books。一款外观精美、功能强大的应用，用于购买、阅读和追踪您的书籍。目前它有点像“更好的 Kindle”，很大程度上是“更好的 Goodreads”。到目前为止，我主要使用社交信息流来获取陌生人的推荐，这非常适合我。它已经直接进入了我的 Boox Palma 主屏幕。

Phantom Blade Zero. Currently burning up the Steam charts, this one. People love the martial arts-inspired combat system and the game’s overall aesthetic, and I’m even hearing good things about the music.

《影之刃零》（Phantom Blade Zero）。目前这款游戏正在 Steam 排行榜上火爆。人们喜爱它那受武术启发的战斗系统和游戏的整体美学，我甚至听到了对它音乐的好评。

No Man’s Sky. This is definitely one of the biggest and most ambitious games to ever come to iOS (and all it took was a decade!). It works on pretty much all recent iPhones and iPads, too. Just don’t be fooled by the Free sign at the top; the game costs $20. But it’s worth it.

《无人深空》（No Man’s Sky）。这绝对是 iOS 平台上最大、最雄心勃勃的游戏之一（而且足足花了一十年才实现！）。它几乎可以在所有近期的 iPhone 和 iPad 上运行。只是别被顶部的“免费”标志骗了；游戏售价 20 美元。但它物有所值。

The Matic Serene. Two things here. One, $1,700 is an absolutely ludicrous price for a robot vacuum, no matter how good it is. Two, “we made it quieter” is maybe the quickest way to get me in particular to want your robot vacuum. Please, friends, do not let me buy this.

The Matic Serene。这里有两点。第一，1700 美元对于扫地机器人来说绝对是一个荒谬的价格，无论它有多好。第二，“我们让它更安静了”也许是让我个人想要购买这款扫地机器人的最快方式。拜托了，朋友们，千万别让我买这个。

Crowdsourced: Here’s what the Installer community is into this week. I want to know what you’re into right now as well! Email installer@theverge.com or message me on Signal — @davidpierce.11 — with your recommendations for anything and everything, and we’ll feature some of our favorites here every week. For even more great recommendations, check out the replies to this post on Threads and this post on Bluesky.

众包：以下是《安装者》社区本周感兴趣的内容。我也想知道您现在对什么感兴趣！请发送电子邮件至 installer@theverge.com 或在 Signal 上给我发消息（@davidpierce.11），分享您的任何推荐，我们每周都会在这里精选一些我们最喜欢的推荐。想要更多精彩建议，请查看 Threads 上的这篇帖子和 Bluesky 上的这篇帖子的回复。

“Currently watching: VisionQuest. It’s quite good! James Spader has really stolen the show, but I am a little biased as a huge Blacklist fan.” — Spencer

“目前正在看：《VisionQuest》。非常不错！詹姆斯·斯派德（James Spader）确实抢尽了风头，但我作为一个《黑名单》（Blacklist）的忠实粉丝，可能有点偏心。”——Spencer

“I’m using CallMe to coordinate when my friends and I call each other. You can tap ‘I’m free for the next 15/30/60 minutes’ and your friends will get a notification. When you’re both free you can call each other (outside of the app). Makes it easy to reconnect.” — Jordan

“我正在使用 CallMe 来协调我和朋友们通话的时间。你可以点击‘我接下来的 15/30/60 分钟有空’，你的朋友就会收到通知。当你们都有空时，就可以（在应用外）互相通话。这让重新联系变得很容易。”——Jordan

“I’ve been spending the last few days working on my Top 10 for WXPN’s annual Top 885. This year is ‘Top 885 Songs from Movies and TV,’ and it’s especially challenging.” — Ben

“过去几天我一直在忙着整理我为 WXPN 年度 Top 885 准备的前 10 名榜单。今年的主题是‘影视剧中的 885 首金曲’，这特别具有挑战性。”——Ben

“The one game that I play religiously is Clues By Sam, a daily logic puzzle game where speed and accuracy is the goal. Because everyone starts at the same spot, your time is your score, and it’s very fun competing with friends every day. Puzzles range from easy (~2 minutes) on Mondays to Brutal (up to ~15 minutes) on Sundays. Would 100% recommend adding it to your daily rotation.” — Adam

“我每天必玩的一款游戏是《Clues By Sam》，这是一款以速度和准确性为目标的每日逻辑益智游戏。因为每个人都从同一个起点开始，你的时间就是你的分数，每天和朋友们竞争非常有趣。谜题难度从周一的简单（约 2 分钟）到周日的残酷（长达约 15 分钟）不等。百分之百推荐将其加入你的日常游戏清单。”——Adam

“Maybe niche, but Steam Frame and trying out older 3D media on it that flopped or became obsolete. Stereoscopic 3DS games and 3D movies work better than they ever did on original hardware, on devices with a dedicated individual dis”

“这可能比较小众，但 Steam Frame 以及在上面尝试那些失败或过时的旧 3D 媒体很有意思。在配备专用独立显示器的设备上，立体 3DS 游戏和 3D 电影的效果比在原始硬件上好得多。”