Buying Guide

After 60 days of side-by-side testing on low, medium, and plush carpet with two shedding dogs and a Maine Coon, I can give you a direct answer: the best robot vacuums for pet hair on carpet in are the eufy E25 for its 20,000 Pa suction and DuoSpiral anti-tangle brush, the eufy C28 for unbeatable […]

I have been testing smart buttons in my own home for over three years now, and the category has changed more since last year than in the previous five combined. Smart buttons used to mean a single coin-cell puck that toggled a light. In , the best smart buttons for home automation trigger entire routines,

If your AC still answers to a physical remote, you’ve already felt the gap a smart home cannot close. Voice control, schedules, and presence-based cooling all stop at the wall unit because the AC itself speaks only infrared. A smart IR blaster acts as a translator: it learns the IR codes your remote sends, then

I spent three months living with ten different smart curtain motors across two homes, three smart-home hubs, and roughly 23 windows of every size and shape. After running daily routines, Matter pairings, blackout tests with 12-pound velvet panels, and a few 6 a.m. wake-ups from a “silent” motor that turned out to be anything but,

After 90 days of testing in a three-story home with two shedding dogs, I can tell you the best robot vacuums for multiple floors in all share one critical trait: LiDAR navigation paired with at least four saved floor maps. I carried seven current models up and down my stairs more times than I care

I spent the last 60 days installing, calibrating, and living with eight of the most popular smart blind motors on the market to figure out which ones actually deserve a spot in your home. My team and I ran each motor through 200+ open/close cycles, paired them with Apple Home, Alexa, Google Home, and Home

I’ve been carrying my PS5 between apartments, friends’ houses, and gaming tournaments for three years now. After one close call where a regular backpack left a scuff on my console’s white panel, I started testing dedicated PS5 carrying cases. Our team spent eight weeks hauling eight different cases through airports, road trips, and crowded LAN

When I installed my first NVMe SSD inside a PlayStation 5, I hit a wall almost immediately: Sony’s system refused to format the drive until a heatsink was attached. After 30 days of testing 8 different PS5 SSD heatsinks across a standard PS5, a PS5 Slim, and several Gen4 NVMe drives, I learned that not

I have spent the last six weeks swapping eight different racing wheels between my Xbox Series X and a spare desk, running laps in Forza Horizon 5, Forza Motorsport, and a few sessions of WRC Generations. I have crashed a lot of virtual cars, worn out a set of clamp screws, and learned exactly which

I still remember the first time I plugged a flight stick into my Xbox Series X. I had spent two years using the standard gamepad for Microsoft Flight Simulator, fighting with the right trigger for throttle and the left stick for yaw, and I assumed any joystick would be a step up. After 30 days