A List of Great Technology
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We've spent dozens of hours testing the best cables, hubs, adapters, and dongles to help you connect your monitors, peripherals, and accessories to your new laptop, even if it has only USB-C ports. Live that dongle life.
Physical media is struggling, having lost major ground to streaming media over the past several years. As a result, the market for 4K Blu-ray players has shrunk, and few new models have been introduced since 2021. But if you want to take full advantage of a higher-end 4K HDR TV or 4K projector, as well…
Forget Myers-Briggs or Enneagram: The true personality test is how you eat a frozen waffle. Like an artist preparing their palette, my younger self would fill each well in my waffle with maple syrup, right to the brim. My father, desperate to reduce my syrup intake, would place blueberries in the divots, with the patience…
A good business laptop works quickly, offers lengthy battery life, and has a few extra ports in case you need to plug it into a meeting-room TV, or if a client hands you an older USB-A thumb drive. Business machines should also be easier to repair than most thin-and-light laptops, so you won’t lose access…
It’s bedtime, and it’s too loud. Or, it’s bedtime, and it’s too quiet, so your mind is racing. Whichever your plight, you might benefit from a white noise machine. Despite the name, most white noise machines produce a range of sounds, including other color-based noises (such as pink or brown), fan sounds, and nature ambience.…
Although you could strap a flashlight to your handlebars to illuminate your path home at night—people do it!—a good set of bike-specific lights will help you see and be seen in all riding conditions. After testing more than 115 lights over the past 10 years, we think the Planet Bike Beamer 700 headlight’s wide-angle beam,…
There’s nothing quite like seeing an animal in the wild, whether it’s a bear wandering into your backyard or a deer silently gliding through wooded backcountry. But to catch these moments, you often need good timing and a little luck (or an adventure in the woods). When you don’t have those, a great trail camera…
We thought the surge in US hot tub sales in 2020 would be a short-term pandemic-era trend, but more recent industry forecasts show a sustained demand that continues to grow. In this guide, we’re not going to pick a single “best for most people” model, as we normally do, because every household has its own…
Fervent purring and turbo-speed zoomies are bound to follow when you unpack a pet subscription box filled with treats and toys. After testing 416 pet products in 73 boxes from eight companies over three months, we found Meowbox and PupJoy Box to be the best for the outstanding quality and variety of their gear, their…
Watching fish swim, glug, and blub all day can bring hours of enjoyment. To keep your fish happy and healthy, they need an adequate home—and a decorative jar with a few rocks ain’t going to cut it. After interviewing two aquarists and one aquaculturist, and researching dozens of aquarium goods, we recommend the 20-gallon Marina…
