Today
Ecovacs’ Deebot X8 Pro does a stellar job cleaning, until it doesn’t
Dirt isn’t the only thing robovacs need to handle nowadays – they must have the capacity to cope with complexity, too.
Yesterday
Fancy a robot to clean your windows? This one will give it a shot
It’s early days in the advent of window-cleaning robots, and they don’t do a terrific job. But Ecovacs’ Winbot W2 Pro Omni doesn’t do a bad job, either.
March
There are travel chargers, and then there’s the PlugBug Travel
Twelve South’s new lightweight charger is not without its flaws, but it does have one feature that could save your next holiday from disaster.
The obstacle-climbing robot vacuum we wish we could afford to keep
Getting over tiny steps is just one of a few new features in Dreame’s X50 Ultra mopping robovac. It’s also got a great anti-tangle system and a steep price.
Apple just pulled an iPhone ad. The move shows it’s now in crisis
An AI update to bring Siri into the agentic era has been delayed, placing the tech giant in a bind as it races to make other big changes to its devices.
Apple’s new MacBook Air comes with a perfect excuse to buy it
There might never be a better time to purchase an aluminium laptop from an American company.
What does spending $18,000 on an Apple PC get you?
Mathematically, our Mac Studio is a Mac mini with a $17,550 dongle half the time we use it. But it’s the other half the time that might make it worth the money.
This machine can bring out the creative streak you never knew you had
The new Cricut Maker 4 is fun and addictive, and ought to come with a warning to that effect.
Beware, this laptop battery life will leave you stranded
Acer’s new Copilot+ laptop shows Intel is taking strides to catch up to Apple’s chips, but it gives you far less time than advertised to use it.
Forget Polaroid, this camera is charming, quirky and more digital
Fujifilm’s new Instax Wide Evo instant-print camera might not offer the greatest image quality you’ve ever seen, but it makes up for it in every other way.
The new iPhone raises some questions. The trickiest one is in the name
We put Apple’s entry-level iPhone 16e through its paces, and found it compares pretty well to our iPhone 16 Pro. Here is a kind of alphabetical guide to the device.
February
Can the new Kindle Scribe make sense of your notetaking scribbles?
If you’re suffering from writer’s block, the handwriting features on Amazon’s latest e-reader could be just the tonic you need.
Apple launches low-cost AI phone for the cost-of-living crunch
The new model will have enough computing power to run Apple Intelligence, and will bring communications in-house for the first time.
Microsoft’s ‘Goldilocks’ particles could win the quantum computer race
Microsoft has taken 17 years to create a new subatomic particle with the right blend of size, speed and stability for quantum computing, in a threat to Aussie rivals.
How I finally came around to Beats headphones
Apple’s new Powerbeats Pro 2 have the Lab staff questioning the belief that the Beats brand is just for celebrity-obsessed suckers.
Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Ultra is a perfect phone, with four slip-ups
Did the company fail to add magnets to its new handset just to be annoying? Maybe not. It could signal a broader trend we like to call “peak phone”.
January
A laid-back guide to Epson’s new home theatre projector
Gadget reviewing is not normally a privilege we would take lying down, but this cast an image so big we had to watch it on the ceiling.
You won’t regret buying this TV, but will you use it?
LG’s StanbyME Go is one of the most fascinating, utterly silly contraptions we’ve reviewed in the Digital Life Labs.
The biggest news at the biggest gadget festival wasn’t even a gadget
Nvidia has grown to be the world’s biggest company on the back of artificial intelligence. Now it’s giving back to the AI community.
Like clockwork, the world’s biggest gadget festival brings the crazy
The annual CES trade show in Las Vegas wouldn’t be complete without some gadgets you didn’t realise you needed.