This Month
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.
March
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.
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’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.
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.
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.
Smartphones don’t suck. People do
These devices have come to operate a bit like dummies for adults: a temporary distraction from our hunger for connection, meaning and purpose.
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.
December 2024
This beige box will transform your TV
If sky-high mortgage repayments have you thinking you might skip Christmas this year, think again.
November 2024
Meet our new favourite laptop
Apple’s new M4 MacBook Pro has some advantages over the Air that make it worth considering, even for mere mortals like you and me.
Hot is cold and strong is weak with this new espresso maker
We made a mistake testing the KitchenAid KF8 fully automatic coffee machine. We failed to test our assumptions about what words mean.
Meet the cargo bike that other riders will envy
When it comes to storage capacity, Tern’s Orox is more like a small car than an electric bicycle.
This new tablet is perfect for Netflix and so much more
The Galaxy Tab S10 has a tonne of new AI features – and they’re not all as useless as you might expect.