This Month
Just right for your holiday home: the robovac that gives some stick
Eufy’s E20 may not be as good at cleaning as other robots, but at least it gives you the tools to finish the job.
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.
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.
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”.
December 2024
These were our favourite gadgets of 2024
Last year might have been the year AI made it into the public consciousness, but 2024 was when the new technology made it into devices.
This $25,000 TV breaks the extreme barrier
The Hisense 110″UX isn’t just four times bigger and four times brighter than many of the best TVs on the market. It’s four times more everything.
This scooter is all fun and games until someone falls off a cliff
Segway’s new ZT3 Pro electric scooter handles almost all terrains very nicely. Just don’t ride it along on sandy tracks where dog walkers lurk.
November 2024
Security cameras with a two-year battery life? Sold!
Amazon’s latest home security system stands head and shoulders above the competition – if you can stomach the ongoing subscription fee.
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.