Category: Smart Home

The Little Life Got a small home? Perhaps an apartment, or a tiny house? Our Little Life series will help you find the best compact tech that’ll help you make the most of your space. If you rent, you need to be careful not to make any permanent changes to your landlord’s property, but that…

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Philips Café Aromis 8000 Series: two-minute review The Philips Café Aromis 8000 Series is a premium automatic coffee maker that works brilliantly by itself, and even better when paired with the Philips HomeID mobile app. The Café Aromis offers a huge menu of over 50 different hot and cold drinks, and encourages you to tinker…

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Meraki Espresso Machine Gen 2: two-minute review The Meraki Espresso Machine Gen 2 is a manual coffee machine that sits more at the prosumer end of the market. Its whole raison d’être is around helping you make barista-quality coffee by hand and, it achieves this thanks to the assistance of some smart features that help…

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Capsule coffee makers get a bad rap, but if you choose the right machine and the right pods, you can enjoy genuinely delicious espresso drinks at home in two minutes flat. I’m TechRadar’s resident coffee expert, and I’ve put together a list of the top four capsule machines I recommend if you need your coffee…

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Verdict A clever set of Li-ion batteries, the touch-to-check LED system lets you know if the XTAR AA 1. 5V 3960 Rechargeable Li-ion Battery cells are ready to go or not. With long life and high capacity, these can be a good replacement for alkaline batteries in most cases, particularly high drain uses, such as…

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Wedding season is almost upon us. If your summer features any glorious nuptials (your own or those of a cherished friend / relative / colleague), and you want to make sure you’re at your glowing, radiant best for the big day(s), there’s still time to invest in some tech to aid you on your beautification…

Read More “Need a photo-ready face in time for wedding season? I trawled the internet for the best reviewed beauty gadgets — here’s what I found” »

Verdict The Cosori Turbo Tower Compact 8. 6-Litre Air Fryer is a fantastic stacked air fryer with fast, consistent and crispy cooking, plus convenient controls and solid build quality for a more modest price. Despite its more modest size, though, it is quite large against key rivals…. Check out the original article: [Trustedreviews.Com] Cosori Turbo…

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Verdict After testing so many air fryers, they tend to start looking and performing the same. However, the Typhur Sync Air Fryer stands out for several reasons. The built-in temperature probe ensures that meat reaches a safe temperature…. Check out the original article: [Trustedreviews.Com] Typhur Sync Air Fryer Review

TerraMow V1000: two-minute review If you have a medium-sized lawn area of up to 1,200m² with fairly straightforward terrain and you’re in the market for a reasonably-priced wire-free robot mower that does exactly what you expect of it — and with hardly any interference required — the TerraMow V1000 could be right up your garden…

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If you’ve got hard floors, I’ve got good news for you — the Dyson Pencilwash is now just $249. 99 (was $349. 99) direct from Dyson in the Memorial Day sale…. Check out the original article: [Techradar.Com] Dyson’s cheapest floor cleaner just got a $100 price cut — and it’ll keep your hard floors looking…

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There are few things more challenging than trying to cook when you don’t have enough counter space — as someone who has an annoyingly small kitchen, it’s something I struggle with every day. The solution is to find dedicated spaces to stow everything in. So far, IKEA’s kitchen storage options have been my go-to, but…

Read More “Forget IKEA, Wayfair has some of the cleverest small-kitchen storage solutions I’ve seen” »

Shark PowerDetect Speed: one-minute review The Shark PowerDetect Speed is a very capable cordless stick vacuum with a great auto empty base, but like other high-powered cordless vacuums a lack of battery life means it can’t replace a main vacuum. It did a great job picking up fine dust and larger debris in our tests…

Read More “The Shark Powerdetect Speed delivers superb cleaning in short bursts, and with a mess-reducing auto-empty dock, it’s superb value” »