Gaming headsets can get seriously expensive, and it’s not hard to find headphones costing $300 or more. But do you need to spend that much money? Of course not, and the Plantronics Rig 400Hx is a great example of why. They sound good — much better than their modest price tag would imply. And right …

More than at any time since the invention of the pocket watch, modern timepieces are less about telling time — after all, there’s a clock on your phone — than the joy of wearing finely engineered and impeccably styled watches. If you are looking to replace your aging watch or want to find the perfect watch to add to your …

This story is part of Father’s Day Gift Guide, featuring our top picks for dads who love tech. For the last few months of the pandemic, time may have seemed to have stopped moving, but your kids can tell you most assuredly that they’ve spent an entire semester at home, social distancing. Now it’s graduation season, and many schools across …

Does your desk have so many gadgets that you have a power strip plugged into a different power strip? If so, that’s ugly, disorganized and dangerous. Perhaps what you need is a mega-size surge suppressor that can accommodate all your gear. Something like this Aukey power strip tower, which has a solid dozen outlets and six USB ports. Right now, …

This story is part of Father’s Day Gift Guide, featuring our top picks for dads who love tech. Some of my favorite childhood memories involve watching TV with my dad. No doubt, the shows we watched — The Muppet Show, Mork & Mindy, The Dukes of Hazzard and Hee Haw — go a long way toward pegging my age. Unfortunately, …

Fitbit might be the first thing you think of when it comes to ordinary fitness and sleep tracking, but ask a serious runner or cyclist what they wear, and you’ll get a very different answer. Polar is the brand that’s virtually synonymous with sports training and fitness wearables for people for whom training is a lifestyle. And this weekend, Polar …

I saw my shadow the other day, which I think means there will be six more months of social distancing. To be on the safe side, we should probably all stock up on streaming video services. In addition to free movies, there are a lot of free streaming services as well. If you’re ready to add a streaming media player …

Working from home in the age of coronavirus brings with it some unexpected challenges. Everyone in the family, for example, may find themselves sitting around the dining room table trying to work at the same time — parents doing spreadsheets and kids plugging away at homework. If there aren’t enough outlets to keep everyone plugged in, I have a suggestion. …

Baby monitors come in all shapes and sizes, but most of them are fairly standard pedestal designs, intended to sit on a shelf and point at your baby’s crib. That’s one way in which the Nanit Plus is different: This monitor perches over the crib and points straight down, giving you a bird’s eye view of the action. That’s not …

If you have an iPhone, you’ve no doubt heard one of the main criticisms leveled at your phone by Android users: You can’t expand its memory with a microSD card. Well, that’s true. But with a little cleverness, you can expand your iPhone’s storage capacity with a flash drive. Sort of. With caveats. But I’ll get to that in a …