Steve Jobs famously hated the idea of adding a stylus to the iPad, summing up the experience onstage in 2007 with one word: “Yuck.” But the Apple Pencil has since become a popular accessory for compatible iPad models — despite being so darned expensive. The original Apple Pencil costs $99 and the second-generation Pencil, which …

Many of us have a long weekend coming up — Monday, Jan. 20 is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. There are a lot of ways you can spend your newfound freedom, and I hope you’ll dedicate a little of it to remembering the American hero whom the day celebrates. But there will also be plenty of time to participate in …

What’s 2 inches high, 35 inches long, includes two tweeters and a pair subwoofers and looks like a large, black tongue depressor? If you were expecting a joke, I’m sorry to disappoint you: It’s the Yamaha YAS-108 soundbar. And while this speaker package ordinarily sells for $200, you can now nab the Yamaha YAS-108 for $158.25. That’s close to it’s …

If the only kind of keyboard you’ve ever used is an off-the-shelf budget model, the one that came with your new PC purchase or the one built into your laptop, then you only know membrane keyboards. And while they’re cheap and quiet, they’re terrible. Just terrible. They’re soft and mushy and imprecise, which is bad both for touch typing and …

I had a projector in my home theater for about a decade, and I loved it. A projector elevates any content to a cinematic experience and displays an enormous picture — often larger than what you might be able to fit with a traditional flat screen TV. Most home theater projectors are meant to be mounted on the ceiling, but …

Just a few days ago, Cheapskate Rick Broida told you about a great deal on a Brother compact monochrome laser printer (now expired). Ordinarily $170, it had dipped briefly under $100. Well, today you can do better than that particular deal — a newer version of that Brother printer fixes pretty much the only complaint we had with that version, …

Google Wear smartwatches have been a little quiet lately — there have been few splashy new watch releases and not a lot of excitement on the OS front. But even so, one of the cooler Google Wear options is the Fossil Sport, which combines a snazzy visual design with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 3100 chipset, integrated GPS and NFC, a full-time heart-rate …

Update: The discount code has expired, so the $5 deal is unfortunately gone — though you can still get this package for $12. That’s a good price, but no longer a steal. The science of eyesight is weird, complicated and counter-intuitive, which is why we humans fall for so many optical illusions and can’t tell if dresses are black, blue …

Update: While it looks like you can still get $5 off via the coupon on the product page, the code on the checkout page is no longer working.  No matter how much portable power you have, it never seems to be enough. If you’ve been feeling pinched on road trips, how does 16,750 mAh sound to you? For reference, that’s …

I grew up in a house in which my mom pretty much just guessed when the pork, chicken, steak and turkey were fully cooked; in retrospect, it’s a miracle any of us survived. These days, I swear by meat thermometers. In particular, by wireless thermometers, so I can keep an eye on things without opening the oven or grill. I …