Last year, Bose released its SoundControl Hearing Aids ($850), the first FDA-cleared direct-to-consumer “self-fitting” hearing aids that you can fit and tune yourself without the help from an audiologist. Now it has some company with the arrival of Jabra’s $800 Enhance Plus buds, which come in two colors — gold and dark gray — and …

So-called smart hearable devices that aren’t medically certified hearing aids but are designed to be hearing amplifiers have been proliferating in recent years. Last year Olive Union released its AirPods-like Olive Pro buds ($200) with sound-amplification features and noise canceling. They were pretty good but far from great, and now the company has unveiled a new set of two-in-one “adaptive …

During the holidays last year, Amazon had one of my favorite mini Bluetooth speakers, the JBL Clip 4, on sale for $25 off Its list price of $80. It’s not quite discounted that much right now, but it is on sale for $60, or $20 off, which makes it a Bluetooth speaker deal worth highlighting. The previous model, the Clip …

.c-listicleDeals_headings {display:none;} Full-size around-ear or over-ear headphones aren’t everyone’s thing, even though they tend to deliver the best sound. Not everyone wants to walk around wearing bulky headphones with giant, squishy ear pads. On-ear models with smaller earcups are more compact, travel-friendly and tend to cost less. These headphones have evolved to offer more models with active noise cancellation, noise isolation, a …

Dyson’s new Zone air-purifying headphones look like something you’d expect to see in a dystopian sci-fi movie, maybe even on the head of a Batman villain. But the company says it’s actually a real device you’ll be able to buy sometime this fall. For Dyson — a company that’s best known for its high-end vacuum cleaners — it’s the first …

Panasonic revived its Technics brand a few years back. I reviewed its Technics EAH-AZ70W buds in 2020 and gave them high marks, though I did think they were a little too pricey. Now Panasonic has discontinued the EAH-AZ70W and the silver version is on sale for $100 at Woot. They’re selling for $139 on Amazon, where they briefly dipped to …

The latest iPhone SE (2022) is Apple’s most affordable iPhone, starting at $429 for the 64GB version and $479 for the 128GB version. Since the upgraded-on-the-inside iPhone SE3 has the same chassis as its SE predecessor and the earlier iPhone 7 and 8, there are plenty of existing cases out there for it, some of them nicely discounted. That includes …

Apple is always making advancements. Each new generation of the Apple Watch has been more durable and hardy than the last, but that doesn’t mean they’re impervious to damage. As they’re not particularly rugged, enough force (which doesn’t need to be much) can still leave a ding. Even knowing this, Apple doesn’t make and sell cases for their smartwatches like …

This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. To date, the lowest price we’ve seen for Apple’s AirPods Max was $429, which was during the holiday buying season last year. They haven’t gone so low since then, but right now the AirPods Max are selling for $449 on Amazon. That’s only $20 more than …

While the latest Flip portable speaker, the JBL Flip 6, doesn’t look much different from the Flip 5 on the outside, it continues JBL’s tradition of making small tweaks and improvements over previous models. In the case of the Flip 6, that means improved sound quality, thanks to the two-way driver (a woofer and tweeter) and dual passive radiators that …