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This Apple Watch copycat is surprisingly good for just $18

How good can a supercheap smartwatch possibly be? Turns out, surprisingly good, if you keep your expectations in check. See, these wearables claim to be jacks of all trades — fitness tracking, heart-rate monitoring and so on — but often prove to be masters of none. And that’s OK, provided they’re effective at some things, which many are. For example, …

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Give your phone or laptop audiophile

I readily acknowledge that while I can sometimes be a bit of an audio snob, I know that not everyone is an audiophile. Most people are perfectly happy listening to streaming audio and MP3 tracks of questionable bitrate with their inexpensive earbuds, and that’s totally cool. Years ago, for example, I subjected Cheapskate Rick to a blinded test in which …

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