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Problem: You like to walk around the house listening to music with your headphones, but because Bluetooth has a limited range, you have to carry your phone with you from room to room. Problem: You have an old but awesome stereo that doesn’t support Bluetooth, so those speakers are going to waste. Problem: You want …

True story: I once left my S’well water bottle in a car overnight on a camping trip in the blazing hot middle of August. When I went to move the car the following afternoon there was still ice clinking in the bottle!  I don’t know what sort of black magic S’well uses to insulate its steel beverage bottles but I …

Black Friday is just under 40 days away, and Best Buy is already burning the candle at both ends to make sure deal-hungry shoppers keep it top of mind for electronics purchases. Having already guaranteed Black Friday prices for a swath of high-end TVs, the Minnesota-based retailer is now kicking off weekly sales on Apple products, starting today. First up: …

Microsoft rolled out new Surface Pro tablets at its annual Surface hardware event in New York earlier this month. Apart from the addition of a USB-C port and updated processors, the new Surface Pro 7 models are very similar to last year’s Surface Pro 6. In fact, they look nearly identical and share the same 12.3-inch display.  The biggest difference between …

If you’ve never owned a dedicated e-reader, allow me to make the case. Sure, you can read e-books on your phone or tablet, but those devices are rife with distraction. You’re constantly getting interrupted by emails, text messages, the time-suck that is TikTok and so on. Plus, if you like to read at night, those screens can be hard on …

Newer iPads (those released in 2018 and later) are designed to work with digital styluses, most famously the Apple Pencil. They’re great for creating art, taking notes and so on. But, oh, the price: The first-gen Apple Pencil sells for $89, the second-gen for $119. And, to be honest, they feel like cheap pieces of plastic. You can’t help but …

Apple lowered the price of the Watch Series 3 to $199 back in September — and it remained there for most of the holiday shopping season. A few retailers dropped it even further around Black Friday, including Walmart, which advertised a price of $129 for the 38mm model and $159 for the 42mm version.  See it at Amazon You can get it …

Google’s new flagship phone, the Pixel 4, has arrived, and with it a decidedly flagship price tag: $799 — and up. The larger Pixel 4 XL is even flagshippier at $899 and up. Fortunately, as is so often the case with these launches, various stores and carriers have rolled out preorder discounts. Let’s dive into the best Pixel 4 and …

Tablet shoppers don’t have a lot of options these days. There’s the iPad, of course, and the premium price that goes with it. (The current entry-level model starts at $329.) And there’s the Amazon Fire HD, which runs a reasonable $150 for the 10-inch model but forces you to use Amazon’s custom OS. Out of the box, you don’t get access …

At its Made by Google event in New York on Tuesday, Google unveiled a host of new hardware products. You’ll need to wait until next spring for the new Pixel Buds, but you’ll be able to put your preorder in today for the rest, including the Pixel 4 phones, Pixelbook Go laptop, Nest Mini speaker and Nest Wifi mesh router. …