smart home

The best smart displays for 2024

The best smart displays for 2024

Smart displays have evolved quite a bit since the initial debut of Amazon’s first Echo Show back in 2017. In fact, the category didn’t really come into its own until Google joined the fray with its own line of hardware about a year later. Now, both of these companies are essentially dominating the smart display landscape, with each offering their own take on a smart assistant with a screen.It’s that screen that can make smart displays much more useful than smart speakers. Rather than just having a voice assistant recite the current weather report, for example, you can see a…
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The best robot vacuums on a budget for 2024

The best robot vacuums on a budget for 2024

If vacuuming is your least favorite chore, employing a robot vacuum can save you time and stress while also making sure your home stays clean. While once most robo-vacs landed on the higher end of the price spectrum, that’s not the case anymore. Sure, you could pick up a $1,000 cleaning behemoth, but it would be incorrect to assume that you need to spend that much money to get a good machine. Now, you can get an autonomous dirt-sucker with serious cleaning chops for $500 — sometimes even $300 or less. But you get what you pay for in this…
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The best air purifier for 2024

The best air purifier for 2024

As houses and apartments get more energy efficient, they also get more airtight, limiting air exchange with the outside world. That’s partly why it’s widely accepted that indoor air is often far more polluted than outdoor air. Mucking up our indoor air are factors like synthetic building materials, cleaning products, pet dander, cooking emissions and smoke. Opening windows can lower the levels of most pollutants, but bad weather, wildfires and high pollen-count days mean you can’t always do so. That’s where air purifiers can help. They use a combination of specialized filters, fans and sensors to suck in particulate matter,…
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The 5 best cordless vacuums for 2024

The 5 best cordless vacuums for 2024

Old-school vacuums left a lot to be desired, and cordless vacuum cleaners are here to right many of those wrongs. The latest models tend to be thinner, lighter and easy to maneuver around a home, and you don’t really have to sacrifice suction power anymore to get those benefits. Dyson isn’t your only option anymore either — like the robot vacuum space, there are dozens of cordless vacuums to choose from today. Variety is great, but it can also lead to decision fatigue and confusion. We at Engadget can help make that decision a bit easier. After testing a bunch…
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