Smart Home

From floor cleaners that do three jobs in one to a bin that opens on voice command, these are the upgrades your spring clean has been waiting for.

The Halo Capsule XR is the answer; and after weeks of rigorous testing, including deliberately excessive flour distributions and hair-wrap challenges that would break lesser machines, I can confidently say this vacuum isn’t messing about.

Enter the TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi : a device that isn’t so much a security camera with a floodlight bolted on as it is a full-blown outdoor sentinel. It pans, it tilts, it tracks, it blazes with 3,000 lumens of light, and it can search its own footage using AI. At around £219, it’s an ambitious piece of kit. The question is whether it lives up to the ambition.

the EF-72 belongs to a new generation of “lifestyle cinema” projectors that aim to live with you, not dominate your space. It wants to sit proudly in your living room, look beautiful even when it’s off, and deliver a cinematic image that feels inviting rather than clinical.

Positioned as a powerful yet accessible Wi-Fi 7 mesh system, the BE14000 promises ultra-fast speeds, stronger coverage, and the ability to support dozens of simultaneously connected devices without the instability that older routers often struggle with.

Kitchen composters, until recently, sat squarely in that category. Well-intentioned, often expensive, and usually reduced to glorified dehydrators that made food waste less gross but not fundamentally better.

Reencle is different

The best models of 2026 aren’t just more powerful: they’re smarter, quieter, and far more energy-efficient than the noisy white boxes of the past. They clean faster, adapt automatically to changes in air quality, and don’t demand constant babysitting.