Smart Home

We tested the smart sprinkler that maps your garden and waters individual plants by name. It’s brilliant with a hose in hand, less brilliant once you clock the price tag.

A stylish little machine that turns a pre-frozen tub into smooth, scoopable ice cream, sorbet or gelato in minutes, as long as you plan a day ahead

If your biggest gripe with robot vacuums is the admin they create, emptying bins, hand-washing mop pads, picking hair out of the roller, the RV50 Pro Omni is built specifically to solve that. Its dock handles dust collection, mop washing, drying and detergent dispensing without you touching it for weeks at a time, and Tapo […]

Standing fans all promise more or less the same thing: move air, don’t wake the neighbours, don’t cost a fortune to run. Most manage one out of three. The Duux Whisper 3 is Duux’s attempt at nailing all three at once, built around a DC motor that’s designed to run quieter and more efficiently than […]

The Auk Mini 2 takes everything that made the original Mini a five-star favourite and quietly fixes its biggest annoyance: a water tank that couldn’t keep up with how fast the thing grows. It’s now 12% smaller, holds 25% more water, and comes with an optional app for the first time.