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Smartwatches
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Budget Smartwatches That Don't Feel Budget
The under-$250 market splits into watches that are cheap and watches that are merely inexpensive. These four are the second kind, one per use case.
Galaxy Watch 7 Review: The $199 Wear OS Bargain
The smartest budget buy is often last year's good watch at this year's clearance price. The Watch 7 is the textbook case, with one battery-shaped footnote.
Amazfit Bip 6 Review: The $79 Reality Check
Every so often a budget watch makes the expensive ones look silly for a paragraph or two. The Bip 6 earns several such paragraphs.
Smart Rings
View All →Sleep Tracking, Fitness, Sizing Guides
Best Smart Rings of 2026: 6 We Trust
We wore every major smart ring to bed for weeks. Six earned a place on your finger, and one is the easy pick for most people.
Samsung Galaxy Ring Review: Great, On a Galaxy
Samsung's first smart ring nails the hardware and the charging case. Whether it's worth $399 depends almost entirely on the phone in your pocket.
Ultrahuman Ring Air Review: No Fee, One Catch
The lightest ring we tested and the deepest metabolic data outside a lab. The battery is the asterisk you need to read.
RingConn Gen 2 Review: The Value King
Nearly double the battery of the flagships, no monthly fee, and the only FDA-cleared sleep apnea screening on a ring. The catch is minor.
Smart Home
View All →Hubs, Lighting, Locks, Cameras, Speakers
Schlage Encode Plus Review: Apple's Lock
Tap your Apple Watch, hear the bolt thunk, walk in. For iPhone households, this is the smart lock to buy. Here's why, and who should skip it.
August Wi-Fi Smart Lock Review: Renter's Best Friend
It clamps onto the deadbolt you already have, leaves the outside of your door alone, and finally looks good doing it. The catch: no keypad, no Home Key.
Aqara Smart Lock U200 Review: Most for the Money
Fingerprint, Home Key, code, NFC, app: every unlock method that matters, plus Matter, for less than the Schlage. The trade-off is a fussier setup.
Yale Assure Lock 2 Review: Build Your Own
Keypad or touchscreen, keyed or keyless, Wi-Fi or not. Yale lets you spec the lock your door needs. Just watch how fast the price climbs.
Outdoor Tech
View All →GPS Units, Satellite Messengers, Headlamps, Power
Satellite Messengers, Tested in a Dead Zone
We sent SOS test pings where phones get no bars. Delivery times and subscription math.
Best Hiking GPS Units of 2026
Battery life, map quality, and glove-friendly controls compared on real routes.
Best Rechargeable Headlamps of 2026
Beam patterns, real runtimes, and which ones survive rain and drops.
Best Power Banks for the Trail
Measured capacity, not label capacity. What actually recharges your gear off-grid.
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