I didn’t know that I needed fancy beverage ice until now! The Typhur Fast Nugget Ice Maker is a countertop-sized unit that churns out soft, chewable ice nuggets you find at fast-food restaurants and convenience stores. This unit is easy to use and clean, and starts producing ice within minutes. It’s also portable. Is it worth adding to your beverage arsenal? Let’s learn more!
There is an entire population of people who need to track key health metrics like heart rate, blood pressure, respiration rate, blood oxygen, and more. Actually, tracking those usually involves multiple devices, regular charging, and taking readings. The Casana Smart Seat simplifies all that by taking readings every time you sit on the toilet.
I may have an unhealthy fascination with security cameras. I currently have 5 PoE cameras and 4 cellular trail cams on my property. Even though I work from home these days, I still like receiving notifications when the UPS or FedEx driver pulls up with my latest review sample or when a 5-point buck walks into our meadow. When offers for new security cameras come up for review, I’m always interested, so the latest cameras that I’ve set up and tested are the Wyze Duo Cam Pan and Wyze Cam Pan v4 indoor/outdoor cameras. Let’s take a closer look at…
You know the saying, “the third time’s the charm”? That may finally be true for me and robot lawn mowers. My first review unit couldn’t handle the weak GPS signal caused by the many trees in my yard. A year or two later, I tried another brand, hoping the technology had improved, but it failed for the same reason. Fast-forward another year, and I’ve been testing the Navimow i2 LiDAR mower, which doesn’t rely on GPS. Will this be the robot mower that finally works in my yard? Read on to find out.
I live in a manufactured home and have always struggled to keep it cool and comfortable in the summer without constantly running the air conditioning. I’ve tried several tower fans, but none worked very well. Then I found the Dreame MF10 Bladeless Tower Fan. Instead of blowing air directly at you, it circulates air from side to side and top to bottom, helping reduce hot spots and create more balanced comfort throughout the room. The question is: can the Dreame MF10 perform better than the other fans I’ve tried?
The Aranet Radon Plus Digital Radon Detector is one of those gadgets you hope you never “need,” but once you have it, you won’t want to be without it. Radon is invisible, odorless, and potentially dangerous, so having a simple way to monitor it in real time brings real peace of mind. After dealing with elevated radon levels in my own home a few years ago, I’ve become a big believer in keeping tabs on it, and this little sensor makes that easier than ever.
The Segway Navimow X430 is one of the most capable pieces of mowing hardware we’ve tested. Four-wheel drive, dual suspensions, an 84% slope rating, and a class-leading 17-inch cutting width mean it chews through terrain that stops other robots cold—and it finishes a big yard faster than anything else we’ve run. But all that muscle comes in a body that looks and moves like a security robot, and for a $2,499 mower, it missed more spots and left more manual trimming than we expected. If your yard has serious slopes or rough ground, nothing else here competes. If you want…
Having a pool is awesome, especially if you live in Texas; that is, until you have to clean it. Here’s where the Beatbot AquaSense X AI Robotic Pool Cleaner comes in handy. This pool cleaning robot will clean the surface, floor, sides/waterline, and multiple levels of your pool as long as the area is at least 3.3 ft. x 3.3 ft and the water level is at least 14 in., but it also comes with an automatic rinse station, called the AstroRinse Self-Cleaning Station, that will clean the robot and its filter and charge it!
The Twelvetooo Smart Projection Bulb is aimed at anyone who likes the idea of mood lighting but doesn’t want to buy a dedicated projector, replace a favorite lamp, or commit to yet another oddly shaped gadget living on the nightstand. Now on Kickstarter, the bulb screws into a standard E26 or E27 socket and turns an ordinary floor lamp, table lamp, or ceiling fixture into a moving projection light with 16 million colors, smooth dimming, music sync, and aurora-style effects that can wash across your walls and ceiling rather than only glowing behind a shade at bedtime.
Watching House of the Dragon in a dark room already asks a lot from your TV, your streaming bandwidth, and your tolerance for scenes lit mostly by vibes and torches. The Govee TV Backlight 3 series is now getting a Westeros-flavored upgrade through an official Govee and HBO Max collaboration tied to House of the Dragon Season 3. Instead of keeping all that fire, candlelight, and political brooding trapped inside the screen, the themed lighting scenes are designed to spill matching colors onto the wall behind your TV, giving the room a little more Dragonstone without requiring a castle.
Most speakers are designed to disappear into the background. Even the expensive ones usually aim for some version of “handsome rectangle that sounds good.” The MorningBlues SonicGlass A1 Transparent Speaker takes a very different approach. It wants to be noticed. More specifically, it wants to turn music into something visual, interactive, and personal, not just something playing from a box on a shelf.
The Philips Skylight is Signify’s latest attempt to solve a familiar home problem: rooms that could use more daylight but don’t have the windows to get it. Designed as a slim, surface-mounted ceiling light, the new range is meant to mimic the brightness, depth, and changing rhythm of natural daylight indoors. It’s not a skylight in the construction-permit sense, so no one’s cutting a hole in your roof. Instead, it uses advanced LED lighting to create the visual impression of looking up toward a brighter, more open sky.
If you like the idea of an outdoor security camera but don’t want to pay ongoing fees just to use it, the Baseus S2 4K Security Camera is an especially interesting option. It’s a wireless outdoor camera with local storage support, app access, motion events, person and animal detection, and one feature that immediately stands out: a built-in solar panel on top that rotates to follow sunlight for better charging.
Robot lawn mowers have been around long enough that the novelty has worn off, but the setup pain hasn’t always followed it out the door. Older models often required burying or staking boundary wires around the yard, while newer premium models may lean on RTK positioning, which usually means installing a reference station with a clear view of the sky. Both approaches can work, but neither is exactly charming when all you want is a neatly maintained lawn without spending Saturday explaining to your grass where it lives.
Govee is back with another attempt to make the wall behind your TV do more than sit there, and the new Govee TV Backlight 3 arrives with a more serious camera system, denser lighting, and broader smart home support than before. Launched today in the US and Europe, the kit is designed for people who like the idea of ambient lighting that follows what’s on-screen, but don’t want to run HDMI boxes, swap cables, or turn movie night into a small wiring project. Pricing starts at $109.99 for 55″ to 65″ TVs and $139.99 for 75″ to 85″ TVs.
The Lepro STV1 AI-Powered Smart TV Backlight is built for anyone who likes the idea of the room reacting to what’s on-screen, but doesn’t want a nest of wires behind the TV or a setup process that feels like punishment. Launching May 15, 2026, the camera-based backlight extends colors from movies, games, sports, and music into the space around your television. It’s available in an 11.8′ version for 55″ to 65″ TVs for $89.99, and a 16.4′ version for 75″ to 85″ TVs for $109.99.
Smart locks make sense anywhere, but they become especially useful when you are managing a home you are not in every day. That is why we gave the Kwikset Halo Select Plus a try on a holiday home in Puerto Vallarta, where secure keyless entry, remote monitoring, and simple access control were not just nice-to-have features; they were genuinely needed. Guests, cleaners, friends, and maintenance teams may all need access while you are away, and spare keys or lockboxes are never the most elegant, secure, or easy-to-manage solution.
Govee is adding two new smart lighting options for the living room: the Govee Floor Lamp 3 and the Govee Lantern Floor Lamp, both aimed at people who want more than a basic corner lamp but don’t necessarily want their home to look like a gaming cave. The Floor Lamp 3 is the more technical flagship, with broader white-light tuning and improved color accuracy, while the Lantern Floor Lamp leans into a softer ambiance with a ring-shaped glow. Both arrive with smart home support, app-driven customization, and prices that stay under $200.
The Govee Ceiling Light Ultra is a new smart ceiling light that treats the space above your head less like dead real estate and more like a programmable canvas. Available now for $249.99, it combines 616 individually controlled LEDs, bright everyday white lighting, animated effects, music-reactive scenes, and smart home support in one fixture. That makes it part practical room light, part mood setter, and part digital art experiment, depending on how much patience you have for customizing your ceiling before deciding the default warm white setting was fine all along.
Govee is stepping into a part of the outdoor lighting market that usually settles for modest expectations. Its new Govee Outdoor Solar String Lights, the brand’s first solar-powered lighting product, aim to give patios, fences, pergolas, and backyard seating areas something more flexible than the usual warm-white glow and on-off simplicity. The pitch is straightforward enough: solar convenience, color when you want it, white light when you don’t, and app-based controls that keep the whole thing from feeling like a glorified garden-center impulse buy. For anyone who wants lighting without running extension cords across the yard, that idea has appeal.
The Kiwibit Bird Feeder 2 is a solar-powered model with a 4K camera that uses AI to detect and identify birds. If you are even remotely interested or have a friend or family member that is interested in birds, I strongly recommend that you take a look at this device.