If the Lyma Laser hasn’t already made it onto your socials, it’s only a matter of time. This much-hyped portable cold-laser device is the latest beauty tool to feature in many a celeb skin-care routine and is designed for use at home or on the go. Promising to improve wrinkles, …
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Samsung Odyssey G81SF OLED Gaming Monitor Review: Gorgeous
Let’s cut to the chase—Samsung’s latest QD-OLED computer monitor is absolutely awesome, and I’ve loved having it at my desk for the past month or so. Every game I play on it looks incredible, and it has quickly become the centerpiece of my battle station. Even so, I’m still having …
Read More »Withings BPM Vision Review: At-Home Blood Pressure Monitoring
When you visit your doctor’s office, a blood pressure test is often the first thing you’ll face. Blood pressure measures how hard your blood pushes against your artery walls as your heart beats, and it’s one of the most important vital signs. High blood pressure means an increased risk of …
Read More »Polestar 4 2025 Review: Prices, Specs, Availability
Polestar, according to the original mission statement, is an electric premium brand that puts performance and design at its core. To which we might also add “it’s not Tesla” as an increasingly potent selling point. New boss Michael Lohscheller, to the best of our knowledge, has never waved a chainsaw …
Read More »Shark CryoGlow Review: Chill Out
Youth is wasted on the young, as the saying goes, and certainly my collagen reserves were wasted on me in my twenties. With no skin care routine in sight and a (now-alien) belief that sunscreen was merely optional, I just assumed that plump, glowy, fine-line-free skin would always stick around. …
Read More »Microsoft Surface Pro 12 Review: Beautiful and Baffling
One of my favorite features of the Surface Pro 11th Edition was the ability to use the keyboard when not physically connected to the device, which was handy in various situations. The Surface Pro 12 loses this feature. The keyboard no longer has a dedicated slot to store the Surface …
Read More »Sony WH-1000XM6 Review: The Best Noise-Canceling Headphones
Sony has spatial audio on board, so you can also use these to great effect with movies while traveling. I thoroughly enjoyed watching a few episodes of Andor season 2 with them—the excellent low end is particularly noticeable on explosions and during other heavy-action effects. Usable Anywhere Photograph: Parker Hall …
Read More »Shark TurboBlade Review: Compellingly Customizable
Even though I’ve been testing fans at WIRED for a year, it’s not often a fan stops me in my tracks. Shark’s new TurboBlade fan—released in March 2025—surprised me the minute I saw it fully assembled. Are we sure this is a fan? Is it not a windmill? A speaker? …
Read More »Motorola Razr Ultra and Razr (2025) Review: Gorgeous Folding Phones
The Moto X from 2013 was one of my favorite smartphones of all time. Motorola, owned by Google back then, debuted a build-a-phone workshop that let you customize the handset’s design, from changing the color on the front and back to adding different accents for the buttons. You could even …
Read More »Jackrabbit OG2 Pro and XG Pro Review (2025): Little and Peppy
I’ve become popular with children lately. It’s not intentional. It’s just because I’ve been riding around town on the new Pro series JackRabbit OG2—a zippy, motorized electric bike so small, its simple existence can make a gobsmacked tween lean out of his mom’s car window all the way down to …
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