Courtesy: Wayfair Others We Tested Wayfair Sleep 8-Inch Medium Cooling Gel Memory Foam Mattress for $122: This super cheap cooling mattress consists of 8 inches of regular memory foam with a layer of cooling gel, charcoal, and green tea-infused memory foam (to aid with freshness and odor absorption), followed by …
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The Oracle Jet incorporates the tablet computer interface from the Oracle Touch dual-boiler machine, but swaps out the slow-heating dual boiler for a pair of fast-heating ThermoJets that heat water at the steam spout of the brewing head—which means no more waiting for the machine to warm up. Note that …
Read More »Best Sheets for Every Bed and Budget, Tested and Reviewed (2025)
The Citizenry’s linen not only feels fantastic to sleep on but comes in lots of colors to go with any color scheme your bedroom might have. Parts of the sheet set (just the top sheet, pillowcases, etc.) can be purchased individually if something happens to one of your pieces. More …
Read More »The Best Dyson Vacuums (2025), Tested and Reviewed
What About the PencilVac? Courtesy of Dyson The new Dyson PencilVac promises to be Dyson’s slimmest vacuum yet, but it won’t be available in the US until sometime in 2026. It launches today in Japan and next week in Korea, but pricing is still to be confirmed. It won’t just …
Read More »I Tried Out Dyson’s New PencilVac. Here’s What You Need to Know
Attached to the PencilVac are four conical brush bars called Fluffycones. With two brush bars on each side, the front cone rotates in one direction while the rear brush goes the opposite way. The four bars jut out at the sides too; that way, it cleans in all directions with …
Read More »8 Best Mattresses for Side Sleepers Plus Helpful Buying Advice (2025)
One mattress made specially for side sleepers, coming right up. The design of the Nolah Evolution is meant to promote pressure relief, from the Euro pillow top to the pocketed coils in the very center of the mattress. Of the three firmness levels offered, luxury firm does well with keeping …
Read More »The 7 Best Linen Sheets for Cool and Comfy Sleeping (2025)
Honorable Mentions Not all sheets are created equal. The linens below are good but not as great as our picks above. Brooklinen Washed Linen Core Set for $269: These sheets feel a little itchy at the start compared to our other picks, and felt a little warm to sleep on …
Read More »Are Meal Kits Cheaper than Groceries in 2025? We Break It Down
The standard knock, of course, is that meal kits are expensive: anywhere from $7 to $14 a portion, less than a restaurant meal but more than most food budgets. So I set an experiment for myself. Armed only with meal kit recipe cards, I went to my local grocery store …
Read More »Does Your City Use Chlorine or Chloramine to Treat Its Water?
There’s chlorine in your drinking water, America. Or maybe there’s a different chlorine compound called chloramine. This isn’t meant to alarm you, though of course it’s alarming to many. An entire industry of faucet and countertop and shower filters has sprung up specifically to remove chlorine compounds from the water …
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. …
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