We recently tested several new handheld models, including options from Atlas, Makita, Troy-Bilt, and Toro. Our goal is to find the models that are both effective and pleasant to use. Here’s what our top performers have in common: They’re fast at moving leaves. The best blowers in our tests clear a large swath of grass in…
CR tests blood pressure monitors on real people, and we compare the results with those of a mercury sphygmomanometer, the device considered the gold standard in BP testing. Accuracy makes up the bulk of the score for each monitor, but we also evaluate ease of use and comfort. After all, “you aren’t going to want…
After living in big cities like San Francisco and New York, when I set foot in Wally World in the Midwest, I heard angels sing. Rows and rows of fluorescent lights highlighted any and every product needed for your house in one place. Screw the mom-and-pop bodega—I missed this level of convenience. If by chance…
Sometimes, eating makes me feel like Sisyphus. Every day, I must toil up the mountain and the rock to figure out what the heck I want to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I tested Factor meals (6/10, WIRED Review) earlier this year, and they’re a solid option if you’re the type of person that…
We rated 17 prescription hearing aid brands: Audible, Beltone, Bernafon, Jabra/Jabra Enhance, Lucid, Miracle Ear, Oticon, Philips, Phonak, ReSound, Rexton, Siemens, Signia, Starkey, TruHearing, Unitron, and Widex. For the first time, we also received enough responses from people who bought OTC hearing aids to rate three OTC brands: Eargo, Jabra Enhance, and MDHearing.
I’d seen chatter online about the Pockit tipping over easily when users hung a bag from the handles or when a child kicked their feet forward, propelling the stroller backward. Complaints filed through the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s SaferProducts.gov database about a very similar stroller, the GB Pockit Air All-Terrain, allege that children have hit…
Like other online travel agencies, Booking.com helps you find discount rates for airline tickets, cruises, hotel stays, car rentals, and packages. We at WIRED regularly post updates with the newest Booking.com promo codes for discounts on car rentals, last-minute hotel bookings, and other travel-related expenses, including this promo code for 50% off stays and free…
Trump’s relationship with Apple CEO Tim Cook is one of the most congenial the former president has shared with a Silicon Valley leader. Cook maintained a relationship with Trump during his time in office, often meeting with the president and serving on advisory panels influencing policy decisions that affect Apple’s business, such as tariffs and…
CR’s advice for anchoring furniture has always been: Find the stud. Don’t just anchor it into a hollow stretch of drywall, even with those expanding plastic plugs that are specifically meant for this wall material. Those are fine for hanging art because it pulls against the anchor only with a downward force. But they won’t…
Some emerging tests are referred to as multicancer early detection tests, though others target one specific type of cancer. Typically, they test for material that’s shed by cancer cells, says Scott Ramsey, MD, PhD, a physician and co-director of the Hutchinson Institute for Cancer Outcomes Research at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center. One of the…