Fitbit Force Review: A Health Tracker You’d Actually Keep Wearing

Fitbit Force Review: A Health Tracker You'd Actually Keep Wearing

Last year, the Fitbit One was our favorite fitness tracker. It had a great design, solid accuracy for steps and floors climbed, and a nice screen. The only problem was that it was so easy to accidentally leave in a pair of pants. To combat this, the company created the Fitbit Flex, its first wrist-worn product. Unfortunately, while aping the Nike Fuelband, Fitbit accidentally threw out everything that made the One so great.

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Evolve Pintail Bamboo Lightning Review: Go Go Gadget Skateboard

Evolve Pintail Bamboo Lightning Review: Go Go Gadget Skateboard

Seriously, how big is this parking lot? You’ve been walking for a good five minutes and your company’s office building is still just a speck on the horizon. But with this self-propelled pintail, that hike through the car park will sail right by.

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Kindle Paperwhite (2013) Review: Faster, Prettier, Still the Best

Kindle Paperwhite (2013) Review: Faster, Prettier, Still the Best

When Amazon first trotted out the Kindle Paperwhite, it was the first two-tone ereader in a long time (possibly ever) to have wow factor. And that front-lit screen turned out to be just as beautiful as promised.

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OptiGrill Lightning Review: It’s a George Foreman With Laser Eyes

OptiGrill Lightning Review: It's a George Foreman With Laser Eyes

It’s been a brutal day at work, you have no energy to cook, and you just want your dinner to take care of itself. With this meat-sensing indoor grill at your disposal, it kind of will.

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LG G2 Review: A Braindead Hercules

LG G2 Review: A Braindead Hercules

You could put a helicopter engine on a motorcycle and fill it with rocket fuel, but if you put a toddler behind the wheel, it’s not going anywhere. The same is true with phones; you can turbo-charge the processors and hardware, but if the software is stupid and terrible, you’ve got a stupid and terrible phone on your hands. This is that phone.

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Skora Core Running Shoes Review: Minimalist Luxury For Your Feets

Skora Core Running Shoes Review: Minimalist Luxury For Your Feets

Last year we checked out the Skora Form, a high-end, minimalist pair of running shoes, complete with goat-skin tops. They did some things right, but were ultimately ergonomically lacking. The year Skora has come out with the Core, and the little refinements go a very long way.

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Droid Maxx Review: A Battery Beast for Major Bucks

Droid Maxx Review: A Battery Beast for Major Bucks

The playing field has sort of leveled out with phones when it comes to specs. Most are fast enough, and most help you do the things you want to do easily. Most have good enough cameras. But battery remains final frontier, that last puzzle piece that even the best phones are missing. The Droid Maxx found it.

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Vizio 55″ Razor LED HDTV Lightning Review: Good and Cheap

Vizio 55" Razor LED HDTV Lightning Review: Good and Cheap

$9,000 for a TV? Doesn’t matter if it’s curved, spherical, or damned trapezoidal; doesn’t matter if the LEDs are organically raised or not, that’s an absurd amount of money to throw down on a set. And unless you’re a lucky member of the 1 percent, it’s not really even an option. Here’s a solid TV for the every-man.

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New Monopoly Cat Token Review: Me-Ow

New Monopoly Cat Token Review: Me-Ow

You may remember that earlier this year Monopoly announced its plans to sacrifice one of America’s beloved tokens in favor of adding some new blood. But it was ok! Because they were letting us (the internet) choose which icon of our childhood to kill and which hot young thing to replace it with. Given the options of a robot, helicopter, guitar, diamond ring, or cat, the internet chose the cat (because of course) and axed the iron. It was one hell of a trade.

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KEF M500 Headphone Review: Perfect Balance of Sound and Comfort

KEF M500 Headphone Review: Perfect Balance of Sound and Comfort

Shopping for headphones in the $200 to $300 headphone range can be a quandary. The $200 options are mostly all fluff backed by celebrities and marketing jargon. Putting lipstick on a pig doesn’t change the fact that it’s still a pig, you know.

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