TiVo Roamio Lightning Review: Your One-Stop Entertainment Box

TiVo Roamio Lightning Review: Your One-Stop Entertainment Box

You’ve got a TV, cable box, Roku or Apple TV, Blu-ray player, stereo system, and who knows what else clogging up your living room, each with its own peculiarities and taking up space. When did watching TV become so much work? TiVo’s new Roamio DVR/Cable receiver helps you do one thing we all desperately need to: simplify.

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Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 Review: The Best Low-Light Zoom Lens By a Mile

Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 Review: The Best Low-Light Zoom Lens By a Mile

Zoom lenses are the quintessential frenemy of photographers everywhere. They provide great versatility, but not without trade-offs such as weight and aperture size. Sigma’s new lens brings zooms where they have rarely ventured before with an unprecedented f/1.8 aperture. The future is bright.

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Capsule Minimalist Wallet Review: The Anti-Costanza

Capsule Minimalist Wallet Review: The Anti-Costanza

Do you have a George Costanza-sized wallet? If you’re like any red-blooded American, then you probably do, which means you probably also have back problems. We can’t help you with damage you’ve already inflicted, but Capsule will help you ditch that bulge with its cleverly designed Minimalist collection wallet.

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Excalibur Dehydrator Review: The Ultimate Home Jerky Machine

Excalibur Dehydrator Review: The Ultimate Home Jerky Machine

If jerky, dried fruit, and dried vegetables aren’t dietary staples for you, they should be. Enduring edibles are equally handy on camping trips, in an office, or on your couch in your underwear. For 20 years, the Ronco Food Dehydrator has been my personal jerky go-to. It would take a killer dehydrator to dethrone it. The Excalibur did just that.

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Sony RX100 II Review: The Best Compact Camera Gets a Little Bit Better

Sony RX100 II Review: The Best Compact Camera Gets a Little Bit Better

Sony’s RX100 was an instant classic; a beautiful, pocketable camera that started the welcome trend of large-sensor compacts. The latest iteration keeps everything that worked last year, and adds a few bells more bells and whistles. It’s the next-best thing to a DSLR—and in some ways, it’s better.

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LG 55LA8600 Review: Those Are Some Pricey Bells and Whistles

LG 55LA8600 Review: Those Are Some Pricey Bells and Whistles

With increasingly stiff competition and the threat of 4K on the horizon, television manufacturers are throwing every idea and accessory into this year’s flagship models. But do bells and whistles make a TV worth nearly three grand? In the case of LG’s new paramount LED, the answer is a strong… maybe.

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Withings Pulse Review: Lots of Data In a Little Package

Withings Pulse Review: Lots of Data In a Little Package

This year has produced a flood of fitness trackers and, as such, it takes more than it has in the past to stand out from the crowd. The unassuming Withings Pulse has a neat trick up its sleeve that just might do it: In addition to all the usual stuff, it can take your pulse.

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Puffit Vaporizer Review: Vaporized Discretion at the Cost of Good Taste

Puffit Vaporizer Review: Vaporized Discretion at the Cost of Good Taste

Nothing ruins a night out like getting caught smoking a blunt by event security. Sure you could just get stoned before you get to the club, like an adult, or you can just bring the inhaler-shaped Puffit in your pocket. No one will be the wiser. But man, at what a cost.

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Sony Xperia Z Review: The Manic Pixie Dream Girl of Phones

Sony Xperia Z Review: The Manic Pixie Dream Girl of Phones

At long last, the Xperia Z is coming to the states. It was the most appealing phone at CES back in January, with its good looks and waterproofiness. But that was half a year ago, and since then the HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4 have made quite an impression. The Z is still pretty and quirky, but it ultimately breaks your heart.

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Ploom modelTwo E-Cig Review: Welcome to Flavor Country

Ploom modelTwo E-Cig Review: Welcome to Flavor Country

No one’s going to argue that e-cigarettes aren’t a marked improvement over their analog predecessors, but there’s got to be a better way to get your fix than by inhaling aerosolized, nicotine-infused polypropylene glycol. The Ploom 2 is that better way.

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