标签：#reviews

A roundup of recent reviews published by Engadget.

The AquaSense X brings self-cleaning technology to pool robots for the first time, but is it worth nearly twice the price of Beatbot’s flagship cleaner?

There’s a new fleet of TVs using new mini and micro RBG display tech, and Samsung’s R95H model isn’t as impressive as it should be.

Hot showers, like electricity, are a luxury that's easy to take for granted. That all changes after a few nights camping at a music festival, a week toiling at a backcountry job site, or overlanding all summer in the great unknown. An itchy scalp and the vague smell of warm clams suddenly make the idea […]

I built a tool that answers one question: when a website won't load, is it your connection or the site? It runs two checks in parallel — measures your own line in the browser (latency + a 1 MiB download), and probes the target from Cloudflare's edge — then returns one of four verdicts: it's not you, it's you, it's both, or all clear. Demo: https://itsnotyou.site The interesting part isn't the tool, it's that the whole thing — app, ~120 monitored sites with 24h history, SSR status pages, share cards, outage alerts — runs for $0/month plus domains. The one thing that wanted to cost money Everything fit the Workers free plan except a background monitor probing ~120 sites on a tight cadence. As a Worker cron that's ~120 subrequests/run and, done naively, thousands of KV writes/day — which pushes you onto Workers Paid. The real ceiling is KV: 1,000 writes/day. So I split it. The user-facing test stays on Cloudflare — the edge probe still measures from the colo nearest the user, which is the point of edge. But the background sweep moved to a cheap VPS I already had: it probes the roster on a systemd timer and pushes results back into KV over the REST API. Staying under 1,000 KV writes/day One KV key, not key-per-site. All ~120 statuses live in a single blob. Key-per-site at sweep cadence would be millions of writes/month; a single blob is one write per sweep. Widen the cadence. I started at 2 min = 720 writes/day. Cloudflare emailed that I'd hit 50% of the daily limit (the sweep wasn't the only writer). I went to 3 min = 480/day, leaving headroom for share cards and the notify list. Move the hot counter off KV. The anonymous "tests today" counter was the sneaky risk — a traffic spike could exhaust the write budget and stall the status sweep, the one thing you can't let happen. It went to Analytics Engine instead (free, uncapped, separate budget). Now no amount of user traffic can starve the monitor. Reader and writer share code so their rules never drift: the streak/histo

Take on sand, snow, mud, gravel—this is the ebike for all your off-roading adventures.

The Trump phone was never a serious phone. Not when it was announced last June, in dodgy renders and with an incoherent spec sheet. Nor when Trump Mobile admitted - just two weeks later - that it wouldn't be made in the US. Not even when the company revealed the final phone, first to me […]

I love it when a company challenges itself to make a cheaper version of a beloved product. Xreal's $299 A01 Plus is a stripped-down version of its $449 1S that's light on features but with just enough of the 1S' best qualities. These AR glasses are comfortable, they look good, and the screens are surprisingly […]

The Schlage Sense Pro is a beautiful smart lock. Sleek, discreet, and simple to use, it's Schlage's smartest lock to date. Thanks to ultra-wideband (UWB), it unlocks as I walk up to my front door; I don't need to enter a code or tap my phone or press my finger against it. I've tested several […]

Sony is bringing back the RX10 superzoom camera after a nearly nine-year gap between models. The newly announced RX10 V retains the same 24-600mm equivalent f/2.4-4 Zeiss Vario-Sonnar 25x zoom lens of its last two predecessors, but it has lots of upgrades elsewhere. The new 20.1-megapixel 1-inch-type sensor is a stacked design, allowing up to […]

Provided you have a library of SNES cartridges, the SN Operator is a seamless plug-and-play system for easy ’90s nostalgia.

The Dell 14S represents the new normal of laptop pricing, but it has the quality to back up its cost.

The Amseatec Criss Cross Office Chair gives you room to sit cross-legged, sideways, or however your body actually wants to sit.

A little robotic switch-flipper has become my sidekick in combating cockroaches. Before I got the SwitchBot Bot Rechargeable, I'd tiptoe through the dark every morning, hoping I wouldn't step on one of those terrible bugs scurrying around as I made my way to the light switch across the room. Now I'm ready for battle before […]

Fi Ultra is the first Starlink-enabled pet tracker you can buy. It expands on GPS and LTE trackers, adding automatic failover to T-Mobile's T-Satellite-branded direct-to-cell service when venturing into cellular dead zones. That lets owners tap into SpaceX's constellation of low Earth orbit Starlink satellites to track their pets anywhere in the US. But it […]

For the last couple weeks, I've been in an extremely lucky position: I've been spending a lot of time playing games on Valve's Steam Machine. We gave the Steam Machine a 6, and I don't disagree with my colleague Sean Hollister's review. But even though I already own a PS5 and an Xbox Series X, […]

It’s hard to say if the pricey LG Micro RGB Evo television is worth shelling out for compared to its cheaper competitors, but you’ll probably enjoy its color-popping display.

I rebuilt aesencryption.net so text AES (128/192/256) runs fully in the browser - the key and plaintext never leave the page. The hard part is staying byte-compatible with common server-side AES libraries (mode, IV, padding, base64 output), so I ship copy-paste equivalents in PHP, Java, Python, Go, Rust, Kotlin and JS. Live tool (mine, free): https://aesencryption.net - feedback on the crypto choices welcome. My own site.

The brand’s UR9 competes with similar offerings from higher-end brands like Samsung and LG.

This midrange mini RGB LED television has a high-end price but doesn’t match the brightness and contrast of more advanced models.