Reviews

PRICE WHEN REVIEWED $199.99 HIVE VIEW CAMERA REVIEW Hive is taking another stab at the smart home camera market with the new Hive View. The original, dubbed the Hive Camera, looked like a typical h…

Highly effective cleaning and navigation at a reasonable price – the thinking robot-vacuum enthusiast’s alternative to the Dyson 360 Eye Pros Large dust bin Laser scanning Methodical cl…

PRICE WHEN REVIEWED US$49.99 AMAZON FIRE 7 REVIEW In 2015 Amazon launched the original £49 Fire tablet. It instantly became the benchmark for cheap tablets, despite not running Android nor of…

PRICE WHEN REVIEWED $49.99 AMAZON ECHO DOT REVIEW Alexa is a voice-activated assistant that’s built into Amazon’s Echo speakers and – more recently – its Fire tablets. In fa…

OUR VERDICT The HyperX Alloy Elite RGB is a gorgeous and great-looking keyboard that lighting enthusiasts will love, but its software could use a little more time in the oven. FOR Simple, ergonomic…

PRICE WHEN REVIEWED US$119.99 (240GB); US$209.99 (480GB); US$419.99 (960GB) KINGSTON KC1000 NVME PCIE REVIEW Kingston is one of the best-known names in storage, but until now it has had a hole in i…

OUR EARLY VERDICT Neato has somehow managed to make a huge leap forward from the Botvac Connected, which was already a brilliant robot vacuum cleaner. With the introduction of ‘My FloorPlan&r…

OUR VERDICT The Monoprice Monolith M300 are a wonderful sounding pair of in-ear headphones that come with too many compromises. From its heavy, unwieldy cable to its extreme discomfort, the Monolit…

PRICE WHEN REVIEWED $199 (single); $299 (triple-pack) GOOGLE WIFI REVIEW So-called mesh networking really seems to be the fashionable home tech at the moment, and the Google Wifi arrived a little l…

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