Getting proper surround sound in your home used to require research. You’d have to pore over forums (and before that, enthusiast magazines) to find the latest and greatest gear to replicate cinema-like audio at home. But these days, everything is cheaper and more convenient. High-end soundbars like Samsung’s HW-Q950A come with everything you need except […]
Last year was just about the worst possible time to launch a 360-degree camera—capture 360 views of you and all your friends out having fun! That just wasn’t 2020. Somehow, Vecnos, a brand spun out of the Japanese company Ricoh, managed to survive the pandemic collapse of social life and incrementally kept improving its Iqui […]
What followed was a shoulder- and lung-burning 15 minutes of combinations and speed work as well as core strength and leg movements. The workout had plenty of variety, and the punch counter was a great motivator to move faster and put in more work. The workouts had the feel of my two-hour workouts in a […]
It’s almost impossible to dislike LG’s Dual Inverter window air conditioner (or if you want to call it by its official name, the LW1019IVSM), especially with temperatures topping 95 degrees in New York City this summer. It cools down my bedroom incredibly fast, and it doesn’t get egregiously loud. It’s smart too. Before entering my […]
A few years ago, I spent a day at Suntory’s Yamazaki Distillery outside of Kyoto, Japan. There’s a bar at the end of the tour, and (pro tip) it’s one of the only places in the world you can get Suntory’s whiskeys at cost. When I purchased my first glass of whiskey, a pair of […]
I’ve been testing a lot of electric kick scooters this year, and Yadea’s KS5 Pro is one of the first to offer a nice compromise between virtues. It’s not incredibly powerful and extremely heavy like the 64-pound Apollo Ghost, but it’s also not so lightweight that it violently shakes over the smallest pothole like the […]
It’s Father’s Day. My mom brings out a cake from the kitchen and sets it in front of my dad. “Take a picture,” she says. My family waits for me to pull my phone out. I test a new phone practically every other week, so they assume I’m using some amazing $1,000 device with 16 […]
Last year, I said Samsung’s $400 Galaxy A51 was overpriced. Naturally, Samsung went ahead and jacked up the price of its successor, the Galaxy A52 5G. This year’s update costs $500. Before you get your pitchforks out, this new Android phone does have a few new features that somewhat justify the bump in price, like […]
Photograph: Biktrix Folding it is simple but unwieldy, due to the bike’s 60-pound weight. Undo a clamp in the middle of the frame, then lift the front half and pull it over to the back. If you don’t have good footing, it’s a dance of seeing whether the bike or you fall down first. Undo […]
That’s not to say the SmokeFire is grilling perfection. I have two gripes. The first is that a lot of ash floated in the air whenever I used it at high temperatures. The fan seemed overly aggressive sometimes. It’s not a deal breaker, but it’s something to be aware of, and a good reason to […]