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There is a reason compact Bluetooth label makers have become so popular. They are inexpensive, easy to use and, thanks to direct thermal printing, require no conventional ink cartridges. Load a roll of labels, connect your phone and you can be organising cables, drawers and storage boxes within minutes.

Video doorbells are incredibly useful, but choosing the right one often means deciding which compromise you are willing to live with.

Network-attached storage is one of those ideas that sounds almost perfect on paper. Keep your files at home, access them wherever you are, automatically back up photographs from your phone and potentially reduce your reliance on increasingly expensive cloud-storage subscriptions.

Buying an electric car changes more than the way you drive. It also changes the way you think about keeping your car ready for the next journey.

Portable power stations are easy to dismiss—right up until the moment the electricity goes off.

Fans are one of those products that sound incredibly boring until you actually need to buy one.

Home security cameras have got a lot better over the last few years, especially at the budget end. Not that long ago, buying a cheap indoor or outdoor camera usually meant accepting awkward mounting, messy wiring, unreliable apps, limited storage, and the inevitable subscription nag every time you wanted to use a basic feature.

Outdoor security cameras usually ask you to compromise.

Working from home sounds simple until you start noticing how much is quietly running in the background all day. A monitor here, a laptop charger there, the router, desk lights, tablets, camera batteries, drone batteries, phone chargers — and in the darker UK months, it all starts to feel like one long trickle of electricity.

The HomiQ W11 is built around a simple but genuinely useful idea: outdoor security without putting a camera outdoors.

Smart homes are meant to make life easier. In theory, everything should feel simple: lights, heating, cameras, doorbells, locks, plugs, scenes and routines all working together neatly from your phone or voice assistant.

Summer heat is becoming harder to ignore. Whether you commute, walk a lot, work outdoors, travel frequently, attend festivals, sit in warm offices, or simply run hot in everyday life, there are plenty of moments where a normal fan just does not do enough.