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There’s something appealing about the idea of making fresh juice at home. A handful of fruit, a few vegetables, and within minutes, you’ve got something fresh, full of flavour, and made exactly how you like it.

Laptop cooling pads have been around for years, but they’ve never been particularly convincing accessories. Many cheaper models are little more than plastic stands fitted with a handful of small fans, promising dramatic temperature improvements without necessarily delivering a meaningful difference to your laptop’s cooling performance.

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.