My car was at the auto shop. It was officially about to get junked (yay!), but I had to be there to hand it off to the folks taking it away. That’s more than a 15-mile roundtrip from my home in Brooklyn, so I figured it’d be a good test for the Lectric XP Trike, … Read more
The first thing anyone familiar with ebikes will remark upon seeing the Globe Haul ST is its looks. Specialized has some of the most beautiful paint colors, but the Globe Haul ST is a sleek matte black. It looks like a step-through VanMoof, the bikes made by the pioneering ebike manufacturer that recently declared bankruptcy … Read more
I am often disappointed with a good bit of electric scooters I test. Many of them simply do not have an assortment that meets my needs. I often walk from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, to lower Manhattan for a meeting, about 15 miles in total. Jumping on a scooter is much faster and much nicer than the … Read more
Shokz is one of the most reliable interesting companies I cover, which is saying a lot. In its first iteration, it made bone-conduction headphones, which routed sound waves through your skull, that were so deeply uncomfortable that we said we’d rather not wear headphones at all. Then the 2022 OpenRun Pro (8/10, WIRED Recommends) somehow … Read more
The catch was math. Here’s a one-paragraph explanation: Many grinders made for brewing espresso have hundreds of grind size options, where something like the Uniform or a Baratza Encore has a more modest 40. A classic espresso-making recipe is a one-to-two ratio, so if you grind 18 grams of beans you should be able to … Read more
Too big as the cooking industry is, most kitchen product launches are modest affairs. There might be some trade show or a video, and lord knows my inbox is full of press releases, but a recent rice cooker, of all things, stood out for its flashiness. Japanese manufacturer Zojirushi proposed an expenses-paid trip to Japan … Read more
The software experience is almost like a miniaturized version of the Pixel tablet I recently reviewed. There’s a taskbar at the bottom of the screen that you can pull up in any app. Tap an app and drag it to one side of the screen to launch it in split-screen mode – that’s pretty much … Read more
The speakers on the hub get loud enough to fill a medium-sized room, and they sound robust, with surprisingly decent bass for their size. I found the maximum volume to be comparable to my first generation Nest Hub, but the speakers on the Pixel Tablet’s hub sounded fuller to my ears. In Hub mode, you … Read more