The perfect device to cut down on your doomscrolling — Eight months into our eternal pandemic lockdown, my phone is keeping me up at night. More specifically, the doomscrolling on social media and news sites has become relentlessly addictive and difficult to look away from regardless of the hour—unless I physically separate myself from my phone. After weeks of sleepless…

You can crash it with impunity — I’ve always wanted to buy a drone, but I could never justify actually doing it. Professional drones, like those from DJI, are expensive. To use one for work (I’m a photographer), I’d have to get a complex license from the FAA. I’ve also always assumed that if I bought a…

Why the Anker Nano is a decent third-party choice — I always thought that charging a phone, iPad, or Chromebook was straightforward, like fueling up a car. Pump in juice and you’re good to go. It turns out that chargers are much more complex than I thought. …

A new processor isn’t all hype — If you’ve been in the market for a laptop at any point in the last few years, you might have noticed that new ones aren’t all that different from what you’re already used to. …

The Keen2 wearable wants to train you to stop body-focused repetitive behaviors, but there’s little evidence to show that it works — Body-focused repetitive behaviors, or BFRBs, are common, but massively under-studied, disorders in which people repeatedly touch their bodies in ways that can inadvertently cause physical pain and harm. People with trichotillomania, which is perhaps the most well-known BFRB, pull out their hair (on their head, their eyebrows, or their eyelashes)…

This is the first power bank that actually does what I want — I love power banks. I used to carry around a 26,800 mAh Anker power bank all the time, back when we went outside for extended periods of time. It weighed 20 ounces—more than a pound—but it was worth it. The most annoying part of carrying around a power bank, though…

With no apps and no notifications, the reMarkable 2 helps me focus — I’ve been obsessed with e-ink since buying my first Kindle, but the technology has largely been relegated to reading books, despite its potential for so much more. The 10.3-inch reMarkable 2 ($399) takes e-ink and shows off its capabilities beyond e-books, as if someone finally took the shackles off. The…