How to Avoid Scams and Shoddy Wares on Amazon
Step 2: Amazon’s search should choose the right Department automatically, but if needed, you can navigate to the top of the left rail and click on a Department that fits. …
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6 Best Toasters (2024): Tested and Reviewed
An essential appliance, the toaster makes breakfast prep easy, adds flair to lunch time sandwiches and takes care of the three billion Pop Tarts we consume each year in America. …
17 Management and City-Building Games for Armchair Tycoons
Before kids and other responsibilities, when I regularly gamed into the wee hours, playing management sims was one of my favorite things to do. I spent countless days building in …
Analog Photography: The Beginner’s Guide to Film Cameras (2024)
We’ll start with color film, which comes in two flavors, positive and negative. Positive Film vs. Negative Film Positive film records the image as you saw it when you pushed …
The Best Gender-Neutral Clothing Brands (2024): Tested and Reviewed
The fashion industry writ large reinforces gender norms in many ways, but there’s one every one of us encounters daily: gendered sizing and styling. A faceless entity decides what a …
How to Choose a Camera (2024): Sensors, Megapixels, Terms
The first thing to know about buying a digital camera in 2024 is that it’s virtually impossible to buy a bad one. You probably have a great camera in your …
5 Best Kids’ Bikes (2024): Balance, Pedal, Coaster
Most people think I bike with my kids because I like exercise or because I want to combat climate change. Neither is true (or, the entire answer, at any rate). …
10 Best Beard Trimmers (2024): Full Beard, Stubble, Body
WITH EACH YEAR that passes, a beard sounds like a better idea. Forget fashion for a moment—a beard can help hide the destruction of a jawline, and distract people if …
The Best Hearing Aids of 2024, Reviewed by Experts
for those with hearing challenges, there’d long been just one option for dealing with it: an expensive, bulky hearing aid prescribed by a doctor. That changed in 2022 when the …
11 Best Computer Speakers (2024): Affordable, Soundbar, Surround Sound, Gaming
There are tons of computer speakers on the market, and many of the ones we tested are perfectly fine but don’t deserve a spot above for one reason or another. …