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Best portable chargers for a long-haul flight
The airline rules rule out a good part of the market before performance enters into it. The watt-hour limit, and what it means in practice.
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Best headphones for open-plan offices
Almost every headphone guide tests on a plane. An office is a harder problem and a different one: the noise is speech.
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Best noise-cancelling headphones
Cancellation is not one thing, and the pair that wins on a plane is often not the pair that wins in an office. How to choose for the noise you actually sit in.
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Best e-readers
Kindle or Kobo is really a question about where your books come from. The screen, the waterproofing and the library, and which of the four to buy.
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Best smart plugs
A smart plug is the cheapest way to make a lamp or a fan answer to your phone. What decides which one to buy is the smart home you already have.
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Best mesh wifi for a three-bedroom house
In a three-bedroom house the number that matters is the speed in the farthest room, not next to the router. On that measure the cheapest system here beat the rest.
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Best webcams for video calls
For calls, 4K is mostly wasted: the video app shrinks it anyway. What shows is how a camera copes with a dim room, and what to plug in instead of its microphone.
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Best monitors for a home office under $400
Under $400, the feature that changes a home office is not resolution. It is a single USB-C cable that runs the screen and charges the laptop.
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Best mechanical keyboards for quiet typing
A mechanical keyboard can be quiet enough for a shared office, but only with the right switches and a well-damped case. These are the ones RTINGS, which measures typing noise, recommends.
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