On the Road to Autonomy

Traditionally, if a company introduced a couple of new products at the annual CES consumer electronics show, it was considered to be significant news. Dreame just exploded that quaint idea by introducing dozens of products, from laundry handling robots to health monitoring rings to action cameras--all at once. Dreame calls it a "Whole Home Ecosystem." We call it overwhelmingly impressive. At the CES 2026 show (January 6 to 9) in Las Vegas Dreame (pronounced "dreamy") rolled

Soundbars are fine for bringing some oomph to soundtracks, but they are terrible at playing music. The Devialet Dione overcomes the limitations of the format and brings true musicality to your TV. Soundbars are by design a compromise. They are inherently limited by their compact size, single chassis, and demand for convenience over complexity. So many sound bars sacrifice musical fidelity in favor of big bass bombast, and honestly, that's what attracts many buyers. But I've

We test hundreds of products over the course of a year, from audiophile sound equipment for The Absolute Sound to cars for AARP. Here are our favorites--from less than $10 to almost $400--that will hopefully help you with your holiday shopping. For the Home: Reolink Elite Floodlight WiFi Security Camera, $139 Reolink's ingenious Elite Floodlight WiFi security cam not only offers crystal-clear video monitoring and a dual-lens 4K camera that can see 180 degrees, but it also tou