Smart Home Perfected

Roborock makes some of the best robot vacuums you can buy. The mapping is sharp, the suction is strong, and the app is genuinely useful. So when people ask whether Roborock is safe, they are usually not asking about the cleaning. They are asking about everything the robot learns while it drives around their home, and where that information ends up.

That is a fair ques...

A modern Dreame robot vacuum is one of the most capable cleaning machines you can buy, and it is also one of the most data hungry. To clean efficiently it builds a detailed map of your home, learns the layout of every room, and on the models that carry a camera it watches the floor in front of it as it drives. Much of that information can leave the machine, traveling to Dream...

If you sleep on an Eight Sleep Pod, a mattress cover that costs around two thousand dollars is measuring your heart rate, your breathing, and how you move all night, and it needs the internet to do most of it. That is the deal people make for a bed that warms and cools itself on a schedule. The question worth asking before you make it is a plain one. What does the Pod actuall...

An indoor security camera is the most useful and the most uncomfortable camera you can put in your home, a live eye on the nursery, the front room, or the back door that is also, by definition, pointed at your own family. That tension is the whole story with these. The picks below are ranked the way that tension demands, by where the footage actually lives, whether the camera...

A pet camera lets you check on the dog while you are at work, talk to the cat from the couch, and on some models toss a treat or refill the bowl from your phone. The category splits along two lines that decide which one you want, what it does beyond watching, meaning treats, feeding, and two way talk, and where the video goes once it leaves the camera. The five picks below co...