Smart heating controls priced for UK homes, with the Energy Saving Trust payback maths: about £600 to fit and £100 a year back.
Three ways into a smart home and one box you replace if you change your mind. Apple, Google and Alexa priced side by side, plus the Matter kit that works with all three.
August 28, 2026Comments are off for this post.
PETKIT Purobot Max 3 Review: Two Years of PuraMax, Two Weeks of This
Two years on a PETKIT PuraMax 2, then two weeks on the new Purobot Max 3. The odour control is the real win, the weighing is the underrated one, and Amazon is £130 cheaper than buying direct. Cool Factor 4/5. #PetkitPurobot #CatLitterBox #SelfCleaningLitterBox #CatsOfInstagram #CoolFactor
August 9, 2026Comments are off for this post.
Dyson HushJet vs Sans Mini: Air Purifier Review
We bought both compact purifiers so you don't have to. One costs £150 more, skips HEPA and locks you into an app rated 3.8 out of 5. Full honest verdict inside. #airpurifier #dyson #sansair #hometech #ukhome
August 6, 2026Comments are off for this post.
Best Garden Gadgets UK 2026: 12 Picks Worth Buying Now
Twelve garden gadgets tested against real independent reviews, with confirmed UK prices, one honest downside each, and a plain answer on what to buy now versus wait for Black Friday.
July 4, 2026Comments are off for this post.
EcoFlow Wave 3 Review
My honest EcoFlow Wave 3 review after a summer of daily use: the dual-hose portable air con that is quiet, tiny and cheap to run on Octopus.
May 15, 2026Comments are off for this post.
Best Home Printer UK 2026: Laser Beats Ink, Every Time
Last updated: 15 May 2026
By Stiv · Design, technology and personal finance
Affiliate disclosure: this post contains affiliate links. If you buy through them we earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. We only recommend kit we would put on our own desks.
Printers are the one piece of tech that has somehow got worse over the past 20 years. They jam, they run out of ink the moment you need them, and they cost more per millilitre than vintage champagne. So when we set out to find the best home printer UK buyers can actually live with in 2026, we started from a position of mild rage and worked outwards.
Here is the short version. For most homes the best home printer UK answer is a small Brother mono laser. It is boring, reliable, cheap to run, and the toner never dries out. If you genuinely need colour at home, skip ink cartridges entirely and buy a refillable ink tank such as an Epson EcoTank or a Canon PIXMA MegaTank. That is the whole guide in two sentences. The rest is the working.
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May 11, 2026Comments are off for this post.
Best Portable Speakers UK 2026: 12 We’d Actually Buy
Last updated: 11 May 2026
By Stiv · Design, technology and personal finance
Long before the AirPods era, before Sonos was on every shelf, before "Bluetooth speaker" stopped sounding faintly novel, there was the Jawbone Jambox. We had one of the original models knocking around for years. Tiny, weirdly heavy, sounded like a pocket-sized rock concert, and felt like the future. Then Jawbone went bust, the Jambox died, and the entire portable speaker world quietly got a lot better. So in this guide to the best portable speakers UK shoppers can buy in 2026, we're rounding up the speakers we'd happily replace that old Jambox with today.
A good portable speaker turns a garden into a festival, a kitchen into a club, and a park meet-up into something worth staying for. A bad one sounds like music playing inside a tin can from three rooms away. Here's how to pick the right one without overpaying.
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April 21, 2026Comments are off for this post.
Best Refurbished Laptops UK 2026: Top Picks and Where to Buy
Last updated: 21 April 2026
By Stiv · Design, technology and personal finance
A brand new MacBook Air costs over £1,000. A refurbished laptop with the same specs, a 12-month warranty, and a 30-day returns policy costs under £750. Same laptop. Same performance. Just without the new-box smell. If you have been wondering whether refurbished laptops UK buyers can actually rely on are any good, the answer is yes. We know because we buy them. Here is how to buy refurbished laptops in the UK without getting burned.
Two of us are typing this on refurbished MacBooks right now. One came from Back Market, the other from the Apple Refurbished Store. Both arrived looking and performing like new. The Back Market one was about 30% cheaper than buying new.
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April 16, 2026Comments are off for this post.
FYTA Beam G2 Review UK: The Best Smart Plant Sensor We’ve Tried
Last updated: 16 April 2026
By Stiv · Design, technology and personal finance
This is an opinion piece. Views expressed are the author's own and do not constitute professional advice.
This review contains referral links. If you purchase through our link on the FYTA Beam detail page, you get 10% off. Our opinions remain entirely independent.
Cool Factor: 4/5
We have been searching for a reliable smart plant sensor for years. After failed attempts with Xiaomi and Parrot, we finally landed on the FYTA Beam G2. This FYTA Beam review covers four months of daily use across 13 sensors in a London flat, and the short version is: it is genuinely the best plant tracking system we have found. Not perfect, mind you. But properly impressive.
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