SodaStream vs. Purefizz: A soda maker showdown
Where I work, the gentle fizz of seltzer sounds like a different animal. The flatulent elephant by the file cabinet is a seltzer maker that injects water with a gas,...
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Free apps as holiday party icebreakers
Politics and religion make poor holiday party icebreakers. Weather is a safe but withered chestnut. Sports? Don't cast yourself as one-dimensional or unduly rabid. Have you downloaded any interesting free...
Kevin Hunt: Belkin’s WeMo Crock-Pot, the smart slow cooker
I will not defend a Wi-Fi-connected can opener, doorbell or toaster, but I will defend almost everything about Belkin's Crock-Pot Smart Slow Cooker with WeMo, except for its name. WeMo...
Test-driving a truck with the newest smart features included
For a 5,360-pound pickup, the 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 makes a surprisingly nimble mobile office. While luxury automakers Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Audi tiptoe into on-board Internet access, General Motors is...
Aether Cone, a Wi-Fi speaker that likes to listen
Someday, Siri and the Aether Cone might make perfect speech-recognition soulmates. Not yet. The Cone still qualifies as the world's smartest wireless speaker because it plays requests — as in,...
Which Bluetooth speaker is right for you?
Divoom's Voombox-Ongo is a little brick, maybe the fittest and most ready-for-action of all portable Bluetooth speakers selling for less than $70. Koss' BTS1 portable Bluetooth speaker weighs less than...
Track these weather apps
Tribune Newspapers The days when people didn't care about daily weather ended with the clothing-optional Garden of Eden. That's up to 200,000 years of people talking about the next weather...
Kevin Hunt: Review: The T-fal OptiGrill (Watch Out, George Foreman)
If a George Foreman indoor grill had a brain, it might use an optical sensor to detect the thickness of steak and automatically cook to order — rare, medium or...
Tablo: Another option for cable quitters
If this is your first meeting of the Cable Quitters Support Group, welcome. We're sorry for your loss. But think of the money you'll save. Your relationship with television might...
A gadget for more than just quick paninis
If a George Foreman indoor grill had a brain, it might use an optical sensor to detect the thickness of steak and automatically cook to order — rare, medium or...