Category: author_name|Amy Skorheim

The best docking stations for laptops in 2025

Laptops have long rivaled desktops in terms of power. But those slim and portable machines lack something their tower-shaped cousins tend to have in abundance: ports. Docking stations let you plug in monitors, mice, keyboards, storage devices and more using just a single port on your laptop. And if you’re…

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The AC Future drivable, self-sustaining home transforms to be larger than your first apartment

The “AC” in AC Future stands for Amy and Cindy, founder Arthur Qin’s two daughters. That’s just one of the bits of info I gained at the company’s CES event in which we got a first look at the new AC Future Ai-TH transformable home. This is yet another nattily…

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Someone please buy me this battery-powered, plug-in induction range from CES

I don’t want or need 99 percent of the stuff on display at CES — don’t get me wrong, most of what we’re seeing this week is impressive in one way or another, but nothing had seemed like a necessary addition to my life until I happened upon the Copper…

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At CES 2025 I toured the Haus microhaus Pro, a self-contained living pod you can put just about anywhere

We may no longer be at the height of the tiny home craze, but the idea of a resource-light, efficiently built home that can be plonked down just about anywhere still appeals. Today at CES, I got to tour the 2025 model of the microhaus Pro from California-based Haus. It…

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At CES 2025 I toured the Haus.me microhaus Pro, a self-contained living pod you can put just about anywhere

We may no longer be at the height of the tiny home craze, but the idea of a resource-light, efficiently built home that can be plonked down just about anywhere still appeals. Today at CES, I got to tour the 2025 model of the microhaus Pro from California-based Haus.me. It…

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8Bitdo’s wired XBox controller is just $30, plus the rest of this week’s best tech deals

The first few days of the year are typically sleepy for deals — and 2025 is proving no different. Since most Black Friday sale prices have expired, big ticket items are back to full price, but we found a few new discounts on smaller tech and accessories from brands we…

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