Tag: author_name|Amy Skorheim

The Anker Prime battery with a charging base is 40 percent off, plus the rest of this week’s best tech deals

With CES behind us and Samsung’s Unpacked ahead, the Engadget crew had a quick chance this week to catch its collective breath. But we still kept one eye on the deals machine to see what tech sales are worth your dollars. Right now, we’re seeing a few good Apple deals…

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The best Bluetooth trackers for 2025

Cold weather is an especially rough time for keeping track of one’s keys — so many more layers with so many more pockets — really, they could be anywhere. Stick a Bluetooth tracker on your keyring and suddenly finding items is as easy as tapping a button in an app.…

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CES’s Pebble Flow EV trailer gets some tweaks ahead of its spring shipping date

It’s always gratifying when something promised at CES actually comes to market. That’s the case with the Pebble Flow electric trailer that my colleague Sam Rutherford checked out last year’s CES. I was able to see the final draft on the show floor this week and was adequately impressed. Like…

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The sustainable tiny home trend at CES 2025 revived my dream of building a compound

Small-scale, hyper-efficient living has always appealed to me, so I was overjoyed to step into numerous examples of sustainable tiny homes this week at CES 2025. There were EV RVs, trailers geared for camping and deliverable, turn-key, self-sustaining living pods. I want one of each to create a little eco…

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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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