Dr. Amanda Foster

Professional musicians do not use consumer earbuds. They use in-ear monitors, and the four families that show up on stages, in tracking rooms and in rehearsal spaces most often are the Shure SE series, the Sennheiser IE Pro line, the Etymotic ER series and the Audio-Technica ATH-E series. Those are pro-audio IEMs: sealed, wired, cable-down … Read more

Yes, headphones and glasses can live together. The best headphones for people who wear glasses are the ones with soft pads, low clamping force, and ear cups deep enough to sit around your frame arms instead of pressing them into your temples. Open-ear and bone-conduction designs sidestep the issue entirely, because they never rest on … Read more

If you sleep on your side, the best sleep earbuds for side sleepers are the ones that sit flat in the ear and stay there for eight hours. The DAGKHE Q26T is my top pick: a flush body, soft silicone tips, an eight-hour battery, and more owner reviews than anything else in this guide. Everything … Read more

There is a specific kind of dread that only happens when you are 30,000 feet up. Your earbuds were at 80 percent when you boarded, you watched two films, and now the left one is blinking red with 40 minutes of a seven-hour flight left to go. Most wireless earbuds die on you because the … Read more

There is a spot on almost every property where WiFi simply does not reach. The barn sits 300 feet behind the house, the gate is at the end of a gravel drive, the cabin has no power and no router, the job site is a bare lot with a trailer on it. Forcing a WiFi … Read more

A dead phone at a trailhead is a safety problem, not an inconvenience. If your map, your GPS track and the device you would use to send a satellite SOS all run flat, the trip changes shape in a way no amount of careful route planning can fix. That is why we spent six weeks … Read more

The Anker 737 Power Bank is the best power bank for laptops in because it delivers a genuine 140W of USB-C Power Delivery from a 24,000mAh cell, and it is the rare pack whose rated output real owners confirm with a wattage meter. Twelve laptop power banks went into this roundup, and almost all of … Read more

Best jump starter power banks for trucks come down to one number: how much cranking power your engine actually needs. A half-ton gas truck will start from a pack most people would call underpowered, while a 6.7L diesel or a dually with two dead batteries needs a pack with real headroom and a battery you … Read more

A refrigerator is the one appliance nobody wants to think about until the lights go out. The food is the visible cost, but the compressor is the real problem: a fridge does not draw a steady 150 watts for 24 hours, it cycles on and off, and every time the compressor kicks back on it … Read more

A car power inverter takes the 12V DC coming out of your vehicle’s cigarette lighter socket or battery and turns it into the 110V AC that normal plugs expect, so you can run a laptop, camera batteries, string lights or a small cooler anywhere on the route. One number decides most of your options before … Read more