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The Comprehensive Guide to Babyproofing Your Home
As a new parent myself, I can tell you unequivocally that when babies become mobile, the world becomes their playground. Coffee tables become climbing gyms, cabinets become treasure troves, and phone chargers become rope toys. Babyproofing your home isn’t about bubble-wrapping your life; it’s about thinking like a young mind and getting one step ahead…
How to Set Up NAS Storage at Home: Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners
Nowadays, everyone is generating and consuming digital content on a large scale. Managing data, such as family pictures and videos, as well as work documents, can become a headache. NAS (Network Attached Storage) provides a consolidated and easily accessible data repository, offering NAS storage solutions for the home. In this guide, you will not only…
Read This Before Buying a Window Air Conditioner
As is the case for many people, my home cannot be retrofitted with central air. My 100-plus-year-old Brooklyn apartment, which features prominently in my seven years of air quality reporting for WIRED, relies on window air conditioning units to keep cool on our warming planet. While there is the obvious paradox that air conditioners are…
Sorry, Pet Parents, You Should Be Brushing Your Fur Baby’s Teeth
As the pet tech writer here at WIRED, I know just how far we’ve come as a pet-obsessed society. From automatic litter boxes with built-in cameras to interactive pet cameras on wheels that shoot out treats, if a human has dreamed it, our pets have probably been subjected to it. For a while, pet influencers…
4 tricks I use to boost my Wi-Fi signal for fast internet throughout my home
Summary Your first step to improving Wi-Fi signal is optimizing router placement. Get your router out of any closets or drawers, and put it on a desk or table in a central location. Kill any (unused) bandwidth hogs such as filesharing apps, background audio and video streams, or Wi-Fi accessories you no longer need. You…
Night Sweats, Be Gone! Here Are the Best WIRED-Tested Cooling Mattresses
Other Cooling Options There are a ton of mattresses and related on the market that claim to have cooling benefits. Here are a few others we tested and liked, but not as much as the options above. BedJet 3 for $387: WIRED reviewer Christopher Null liked this climate-control device a lot because it allowed him…
Lord, I’ve Eaten So Many Meal Kits. These Are the Best Ones
More Meal Kits We Liked Photograph: Matthew Korfhage Sunbasket ($12-$14 per serving): Sunbasket is a plan that focuses heavily on fresh, organic ingredients, and offers a whole lot of variety and good cooking techniques, including deglazing and attentiveness to saucing. And like Hungryroot, it also offers breakfasts and snacks to supplement meal options with little…
The Home Depot’s 2025 Halloween drop is live: Shop Skelly and friends online
Code Orange: The Home Depot has launched its 2025 Halloween collection online and on its mobile app. The drop marks the return of “Skelly,” the home improvement retailer’s iconic 12-foot skeleton, and the debut of a new 6.5-foot app-controlled Ultra Skelly. The collection went live around 6:30 a.m. ET on August 4, and all items…
I took a look at AnduinOS, a Linux distro that feels like home for Windows users
AnduinOS is a custom Ubuntu-based Linux distro with one goal: to smoothly transition Windows users to Linux. It achieves this by mimicking the workflows and look of Windows 11. I’ve recently been examining various Linux distributions that aim to provide a soft landing for those escaping Windows 11, but none have been so bold as…
Real-time Web-based Home Automation
In today’s era of the Internet of Things (IoT), smart home automation has evolved from being a luxury to an accessible and essential part of modern living. This project demonstrates a scalable and real-time home automation system built around the powerful IndusBoard Coin, a compact development board based on the ESP32-S2 microcontroller. The system allows…