Senior Reviews Editor
Christian de Looper was born in Canberra, Australia, where he lived until the age of 14. After his father got a job in Paris, France, Christian lived there for five years, after which he moved to Minnesota for college. During college, Christian developed a passion for consumer technology by writing for tech blogs. Christian now lives in sunny Santa Cruz, California.
The Dell XPS 13 is often considered to be the best Windows laptop on the market, thanks to its sleek design, great performance, and extremely portable build. Now, however, Dell is taking that already-sleek design and making it even sleeker. The Dell XPS 13 Plus represents Dell’s vision for the future of laptop design, and …
The Razer Blade line of laptops is often considered among the best gaming laptops out there — and now there’s an update to the series. Razer has announced a new Razer Blade 14, 15, and 17, allowing gamers to get an incredible gaming laptop no matter what size of laptop they want. The new Razer …
Eve Energy has long offered excellent products for Apple’s HomeKit ecosystem of smart home devices, and now, it’s adding another product to that lineup — the Eve Outdoor Cam. The Eve Outdoor Cam is built to offer good security outside an Apple home and as such, it supports HomeKit Secure Video. Unfortunately, the camera will …
Many of us assume that the future of gaming is game-streaming, where we’ll be able to stream to our phones, computers, and TVs, straight from the cloud. But Dell’s Alienware has come up with a slightly different concept of the future of gaming — Concept Nyx. Concept Nyx is built around the idea of gaming …
The original Google Chromecast busted open how customers consumed content, making it easier than ever to enjoy content from your phone, computer, or tablet. But a lot has changed since then. Notably, the competition has seriously heated up. Seemingly everyone except Apple has an inexpensive streaming stick that lets you beam content from other devices, …
While the car world is finally making the big shift to electric, not everyone is willing or even able to make the jump. If you don’t want a Tesla, going electric means having to contend with a pretty sub-par charging infrastructure, and while that infrastructure is getting better, that doesn’t really change the here and …
Facebook desperately wants to be a hardware company, and to some extent, it seems to be succeeding in this mission. The Oculus Quest 2 is an excellent virtual reality headset, for example. But it’s not the only hardware Facebook’s now parent company, Meta, makes. The Meta Portal Go is built as a portable smart display …
When you think of the word TiVo, you probably think of the old-school TV recorders. TiVo isn’t gone, though. In fact, the company is still going strong with a line of streaming devices that bring it into this decade. But while the original TiVo was arguably head and shoulders above much of the competition, these …
Routers have been getting a whole lot smarter. The gateway to the internet hasn’t always been the smartest device in the home, perhaps somewhat ironically. But over the last few years, thanks to products from Eero, Google, and more, smart routers have become increasingly common. One of the more recent of these smart routers comes …
Comcast wants to play a larger role in your living room. The company already has its own streaming devices, but now it’s building its platform directly into the TVs that you can buy from Walmart. To that end, Comcast has partnered with Hisense on new variants of Hisense’s A6G series TVs — including the Hisense …
