I often get asked whether it's realistic to build a home monitoring setup that gives clinically useful SpO2 and respiratory metrics without spending a lot of money. The short answer I give people is: yes — but with important caveats. In this article I’ll walk you through what “clinically...
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I’ve been building and testing smart home setups for years, and one thing...
Wearables
I’ve spent multiple multi-day trips wearing both a Garmin Epix and an Apple...
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I’ve been testing the Anker Soundcore Space A40 for a few weeks now and I...
Reviews
If you’re hunting for a phone under £300 that can actually produce...
I set out to answer a simple but consequential question: can the Raspberry Pi 5 handle 4K transcoding for a home Plex server? After spending a week building a Pi 5 Plex test rig, pushing it with different source files and client scenarios, and...
Keeping a mixed Zigbee and Z‑Wave smart home healthy means keeping firmware up to date — but doing that manually across dozens of devices is a chore I actively avoid. Over the years I’ve tested setups on Home Assistant, Hubitat, SmartThings...
I test a lot of laptops and tablets at Wcetesting Co, and one recurring theme I keep coming back to is batteries. Modern devices use lithium-ion (or lithium-polymer) cells that are incredibly energy-dense but also sensitive to how you treat them....
I plan a lot of content — reviews, how-tos, and trend pieces — and over time I built a practical workflow that combines Notion as my single source of truth for ideas and editorial calendars with ChatGPT as a creative and execution engine. This...
When I go for long runs in cold, windy weather or push a tempo session up a steep trail, I want two things from my wearable: reliable heart-rate data I can trust in the moment, and SpO2 readings that actually mean something instead of being a noisy...
I spent the last two weeks living with both the Google Pixel Tablet and the iPad Pro M4 to answer the question I keep seeing in inboxes and comment threads: which is better for drawing, note-taking, and—critically—battery life in real-world use?...
Why I care about offline-first smart home hubsI’m always testing gear with a practical question in mind: can this product do the useful stuff reliably when the internet drops out? For me, privacy and resilience go hand in hand — I want...
Switching from the Apple ecosystem to Android felt like a small leap and a mini migration project the first time I did it. I remember juggling cables, cloud accounts and the nagging fear of losing years of messages and photos. Over several moves...
I've spent a lot of time testing smart cameras across brands, and one of the most common — and frustrating — issues people bring to me is the Google Nest camera showing a black screen. I’ve seen this crop up during lab-style tests and in real...
I use a Sonos Roam almost every day — at home, in the garden, and sometimes when I’m away from Wi‑Fi. Balancing the desire for best‑possible sound with a limited mobile data allowance is a challenge: the Roam is a brilliant tiny speaker, but...