I Tested the Best Mattress Toppers for a Good Night's Sleep These toppers will transform your mattress into exactly what you need, whether that's a super-plush pillow top, memory foam, or targeted back support. My hunt for the best mattress toppers has taught me how transformative they can be. It started years before now, when I was throwing my back out nightly on a thin futon mattress in my fresh-out-of-college days. I tried a few cheap sheets of foam that barely helped with my back pain . I gave up for a while and instead switched to a too-soft mattress (equally problematic), until finally finding the right combo: a firm, supportive mattress with a nice mattress topper on top to support my problem areas and side-sleeper shoulder pain. These toppers can alleviate your aches, sink you into insanely comfortable memory foam, and even pack supportive coils like a mattress. My favorite toppers range from soft wool layers and memory foam to firm and even hybrid toppers (yes, you can get mattress toppers with springs in them) to find the best option for you and your mattress. Curious what you should get? Read on to find my best mattress toppers for everything from back pain issues, college students, and more. All prices below are for queen-size toppers. What Is a Mattress Topper?

After two years of testing, these are the electric toothbrushes that impressed WIRED staffers the most. The best electric toothbrush reduces plaque and gingivitis better than a manual one, encourages you to brush long enough, and prevents overzealous scrubbing (it's a thing--just ask my dentist). I didn't always to brush my teeth, but over the years, I've come to appreciate the oral-health ritual: two minutes of foamy, mindless maintenance twice a day (or more) that keeps the dental hygienist off my back. Investing in preventative dental care can save you thousands of dollars (and a lot of discomfort) in the long run. If you have a permanent retainer from orthodontics, an electric device can deal with the associated plaque buildup far more effectively than a manual toothbrush. And a electric toothbrush doesn't have to cost a fortune. We've tested dozens, including budget-friendly basic options and high-tech models packed with pressure sensors and multiple cleaning modes.

You shouldn't have to spend a fortune on a great robotic pool cleaner--but apparently, you do. More difficult to clean than it should be. The market is stuffed to the gills with pool-scrubbing robots that cost thousands of dollars, and consumers are well justified in worrying whether that level of expense will ultimately be worthwhile. But there's also a subset of pool robots that go the other way--much simpler devices that cost well under $500, sometimes much less. It's here where we find the Poolease X1, a pint-sized robot that can be yours for barely over 100 bucks.

With smarter gym tracking, new health alerts, and offline Gemini, the Pixel Watch 5 fine-tunes a winning formula--for a price. Strength Training experience is useful for gymgoers. Gemini now has offline functionality. AI watch faces feel gimmicky. Active Band is still dull.

I tested the top-of-the-line Ecovacs Winbot W2S Omni window-cleaning robot on my Victorian home, and it was an unmitigated disaster. I love the idea of robots taking over menial tasks, so I was excited to try the Ecovacs Winbot W2S Omni. This premium window-cleaning robot is highly rated online. I have a robot vacuum and a robot mower, and I would never go back to doing these chores myself. Sadly, I had such a traumatically awful experience with the Ecovacs Winbot W2S Omni that I'm left wondering why anyone would want a window-cleaning robot at all.

The car world is filled with designers still obsessed with shoehorning sex into their rides. Slate went a different route, and it's why people are smitten with the charming electric pickup. Tisha Johnson is a rare anomaly in the car world: a design leader for an automaker who is not a man. In a resolutely testosterone-fueled industry where, traditionally, women have seemingly been given positions of authority in design labs as long as they focus on interiors, colors, or material selections, very few have been afforded free rein on the most important visual element of the car, the exterior, let alone promoted to run the entire aesthetic show. As head of design at Slate, this gender-specific fact might be why the world has fallen in love with the Jeff Bezos-backed truck . Casual observers might put the Slate EV's popularity down to its low price. Starting at $24,950, the Slate arriving later this year won't just be the cheapest EV on the US market; it will also be the cheapest pickup truck of any power flavor.

Hot or Not Built the Internet We're Still Swiping Through The early website Hot or Not taught its users to rank people at scale. Twenty-six years later, dating apps are trying to escape the culture the site helped create. Before the internet learned to like, match, and swipe, it learned to ask one brutally simple question: hot or not? Launched in 2000, Hot or Not invited people to upload photographs of themselves and be rated by strangers on a scale from 1 to 10. It was crude, addictive, and, within weeks, one of the most visited sites on the web.

Analysts project sales of humanoid robots could rise from $2bn in 2025 to $300bn in 2035. Analysts project sales of humanoid robots could rise from $2bn in 2025 to $300bn in 2035. Company's robots have gained global fame via videos of them performing martial arts and as dancers for pop stars EDTLast modified on Wed 19 Aug 2026 04.44 EDT Unitree, the world's biggest humanoid robot maker, has made a spectacular entry on to China's stock market, with its shares surging by more than 600%. The Chinese company's robots have gained global fame via viral videos of them performing martial arts, running at Olympic speeds and serving as backup dancers for pop stars. Photograph: Adek Berry/AFP/Getty ImagesShares in the business, officially known as Yushu Technology Co, rose to as high as 1,100 yuan (£120.39) on Wednesday, up from an IPO price of just 150.8 yuan.

A women uses the new IBM 650 Magnetic Drum Data Processing Machine in a New York office in 1954. A women uses the new IBM 650 Magnetic Drum Data Processing Machine in a New York office in 1954. Many hoped that the march of technology would usher in an egalitarian utopia - but some foresaw the threat it would pose to liberal society. One of the stranger things about this dizzying, headlong moment in time is that it doesn't have much of a past. Everything is about the future of this, the future of that: the future of work, the future of humanity, the future of the planet. It's as if everyone is screaming (some ecstatically, most terror-stricken): robots are taking over the world! Meanwhile, you can't put down your phone, unplug, delete your AI apps, tell Zoom to piss off; it feels as if you are racing toward something, and can't stop, or look back, or think straight. But of course this weird moment in history does have a past. Things could have turned out differently.

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