The Best White-Noise Machines for a Blissful Night's Sleep Help the whole family catch more Z's with soothing background noise from our favorite sound machines. All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. The Best White noise machine isn't a complex device, even as companies constantly add more bells and whistles. Nowadays, they come in all shapes and sizes, outfitted with the capacity to play other noise frequencies and nature sounds while at home or in a more portable, on-the-go form. They're not just for kids or babies anymore--if you're like us, trying to drown out your internal monologue so that you can finally drift off, this is the article for you. But if you're building up your arsenal of sleep gadgets, with a white noise machine among them, we've tried out everything from the best sleep trackers, best sunrise alarm clocks, the best mattresses, and the best extreme alarm clocks .

The Best White-Noise Machines for a Blissful Night's Sleep Help the whole family catch more Z's with soothing background noise from our favorite sound machines. The Best White noise machine isn't a complex device, even as companies constantly add more bells and whistles. Nowadays, they come in all shapes and sizes, outfitted with the capacity to play other noise frequencies and nature sounds while at home or in a more portable, on-the-go form. They're not just for kids or babies anymore--if you're like us, trying to drown out your internal monologue so that you can finally drift off, this is the article for you. But if you're building up your arsenal of sleep gadgets, with a white noise machine among them, we've tried out everything from the best sleep trackers, best sunrise alarm clocks, the best mattresses, and the best extreme alarm clocks . We've got a directory where you can find all of our Sleep content. If you're buying for a child, keep sound machines to no more than 50 decibels and farther than 200 centimeters (6.5 feet) from where your baby sleeps.

This holiday season promises to be unlike any other. Under the constraints of social distancing protocols and coronavirus restrictions, it may be tough to access our favorite traditional in-person shopping venues -- and celebrating itself will feel quite different. That said, millions of us will still exchange gifts with the people we love, and a thoughtful gift can make an impact -- whether it's delivered in person or virtually. This year, we're focused on gifts to help people navigate 2021 in comfort, in shape and in style. So if you're looking for a great gift for your mother, grandma or another important woman in your life and don't want to fall back on scented candles or fresh flowers (not that there's anything wrong with those), we have you covered in the unique gift department.

We've only posted one sale on the Instax SP-2 when we saw it briefly drop during the holiday season, so while this isn't a huge drop, it's a nice savings that you can use on more film. The Fujifilm INSTAX SHARE SP-2 Smart Phone Printer is an also great pick in our guide to the best instant camera. "If you want to keep shooting with your smartphone but like the idea and look of an old-school, tangible print, the Fujifilm Instax Share SP-2 is the best instant printer available," Erin Lodi wrote. "You can easily connect your phone to the printer via Wi-Fi and share access to your library of images with the free Instax Share app, which you can then use to do some minor editing and add a filter or a custom border. Press the print button, and the SP-2's high-resolution 320 dpi print is ready in just 10 seconds."

Now is an excellent time to add a 4K monitor to your desk setup as we've finally started to see significant drops for them. At $365, this is a new low for the Dell P2715Q, a longtime favorite in our guide. We've seen a few recent deals at $400 and just under, but this 27-inch monitor is still often priced around $425, so this is an excellent deal for it. The Dell P2715Q 27-Inch 4K Monitor is our runner-up pick in our guide to the best 4K monitors. John Higgins and David Murphy wrote, "The Dell P2715Q was the first 4K monitor we recommended, and it's still great, despite its fat bezels. It has more accurate colors than the LG, its stand is highly adjustable and ergonomic, and it also has a USB 3.0 hub and Dell's excellent three-year Premium Panel Guarantee. It's more accurate than the model that replaces it, the Dell UltraSharp U2718Q, which struggles with greens and cyans. We briefly recommended the U2718Q as a runner-up to the LG because we thought the P2715Q was discontinued, but since the P2715Q is still available, it's a better buy until Dell fixes the problems with the U2718Q's colors. The P2715Q's age and the fact that it can run only at 4K resolution at 60 Hz over over DisplayPort, not HDMI, keep it from being our top pick, but it's still a great monitor, especially if you want that USB 3.0 hub."

There are so many things that could go wrong when you're sleeping with a robot. Or you could accidentally push the robot off the edge of the bed and smash it into a million pieces. In my case, the robot woke me up at 5AM saying "goodnight" in Dutch and started breathing. I'm talking about Somnox, "the world's first sleep robot," as it's been touted in pretty successful Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns. It's actually more of a peanut-shaped pillow than a humanoid robot that can perform backflips a la Boston Dynamics. But for a machine with no arms, legs, or even a face, it actually feels pretty human.