An electronic dog door is a motorized pet door that unlocks only for a registered dog, using an RFID microchip scan, a sensor-equipped collar key, or a magnetic strip, so stray cats, raccoons, and intruders stay out. After our team installed and lived with 10 of the best electronic dog doors over several months with … Read more

Fishing kayaks open up water most bank anglers never reach: skinny grass flats, submerged timber, river bends a quarter mile from the put-in, and saltwater marsh where a 16-foot bass boat cannot go. I have spent the last several seasons testing fishing kayaks on New England lakes, slow rivers, and the Maine coast, and I … Read more

Picking the best kayak in is harder than it should be. There are sit-on-tops, sit-insides, inflatables, tandems, fishing-specific hulls with pedal drives, and foldable origami boats that fit in a closet. After our team spent three months on the water with 24 different models, talking to paddlers, and reviewing thousands of verified customer reports, we … Read more

An aquarium kit is a complete package that bundles a fish tank with the matching equipment you need to run it: a hood or canopy, a filtration system, a heater, and LED lighting. The best aquarium kits take the guesswork out of starting a freshwater or saltwater tank because every component is sized to work … Read more

The best saltwater aquarium for most people in is the Marineland Portrait Glass LED Aquarium Kit — a sleek 5-gallon rimless-style tank with hidden 3-stage filtration and dual daylight/moonlight LEDs that have earned it over 10,000 customer reviews. After spending six weeks comparing 10 top saltwater-ready kits side by side, our team found that the … Read more

Choosing the right smart deadbolt for your front door used to mean deciding between a clunky keypad and a complicated smart home setup. After spending the last 60 days installing, locking, unlocking, scanning fingers, and smudging keypads on 10 of the most popular models, I can tell you the category has matured dramatically in . … Read more

I have spent the last three months running ten outdoor smart plugs through rain, snow, freezing mornings, and a full holiday-lights season to find the ones that actually hold up outside. An outdoor smart plug is a weatherproof Wi-Fi (or hub-connected) outlet adapter that lets you remotely control patio lights, fountains, pumps, and Christmas displays … Read more

I drove off for a three-day trip and could not remember whether I had closed the garage. That low-grade anxiety is the exact problem the best smart garage controllers solve: a small device that adds Wi-Fi, app, and voice control to your existing garage door opener without replacing it. If your opener works fine but … Read more

I have spent the last six weeks living with eight of the most recommended smart home hubs on the market, swapping them in and out of a real house filled with 42 mixed-brand devices. I ran my morning routines through them, watched my kids shout commands at them during homework, and let my partner stress-test … Read more

I spent the last three months mounting, wiring, and living with ten of the most popular smart doorbells on the market. I rang them, walked past them in the dark, sent my dog out to trigger false alerts, and even handed a package to a stranger to see how each model handled package detection. If … Read more