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With so many speakers, media players, and domestic gadgets on the market, furnishing your home with all the devices you need can feel like a herculean task. And how many gadgets does anyone really have shelf space or plug sockets for? Enter Pure’s all-in-one music system, the Siesta Home. The best Bluetooth speakers 2018 Pure’s speciality as an electronics company is in digital radio. It’s Siesta Home range is designed to offer a quality DAB+ and FM radio player that can also play your CDs, stream music over Bluetooth from your laptop or phone, and even function as an alarm clock or kitchen timer. It certainly promises to be useful, and we sat down with the Siesta Home to see exactly how well it delivers for its £199/€249 price tag. Design The Siesta Home looks as smart and modern as anything we’d expect to come from Pure’s design team. At 107 x 172 x 202mm (WxHxD) it’s a little chunkier than your average radio/alarm clock, but compact enough to fit on a bedside table. Th...

Update: The sequel to the DJI Mavic Pro – the DJI Mavic Pro 2 – has been spotted in a leaked photo and a catalog ad that appeared online before the drone's scheduled launch date of July 18. DJI has now pushed the launch back, but hasn't announced a new date. We'll keep you updated when we know more. Original review continues below. When most people think of drones they usually imagine a big, scary, four-armed miniature helicopter. However, drone makers in 2016 have introduced smaller and more portable quad-copters, like the GoPro Karma and Yuneec Breeze. Now DJI is introducing its smallest, smartest and most approachable drone yet, the DJI Mavic Pro. With the ability to fold up into a water bottle-sized package and a starting price of $999 (£999, AU$1,689), this tiny drone comes priced right and with all the smart features of DJI's other models – plus a few new ones to boot. Design Measuring 3.27 x 7.8 x 3.27 inches (83 x 198 x 83mm; W x D x H) when folded up...

Even with the 4K-enabled PS4 Pro now on the market, Sony's original PS4 remains a great video games console, especially now that it's been shrunk down to a significantly slimmer form factor.  Not only is this PS4 model more compact than the original PS4, it's cheaper too. You might think the feature trade-off is worth it: you won't get any form of 4K output, for example, and you have to make do without an optical audio output too. If you can put up with these limitations, you'll find the PS4 Slim is a really capable machine rather than a budget console.  That smaller size means it's likely to fit better in most rooms, and it also runs quieter and with less power draw than the PS4. As an added bonus, if you live in Europe and Asia, you can get it in Glacier White . The big question is: should you upgrade? And if you're looking to buy the console for the first time, is this the one to go for? It'd be an easier decision if Microsoft's Xbox One S h...

A soundbar that aspires to do it all, the LG SK10Y boasts Dolby Atmos support, High-Res Audio certification, Google Assistant functionality and Chromecast compatibility. Thanks to a new partnership with British hi-fi specialist Meridian Audio, it also carries some impressive sonic credentials. Having driven the luxury TV agenda with OLED, LG now wants to take similar leadership with audio, and Meridian seems the perfect partner to help. The high-end audio outfit has been involved in component choice as well as physical construction, but has this really made a difference?  The SK10Y heads a trio of LG Dolby Atmos soundbars, along with the smaller SK9Y, and entry-level 2.1 channel SK8Y. Having spent some time with the SK10Y, we can say that it practically ticks every box one might have when looking for the ideal soundbar.  However, with a suggested price of $1099 (£1,199 / AU$1,699), the LG SK10Y isn't the cheapest Dolby Atmos soundbar around. That said, those who own a recen...

We've got the Amazon Echo to thank for showing us that voice control is the future:  barking commands to Alexa and having responses beamed back down from the cloud has helped to popularize voice as the hands-free gateway to music, the smart home and more. The Echo Dot is the smallest and most affordable of all the Echo speakers, available alongside the standard Amazon Echo, Amazon Echo Spot , Amazon Echo Show and Amazon Echo Plus . That makes it the perfect way into smart speakers. Admittedly, it compromises on sound quality to meet its small size and price tag, but it's just as smart as its stablemates and, arguably more impressive than its non-Alexa rivals. Need a smart assistant and a new streaming device? Check out the Amazon Fire TV Cube , a new $119 streaming box from Amazon that's capable of both!  All of these smart speakers were originally a means for Amazon to take Alexa and turn it from a piece of software made primarily for searching through video catal...

The introduction of capsule coffee machines has made it simple for any java lover to wake up to a morning brew with next-to-no effort. But while the espresso element of the coffee making experience has been made foolproof, perfecting milky froth and other more complex coffee recipes has still required a degree of expertise. The Nespresso Barista looks to change that. Taking the same simplified approach to multi-ingredient coffee recipes as Nespresso did with capsule brewers like the Nespresso Vertuo Plus , it will help you make all manner of great artisan coffees at home without having to employ your own personal human barista, warming milk, frothing cappuccinos and whisking up iced nitros in mere moments. Price and availability Available now, the Nespresso Barista costs £179 (around $235 / AU$320). Design The Nespresso Barista is an attractive yet unassuming item to have perched on your kitchen worktop. A curved-barrel shape, it looks not unlike a Google Home speaker – were a...

Being the first of Google’s new Smart Displays with Google Assistant, the Lenovo Smart Display has quite the impression to make. Luckily, with its sharp display and screaming audio, this smart screen kills the entrance. Now, it just needs to win the crowd with stronger features. This is the introduction to the visual Google Assistant interface that isn’t in your phone, and it’s largely a lovely one. However, Google could have went the distance when designing new versions of its apps for key Google services, but didn’t, and the whole experience suffers a bit for it. That said, the Lenovo Smart Display is an intelligently and beautifully designed smart display that takes Google Assistant to the next level with blasting audio and crisp, sharp video. Google just needs to up its game a bit more if it wants to win the smart home wars. Price and availability Pricier than the leading smart screen Two options adds accessibility Either way, it’s a bigger screen than Echo Show Lenovo i...

Editor's Note: What immediately follows is a rundown of the latest changes and additions since this review was last updated .   Pricing now has three plans. 1-month $9, 1-year $4.08 per month and 2-years $3.70 per month (also includes free 6 month premium subscription to Dashlane password manager). Android app is now available and working properly. (June 2018) Linux app was added. Locations increased to 100. (June 2018). The service added LAN Proxy gateway which you can use to create a secure HTTP or SOCKS5 proxy server on your network for other devices. The company accepts Bitcoin, Ethereum and most major cryptocurrencies. (June 2018) Windscribe introduced Garry, the helpful bot, which works like a live chat. A new version for Linux (1.2) is out. (July 2018) The service added Croatia as a new location. (July 2018) Opting for a free VPN plan usually means some major compromises: data transfer limits, maybe restrictions on speeds, and users often can't use th...